Sunday, March 25, 2012

Whiting Spuds Its Second Horizontal Lodgepole Wildcat

Updates

May 14, 2012: apparently not the Lodgepole, but the Red River. See this post


March 26, 2012: elsewhere they are looking for information on the Quale; blogs are not allowed to be mentioned at that site

Original Post

From RMOJ, March 16, 2012:
  • Quale 21-30
  • Six miles northeast of Beach, ND (far southwest corner of North Dakota); 6 miles east of Montana stateline
  • Well spacing: 1,280 acre
  • EUR: 330,000 bbls
  • Investment: $7 million
  • Payout, years: 3.3
First Whiting horizontal Lodgepole
  • Nistler 21-25H -- no commercial hydrocarbons in the Lodgepole; shut-in after drilling a horizontal leg in the Scallion member of the Lodgepole; no hydrocarbons from this zone even after fracture.