He alerted me to well file #18987. This well is on a four-well pad in Heart Butte oil field.
I was too tired to post that last night. I'm glad I waited.
Look at well file #20516 reported today. This well is on a two-well pad in Pembroke oil field.
There are many, many story lines here. The biggest story line is one I don't think even Mike Filloon has talked about yet. There are so many surprises in the Bakken.
I will get back to this later. [Later: I was going to talk about these wells again, but I think the comments and the note below explains enough, so I'm going to hold off for now.]
Later: see comments below. For purposes of the search engine --
I will post the "rest of the story" later tonight. A reader alerted me to what was going on. I'm pretty sure I have the story 99% correct, but other readers might add a bit of detail, either before or after I update the post.
The short answer:
a) in one case: KOG waited almost two years to frack the well; they specifically stated in the well file the well was producing and was not fracked. They fracked it recently; you can guess the month by looking at the monthly production figures.
b) in the other case, the initial frac was only 3 stages and 400,000 lbs proppants; they did not test it or report an IP at that time (at least I don't think they did). KOG recently went back and fracked (again) with 28 stages and a bit over 4 million lbs of ceramics.
I can't imagine the first frack was scheduled to be a 3-stage frack, so I assume something went bad. Another reader might have more information.
Many, many story lines here and I hope to update later this evening with the story lines, but those would be worth only two cents -- my "2-cents worth -- I believe the above is accurate but others may know more.
