GMX Resources Announces A 21,151-Foot Horizontal Three Forks Well Ready For Completion; Plan: Sliding Sleeve, 41 Stages

Update

January 19, 2012: 

• 21002, 384, GMX Resources, Wock 21-2-1H, New Hradec, Bakken Pool, s7/11; t10/11; cum 14K 12/11; 15 stages, 2.8 million lbs; Three Forks Formation

November 29, 2011: See the Wock below. Was that a typo? There is no "Wock 21-1-1H" at this time in North Dakota; it is the Wock 21-2-1H" and still on the confidential list.

Original Post

Link here.

A big "thank you" to "anon 1" for alerting me to this.

More from their press release:

The Company has completed the drilling of its first Three Forks horizontal well. The Wock 21-1-1H (#21002, Wock 21-2-1H, according to NDIC) in Stark County, North Dakota reached total depth of 21,151’ with a horizontal lateral length of 10,281’, which included drilling a vertical pilot hole and performing additional testing. Oil shows were predominant in the vertical and horizontal lateral while drilling in the Three Forks formation.

The Halliburton Rapid Frac™ sliding sleeve system has been installed with stimulation expected the week of September 26th. The Wock 21-1-1H well is scheduled for a 41-stage completion with oil production expected by October 1, 2011. 

The Company expects to spud its second Three Forks horizontal well, the Frank 34-4-1H, in Stark County, North Dakota on or about September 1, 2011. Permits are pending for the next two Bakken/Three Fork wells: the Evoniuk 21-2-1H in Billings County, a Three Forks horizontal well that is expected to spud in October 2011; and the Akovenko 24-34-1H, in McKenzie County, North Dakota, the company’s first horizontal Bakken well that is scheduled to spud in November 2011.

The company has twelve additional permits in process for wells located in Billings, McKenzie and Stark counties in North Dakota.

Little company. Huge story.

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For newbies, this might be the longest Three Forks horizontal well. EOG has drilled a 22,385-foot well, file # 19721, Liberty LR 19-23H.

• 19721, 1,063, EOG, Liberty LR 19-23H, Van Hook, Bakken, s10/10; t3/11; cum 129K 11/11, 31 stages, 5 million lbs

BEXP has talked of frack stages as high as 60 but I think 41 stages is about as many as I've seen.

There was a story awhile back on a record setting frack by Whiting and Baker Hughes:

[Note: Slawson was the first to accomplish 40-stage fracturing in the Bakken, but a different method.]

19866, 1,805, Whiting, Smith 14-29XH, Sanish, Middle Bakken; s1/11; t4/11; cum 75K 11/11 -- off-line about half the time since completed

Baker Hughes has successfully installed a 40-stage openhole completion system in the Williston Basin for Whiting Petroleum Corporation. This achievement marks the most number of stages ever performed in a single lateral frac sleeve / packer completion system. The Baker Hughes FracPoint™ EX-C multistage fracturing system was deployed in the Whiting Petroleum Smith 14 29XH horizontal well.