Three Forks Formation Starting to Shine: WLL Announces Two Nice Wells; More On the Way

From a Whiting press release, dated September 28, 2010:

Whiting completed two new producers at its Lewis & Clark Prospect in Stark, Billings, and Golden Valley Counties, North Dakota (USA).

• Three Forks Formation: Froehlich 44-9TFH, 1,832 bopd (24-hour test); 28 fracture stages
• Three Forks Formation: Kubas 11-13TFH, 1,780 bopd (24-hour test); 29 fracture stages

These two wells are within five miles of each other. They are located about 32 miles southeast of Whiting's Federal 32-4TFH discovery well, which flowed 1,970 boepd on November 25, 2009.

For those who know North Dakota, the Kubas is about 5 miles northeast of Belfield, and the Froehlich is about 1.5 miles southeast of Belfield.

The Froehlich was on the very, very tiny Zenith oil field; the Kubas was a wildcat.

A third well, the Ellison Creek 11-1TFH is currently being completed, located about three miles east of the Federal 32-4TFH well. The results of this well and three other Lewis & Clark wells will be released in mid-November.

WLL has four operated drilling rigs in the Lewis & Clark and plan to add a fifth operated drilling rig by mid-November.

Comment: this was an exciting press release --

• Three Forks formation wells near the WLL discovery well
• One was a wildcat, potentially opening up a whole near TFS area
• Remember: this is very southeast North Dakota, and where the Bakken ends in the southeast, the TFS continues to extend
• WLL has even more wells soon to be announced
• WLL going to add another rig to this area