Monday, June 16, 2014

Random Update Of A Silurian Well Hitting The One-Million Mark

Updates

November 7, 2014: hits the one-million-bbl milestone
 
Original Post

I've added the following "monster" well to my list of items that need to be followed up on later next year.
  • 7571, 482/IA, Hess, Reitsch NCT-2 4, Blue Buttes, a Silurian well, t4/81; cum 998 12/13;
Note: this is a Silurian well, not a Bakken well; it was spud in 1981 and produced as recently as December 2013 (about 32 years).

It looks like this well might have some life in it yet. A sundry form was recently filed transferring this well from Hess to Hess Bakken Investments, the "new" Hess operator in the Bakken. Less than 2,000 bbls from a million-bbl well. 

This is the recent production profile:


PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
SILURIAN4-20140000000
SILURIAN3-20140000000
SILURIAN2-20140000000
SILURIAN1-20141022712000
SILURIAN12-201361142329334190419
SILURIAN11-20132254244457371026737289
SILURIAN10-2013268919113017149514950
SILURIAN9-201330102887410141187818780
SILURIAN8-20131837122438087757750
SILURIAN7-20130000440
SILURIAN6-20131528271611147447440
SILURIAN5-201330372042778338330
SILURIAN4-2013136701839440
SILURIAN3-20130000000
SILURIAN2-20130000000
SILURIAN1-20130000000
SILURIAN12-20120000000
SILURIAN11-20120000000
SILURIAN10-2012820728010093683680
SILURIAN9-201230139213915834245124510
SILURIAN8-201231147014706052250225020
SILURIAN7-201231150414857006256925690



2 comments:

  1. Another monster well is the Rusch B 1 in the Sherwood Field (24-164-85). It's production depth is just a little over 4000 feet and it's cume is over 2.37 Million barrels of oil from the Madison formation. It is still an active well after 50 years of production. It has produced about 600 barrels of oil in the first months of 2014. This well likely cost less than $500,000 to drill and complete in 1964. You
    only imagine the net value of the total production. It might hold the title of the most profitable
    well ever drilled in North Dakota (adjusted for the value of the dollar in the past half century)..


    NDIC File No: 3580 API No: 33-075-00217-00-00 CTB No: 203580
    Well Type: OG Well Status: A Status Date: 6/21/1964 Wellbore type: Vertical
    Location: LT3 25-164-85 Footages: 560 FSL 2135 FWL Latitude: 48.996345 Longitude: -101.640534
    Current Operator: ENDURO OPERATING, LLC
    Current Well Name: RUSCH B 1
    Elevation(s): 1646 KB Total Depth: 4150 Field: SHERWOOD
    Spud Date(s): 6/3/1964
    Casing String(s): 8.625" 369' 5.5" 4149'
    Completion Data
    Pool: MADISON Perfs: 4082-4090 Comp: 6/21/1964 Status: AL Date: 6/21/1964 Spacing: SSW
    Cumulative Production Data
    Pool: MADISON Cum Oil: 2373458 Cum MCF Gas: 201383 Cum Water: 1339797 Production Test Data
    IP Test Date: 6/21/1964 Pool: MADISON IP Oil: 480 IP MCF: 0 IP Water: 0


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    1. That's a great one; thank you for taking time to write.

      I missed that one -- it was not on my "Monster Wells" page. How I missed it, I don't know, so thank you for taking time to write. Some of these wells really are amazing, aren't they?

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