Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Six (6) New Permits -- Only 8 of 21 Wells Completed/Fracked -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, January 17, 2012 --

Operators: Samson Resources (2), Corinthian (2), Hunt, Hess

Fields: North Souris, Parshall, Larson

Samson has two wildcats, one in Divide County and one in Williams County.

Corinthian has two permits in North Souris, Bottineau County.

Twenty-one (21) wells were released from the "confidential" list; only eight (8) were completed/fracked, including (for all wells released, click here):
  • 20217, 1,755, Whiting, Brehm 41-35XH, Mountrail County; 30 stages; 2.47 million lbs
  • 20359, 96, Dakota-3, Bear Den 24-13H2, McKenzie County; 12 stages; 2.73 million lbs
  • 20364, 20, OXY USA, Jacobson 160-90-6-P-1H, Burke County
  • 19180, 1,272, OXY USA, Lamey 1-30-31H-143-96, Fayette, Bakken, 
  • 20753, 231, Hunt, Redwing 1-3-10H 1, McKenzie County, Bear Butte field, 21 stages; 2.3 million lbs sand frac
  • 20790, 2,691, (3,691 according to the file report), BEXP, Brown 3-19 2H, Mountrail County; 37 stages; 3.93 million pounds (2.4 million pounds of which were ceramics)
  • 20936, 1,481, Denbury Onshore, Loomer 24-34SEH, McKenzie County, 26 stages; 1.9 million lbs sand/ceramics
Most operators use common names of the formations for geologic markers, such as middle Bakken, lower Bakken, Three Forks, etc.

Hunt, among others, uses "abbreviations"; (Denbury uses similar markers). These are the geologic markers used by Hunt in its Redwing 1-3-10H-1 well (and Denbury's Loomer 24-34SEH):
K-P: 1,820    (Denbury: K-P)
K-GH: 4,795 (Denbury: K-GH)
K-M: 5,240   (Denbury: K-M)
K-N:             (Denbury: K-N)
K-IK: 5,650  (Denbury: K-IK)
J-S: 5,980     (Denbury: J-S)
J-R: 6,547     (Denbury: J-R)
                      (Denbury: Duham Salt)
T-S: 7,100     (Denbury: T-S)
PM-MK: 7,592  (Denbury: PM-MK)
                      (Denbury PM-OP)
PM-BC: 7,890  (Denbury: PM-BC)
                       (Denbury PN-T)
                       (Denbury: Otter)
M-BS: 8,400
M-KL: 8,690   (Denbury: M-KL)
M-MD: 8,848
M-DR: 9,420 
M-MDLS: 9,480  (Denbury: M-MDLS)  Base Last Salt?
                     (Denbury: Mission Canyon)
M-MDFA: 9,700  False Bakken (altho False Bkn should be just above the Upper Bakken)
M-MDLP: 10,195  (Denbury: M-MDLP)   Lodgepole?
                    (Denbury: Scallion)
                    (Denbury: MD-B)
Note the extremely low IPs in two of the cases.