Just a Trivial Observation -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Here are the four wells that came of the confidential list today:

19833, DRL, MRO, Shirley Pennington USA 14-22H, Reunion Bay, Bakken
20212, DRL, CLR, Whitman 3-34H, Oakdale, Bakken
19883, SI, BR, Abercrombie 44-12H, Elidah, Bakken
20178: 2,788, BEXP, Erickson 8-17 3H, Painted Woods, Bakken

What is the first think you noticed?

The first thing I noticed is here, yet again, we have BEXP reporting a completed well, and two of the other four are still in DRL status, meaning that they have not completed (fracked) their wells.

Reminder to newbies: I report results of wells coming off confidential list on a separate page, linked at the right. Link is in next paragraph.

I update the results on this page, so some of these may have been updated from DRL to IP but look at all the wells that have come off confidential list recently (re-printed below), and are in DRL status (even BEXP had one on DRL status) but in general, with BEXP one can count on a) a nice IP; and, b) a completed well when it comes off the confidential list.

• 19833, DRL, MRO, Shirley Pennington USA 14-22H, Reunion Bay, Bakken
• 20212, DRL, CLR, Whitman 3-34H, Oakdale, Bakken
• 19883, SI, BR, Abercrombie 44-12H, Elidah, Bakken
• 20178: 2,788, BEXP, Erickson 8-17 3H, Painted Woods, Bakken
• 19833, DRL, MRO, Shirley Pennington USA 14-22H, Reunion Bay, Bakken
• 20212, DRL, CLR, Whitman 3-34H, Oakdale, Bakken
• 19883, SI, BR, Abercrombie 44-12H, Elidah, Bakken
• 20178: 2,788, BEXP, Erickson 8-17 3H, Painted Woods, Bakken
• 18695, 258, XTO, 101 Federal 21X-24, Mondak, Bakken
• 19878, DRL, North Plains Energy, Holland 9-19H, Wildcat, Bakken
• 18678, DRL, Denbury Onshore, Charlson 34-12H, Charlson, Bakken
• 19799, DRL, CLR, Lakewood 1-20H, Upland, Bakken
• 19500, DRL, Hess, Knudson 15-20H, Dollar Joe, Bakken
• 17979, DRL, Zavanna, Lynx 1-27H, Stony Creek, Bakken
• 18426, 909, Petro-Hunt, Fort Berthold 152-94-14C-11-1H, Antelope, Bakken
• 20180, 327, Hunt, Halliday 1-13-24H 1, Lake Ilo, Bakken
• 19821, DRL, Zavanna, Cheryl 14-23 1H, Glass Bluff, Bakken
• 19715, 1,068, CLR, Don 1-23H, Elidah, Bakken
• 19707, DRL, Slawson, Ambush 1-31-30H, Wildcat, Bakken
• 20196, DRL, OXY USA, Sorlie 160-90-18-P-1H, Dimond, Bakken
• 18828, 1,066, EOG, Liberty LR 16-36H, Van Hook, Bakken
• 20011, DRL, Petro-Hunt, Sovig 150-100-22C-15-1H, Arnegard, Bakken
• 20224, DRL, Hess, Klose 24-1H, Glass Bluff, Bakken
• 19824, 1,683, BR, Ransom 44-31H, Elidah, Bakken
• 19332, 1,105, XTO, Lonnie 31X-3, Hofflund, Bakken
• 19553, 4, MRO, Lucy Fleckenstein 34-20H, Bailey, Bakken (that "4" is taken from the NDIC webpage)
• 19584, 2,192, BEXP, Dave Arnson 8-5 1H, Todd, Bakken
• 19403, DRL, CLR, Vachal 1-27H, Alkali Creek, Bakken
• 19293, DRL, XTO, FBIR Walker 34X-25, Heart Butte, Bakken
• 19969, 356, Newfield, Larson 159-102-29-32-1H, Wildcat, Bakken (north of Williston, southeast of Grenora)
• 19830, DRL, BEXP, Irwin 15-22 1H, Lake Trenton, Bakken
• 19957, DRL, Marathon, Torgerson USA 14-8H, Wildcat, Bakken
• 19862, 86, CLR, Flor 24-19NH, Cedar Hills, North Red River B (not a Bakken)
• 19885, DRL, Hess, Tattu 19-1H, Elk, Bakken,
• 19533, DRL, North Plains Energy, LLC, Hellandsaas 16-8H, Banks, Bakken

Note CLR: six wells on the list; four in DRL stratus (perhaps Eco-Pad issues); one with a nice IP, and one with a non-remarkable IP (but in the North Red River "B" formation). With 20 active rigs on the North Dakota side of the border, one would think one would see more CLR reporting activity. Again, CLR may have many wells that they don't put on the confidential list, and are reported elsewhere, and I may be just missing them. Regardless, four of six in DRL status.