There Are Now Nine (9) Wells Along The Hess Long Lateral #17117

Looking at the GIS map server this morning I see that there are now nine (9) wells alongside the Hess long lateral #17117. I first talked about six monitoring wells along this long lateral back on March 18, 2011.

The original six wells all had "observation" in their names. The newest three wells no longer have "observation" in their names and are located immediately around the original well site of Hess #17117: EN-Person-156-94-1102H-1.  Based on their names, these three new wells will not be monitoring #17117 but will be production wells. Note that the most recent permit (#20772) is the odd-man out of these four wells. #20772 is not a "Person" well but an "Enger" well and it will be going south, where the other three are going north.

The original long lateral EN-Person was a good well, but perhaps not a great well. It had an IP of 345, when it was tested back in September, 2008. Its total production has not yet reached 100,000 bbls of oil which I consider an important milestone by which to compare wells.

The nine permits along the horizontal #17117:

• 20500, EN-Person Observation 11-33, east side of the lateral
• 20315, EN-Person Observation 11-22, west side of the lateral (rig on site)
• 20442, EN-Person Observation 2-24, west side of the lateral
• 20361, EN-Person Observation 11-31, west side of the lateral
• 20539, EN-Person Observation 2-32, east side of the lateral
• 20599, EN-Person Observation 2-43, east side of the lateral (rig on site)
• 20669, EN-Person-156-94-1102H-2, at the wellhead, east side
• 20670, EN-Person-156-94-11-2H-3, at the wellhead, west side
• 20772, EN-Enger-156-94-1423H-1at the wellhead, south side

#17117, 345, EN-Person-156-94-1102H-1, Big Butte, Bakken, long lateral. Cumulative oil: 98K at about 2.5 years. Yet to pay for itself. Spud 7/3/08; IP test date 9/11/08. [Look how soon after reaching TD they were able to frack, test and calculate IP.] I am unable to determine number of frac stages but based on fact this is an early well, the number of stages was probably low.

********

I assume the original six vertical wells are for monitoring, but there may be something else going on. Check out this article about EOG in Eagle Ford, south Texas.

********

May 17, 2011: The discussion group is starting to discuss this.