Random Note On Oasis Permit Inadvertently Omitted From Recent Daily Activity Report

Updates

April 4, 2014: see comments below. The "Pow" wells are for monitoring; they will not be producing wells. 
 

Original Post

In the March 27, 2014, file #28007 was overlooked. This is #28007:

• 28007, conf, Oasis, Straw Pow 5602 42-17, Bull Butte, 

I wouldn't have made a big deal of this except to note that a) this permit has no "H" designation" and b) based on siting of other wells in this oil fields, this permit is for a well in an unusual location if targeting the Bakken/Three Forks.

Note also this "Pow" well, reported January 25, 2014:

• 25763, drl, Oasis, Cornette Pow 5300 34-26, Willow Creek, no production data,

Oasis is known to be interested in testing the Lodgepole in this area.

From the well file of #19131, a Bakken horizontal in this same section:

The Lodgepole Formation top was drilled at 9,742 feet TVD. Approximately 581 feet (true vertical thickness) of argillaceous, skeletal lime mudstone were drilled in the Lodgepole Formation. Oil and gas shows were absent while drilling in the upper Lodgepole despite known fracture zones in the upper Lodgepole locally and no visible porosity was observed in samples. Fracture porosity is inferred near the base of the formation, and a 1,245 unit gas show along with a second, highter 1,673 unit recorded gas show were attributed to sourcing by fractures within the lower Lodgepole Formation.

It should be noted that some vertical wells in the Bakken are monitoring wells.