Random Update on Heart Butte Pad Drilling (XTO, QEP) in Heart Butte

This post is really for newbies to give them an idea of pad drilling. (This post has been updated to include two new pads that were not completed at the time of the original post. To see how some Native Americans feel about the oil and gas industry on their reservation, click here. Multiply the oil production in bbls, multiply by about $65/bbl, and assume the Native Americans are getting about 20% of that, including the original leases.)

A reader sent me production numbers for another incredibly good well, this time in Heart Butte oil field. It had a slow first week (to keep the pressure up) and ultimately produced 25,000 bbls in the first 31 days. According to the NDIC website the well is still confidential so I can't provide more data at this time, but it gave me the opportunity to look again at Heart Butte oil field. I've blogged about it several times. It is a huge field ("huge" in terms of excitement).

Earlier I blogged about mega pads in Heart Butte.

So, here is a bit of activity review in two sections of Heart Butte: section 10-149-92 and 3-149-92.

There are four pads in this immediate area: two pads in the south half of section 3 and one pad in the north half of section 10, putting them all about 0.2 miles from the extreme north well to the extreme south well.

These are the file numbers and the pads:

Northernmost pad with rig on site:

• 23331, 2,282, QEP,  MHA 1-03-34H-150-92, Heart Butte, t3/13; cum 93K 10/13;
• 23332, 2,348, QEP,  MHA 3-03-34H-150-92, Heart Butte, t3/13; cum 99K 10/13;
• 23333, 2,310, QEP,  MHA 1-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, t3/13; cum 89K 10/13;
• 23334, 1,949, QEP,  MHA 3-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, t3/13; cum 72K 10/13;
• 23335, 1,791, QEP,  MHA 2-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte, t3/13; cum 60K10/13;

Middle pad, near that pad:

• 23336, drl, QEP,  MHA 4-03-35H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 23337, drl, QEP,  MHA 1-03-02H-149-92, Heart Butte,
• 23338, drl, QEP,  MHA 3-03-02H-149-92, Heart Butte,
• 23339, drl, QEP,  MHA 2-03-02H-149-92, Heart Butte,
• 23340, drl, QEP,  MHA 4-03-02H-149-92, Heart Butte,

Farther south; pad with rig on site (these are sited in section 10, just to the south of the wells noted above):

• 23401, 1,325, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10E, Heart Butte, t1/13; cum 77K 10/13;
• 20036, 2,331, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10, Heart Butte, t10/11; cum 190K 10/13;
• 23402, 1,045, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10F, Heart Butte, t1/13; cum 70K 10/13;
• 23403, 2,148,  XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10A, Heart Butte, t1/13; cum 115K 10/13;

Western pad with wells straddling 4/9 section line:

• 24206, 2,342, QEP, MHA 8-04-33H-150-92, t5/13; cum 64K 10/13;
• 24207, 2,641, QEP, MHA 6-04-33H-150-92, t5/13; cum 62K 10/13;
• 24208, 2,573, QEP, MHA 7-04-33H-150-92, t51/13; cum 78K 10/13;
• 24209, 2,854, QEP, MHA 5-04-33H-150-92, t5/13; cum 66K 10/13;

Southwestern pad, in section 9:

• 24401, 2,384, QEP, MHA 4-04-33H-150-92, t7/13; cum 60K 10/13;
• 24400, 2,844, QEP, MHA 2-04-33H-150-92, t7/13; cum 71K 10/13;
• 24399, 2,381, QEP, MHA 3-04-33H-150-92, t7/13; cum 66K 10/13;
• 24398, 2,909, QEP, MHA 1-04-33H-150-92, t7/13; cum 63K 10/13;

This is an interesting area. I started blogging about Arrow Midstream providing pipeline support for XTO back on April 18, 2010. An incredible story.  Look at the IP and the cumulative production of the first well to report. Phenomenal.

A graphic of the area, taken November 30, 2013: