Monday, August 18, 2014

For Newbies: Idle Chatter On Some Nice Petro-Hunt Wells In Charlson Oil Field, August 18, 2014

For newbies.

Another example of how good some of these wells really are in the Bakken, and how operational constraints can really hold back production. This well is an incredibly good well, still producing 10,000 bbls of oil per day when it was taken off-line for operational reasons.

NDIC File No: 20342    
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 11/17/2011     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: NWNW 4-153-95    
Current Operator: PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C.
Current Well Name: USA 153-95-4B-9-1H
Field: CHARLSON
Spud Date(s):  8/3/2011
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 578,455     Cum MCF Gas: 850,155    Cum Water: 32672
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 11/22/2011     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 1430     IP MCF: 1713     IP Water: 74
Monthly Production Data
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN6-20140000000
BAKKEN5-20140000000
BAKKEN4-20142000000
BAKKEN3-20140000000
BAKKEN2-20140000000
BAKKEN1-20141236873884267605105967
BAKKEN12-2013319592969374615683015655
BAKKEN11-201330961793336721911890969818
BAKKEN10-20133110431103507371571097765718
BAKKEN9-20133010349101607091555485896755
BAKKEN8-20133110993118577961953925919063
BAKKEN7-20133111322106858322078811820453
BAKKEN6-201330113671172685720668146918989
BAKKEN5-201331122961179289921189240418569
BAKKEN4-201330125591262989922272357218490
BAKKEN3-201331132391323495720581148105554
BAKKEN2-201328125831282795620032186461190
BAKKEN1-20133114595144421100248271213812472
BAKKEN12-2012311554815648114726279511120951
BAKKEN11-20123016056159161259281491214415795
BAKKEN10-20123117610177671331310201963611167
BAKKEN9-20123018315183661573357041397721517
BAKKEN8-2012312136921695184035574296215735
BAKKEN7-2012302113020982165435137267478180
BAKKEN6-2012302467924635201239531365682753
BAKKEN5-201231270392753019213779637465114
BAKKEN4-2012302874228340208238850318876753
BAKKEN3-20123128251280471752367981798118601
BAKKEN2-2012292550125435138130823280372582
BAKKEN1-2012313003430262155340472345735689
BAKKEN12-20113133358333241563404522146218774
BAKKEN11-2011142128420366117724965024867
BAKKEN8-20110000000

So, why was it taken off-line in January, 2014? Most likely because Petro-Hunt is beginning to frack the five new wells placed on that pad. Here are the wells on this pad [this 5-well pad is about two miles west of #16059]:
  • 20342, 1,430, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-1H, Charlson, F,  t11/11; cum 578K 6/15; 
  • 26446, dry, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-2H, Charlson,
  • 27209, drl, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-2HR, Charlson,
  • 27918, 1,167, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-1HS, Charlson, Three Forks, 4 sections, 33 stages, 4 million lbs, t12/14; cum 144K 6/16; F;
  • 27208, 2,262, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-2HS, Charlson, middle Bakken, 4 sections, 33 stages, 4 million lbs, t12/14; cum 174K 6/15;
Regular readers will recall that a monster well is located in this field:
  • 16059, 729, Petro-Hunt, USA 2D-3-1H, Charlson field, t10/06; cum 1.51 million 6/15; still producing 5,000 bbls/month 
By the way, where in the Charlson is this monster well located in relationship to this pad?

The 5-well pad is 2.6 miles to the northwest of this Petro-Hunt monster well

It took the USA 2D-3-1H (#16059) 8 years to reach 1.44 million bbls; the newer well, #20342, reached almost half-a-million bbls before it was taken off-line after only 2.5 years. The older well was free-flowing for a very long time, but it is now on a pump; the newer well (#20342) is still shown to be on a pump, but Teegue pointed out a long time ago that sometimes the paperwork lags events (in other words, the newer well might have a pump; the paperwork simply hasn't caught up; my hunch: no pump yet).

The older well (#16059) has never been taken off-line and is still producing about 7,000 bbls of oil per month. It's best month was its 16th month of production when it produced 30,931 bbls of crude oil.

The best months for #20342, were the 1st full month of production (33,358 bbls) and the second full month (30,034 bbls). At 25 months or so, it finally went below 10,000 bbls / month.

Before they bring this well back on line, they better resolve the flaring issue. Maybe they should just plug and abandon these wells if they continue flaring.

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