Connecting the Anschutz/Stroh Dots in the Cabernet Oil Field (Bakken, North Dakota, USA)

This is a complicated note; if you have a second screen, put up the NDIC GIS map server as you connect these dots about some incredible Anschutz wells in the Cabernet and Fayette oil fields. 

Coming off the confidential list today, Anschutz reported a great well in the Cabernet oil field:

• 18424, 2,409, Anschutz, Kenneth Stroh 1-12-1H-143-97, Cabernet, Bakken  
• There is a second well on this pad, 18423, the Raphael Stroh 1-13--24H-143-97

Last month, in the August 13, 2010, daily activity report:

• 18395, 2,207, Anschutz, Kathleen Stroh 1-20-17H-143-95, Murphy Creek, but right on the border with the Cabernet oil field, Bakken

So, Anschutz reports two nice wells in (or right on the border of) the Cabernet oil field.

Hold that thought. 

Back on August 5, 2010, I wrote that one of the best blogs ever posted regarding the Bakken referenced the Anschutz in the Cabernet field and was posted by "Teegue", dated September 17, 2009. I linked that posting from the very beginning.

In August, one year after Teegue posted his note about Anschutz in the Cabernet, Anschutz reported a great well, a well that had produced 40,000 barrels before it was even fracked (I don't have an update regarding production to date and whether it has been fracked):

• 18644, State 1-25-36H-144-97X, Cabernet, 24-144-97, 3,294, 40k in 40 days, un-fracked

Now, back to that thought I asked to you to hold: in the immediate area, but in the Fayette oil field, Anschutz has four more permits:

• 18611: DRL, OXY USA, Evelyn Stroh 1-17-20H-143-96, Dunn
• 18610: DRL, OXY USA, Harry Stroh 1-8-5H-143-96, Dunn
• 18503: PNC, Burlington Resources, Cecilia Stroh 1-18-19H-143-96, Dunn
• 18463: PNC, Burlington Resources, Elizabeth Stroh 1-7-6H-143-96, Dunn

BR contested these Anschutz permits and went to the NDIC in August, 2010, to have these permits permits revoked. With such great wells, I can understand why. I discussed that at Gun Fight at the OK Corral. I have not heard the results of that hearing but until told otherwise, I will assume these are still Anschutz wells.

Now, add this to the mix (all of the following are in the  Fayette oil field) and they are all Anschutz wells:

• 18822, 1,304, State 1-16-21H-143-96, Dennis Kadrmas 1-9-4H-143-96; s 6/10; t 1/11; 76K 6/11
• 18823, 906, State 1-16-21H-143-96; spud 6/10; tested 4/11; 70K as of 6/11

and in the last few weeks, Anschutz has obtained permits for two more wells just to the east of these wells:

• 19422, DRL, OXY USA, Beatrice Kubischta 1-15-22H-143-96
• 19423, DRL, OXY USA, Elroy Kadmas 1-10-3H-143-96

and a bit earlier, Anschutz had obtained permits for two more wells in the Fayette oil field:

• 18772, spud 11/3/10, confidential, Leiss 1-23-26H-143-96
• 18773, spud 11/1/10, confidential, William Kubischta 1-14-11H-143-96

18822 and 18823 are on the same pad; 19422 and 19423 are on the same pad; 18772 and 18773 are on the same pad. 

It's taken a bit of time, but it's starting to come together. These Anschutz wells are about as far southeast in the Bakken as one gets. One wonders if the Williston Basin, at one time being one huge sea or lake, if this area was more shallow, and maybe a thicker formation. I am not a geologist and if I had the time, I suppose one could go back to all the geological links at this site, but that's more than I care to do right now.

Regardless how it all plays out, it appears that (where the Cabernet, Fayette, and Murphy Creek come together in the southeast area of the Bakken) there is another "hot spot" in the Bakken.  It looks like it's "owned" by Anschutz. By the way, just as the Bakken tends to end to the southeast (in this area), the TFS formation continues south and east.