Random Look at CLR's Salem 1-6H

A reader asked why "Salem 1-6H is inactive."

Background first. Directly from the NDIC website:

First, CLR's Salem well:

• 20698, 671, CLR, Salem 1-6H, t1/12; cum 66K 1/13;

NDIC File No: 20698     API No: 33-105-02184-00-00     CTB No: 120698
Well Type: OG     Well Status: IA     Status Date: 1/18/2012     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: NWNE 6-155-97     Footages: 225 FNL 1980 FEL     Latitude: 48.283810     Longitude: -103.203237
Current Operator: CONTINENTAL RESOURCES, INC.
Current Well Name: SALEM 1-6H
Elevation(s): 2442 KB   2420 GR   2422 GL     Total Depth: 20865     Field: DOLLAR JOE
Spud Date(s):  10/22/2011
Casing String(s): 9.625" 2149'   7" 11216'  
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Perfs: 11216-20865     Comp: 1/18/2012     Status: AL     Date: 7/10/2012     Spacing: 2SEC
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 66118     Cum MCF Gas: 123425     Cum Water: 45248
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 1/30/2012     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 671     IP MCF: 1598     IP Water: 446

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	1-2013	22	4053	4030	2567	5028	4710	318
BAKKEN	12-2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2012	2	488	359	157	537	537	0
BAKKEN	10-2012	27	2880	3148	2382	5444	5444	0
BAKKEN	9-2012	30	4968	4882	4596	12919	12919	0
BAKKEN	8-2012	15	2526	2437	1640	3867	3767	100
BAKKEN	7-2012	21	3403	3445	2154	5285	4735	550
BAKKEN	6-2012	30	4974	5244	3242	6138	4283	1855
BAKKEN	5-2012	31	5659	5634	3411	12101	12101	0
BAKKEN	4-2012	30	6171	5982	3504	11288	10474	814
BAKKEN	3-2012	31	7981	8402	4905	15945	15508	437
BAKKEN	2-2012	29	12686	12632	7676	25910	25793	117
BAKKEN	1-2012	14	10329	9682	9014	18963	7866	11097
BAKKEN	12-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Now,  if one then goes to the well file at the NDIC website for the CLR Salem well, the top pages are misplaced: the top pages are of an XTO well:

• 21698, 181, XTO, Flatland 11X-2F, t10/12; Three Forks,  cum 314 bbls (no typo) 1/13;

Then, go to the scout ticket for that well:

NDIC File No: 21698     API No: 33-053-03828-00-00     CTB No: 222869
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 10/17/2012     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: LOT4 2-153-97     Footages: 340 FNL 1030 FWL     Latitude: 48.109816     Longitude: -103.125768
Current Operator: XTO ENERGY INC.
Current Well Name: FLATLAND 11X-2F
Elevation(s): 2006 KB   1981 GR   1988 GL     Total Depth: 20314     Field: SAND CREEK
Spud Date(s):  5/21/2012
Casing String(s): 9.625" 1665'   7" 10897'  
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Perfs: 10897-20314     Comp: 10/17/2012     Status: F     Date: 10/30/2012     Spacing: 2SEC
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 314     Cum MCF Gas: 720     Cum Water: 30941
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 10/30/2012     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 181     IP MCF: 629     IP Water: 2371

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	1-2013	0	0	25	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2012	1	4	117	2800	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2012	1	2	172	19100	188	0	178
BAKKEN	10-2012	15	308	0	9041	532	0	532

The well file for the XTO Flatland well is lacking the completion (fracking) data; those three pages are erroneously placed on top of CLR's Salem 1-6H well file.

Those are the facts.

Now, the comments.

Look at the scout tickets/spreadsheets above.

Does the CLR Salem 1-6H well look like it's inactive? It was taken off-line for a couple of months, for whatever reason, but it's producing at a nice clip, at least as of January, 2013, the most recent month for which data is available.

Then, look at the XTO Flatland well. That was a single stage frack with 600,000 lbs proppant. It has produced all of 314 bbls of oil and none in January, 2013, the most recent month for which data is available.  It's part of a 4-well pad; the other wells are also very recent, and it's possibly this Flatland well was taken off line while the others were being completed. But I don't know.

I didn't read through everything, and I am not "fully literate" when it comes to well files, but that's what I see: there is a mix-up of paperwork in the CLR Salem 1-6H well file, and with the Salem well producing 4,000 bbls of oil in 22 days in January, 2013, it's hard to believe it's inactive.

Disclaimer: I could be way wrong on my comments. The folks over at the Bakken Shale Discussion Group could probably answer the question better. I don't mind if I'm told I'm wrong, as long as I learn something along the way.