Huge Well -- Hecker 21-18TFH -- Whiting South -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

From Whiting's 1Q11 earnings announcement:

The Hecker 21-18TFH, during a 24-hour test of the Three Forks formation at a vertical depth of approximately 10,500 feet on March 4, 2011, flowed at a daily rate of 3,106 barrels of oil and 3,038 Mcf of gas, or 3,612 BOE per day.

This is the highest initial production rate for a Three Forks well in the Williston Basin, according to Harts Unconventional Oil & Gas website.

The initial 24-hour production rate was gauged on a 48/64-inch choke with a flowing casing pressure of 990 pounds per square inch (psi). The well was fracture stimulated in a total of 22 stages, all using sliding sleeve technology. An additional eight stages are scheduled to be fraced with the “plug and perf” method.

Whiting, the operator of the well, holds a 77% working interest and a 62% net revenue interest in the new producer.

This is huge.

I've been waiting for information on the Hecker 21-18TFH.

The Hecker is right in the middle of the flurry of Whiting activity north of Belfield in the Bell and Zenith oil fields I have been posting about for the last several days. For more, click here and here.

The Hecker 21-18TFH is still on the confidential list, so this is the first information that has been released about this well, as far as I know.

A huge "thank you" to Don for alerting me to it.