3 Out of 4 Wells Not Completed -- Waiting To Be Fracked -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Three out of four wells are waiting to be fracked!

That might be the headline if The National Enquirer followed the Bakken.  In fact, it's not quite that bad (but almost).

Today's reporting revealed that three of four wells coming off confidential list were not completed / not fracked. Over time, it appears that about 50 percent of wells coming off the confidential list are not completed, and go onto DRL status.

Having said that, there a few additional comments that could be made regarding these four wells:

• 20977, DRL, ERF, Morrison 149-93-10AH, Mandaree, Bakken, 
• 20435, DRL, BR, Scott 21-36MBH, Murphy Creek, Bakken, 
• 19958, DRL, MRO, Rhoda 24-31H, Big Bend, Bakken, 
• 19684, 2,423, Whiting, Arnegard 21-26H, Wildcat, Bakken, s2/11; t6/11; cum 50K 10/11; middle Bakken, 30 stages, 2.3 million lbs proppant; sand, no ceramics

First, notice the nomenclautre of the ERF well ("AH").

The first three are in great oil fields: the Mandaree, Murphy Creek, and Big Bend.

Whiting's wildcat is right in the bull's eye of the Bakken; one mile south of Arnegard, about six miles west of Watford City, in Timber Creek oil field, a field that is composed of only 6 sections.