Agenda For March, 2015, NDIC Hearing Dockets Are Posted -- February 27, 2015; This Should Get Your Attention -- 13 Wells In An Overlapping 640-Acre Unit

Link here to source (NDIC).

Full agenda here.

Just a quick look for now:

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 (8 pages; well below the typical 14 - 20 pages)

• a lot of 2560-acre units; most with 1 - 4 wells; nothing unusual
• BR with one case for seven wells on a 1280-acre unit; with 8 wells on another 1280-acre unit
• Hess with a case for ten wells on a 1280-acre unit;
• Hess with a case for nine wells on a 1280-acre unit;
• Hess with a case for eleven wells on each of two 1280-acre units;
• Whiting with a case for 5 wells on a 320-acre unit; 10 wells on each of two 1280-acre units; 12 wells on a 1280-acre unit

Thursday, March 26, 2015 (15 pages; on the low side; typically 14 - 20 pages)

• this should get your attention: Liberty to drill 13 wells on an overlapping 640-acre section (case #23801); see below
• XTO with several cases requesting flaring relief
• lots of "continued" cases
• typical number of pooling cases

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13 Wells In An Overlapping 640-Acre Spacing Unit
Why Not 14?

23801: Application of Liberty Resources Management Co., LLC for an order amending the field rules for the West Tioga-Bakken Pool to create and establish an overlapping 640-acre spacing unit comprised of Section 33, T.158N., R.95W., Williams County, ND, authorizing the drilling of a total not to exceed thirteen wells on said overlapping 640-acre spacing unit, eliminating any tool error  .....

About four miles northwest of Tioga, the oil capital of North Dakota:

Look at the spacing in this area: 320-acre spacing, 640-acre spacing, and 1280-acre spacing. This is the first case that I am aware of that is an overlapping 640-acre spacing unit. I'm sure there are many more; this is just the first one that caught my attention.

In the graphic below:

• purple: 320-acre spacing -- section 33-158-95 is currently spaced at two 320-acre drilling units; this new case will ask for an overlapping 640-acre unit and 13 wells
• brown: 640-acre spacing
• green: 1280-acre spacing

For those interested, the eight horizontal wells directly above section 33-158-95:

(I'll finish this later) - but look at that 313,000 bbls from a well that was tested in 3/13; there's a reason Tioga is the oil capital of North Dakota.

26192, 510, Liberty, t12/13; cum 86K 12/14;

29310, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 1/15;
29311, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 1/15;
29313, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 1/15;

23206, SI/IA, Liberty, t3/13; cum 313K 12/14;

29514, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 2/15;
29515, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 2/15;
29516, SI/IA, Liberty, no production data, 2/15;

But there's more! Look at that vertical well, #10328, three targets, which I'll break out separately:

• 10328, 35, Samuel Gary Jr, Hemsing 1, West Tioga, a Red River well, t12/83; cum 19K 8/88;
• 10328, 79, Samuel Gary Jr, Hemsing 1, West Tioga, a Stonewall well, t10/88; cum 145K 11/03;
• 10328, 6, Samuel Gary Jr, Hemsing 1, West Tioga, a Bakken well, t12/83; cum 33K 12/14; the Bakken was perforated between/inclusive 9,622 feet to 9,636 feet (14 feet thick); 180,000 lbs of sand and ceramics; so that gives you an idea of how thick the Middle Bakken seam is here; and howmuch it produces with minimal fracking