For newbies, Kenmare is about 45 miles northwest of Minot, and pretty far east of the sweet spots in the Bakken. However, having said that this is quite interesting: there is a designated oil field southwest of Kenmare, Spencer oil field with one well on that 2-section field:
- 17342, 84, Hess, IM-Grubb-159-89-0805H-1, Spencer, open hole frack with about 1.1 million lbs sand and proppant, t9/08; cum 88K; it's on a pump and still producing about 1,000 bbls/month
Much of the area is "devoid" of any designated oil field, so the other question is whether EOG did the seismographic work inside a designated oil field or outside?
A reader pointed out that one can find out the status of these seismography studies at the NDIC site: https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/seismic/seismicstats.asp.
Is it east of the "line of death" maturity limit?
ReplyDeleteCould it be a gas play? I don't know, but shouldn't there be a transition from oil to gas to overcooked? (never heard of it in Bakken, but seems to be the case in Eagle Ford, Utica, Marcellus).
Yes, they do talk about a "transition line" in the Bakken also, but not just as often; mostly the "line" has to do with sweet spots for oil "west" of the line" and then it all just sort of ends "east" of the line. Natural gas could be involved, but I still bet they are concentrating on oil.
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