Six-Stage Frack Resulting in a Huge Bakken Well -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

I have limited time and limited resources to check and double check to see if I'm missing something, but if this is accurate as I have posted this, it is very, very remarkable. (This is mostly a "cut and paste" from an earlier post, but important enough to get a stand-alone post.)

• 19475, 2,503, Whiting, Brookbank State 41-16XH, Sanish, middle Bakken, s10/10; t6/11; cum 76K bo cum 10/11; 6 stages, 96K lbs sand

Again note: stimulated with six (6) stages and almost no proppant; incredible. Sometimes an initial frack fails and the company goes back in and re-fracks. In this case, the well has been on-line since June, the month it was originally fracked, suggesting that they have not gone back in and increased the number of frack stages. 


This well was tested/completed on/about June, 2011, and in less than four months of production is pushing 76,000 bbls of oil cumulative. Incredible. For newbies, the milestone I watch is how fast a well reached 100,000 bbls of oil cumulative. Madison wells often produced for 20 years, sometimes longer, to get to 100,000 bbls. Bakken wells are generally getting to 100,000 within three years, and some are reaching that number much more quickly.

This is where Whiting is putting in density/development/infill wells. There are four producing wells in the immediate area of the Brookbank and a fifth well with a rig on site. Even with that large number of wells, Whiting is nowhere near completely filling in that area. And, remember, only two formations are being targeted: the middle Bakken and the Three Forks/Sanish. Others have opined that there may be additional formations yet to be targeted.