Friday, February 10, 2012
What a Great Friday Morning Treat -- Waterflooding Schematic for Surge Energy -- Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA
A huge "thank you" to "anon 1" for sending this link on Surge Energy. A lot of questions come in regarding Surge Energy. "Anon 1" sent it to show the waterflooding schematic, slide 11 of 17, for tight oil. Very interesting. Enjoy.
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Let's hope it works! Hoping they have success in the spearfish!
ReplyDeleteMy hunch: it will. Good luck to all.
ReplyDeleteIf you go to www.contres.com and click on operations then click on red river units you will read about the 7th largest onshore oil field in the lower 48. Cedar Hills Unit Red River B is described as a continuous DOLOMITE formation. They also talk about secondary recovery injecting air and water. They have been producing from this field since 1995.
ReplyDeleteI went to NDIC GIS map and zoomed in on Bowman County, picked out a random group of wells and came up the following results. Well file #16699 has produced 221,416 barrels of oil since 10/8/07. Looking at the monthly production record you can see that production for the last month was 5,721 BBLS. Its lowest point of production was in October of 2008 at 1,668. Since then production has steadily increased to today's rate.
Now look at well file 13948 and you will see a well that runs adjacent to and parallel to the first well. This well was completed 2/26/97. It produced 284,697 barrels of oil by June of 2008 before becoming an injection well.
About 4 months after 13948 became an injection well, 16699 started to rebound and has done very nice ever since.
Aren't the productive zones of the Bakken and Three Forks a continuous layer of DOLOMITE? Do you suppose there may be any similarities with the Red River Dolomite and the Bakken?
Do you suppose that some day when Continental has 4 horizontal wells drilled in the MB and each of the 4 TFS benches that they will only be 1/2 done drilling? With all those first wells eventually becoming injection wells.
Great comment; worthy of a stand-alone post which you will see shortly.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, earlier this week I asked an analyst what he thought the top story of 2012 would be: he said the four benches of the TFS and up to 20 wells/spacing unit. Exactly what you said.
I and my cousins own mineral acres in Bottineau County near Cut Bank Creek---we have been offered our first lease in (26 years)---from Ballard Petroluem. They are drilling a well West of Glenburn oil field---hope they have some good results as most wells drilled west of Glenburn are dry. Could this be a start of a mini boom in the Madison formation or the Spearfish formation?
ReplyDeleteWow, wow, wow! I have been getting notes from some folks in Minot suggesting they are seeing more oil activity than can be explained with the Bakken which lies to far to the west of Minot. These folks think the same thing as you: lots of excitement for significant increased activity north of Minot. Whether it's a mini-boom or now, it's probably in the eye of the beholder.
DeleteGood luck.