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

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2014	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2014	12	3687	3884	267	6051	0	5967
BAKKEN	12-2013	31	9592	9693	746	15683	0	15655
BAKKEN	11-2013	30	9617	9333	672	19118	9096	9818
BAKKEN	10-2013	31	10431	10350	737	15710	9776	5718
BAKKEN	9-2013	30	10349	10160	709	15554	8589	6755
BAKKEN	8-2013	31	10993	11857	796	19539	259	19063
BAKKEN	7-2013	31	11322	10685	832	20788	118	20453
BAKKEN	6-2013	30	11367	11726	857	20668	1469	18989
BAKKEN	5-2013	31	12296	11792	899	21189	2404	18569
BAKKEN	4-2013	30	12559	12629	899	22272	3572	18490
BAKKEN	3-2013	31	13239	13234	957	20581	14810	5554
BAKKEN	2-2013	28	12583	12827	956	20032	18646	1190
BAKKEN	1-2013	31	14595	14442	1100	24827	12138	12472
BAKKEN	12-2012	31	15548	15648	1147	26279	5111	20951
BAKKEN	11-2012	30	16056	15916	1259	28149	12144	15795
BAKKEN	10-2012	31	17610	17767	1331	31020	19636	11167
BAKKEN	9-2012	30	18315	18366	1573	35704	13977	21517
BAKKEN	8-2012	31	21369	21695	1840	35574	29621	5735
BAKKEN	7-2012	30	21130	20982	1654	35137	26747	8180
BAKKEN	6-2012	30	24679	24635	2012	39531	36568	2753
BAKKEN	5-2012	31	27039	27530	1921	37796	37465	114
BAKKEN	4-2012	30	28742	28340	2082	38850	31887	6753
BAKKEN	3-2012	31	28251	28047	1752	36798	17981	18601
BAKKEN	2-2012	29	25501	25435	1381	30823	28037	2582
BAKKEN	1-2012	31	30034	30262	1553	40472	34573	5689
BAKKEN	12-2011	31	33358	33324	1563	40452	21462	18774
BAKKEN	11-2011	14	21284	20366	1177	24965	0	24867
BAKKEN	8-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.