Random Look At A Bakken Well -- Delay In Production Following Fracking / Testing -- December 11, 2014

I'm sure there are simple explanations for all these things, but when I come across something like this, it certainly suggests I know less than 1% (or even much less) of everything that is occurring in the Bakken.

Take a look at this well:

• 20815, 325, CLR, Lindell 3-10H, Stoneview, Bakken, 4-section spacing; Stoneview, 30 stages, 3.0 million lbs sand/ceramic; gas maxed at 945 units, t3/12; cum 110K 10/14;

It was tested March 25, 2012.

It was stimulated (fracked) several months earlier, December 18, 2011.

One would assume that it would have some pretty good production in the first month following fracking; and certainly some great production the first month after testing.

But look at the production profile for this well for the first twelve months:

BAKKEN	10-2012	31	7026	6832	6769	20298	20298	0
BAKKEN	9-2012	30	8869	9049	7249	20320	20320	0
BAKKEN	8-2012	31	10741	10893	7343	14464	14464	0
BAKKEN	7-2012	31	11134	11510	6981	11482	11482	0
BAKKEN	6-2012	27	12808	11822	10298	12265	12245	20
BAKKEN	5-2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2012	1	33	0	2	73	0	73
BAKKEN	3-2012	1	0	0	48	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

So, this well was fracked in December, and had no production for the next several months. Nada, zilch, zero.

Even after it was tested in March, there was almost no production; in fact, in May, two months later, there was again absolutely no production, not even one bbl.

But, I guess on June 3, 2012, or thereabouts, they opened the spigot, and lo and behold, almost 13,000 bbls of bubbling crude over the next 27 days.

By the way, this is an "old" well by Bakken standards, spud back in 2011, and yet look at the spacing: 2560-acre spacing. I've always thought 2560-acre spacing was fairly recent. 

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