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Monday, March 26, 2012

Sixteen (16) New Permits -- 7-Well Pad - Heart Butte Field -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, March 26, 2012 --

Operators: WPX (7), BEXP (3), Marathon (2), Whiting (2), Zenergy, Oasis

Fields: Cottonwood, Alger, Sanish, Heart Butte, Assiniboine, Bailey

All seven WPX wells appear to be on one pad in Heart Butte.

Thirteen (13) wells released from "tight hole" status, including:
  • 20509, 1,151, Slawson, Kahuna 1-7-6H, McKenzie
  • 21191, 1,094, CLR, Berlain 1-30H, McKenzie
  • 21204, 1,071, CLR, Kate 2-19H, Dunn
Of the thirteen wells, five were not completed/fracked, including this one, interestingly enough,
  • 21125, DRL, BEXP, Kalil 25-36 2H (previously reported, however, on this blog)
Two wells on DRL status reported an IP, but not particularly remarkable.

An EOG well in Burke County was temporarily abandoned:
  • 20728, TA, EOG, Vanville 17-1213H, Burke County
Comment: to the best of my knowledge, if the seven WPX wells are indeed on the same pad, this is the first time I have seen permits for a 7-well pad in North Dakota.

Based on recent NDIC hearing dockets, we should be seeing many more. Multi-well pads will reduce the number of new roads required for pads, among other cost savings.

I have updated the Heart Butte field; see link above. Note section 31, T150N-R91W with QEP's two five-well pads, with a rig on site.
  • 21551, conf, QEP, MHA 3-31-25H-150-92,
  • 21552, conf, QEP, MHA 2-31-25H-150-92
  • 21553, conf, QEP, MHA 4-31-25H-150-92
  • 21554, conf, QEP, MHA 1-31-30H-150-91
  • 21556, conf, QEP, MHA 3-31-30H-150-91
  • 21557, conf, QEP, MHA 1-31-36H-150-92
  • 21558, conf, QEP, MHA 3-31-36H-150-92
  • 21559, conf, QEP, MHA 5-31-25H-150-92
  • 21560, conf, QEP, MHA 7-31-25H-150-92
  • 21561, conf, QEP, MHA 1-31-25H-150-92
Also, note the great wells that XTO is reporting in this field.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 26, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    Look at case#15752 which was signed 3-23-12. Dakota-3 E&P and Williams were noted on the dwg showing the layout of the 7 wells from the one pad. 4 in the MB and 3 in the TF.

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    1. Bruce OksolMarch 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM

      Yes. In addition, this case was first presented September 29, 2011, which just shows how much is "in the pipeline" -- there have been six months worth of dockets since then. In addition, if all those applications for seven and eight wells in a 1280-acre unit turn out to be placed on one pad, the Bakken has barely begun. There are very, very few 7- and 8-well pads at the moment, and yet that are scores (hundreds?) of cases on the dockets requesting "not less than 7" or "not less than 8" wells on 1280-acre unit spacing.

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