The Halliburton coiled tubing crew from Rock Springs, Wyoming, has been in the area for the last few days, but the Halliburton fracking crew coming down from Canada has "been hung up at the border crossing for the last two days!"The wells in question, from an earlier note from the company's website, dated March 14, 2011:
"The first two horizontal wells of a five-well program targeting light oil in the Spearfish in Bottineau County, North Dakota, were drilled in the fourth quarter of 2010, with the remaining wells drilled subsequent to year end. Based on drill cuttings, gas detector response and oil shows while drilling, all five wells have now been cased as potential Spearfish oil wells and await completion. Fracture stimulation treatment is dependent on weather and road bans but is anticipated to occur within the next six weeks. The Company has continued to build on its dominant land position in the area which is now in excess of 43,840 net undeveloped acres. No reserves have been assigned to Legacy's interest in Bottineau County in the December 31, 2010, reserves report."A big thank you from "another" Bruce for providing the update via e-mail.
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Update:
Anon 1 provided significant amount of information regarding an earlier question in the comment section below. Because comments don't "link" appropriately, I have "cut and paste" the comment/links here to make it easier to get to the links:
Also see:
http://www.renegadepetroleum.com/
They have a little acreage which might have a shot at Spearfish. But, they don't mention it here:
http://www.renegadepetroleum.com/documents/presentation/RPL-2011-04-29-MayCorpPresent.pdf
They do mention Bakken and Waskada Spearfish.
Also, you have covered:
http://www.surgeenergy.ca/
Together they constitute a renegade surge of Canadians looking for legacy oil.
http://www.legacyoilandgas.com/
THANK YOU for the information! I own unleased mineral acres in Bottineau County. The recent ND oil lease auction---some land was leased less than one mile from my land and with Legacy Spearfish potential wells and some good Madison wells recently---Maybe it is a good sign for increased leasing in Bottineau County? Do you think we could see some drilling potential in the Birdbear or Three Forks formation in the future for Bottineau County? Thank so much.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the geology well enough to say, but my hunch is that it will all eventually be drilled; the problem is that the drillers have such a backlog, it's gonna be awhile before they get to all of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking time to comment.
Also see:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.renegadepetroleum.com/
They have a little acreage which might have a shot at Spearfish. But, they don't mention it here:
http://www.renegadepetroleum.com/documents/presentation/RPL-2011-04-29-MayCorpPresent.pdf
They do mention Bakken and Waskada Spearfish.
Also, you have covered:
http://www.surgeenergy.ca/
Together they constitute a renegade surge of Canadians looking for legacy oil.
http://www.legacyoilandgas.com/
Anon 1
Great information, thank you.
ReplyDeleteLinks don't translate well in the comment section, so I took the liberty of also posting your comment up above in the original post to make it easier to click on the links. Great information.
Something not mentioned often: I assume the spacing unit for these Bottineau Spearfish wells will be about 40 acres. Spacing for Spearfish wells is a whole lot different than spacing for Bakken wells. It will take some time to used to the different spacing, whatever it may be.
The GIS map server only shows spacing for Bakken, as far as I can tell.