Active Rigs In North Dakota Take Huge Jump; Statoil, XTO Each With Two High-IP Wells

Active rigs:

	4/29/2014	04/29/2013	04/29/2012	04/29/2011	04/29/2010
Active Rigs	189	186	209	173	111

Seven (7) new permits --

• Operators: QEP (4), XTO (3)
• Fields: Grail (McKenzie), Antelope (McKenzie)
• Comments: the four QEP Grail wells will be sited in section 15-149-95. This is strange. There is/was one short lateral sited in that section -- #16856. This was a Helis well. The frack was aborted after one stage. The plan was to come back and re-frack. There is no evidence that this well was ever fracked after that aborted one attempt. This well produced about 83K in four years (it was spud and tested in 2008, and taken off-line in December, 2011 (only two days of production in December, 2011). That's a pretty good well for a) being a short lateral; and, b) not being fracked. I did not find any reason why the decision was to plug and abandon the well. So, now QEP will site two wells in this section. One completed Moberg well ends in this section (begins in section 22; there is a parallel well on DRL status.

Wells coming off the confidential list were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Seven (7) producing wells completed:

• 22577, 3,129, Statoil, Gungerson 15-22 4TFH, Banks, t4/14; cum --
• 23844, 497, OXY USA, Nels Wold 1-36-25H-141-97, St Anthony, t3/14; cum --
• 24983, 2,238, Statoil, Jack Cvancara 19-18 5TFH, Alger, t4/14; cum --
• 25417, 3,001, XTO, Rolfsrud State 14X-36F, Sand Creek, t3/14; cum --,
• 25836, 2,595, XTO, Duke 34X-31B, Siverston, t3/14; cum --
• 26893, 607, OXY USA, Leiss 4-26-23H-143-96, Fayette, t3/14; cum --
• 26894, 424, OXY USA, Robert Sadowsky 2-35-2H-143-96, Manning, t3/14; cum --

Note the Rolfsrud well. Sited in section 36 which explains the "14X-36F." But the 14X must mean there are 14 Rolfsrud wells planned for this group.

The OX USA IPs are typical of OXY USA wells.

Wells coming off the confidential list Wednesday:

• 25987, drl, Hess, EN-Frandson-154-93-2116H-6, Robinson Lake, no production data, 
• 26259, 63, Hunt, Alexandria 161-100-23-14H-1, Alexandria, t12/13; cum 28K 3/14;
• 26672, drl, Hess, BW-Sharon-2560-150-100-2536-3031H-1, South Tobacco Garden, no production data,
• 26688, drl, CLR, Schroeder 2-34H, Stoneview, no production data,
• 26726, drl, MRO, Edwards 44-34TFH, Killdeer, no production data,