Seven (7) New Permits -- Another 100,000 Bbl-Well at Six Months -- Minimal Sand Frac --The Bakken, North Dakota, USA; December 15, 2011

Daily activity report, December 15, 2011 --

Seven (7) new permits --

• Operators: Dakota-3 (3), Whiting, OXY USA, North Plains, CLR
• Fields: Arnegard, Willmen, Van Hook, Truax, and Viking

That Arnegard field well is a Whiting well, right in the bull's eye of the Bakken.

Reported elsewhere were the wells released from the confidential list today. Three were not fracked/completed; they did not report an IP. The fracking backlog continues.

Two wells on DRL status reported IPs today, including another good Hess well:

• 19841, 930, Hess, Solberg 15-8H, Bakken, Williams County; t9/11; cum 135K 4/17;

Dakota-3 is using slightly different nomenclature in naming their wells; these three will be on the same pad (see this post for an update, ten years later):

• 22071, LOC-->conf-->drl (1/13) -- TATD, WPX/Dakota-3, State of ND 10-3HY, Van Hook
• 22072, 1,664, WPX/Dakota-3, State of ND 10-3HC, Van Hook, t5/13; cum 349K 3/17;
• 22073, 1,227, WPX/Dakota-3, State of ND 10-3HZ, Van Hook, t5/13; cum 290K 3/17;

Any history in that area? Yup:

• 18735, 1,936, Dakota-3, State of ND 10-3H, Van Hook, Bakken, s12/10; t4/11; cum 502K 3/17; 126K bbls in less than seven months; 25 stages; 282K pounds of sand

Note the amount of sand used in this frac: 282K (unless it's a typo); generally operators are using 2 - 4 million pounds of sand, with or without ceramics.

Wow, there are some good wells out there.