Updates
March 8, 2013: another permit for this section, 24537, Midnight Horse
December 6, 2012: all seven wells are now completed, reported.
June 10, 2012: this string of wells is updated (see below). There is another well, #22675, that is being drilled; rig on site.
April 26, 2012: elsewhere this information was provided regarding BR's Midnight Run wells:
- #20323 - 23,584 bbls for March, 23 days of production
- #20324 - 21,349 bbls for March, 23 days of production
- #20325 - 23,368 bbls for March, 23 days of production
- #20326 - 19,619 bbls for March, 23 days of production
- #20327 - 19,930 bbls for March, 23 days of production
- #17421 - 10,092 bbls for March, 31 days of production; this well has been producing since Oct 2008, 243K cum to date
Original Post
These is a string of Burlington Resources wells, running west to east (or east to west) in section 1-152-96, Union Center oil field. Union Center oil field is right in the bull's eye of the Bakken, just east of the Banks, Twin Valley, and Westberg oil fields. - 17421, 544, BR, Midnight Run 41-1H, Union Center, Bakken, 7/08; t11/08; cum 328K 1/13; 9-stage fracture; still producing 12,000 bbls/month
- 20323, 3,325, BR, Midnight Run 11-1MBH, Union Center, Bakken, t12/11; cum 158K 1/13;
- 20324, 1,963, BR, Midnight Run 21-1TFH, Union Center, Bakken, t12/11; F; cum 82K 1/13;
- 20325, 2,846, BR, Midnight Run 21-1MBH, Union Center, Bkken, t12/11; F; cum 133K 1/13;
- 20326, 2,083, BR, Midnight Run 31-1TFH, Union Center, t11/11; F; cum 116K 1/13;
- 20327, 2,443, BR, Midnight Run 41-1TFH, Union Center, t12/11; F; cum 89K 10/12; this well is off-line a lot; no real production since October, 2012;
- 22675, 2,640, BR, Midnight Run 11-1TFH, Union Center, t10/12; F; cum 40K 1/13;
- 24537, conf, BR, Midnight Horse 11-1MBH-ULW, [added March 8, 2013]
Newfield recently reported a short lateral with an IP of 3,721.
My family is particularly interested in the production from the Midnight Run wells. One comes off the confidential list this week, and the others in the next few weeks.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether you ever read the Continental Resources Q2 earnings transcript, but I pulled this from the Q & A portion. It talks about CLR and CP doing a joint project involving the Midnight Run wells and the potential for increased drilling and smaller spacing. Will be very interesting to see what the production numbers show as the wells come off confidential.
From Continental Resources Press Conference, Q2 2011:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/284834-continental-resources-ceo-discusses-q2-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=qanda
Marshall Carver - Capital One Southcoast, Inc.
Just a couple of follow-up questions. Have you done much down spacing work recently? I know you talked about that in prior conference calls, but wanted to know was there any downsizing done over the last quarter in the Bakken? And what were your assumptions with those 600,000-barrel wells? I guess some of those were probably -- guess that was just the average of the prior wells, but what are your thoughts on down spacing in the play?
Jeffery Hume
Marshall, we've done several locations where we have 2 1,280s next to one another where we've drilled against the lease line and effectively have 2 wells at a 320-acre space position. But for the most part, we're drilling 1 well and in a few instances, 2 wells in a 1,280. The bulk of our fleets drilling the first well in a 1,280, we're going to maintaining 15 to 18 of the rigs doing that for the next year or 2. We do have a project going right now of testing a 320-acre space unit in our AMI area of galaxy, that's being executed by ConocoPhillips. That's an area where they operate. We're 50-50 partner in that area. We're executing that this summer. We'll have those wells drilled and be producing that. So that's taking down to where on a 1,280 basis we're 1,320 foot between wellbores. And we'll have 4 or 5 wells paired -- developed in that area where we can watch that. The plans are probably to work through or for the most part, work the rigs through to get our acreage HBP and then we'll come back and the fleet will be slowly growing to more ECO-Pad type drilling. We have 4, maybe 5 rigs now capable -- 5 capable of drilling ECO-Pads. We have 3 or 4 at any one time drilling ECO-Pads. And I think we'll be looking at possibly -- the possibility of taking that fleet of ECO-Pad rigs of doing more of this down space testing over the next year. So that's probably where they'll be. So we'll get more on a manufacturing mode, if you will, going across the acreage in late 2012, '13 and beyond where we can convert the bulk of the fleet. And as we grow the fleet, build a more ECO-Pad type development where we get the cost down and price up. But our first step is going on right now with a true 4 to 5 wells, 1,320 foot inter-well spacing. And probably next springtime, we have information on really what's the interference, is there any interference between those. We feel very little. I'll remind you, though, if you look back to Elm Coulee where we have higher permeability, we're effectively drilling that 1,320 foot inter-well spacing and having excellent results. Right now, we're seeing well over 480,000-barrel EURs on average well on our PUDs in Elm Coulee. So we're highly optimistic we'll see very strong results in North Dakota over all of the play.
Harold Hamm
And particularly in this galaxy area, we feel like it's one area that will certainly bode well with 320-acre development. This project that we're doing up there jointly with ConocoPhillips is called Midnight Run. So you'll hear more about Midnight Run as we go forward.
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