Whiting 3Q18 Corporate Presentation -- December, 2018

Before we get to the Whiting presentation.  From the EOG 3Q18 corporation presentation, this is how much it cost EOG to drill/complete a Bakken well in 2018:

• $4.6 million

This is how much it cost EOG to drill/complete a well in the Bakken in 2012:

• $10 million

Now, back to the Whiting 3Q18 presentation.

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Updates

March 23, 2019: in the presentation below, there is no mention of "Generation 5.0" fracking by Whiting. In early 2019, Whiting began talking about Generation 5 fracking. With Generation 5.0 fracking, Whiting feels that a lot of their Tier 2 areas will become Tier 1. In addition, Whiting is talking about adding more acreage.

Original Post

Link here.

December 6, 2018.

Only a few items that might be different from earlier presentations.

33 slides total.

• Strategic vision: 
• reduce debt and deliver free cash flow at $55 NYMEX oil price
• maintain a strong hedge position (60 - 70% of oil volumes), 12 - 14 months forward
• Results:
• 3Q18: net cash exceeded CAPEX by $56 million 
• 3Q18: discretionary cash flow exceeded capital expenditures by $90 million
• forecast: 129,000 boe/d
• Williston Basin operated production forecast to grow 13% 4Q year-over-year (2018 over 2017)
• plan to drill 120 Bakken/Three Forks in the Williston Basin in CY2018
• plan to put on production (POP) 123 wells in Williston Basin in CY2018
• cash flow, historical, in millions
• 4Q17:  $96
• 1Q18: $103
• 2Q18: $56
• 3Q18: $90
• four-quarter total: $355
• Among 12 peers: #1 in generating peer leading cash flow
• only two peers: positive cash flow
• ten peers: with negative cash flow
• Williston Basin acreage
• Whiting is now #1 in acreage across the core Williston Basin
• Tier 1 areas: 296,063 net acres
• East Missouri Breaks
• Foreman Butte
• Hidden Bench
• Polar
• Sanish/Polar
• Tier 2 areas: 171,038 net acres
• Pronghorn
• West Missouri Breaks
• Other (probably Wildrose area)
• Total net acres: 467,101 net acres in Williston Basin
• 2018 deal
• Bakken bolt-on
• 54,833 net acres
• $130 million
• new acres overlap Hidden Bench, East Missouri Breaks acreage
• 1,290 boepd
• $2,370 / acre
• McNamara Infill Project: Sanish
• four sections (22/23/26/27)
• drill/complete six Bakken infill wells
• parent wells: 9 parent wells completed in 2007 and 2012
• seven middle Bakken wells; two Three Forks wells
• sounds like 15 wells across four sections
• project has produced more than 1.5 million bbls oil
• projected DSU recovery factor prior to McNamara infill wells: 11%
• projected DSU recovery factor including McNamara infill: 20%
• Sanish generation 4.0 Bakken completions; graph highlights three DSUs
• McNamara (220 days production)
• Sanish Bay (190 days production)
• Bartelson (60 days production)
• Western Sanish generation 4.0 Bakken wells outperform  by 83%
• Bartelson parent: 35K bo at 60 days
• Bartelson children: 65K bo at 60 days
• Pinwheel pad -- I think CLR had one of the first of these designs
• 8 new Bakken wells
• 6 new Three Forks wells
• 2 existing wells
• spud to TD average: 9.3 days
• 76 daysof fracking, 100 million lbs proppant, 2 million bbls fresh water
• will come in 8% under budget
• Generation 4.0 Bakken completions (2018)
• 600 - 1,200 lbs/ft proppant
• 200' - 300' stage spacing
• 15 - 40 bbl/ft fluid
• 30' to 50' cluster spacing
• Generation 3.0 (2016 - 2017)
• Generation 2.0 (2013 - 2015)
• Generation 1.0 (2010 - 2012)

Much, much more at the link.

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Fracking:

• 10,000-ft lateral
• about 8 million lbs proppant
• about 40 stages