Doubling Up in the Sanish

It seems every time a well comes off the confidential list these days, there is something intriguing. Today it's Whiting's Tollefson well in the Sanish.

Specifically, #18109, Tollefson 44-10H, 10-152-91. This well is a long lateral (two sections) but the GIS map server does not yet say which two sections it is in. Common sense tells me it is in section 10 and 3 (152-91). But there is already another Whiting well in section 3 (still confidential), in the opposite corner: it is #17912, the Sorenson 11-3H.

If the Tollefson does not go into section 3 (actually it can't go anywhere but section 3), there are no surrounding sections without an existing well. The wells in this area are all Whiting and EOG wells. Almost all of them have IPs of between 1,000 and 1,500. It will be interesting to see if these new wells come in with similar IPs.

So, time will tell -- when the GIS map server catches up with the daily activity report to show where this lateral ended up. I am assuming it is section 10, section 3, long lateral, even though there is already another Whiting well in section 3. Looking at the GIS map, and looking at the new permits, it appears that producers are starting to put two wells in each section in this area.

Wouldn't it be interesting if all these wells were targeting the Middle Bakken and they have yet to target the TFS, or vice versa? But, I'm probably too irrationally exuberant.