WLL Targeting Two Pools With One Well in SW Part of North Dakota, USA

Updates

Based on the file report, Whiting requested, in March, 2011, to temporarily abandon this well.

There must be a typo on the date on this one. The "snapshot" of the NDIC file shows the status of the well as of 9/16/11 (this is being posted 6/19/11). The spud date was 7/20/10; I assume the status was 9/16/10:

NDIC File No: 18005     API No: 33-033-00294-00-00
Well Type: OG     Well Status: IA     Status Date: 7/20/2010     Wellbore type: Vertical
Location: SESE 35-143-105     Footages: 690 FSL 810 FEL     Latitude: 47.155296     Longitude: -103.943133
Current Operator: WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION
Current Well Name: JONES 44-35
Elevation(s): 2563 KB   2538 GR     Total Depth: 12290     Field: WILDCAT
Spud Date(s):  7/20/2010
Casing String(s): 9.625" 2035'   5.5" 12277'  
Completion Data
   Pool: RED RIVER     Status: DRY     Date: 9/16/2011
   Pool: THREE FORKS     Status: SI     Date: 3/3/2011
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: THREE FORKS     Cum Oil: 0     Cum MCF Gas: 0     Cum Water: 0

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
THREE FORKS	4-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
THREE FORKS	3-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

This is not the first time I have seen a well listed as "SI" (shut in) immediately after it was drilled.  The file does reveal a single-stage frac stimulation. In March, 2011, he company requested permission to temporarily abandon this well.

Original Post

NDIC is reporting an interesting well:

• 18005, DRL, WLL, Jones 44-35, Wildcat, Red River and Three Forks (not a Bakken); no "H" designation; southwest corner of state; about 16 miles NNE of Beach, ND; absolutely no activity in immediate area.

Note that it is targeting two pools: the Red River (one of the more prolific formations in the Williston Basin targeted in previous booms) and the Three Forks. I don't know if it will be a combination vertical and horizontal or two horizontals. Or if it will simply end up in one formation.

Whiting seems to be the most aggressive right now in "pushing the edge of the envelope" to see what might be at the margins of the Williston Basin, or the margins of the Bakken, in the southwest part of the state.