Pages

▼

Monday, July 28, 2014

Reader With Question About EOG Seismograph Work Southwest Of Kenmare, North Dakota (East Of The Bakken Sweet Spots), July 28, 2014.

Because not everyone remembers to check the "discussion group," I will bring this question over to the blog: has anyone heard anything about EOG having done some seismographing west and south of Kenmare?

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
The Spencer oil field is about 7 miles southwest of Kenmare. Slightly farther southwest is the well-known Clear Water-Bakken field. The Clear Water is pretty much "owned" by EOG; it appears that almost every drilling unit in Clear Water has a producing horizontal well, about half of which are long laterals and half of which are short laterals.

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.
at

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 28, 2014 at 1:58 PM

    Is it east of the "line of death" maturity limit?

    Could 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).

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Bruce OksolJuly 28, 2014 at 2:58 PM

      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.

      Delete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.