Whiting Has A Great Pronghorn Well In Bell Oil Field, Southwestern North Dakota -- February 13, 2015

The other day a reader noted the same thing I've noted: the Whiting wells have recently gotten very good. Of course, some of them were the KOG wells already being drilled/completed.

Here's another one today:

• 27947, 2,076, Whiting, Bock Federal 44-7PH, Bell, t8/14; cum 58K 12/14:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2014	31	8003	8000	12474	9109	9109	0
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	10248	10198	14164	11349	10930	419
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	12945	13007	15669	15924	15410	514
BAKKEN	9-2014	30	18509	19617	19787	21468	21374	94

Not nearly as good as an EOG well in the Parshall, but for the Bell oil field in southwest North Dakota, and the Pronghorn target, and a Whiting well, this IP and initial production is quite good. Whiting announced an enhanced completion technique sometime last year (2014). Hopefully I will find some examples to post.

Now, more on this well.

The well is sited in section 18-139-100 in Gaylord field but the lateral will run north, and the drilling unit will be a 1280-acre unit, sections 6/7-139-100 in Bell oil field.

The lateral is not yet shown on the GIS map server -- the well is on confidential until today and the GIS map needs to be updated. The well in question, #27947 is in "yellow" -- confidential and no lateral is shown. This is on a dual-well pad; the other well is #22120, running south.

Fracking data for the this new Three Forks (Pronghorn) well: 40 stages; 5.6 million lbs, all sand.

Other data points:

• Spud: June 12, 2014.
• TD: June 25, 2014, thirteen (13) days from spud.
• The middle Bakken was encountered at 10,485 TVD.
• The Pronghorn member was encountered at 10,491 TVD, which means the middle and lower Bakken must have been about six (6) feet thick at this location. It appears that the middle Bakken is about two (2) feet thick here and the lower Bakken is about four (4) feet thick.

I did not see any report of the background gases; I could have missed this data. No mention of a flare but, again, I could have missed it.

Disclaimer: I have no background or formal (or informal) training in the oil and gas industry, so there may be factual errors. If this information is important to you, go to the source, generally the NDIC.