Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Missouri Ridge Oil FIeld: Why I Remain Inappropriately Exuberant About the Williston Basin

While checking out the new Liberty wells in the Tyrone oil field, I ran across this cluster of wells just to the south in Missouri Ridge oil field (north of Williston):
  • 6306, Encore, Jensen 41, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s1/78; t6/78; cum ~ 400K bbls 10/11
  • 6642, Encore, Jensen 5 1, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s9/78; t3/79; cum ~ 350K bbls 10/11 
  • 6757, Encore, Clark 1, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s5/79; t8/79; cum almost 1 million 10/11
  • 6806, Oasis, Booke 1, Red River, Stonewall, s12/78; t4/79; cum 500K bbls 10/11
  • 8426, Meridian, Robert Rieder 1, Birdbear, s3/81; t7/81; cum 320K bbls 10/11
  • 10414, Encore, Winter Lesnick 1, Red River, Stonewall, s10/83;t2/84; cum 300K bbls 10/11
  • 10647, Encore, Winter Lesnick 2, Birdbear, s7/84; t8/84; cum 405K bbls 10/11
  • 10840, Conoco, Jensen 4 2, Birdbear, s8/84; t11/84; cum 94K bbls; PNA
  • 11704, Encore, Jensen 4 3, Madison, s8/85; t9/85; cum 255K bbls 10/11
  • 13666, Citation, Rieder 1-9R, Birdbear, Madison, s6/94/t7/94 ane 12/09; 105K bbls 10/11
Some of these wells are still producing, thirty years out. The Stonewall at #6757, completed in 1979, is still producing about 1,000 bbls/month. Maybe not as good as the Red Wing Creek cluster, but not bad.

Enjoy. Someone said the following sounded like Bob Dylan (vocals) being backed up by the Ventures.
 
Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits
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4 comments:

  1. RedDecember 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    I remember MTV's debut year they played this a lot, cool song.

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  2. Bruce OksolDecember 14, 2011 at 10:27 PM

    You will not believe this, but I had not, to the best of my knowledge, ever heard this song until tonight. I was preparing for a midnight session for my YouTubeFugue blog when I came across this.

    According to Wiki, this came out in 1979. Between the years 1977 - 1980 I was working or on call 24/7. I don't recall watching any television those three years; I doubt I listened to any music those three years. Music keeps me alive (see Hunter S Thompson's quotes re: music). It's a wonder / miracle I survived those years.

    This is clearly a song I should never have missed.

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  3. embraceyourinnerhillbillyDecember 16, 2011 at 8:30 PM

    Bruce, you're off by a year.
    The eponymously titled first Dire Straits LP was issued in 1978...second album was ready for release in '79, when suddenly 'Sultans of Swing' became a hit and they delayed release of the 2nd LP to (finally) promote the first album.

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  4. Bruce OksolDecember 16, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    Ha, I have to laugh. Obviously you know what you are talking about. I missed the small print on wiki: yes, you are correct -- it was "re-released in 1979 (first released, as you note, in 1978).

    Now, if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it, does it make any noise?

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