Perhaps the most frequent item blogged about this past week: the price of oil as it increased in price to finish the week over $103.
Operations
Five Bakken wells with revenues over $17 million in less then two years - Filloon
Random update on two Emerald wells
Montana completions: Oasis drilling double lateral wells (two horizontals from same well)
Samson Resources to request some very large spacing units in Divide County
Slawson to drill wells with multiple laterals; vertical open to the Lodgepole formation
XTO to drill as many as 10 wells on one 640-acre spacing unit (one section)
Other formations
Random look at an old Madison well; >750,000 bbls since 1972
CBR
Random update on BNSF capital improvements; many of them along the Montana border with North Dakota
Economic development
New $12 million water treatment plant for Parshall
Washington State: more refineries preparing for Bakken oil
Homebuilding on the upswing in Carpio, north of Minot
Miscellaneous
July dockets posted: XTO to drill another 300 wells in Siverston oil field
Breitling Oil & Gas could be bought by a Chinese company
WTI over $103/bbl at the end of the week
Review: the "central corridor"
Trivia on naming Burlington Resources wells
still wondering why there is no drilling in mercer county I know for a
ReplyDeletefact their is oil there and plenty of natural gas.
why??????????????????????????????????????????? Gene
I share your frustration.
Delete"They" won't drill for natural gas in North Dakota with the competition from Eagle Ford and the Permian.