Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Not Much Exciting News For Wells Reporting Today -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

New wells reporting today have been posted.

Not much remarkable in those reporting today, except another 2,000+ bbl IP for BEXP:
This one was in the Catwalk, a small oil field east of Williston (in fact, part of Williston is inside the Catwalk). The Brakken is southeast of Williston on the other side of the river. I forget the name of the little park that is in the area (I doubt there is more than a handful of folks who even know it exists).  It's where Lewis and Clark were said to have looked across the river at this point in their journey.

I used to enjoy going out there to bird watch.

[Update: after posting the above, I received an e-mail reminding me it was Cut Bluff Overlook Park, which you can google and find out more about it. At this link, you can see a photo of the area; the story may be out of date, but the photo is a nice reminder of the oil activity in the area.]

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Maybe of some interest was a Hess well reporting:
In my original note, I said "this is the first of six wells on one pad to report." Correction: second well on this pad to report; see comment below. As noted below, the first well to report on this pad had an IP of 207.

Are they planning on fracking them all at the same time, and these haven't been fracked? I vaguely remember that one of the frustrations with CLR's Eco-Pads is that one  had to wait until all four were drilled before the wells were completed (fracked) -- at least that's what I thought I read.

By the way, the "RS" designation refers to Hess' Red Sky prospect, not Ross field. And, for more trivia, these six wells represented the first "Dakota Candle" that I alluded to. 
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  1. RoryFebruary 2, 2011 at 4:17 AM

    Correction - I've been watching this pad for a little while.

    This is the first well to report on that pad:


    NDIC File No: 18602 API No: 33-061-01232-00-00 CTB No: 216881
    Well Type: OG Well Status: A Status Date: 6/11/2010 Wellbore type: Horizontal
    Location: NWSW 27-156-90 Footages: 2201 FSL 542 FwL Latitude: 48.304338 Longitude: -102.243329
    Current Operator: HESS CORPORATION
    Current Well Name: RS-NELSON FARMS A-156-90- 2829H-1
    Elevation(s): 2202 KB 2167 GR 2167 GL Total Depth: 19716 Field: ROSS
    Spud Date(s): 4/5/2010
    Casing String(s): 9.625" 1892' 7" 10428'
    Completion Data
    Pool: BAKKEN Perfs: 10428-19716 Comp: 6/11/2010 Status: F Date: 6/18/2010 Spacing: 2SEC
    Cumulative Production Data
    Pool: BAKKEN Cum Oil: 38456 Cum MCF Gas: 6656 Cum Water: 18991
    Production Test Data
    IP Test Date: 6/18/2010 Pool: BAKKEN IP Oil: 207 IP MCF: 40 IP Water: 293
    Monthly Production Data
    Pool Date Days BBLS Oil Runs BBLS Water MCF Prod MCF Sold Vent/Flare
    BAKKEN 12-2010 31 9861 9953 2229 0 0 0
    BAKKEN 11-2010 28 9174 9100 2618 2427 2427 0
    BAKKEN 10-2010 12 7584 7413 2550 1767 1767 0
    BAKKEN 9-2010 2 596 782 18 125 125 0
    BAKKEN 8-2010 17 4716 4702 2261 668 668 0
    BAKKEN 7-2010 10 4869 4733 1359 1338 1338 0
    BAKKEN 6-2010 13 1656 1576 7956 331 301 30

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  2. Bruce OksolFebruary 2, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    Thank you for correcting; I misinterpreted comments I read about this well.

    The bigger question is whether they are waiting to frack after all wells drilled to depth. So, far, these IPs are not remarkable, but as noted, it's possible they have not been fracked.

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