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:

• 19008, 2,804, BEXP, Brakken 30-31 1H, Catwalk, Bakken

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 At this link, you can see a photo of the area; the story may be out of date, but the photo is a nice reminder of the oil activity in the area.]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:

• 18603, 154, Hess, RS-Shuhart-156-90-2726H-1, Ross, Bakken

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.