This page is for newbies.
We've discussed wells in Rattlesnake Point ad nauseum on the blog. I'm simply updating wells that caught my interest over the past six months or so.
The real purpose of this post: to remind newbies that it is absolutely impossible to predict how the Bakken or any given well in the Bakken will turn out.
When I first started blogging, I was told that I was cherry picking (I plead guilty as charged) and that many wells were uneconomical. And by implication, the Bakken would fail.
I argued that even these uneconomical wells played a role. Three important roles:
held the lease by production, no matter how low the production, as long as it kept producing
provided geologists with lots of information about the geology
provided operators an opportunity to improve their drilling/completion strategies
I never, never thought, at the time, about the halo effect, work-overs, mini-re-fracks, or major re-fracks.
But look at this well. In addition to the reasons already mentioned, look how this well "turned around."
The well:
- 17089, 400, CLR, Bridger 44-14H, t4/08; cum 358K 12/18; and then back on confidential; re-fracked 4/17;
It's IP was pretty poor, even for the time:
- 24-hour: 400 bbls
- 30-day: 8,000 bbls
- 90-day: 18,000 bbls
By seven years or so, it looked like a pretty miserable well. I did not check but very likely put on "stripper well" status.
Then, all of a sudden it shows a bit of life. In late 2015 the well shows a small jump in production, and it stayed there for about one year.
But then it was taken off-line for a year so.
And then it was re-fracked in early 2017:
- 40 stages; 14.3 million lbs
- "new IP": 1,344
- it was a re-entry well
- the re-entry was drilled in the existing horizontal lateral at the 20,845-foot point.
- TD was reached at 21,158' (the horizontal was extended by 313 feet)
- "Lateral 1 was in the very upper part of the middle Bakken and in the Lower Bakken formation."
Selected production profile:
BAKKEN | 11-2017 | 30 | 16622 | 16901 | 19907 | 19639 | 19639 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 10-2017 | 31 | 22673 | 21904 | 16941 | 24616 | 22715 | 1901 |
BAKKEN | 9-2017 | 27 | 18302 | 18465 | 15589 | 19122 | 16196 | 2926 |
BAKKEN | 8-2017 | 31 | 27510 | 27488 | 27427 | 28501 | 21738 | 6763 |
BAKKEN | 7-2017 | 5 | 2102 | 2047 | 837 | 1178 | 85 | 1093 |
BAKKEN | 6-2017 | 1 | 519 | 230 | 1306 | 317 | 0 | 317 |
BAKKEN | 5-2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 4-2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 3-2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 2-2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 1-2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 12-2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 11-2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 10-2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 9-2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 8-2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 7-2016 | 6 | 335 | 644 | 87 | 433 | 66 | 367 |
BAKKEN | 6-2016 | 30 | 2106 | 2220 | 602 | 2532 | 159 | 2373 |
By the way, #31847, Bridger 9-14H1, exactly parallels this well, separated vertically, but hardly horizontally. #31847 is a Three Forks first bench well.
A fair number of those old wells were held by leases with a 1/8th royalty. It was only much later that 1/7th and 1/6th came into being. Our neighbor, smarter than the average bear, told the landman "I know you faster talkers. I'm holding out for 1/10th"! And so it goes...
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty funny. There are many similar examples of confusion among different industries. Ship captains in the old days took advantage of this confusion when hiring sailors -- described in detail in "Moby Dick."
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