Random Update of Blue Buttes Oil Field

Blue Buttes oil field is an incredible Bakken field; if you have access to the NDIC GIS map server take a look at section 5-150-95: there are two 4-well pads back-to-back, the Hess Budahn wells. They are all on confidential status with one rig on site. These wells are just a mile or so away from the incredible Kummer well, producing 20,000 bbls of oil per month; I was told through an "anonymous" comment that production was flat due to takeaway constraints. One word: wow.

As one example, the Hess BB-Budahn...0403H-1 well was tested in January, 2012; by the end of April, 2012, it had produced more than 109,000 bbls of oil. As noted above: production in some (all?) areas of Blue Buttes oil field is constrained by lack of takeaway capacity.

• 19737, 1,341, Hess, BB-Budahn A-150-95-0403H-1, t1/12; cum 109K as of 4/12; cum 194K 12/12;

These two 4-well pads, by the way, are less than a 160 feet from a very nice Madison well that is now plugged and abandoned:

• 2518, PA, Hess, Blue Buttes-Madison Unit K-405, t4/60; cum 312K 5/77; it was still producing 300 bbls/month when it was taken off-line; produced for 17 years;

A similar Madison well is about a mile away in the opposite direction:

• 1931, PA, Hess, Blue Blue Buttes-Madison Unit L-104, t12/58; cum 329K 11/86; produced for 28 years;

Just some idle rambling, and a bit of updating another field in the Bakken.