More On That BEXP 5-Well Pad In Alger Oil Field -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Locator: 46531B.

 

This is an old, old post. I’m not sure why it ended up here, today, January 14, 2024. Regardless, I updated some of the production data.

The data below can be overwhelming, but look at file #17355, BEXP's Cvancara 20 1H: 103,000 bbls as of September, 2011, and it was completed March, 2011 -- over 100,000 bbls in less than six months. Remember, it often took a Madison to produce 20 years to get to 100,000 bbls, and these Bakken wells will produce for 25 year or more. Some Madison wells have been producing for 50 years.

And this is where BEXP will be putting a 5-well pad. 

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When I was first writing about the Alger oil field, I went through the wells in the field at that time -- it seems like a long, long time ago. Below are some of the wells in the Alger field where the BEXP 5-well pad will be located:

• 18981, 2,952, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Holm 9-4 1-H, t8/11; cum 252K 4/17; cum 287K 11/23;
  
• 18547: 2,678, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Jerome Anderson 15-10 1-H; s1/10; t3/10; cum 282K 4/17; cum 387K 11/23;
  
• 17165: 1,042, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Carkuff 22 1-H; s5/08/t8/08; cum 220K 4/17; cum 310K 11/23;
  
• 16893: AB/368, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Bakke 23 1H, s11/07;t2/08; cum 146K 4/17; cum 153K 11/21;
  
• 17359: 1,220, Lime Rock/Fidelity, Bakke 11-24H; s9/08; t11/08; cum 213K 4/17; cum 282K 11/23;
  
• 17481: 802, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Adix 25 1-H, s8/08; t10/08; cum 213K 4/17; remember: it often took the Madison to produce for 20 years to get to 100,000 bbls; cum 266K 11/23;
  
• 18896: 4,438, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Clifford Bakke 26-35 1-H, s6/10; t10/10; cum 561K 11/17; remember: it often took the Madison to produce for 20 years to get to 100,000 bbls; cum 633K 11/23;
  
• 17724: 1,788, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Strobeck 27-34 1-H, s11/08; t7/09; cum 277K 4/17; remember: it often took the Madison to produce for 20 years to get to 100,000 bbls; cum 310K 11/23;
  
• 18628: 4,357, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Jack Cvancara 19-18 1-H, t5/10; cum 439K 4/17; cum 558K 11/23;
• 19057: 4,106, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Domaskin 30-31 1-H, daily activity report, Jan 12, 2011, 50K in first month; s7/10; t10/10; cum 424K 4/17; --  not even a year of production and hit almost 200K bbls; cum 490K 11/23;
  
• 17355 3,909: Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Cvancara 20 1-H; s10/10; t3/11; cum 315K 4/17; cum 417K 11/23;
  
• 17351: 1,756, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Anderson 28-33 1-H, long lateral; t8/09; cum 490K 4/17; cum 587K 11/23;
  
• 18654: 4,335, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Sorenson 29-32 1-H, Alger, t4/10; cum 470K 4/17; cum 552K 11/23;
  
• 19036 (on top of 18721): 2,086, Oasis, Evans 5693 42-27H; t11/10; cum 279K 4/17; cum 355K 11/23;
• 18760: 2,789, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Brown 30-19 1-H; t4/11; cum 281K 4/17; cum 350K 11/23;
  

BEXP will be putting a 5-well pad in this section: 20-155-92.

• 21952, 4,293, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Sorenson 29-32 3H, t9/12; cum 306K 4/17; cum 415K 11/23;
  
• 21953, 2.790, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Cvancara 20-17 2TFH, t9/12; cum199K 4/17; cum 244K 11/23;
  
• 21954, 3,078, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Sorenson 29-32 4H, t9/12; cum 267K 4/17; cum 390K 11/23;
  
• 21955, 2,972, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Cvancara 20-17 3H, t9/12; cum 246K 4/17; cum 338K 11/23;
• 21957, 1,779, Grayson Mill/Statoil/BEXP, Cvancara 20-17 4TFH, t7/14; cum 123K 4/17; cum 184K 11/23;
  

The Alger is a huge field; this is just a listing of the wells in one particular area of the Alger.