Hitting Some Nice Bakken Wells in Eastern Montana; Montana Appears To Be Hitting Its Stride

It looks like Montana is hitting its stride, maybe returning to its glory days of 2000 when the Bakken boom started in that state.

The Fairfield Sun-Times is reporting some nice completions. I assume the newspaper does not have the staff to publish the data in reader-friendly style. I'm impressed they take the time to publish it in the first place, but I assume they take it directly from the state mineral agency. What a monumental pain to read. I'm not going to even attempt summarizing it. It just goes to show how really superb the NDIC is, providing information to the public. Everything that comes from the NDIC is quality work. I am really, really impressed. (Again, huge "thanks" to the Fairfield Sun-Times for publishing this information.)

But I digress. Just some quick notes from the Montana side of the line:

Slawson announces seven completions this past week in Richland County with the following IPs: 488; 249; 359; 498; 152; 397; and, 334. Based on total depth, these look like short laterals; if not, vertical depth is very, very shallow. They are all about 13,000 feet, total depth.

Although it's hard to say for sure, it sounds like EOG completed two Bakken wells in Roosevelt County, with IPs of 480 and 840. Based on total depth, these are probably long laterals.

Statoil reports a completed well in Richland County with an IP of 2,038, total depth of 20,048, suggesting a long lateral.

A big "thank you" to Don for sending the link.