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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Nine (9) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, February 29, 2012 --

Operators: Petro-Hunt (3), Hunt (3), EOG (2), Whiting

Fields: Sanish, Painted Woods, Eagle Nest, Antelope, Antelope Creek, Bear Butte

Petro-Hunt has a permit for a wildcat in Williams County.

Seven (7) wells on DRL status reported an IP, including:
  • 19376, 1,560, XTO, Dakota 42X-36, McKenzie
  • 19621, 949, Hess, EN-Weyrauch A 154-93-2017H-2, Mountrail
  • 21654, 44 (no typo), Baytex, Johnson 31-30-161-99H 1PB, Divide; Three Forks; can't find completion data
  • 21691, 32, Petro Harvester, J Swenson 22-2, Burke, Madison Pool, vertical
Ten (10) wells reported as plugged or producing (in the Bakken, there are " no" dry holes)

An EOG permit in Clarks Creek was canceled (#20602, Clarks Creek 15-0805H, McKenzie)

About forty (40) wells were transferred from North Plains Energy to KOG, including two (2) salt water disposal wells.

A little bit for everyone in this report. Good luck to all.

Now if only someone can explain Baytex' strategy; they consistently get Bakken wells with an IP of about 50 bbls and they keep on drilling in Burke Divide County (see first comment).
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM

    Bruce - I don't believe that Baytex has drilled any wells in Burke county. Did you mean Divide county?

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    1. Bruce OksolFebruary 29, 2012 at 8:30 PM

      You are correct.

      I would like to blame it on a "senior moment" but I was actually very conscious of that when I wrote it. I simply blew it. Thank you for catching that.

      My hunch is you/your family/your friends are from Burke County and don't want your county "blamed" for low IPs. Smile.

      Anyway, I corrected it and checked my database. Except for a rare well in Williams County, Baytex has all its North Dakota wells in Divide County.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 1, 2012 at 10:29 AM

    Baytex drilled another well in the Ambrose field at 18-19-162-99H called the Hansen well. It had an IP of 28! It has produced over 51,000+ barrels since 1/22/2011. Got this info from my brother Craig.

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    1. Bruce OksolMarch 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM

      For a 30-second sound bite, this looks like what Baytex is doing: "targeting relatively shallow wells (8,500 feet), the Three Forks; drilling short laterals; 16-stage fracs (equivalent to 32 stages for long horizontals); 1.5 million lbs sand (equivalent to 3 million lbs for long horizontals); initial 30-day production about 4,500 bbls; dropping off to 1,000 by end of first year; looking for 50,000 bbls for first year cumulative."

      The key metric will be looking at total production at 3 years and then the annual production after that.

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