West Ambrose - Ambrose - Blooming Prairie Fields Update

NEWS

May 19, 2012: Samson Resources a nice Three Forks well in Ambrose field. 

PERMITS

January 2, 2012: Abbreviated update (ND = no data; my database has no data here; I assume most of these are confidential)

2015 (list not complete)
32237,
32236,
32204,
32203,
32202,
31952,
31951,
31716,
31652,
31651,
31550,
31513,
31469,
31407,
31367,
31366,
31324,
31321,
31320,
31244,
31243,
31103,
31102
31101,
31075,
31974,
31073,
30786,
30623,
30622,
30568,
30567,
30475,
30437,
30436,
30435,
30434,
30418,
30409,
30408,
30407,
30406,
30405,
30393,
30389,
30388,
30387,
30383,
30382,
30381,
30380,


I need to update permits from 2011 to 2014, inclusive, some day.


2011 Permits

• 20018, ND, Samson Res
• 20285, 32, Baytex, Three Forks, 16 stages; 1.4 million lbs sand;
• 20340, ND, Samson  Res
• 20341, ND, Samson Res
• 20474, ND, Samson Res
• 20525, ND, SM
• 20569, 68, Baytex, Three Forks,  completion data not found
• 20608, ND, SM
• 20646, ND, Samson Res
• 20801, ND, Samson Res
• 20802, ND, Samson Res
• 20837, 725, Samson Resources, Thomte 8-5-163-99H, Ambrose; t1/12; cum 67K 3/12;
• 20958, ND, SM
• 21352, ND, Samson Res
• 21353, ND, Samson Res
• 21363, ND, Samson Res
• 21850, DRL, Baytex, Three Forks;
• 20020, ND, Baytex (permit # incorrect; I need to correct this one)
• 20869, ND, Samson Res
• 20870, ND, Samson Res
• 21107, ND, Samson Res
• 21108, ND, Samson Res
• 20486, ND, SM
• 20492, ND, SM
• 21147, ND, Baytex
• 21256, ND, Baytex
• 21571, ND, Baytex
• 21579, ND, Samson Res
• 21996, ND, Samson Res
  

2010 Permits

• 18659, 28, Baytex; Three Forks; cased hole, 2 million lbs
• 18728, 32, Baytex; Three Forks; did not see completion data
• 18854, 76, Baytex; Three Forks; open hole, 400K lbs
• 18900, 32, Baytex; Three Forks; 16 stages. 1.5 million lbs
• 18978, 75, Baytex
• 18982, 27, Baytex
• 19162, 37, Baytex
• 19266, 38, Baytex
• 19461, 28, Baytex
• 19489, 21, Baytex
• 19633, 53, Baytex
• 19644, PNC, Baytex
• 19653, 95, Baytex
• 19754, conf, Baytex
• 18895, 632, Samson Res
• 20231, 758, Samson Res
• 20232, 304, Samson Res
• 19149, 279, Samson Res
• 19334, 145, Samson Res
• 19335, 585, Samson Res
• 19524, DRL, Samson Res
• 19595, 234, Samson Res
• 19596, 219, Samson Res
• 19965, 642, Samson Res
• 18757, 235, SM
• 20179, DRL, SM
  
• 18663, 627, SM
• 19151, 245, SM
• 19564, 305, SM
• 19575, 574, SM
• 19671, 523, SM
• 20216, DRL, SM
• 18874, 263, SM

November 18, 2010:  NDIC dockets, Case 13574: SM, amend, West Ambrose to field include 8 additional sections and create three 1,280-acre spacing units.

April 30, 2010: Baytex, Haugenoe 15-162-99H, new permit 30 Apr 10

April 26, 2010: now there are ten (10) wells on the confidential list (not including the two with rigs on site. Up from eight (8) when originally posted.

April 26, 2010: Two rigs on site 

18728, Baytex, Hansen 13-162-99H
18757, St Mary Land, Enerson 4-29H, new permit 26 Feb 10

March 27, 2010: Two rigs on site (moved off site before April 26, 2010)

18429, Samson, Ness 29-32-163-98H
18659, Baytex, Myers 2-162-99H

West Ambrose - Ambrose - Blooming Prairie Fields

These three oil fields are all contiguous fields, north of Williston. They are all small fields; the three sections total about 78 sections.  The West Ambrose is only five sections, and Blooming Prairie is only 23 sections. That leaves Ambrose with about 50 sections.

Recently there has been a bit of new activity, and currently there are 8 wells in these three fields on the confidential list. There are about 14 producing wells, many of them with permits that suggest they were drilled several years ago. Of these, there appears to be one well of consequence, a CLR well with an IP of around 900 bopd, which targeted the Three Forks Sanish. The other few wells that I have data for had very low IPs. Two companies, Samson and Baytex, appear to have most of the permits (with the exception of the aforementioned CLR well).

The town of Ambrose sits at the north end of the Ambrose field, and Crosby sits just to the east of the Blooming Prairie field. The population of these two towns, according to Wikipedia, were 23, and 1,089 hardy souls, respectively, in the 2000 census. (There is a Crosby field that sits northeast of the town of Crosby, and is not contiguous to these three fields.)

New Data Points since original update first posted:

18757, St Mary Land, Enerson 4-29H, new permit 26 Feb 10
18854, Baytex, Sorenson 14-162N-99H
18874, St Mary Land, Bulbranson 4-26H, new permit 30 Mar 10
18895, Samson, Almos Farms 1-12-162-99HOR, new permit 8 Apr 10
18900, Baytex, Sinclair 24-162-99H, new permit 9 Apr 10
18982, Baytex, Larson 3-162N-99H, new permit 3 May 10


New since original posting:
SM has a series of wells running east - west from Ambrose to West Ambrose oil fields

• 18663, almost complete, long lateral
• 18757, almost complete, long lateral
• 18328, producing, long lateral
• 18285, producing, long lateral
• 19671
• 90140, rig on site (note file number)
• 18874
• 19151
• 19575
• 19564, DRL, SM, Wolter 13-21H, West Ambrose, Bakken (as of 3/28/11)

Note: file number 90140 probably isn't too far from --

• November 6, 2009: More evidence that the oil/gas industry continues to expand: Denver company to expand gas plant; sees continued development of the Williston Basin. This regards a facility in Divide County, the Ambrose Gas Plant southwest of Ambrose.

Updated: November 28, 2010