Someone else noted the increased activity around Dublin oil field, so I have updated the well data.
Not much yet to report, but also a reminder that Zenergy has requested that the Dublin-Madison field be extended to include eight (8) more 320-acre spacing units, one horizontal well each.
I'm seeing a gradual return to the Madison.
Bruce,
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the cancelled permit by Petro Hunt for well #21666, you will notice that they are targeting the Red River C and not the Madison in 157-100-3. Petro Hunt and Zenergy have been duking it out with each other in the Dublin and Marmon fields...PHunt has the 3D seismo info for these tracts and it appears from this cancelled permit the RRC is the cause of the contention from these two operators
I will be adding the Dublin/Marmon to my list of 10 most interesting fields (combining the two for this purpose).
ReplyDeleteBased on your note and looking at the Dublin again, it looks like there could be three very active plays: the Red River, the Madison, and the Bakken.
Well 19103 is the only 3-forks well in these fields... not the greatest production numbers, but another formation Sorry about sending so many comments, but the RR "C" formation is what I thought may be a blogworthy tidbit of information. I'm not very good at searching the NDIC website, but it appears that there is only one productive RRC well in the state (haven't a clue as to where it is at). Couple that with the fact that Petro Hunt has the 3D seismo for this area, made it interesting?
ReplyDeleteI posted this comment elsewhere a few minutes ago:
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. According to the NDIC website, there has only been one (1) Red River C well out of the 11,100 wells drilled in North Dakota since 1951.
Madison: 5,505 wells
Bakken: 2,341 wells
No other single formation has even cracked 800 wells.
I find it incredible, that they have been drilling Madison wells for 30+ years and within five years or so, the Bakken could overtake the Madison.
That is another datapoint to consider when trying to quantify oil activity in North Dakota. Think of all the oil activity over the last 30 years and now compress that into one or two years.
With regard to the Red River C, there have been about 1,200 "Red River" wells. I'm not sure what my point is, but to some extent, I'm wondering if the Red River C is not like the "benches" that CLR is talking about with regard to the Three Forks.
To some extent, one gets into "lumping" and "splitting" formations. Right or wrong, and maybe naively, I'm lumping all the Red River formations together.
With regard to my interest in oil fields, my top ten list is completely random and capricious. I wouldn't read much into it. The Parshall, for example, is not interesting to me right now: it's predictable. The Sanish is predictable in a sense, but it's also very, very interesting to see how many wells they will get in a section.
Dublin/Marmon is interesting because it is unique in a cluster of vertical wells at a time when everyone else is drilling horizontal wells.
Again, I wouldn't read too much into my top ten fields; I post a lot of uninteresting information but every once in awhile something very interesting pops up.