Nine (9) New Permits; Active Rigs Up To 188; BEXP With An Unconfirmed Gusher; A Look At Jack Cvancara and Domaskin Wells

Bakken Operations

Active rigs: 188 (steady, but melting up from intra-boom low of 180 -- I reported earlier an intra-boom low of 181, but my records show it was actually 180; sorry for the error).

Nine (9) new permits --

• Operators: CLR (3), Whiting (3), Triangle (2), Petro-Sentinel
• Fields: Hamlet (Divide), North Creek (Stark), Antelope Creek (McKenzie)
• Comments: Petro-Sentinel has a permit for a wildcat in Bottineau County; this is the first permit for Petro-Sentinel in North Dakota

Wells coming off confidential list were reported earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Triangle canceled two permits:

• 24026, Dwyer .... 2-11-4H
• 24028, Dwyer .... 2-11-2H

Three producing wells completed:

• 22697, 1,875, Grayson Mill / Equinor /Statoil / BEXP, Hospital 31-36 2TFH, Alger, t11/12; cum 159K 91/6; cum 253K 1/22;
  
• 22646, 1,947, Grayson Mill / Equinor /Statoil / BEXP, Jerome Anderson 10-15 4H, Alger, t11/12; cum 156K 9/16; cum 256K 1/22;
  
• 21770, 4,790, Grayson Mill / Equinor /Statoil / BEXP, Domaskin 30-31 2H, Alger, t11/12; cum 265K 9/16; cum 314K 1/22;
  

More on the Statoil/BEXP Domaskin well with a reported 4,790-bbl IP:

• spud February 21, 2012; curve section began on April 28, 2012
• total measured depth (TMD) reached May 13, 2012
• target: Bakken Shale formation, measured depth of 10,252 feet; true vertical depth of 10,182 feet
• Middle Bakken: 10,286 feet; true vertical depth, 10,198 feet
• gas levels were low throughout the first section of the lateral
• at measured death (10,641 feet), a trip gas of 855 units and again at 18,538 feet trip gas of 6,461 was observed
• a flare of 1 - 2 feet seen throughout the later stages

If the sundry forms reporting the completion details (frack stages, proppants, IP) were posted at the NDIC website, I missed them. I did not see the report, and cannot verify the IP of 4,790 as noted. There have been typos on the daily activity report, but BEXP is known for high IPs, so we will see.

There are currently six Domaskin wells; three of them are Fidelity wells in the Sanish field to the south; and three are BEXP wells in Alger oil field one township to the north:

• 17056, 419, Whiting / Kaiser-Francis Oil / Fidelity, Domaskin 11-29H, Sanish, section 29-154-92, t8/08; cum 158K 9/16; cum 179K 1/22;
  
• 17098, 516, Whiting / Kaiser-Francis Oil / Fidelity, Domaskin 11-20H, Sanish, section 20-154-92, t9/08; cum 202K 9/16; cum 242K 1/22;
  
• 19080, 877, Whiting / Kaiser-Francis Oil / Fidelity, Domaskin 19-20-29H, Sanish, 2560-acre; section 19-154-92, t10/10; cum 214K 9/16; cum 264K 1/22;
  

• 21769, 3,603, Whiting / Kaiser-Francis Oil / Fidelity, Domaskin 30-31 3H, Alger, section 30-155-92; t10/12; cum 211 K 9/16; cum 283K 1/22;
  
• 19057, AB/4,106, Grayson Mill / Equinor / Staoil / BEXP, Domaskin 30-31 1H, Alger, section 30-155-92, t10/10; cum 413 K 9/16; cum 473K 6/19;
  
• 21770, 4,790, Grayson Mill / Equinor / Staoil / BEXP, Domaskin 30-31 2H, Alger, section 30-155-92, t11/12; cum 265 K 9/16; cum 341K 1/22;
  

Now, 21770, is the last of four wells on a 4-well pad:

• 21769, see above
• 21772, 2,994, Grayson Mill / Equinor / Staoil / BEXP, Jack Cvancara 19-18 3TFH, Alger, t10/12; cum 226K 9/16; cum 303K 1/22;
  
• 21771, 3,080, Grayson Mill / Equinor / Staoil / BEXP, Jack Cvancara 19-18 2H, Alger, t10/12; cum 254K 9/16; cum 335K 1/22;
  

To complete the story, another Jack Cvancara well in the immediate area, in the next section north:

• 18628, 4,357, Grayson Mill / Equinor / Staoil / BEXP, Jack Cvancara 19-18 1H, Alger, t5/10; cum 425K 9/16; cum 534K 1/22;