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Monday, May 23, 2011

Jones 44-35 -- Whiting -- Shut In -- Wildcat -- Lots of Chatter -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Lots of chatter about this well.
  • 18005, DRY/SI, WLL, Jones 44-35, Wildcat, Bakken -- very interesting. Vertical. See link. 
This well was a real wildcat in the southwestern corner of North Dakota, section 35, T143N-105W. As noted it was a vertical well.

WLL has been issued a permit to drill another well in section 36, T143N-105W, less than a half mile to the southeast.
  • 20889, LOC, WLL, Henry State 24-36H, another wildcat
I have placed these two wells on the "watch list."

For newbies, some facts, and then you can connect the dots:
  • The current boom is all about horizontal drilling
  • A vertical well is very inexpensive compared to a horizontal well
  • In the "old" days, it was not unusual for a company to drill vertical wells to get information about a new area
  • Hess has six wells monitoring a long lateral (although they are still confidential, my hunch is they are all vertical wells)

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