Random Note: Focus on Little Tank 19-21, Little Tank Field, Red River Formation, Williston Basin

If you go to the NDIC GIS map server, and then to the "field search," take some time to type in Red Wing Creek. When you get there, click on "Overview Map" in the menu on the upper left.

If you do that, you will see the bull's eye where the activity will be headed in 2012: right in the middle of McKenzie County.

At 10:00 o'clock, just outside the bull's eye, you will see a vertical well, Little Tank 19-21, in Little Tank field, northwest of Red Wing Creek field.

This is an old Red River well, file number 7167, operations recently transferred to Sequel Energy, LLC (2010), along with scores of others throughout North Dakota. If I follow the paperwork correctly, the previous operator was St Mary Land & Exploration. The owners of the well back in 2006 applied for stripper well status based on daily production averaging 28 bopd.

It looks like Pennzoil spudded the well on 1/21/82 and tested the well 6/21/82 with an IP of 557 which must  have been huge back in 1982. This occurred during cycle three in North Dakota's oil history. It has been producing since then, and continues to produce at about the same rate as it did in the early 1990's.  To date it has produced 416,759 bbls of oil from the Red River formation.

In a few months, this well will celebrate its 30th birthday.

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By the way, a little to the northwest of this well is the Haugen 2 well, file number 12644. It was spudded 8/31/89, tested the following:

• Red River, 11/13/89, 755 (huge in that era)
• Duperow, 1/6/93, 114
• Birdbear, 11/30/02, 160

To date (August, 2011) the well has produced from the:

• Red River: 424,256 bbls
• Duperow: 71,626 bbls
• Birdbear: 107,973 bbls

For a grand total, so far: 603,855 bbls

The well is not all that old, only 22 years old or so.

For my list of "monster wells," click  here.