Here's a very early thread discussing effectiveness of dual laterals with some additional links.
- PowerPoint Presentation: Middle Bakken Play, Technical Problems, Solutions, Lefever and Helms
- September, 2010: Hess' Approach to The Bakken, Dual Laterals
- Packers Plus Presentation on Dual Laterals, single page with schematic
Hess has abandoned dual laterals--and with good reason. Too many failures. Just take a look at one example in Mountrail County: 17-156-94. The well that goes north into sections 8 and 5 is a dual lateral. Cost to drill: $11 million.
ReplyDeleteStatus: SI. Cumulative production: < 150 barrels. Hess has now permitted an offset, and it will not be a dual lateral.
Regardless of type of well, or location, there are only a handful of Bakken producers that excite me, and Hess is not one of them.
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