Sunday, October 18, 2015

Random Look At Interesting Way Of Drilling A 1280-Acre Unit -- The Bakken, October 18, 2015

Updates

February 11, 2017: graphic update of this area:



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March 27, 2016: updating the graphic below. The index well for this discussion is #16510 -  this well is the >-shaped dual horizontal in the upper left hand side in the graphic below, and then again in the graphic farther down. It had a jump in production in June, 2015.  There were two sets of wells that ran north-to-south across the dual-lateral 16510. The horizontals coming from the 3-well pad to the west are DUCs (#30362, #30363, and #30364). However, two of the horizontals coming from the 3-well pad to the east (#23785, #23786) were fracked in June, 2015, according to Fracfocus.

Look at the production profile of #16510 around June, 2015:

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN1-20163133323179918268502685
BAKKEN12-20152620222031580146001460
BAKKEN11-20151992811084776160616
BAKKEN10-2015352522601180118
BAKKEN9-20151219802450267164401644
BAKKEN8-201531472744661345380003800
BAKKEN7-2015914271102965104301043
BAKKEN6-20155984342219614848
BAKKEN5-20153188486721313711108263
BAKKEN4-201530930911287722220502
BAKKEN3-2015311206116837814371055382
BAKKEN2-201515515694152649469180
BAKKEN1-20153119322037355180218020
BAKKEN12-20143113711120133131813180
BAKKEN11-2014309878972251182116418




Later, 7:14 p.m. Central Time: a reader writes regarding #16510:
It's been off the rod pump and flowing since the frac job on the CLR Ecopad to the north. 
Original Post
 
All four of these wells were originally COP/BR wells that are now operated by CLR, dual short laterals from same wellhead, different sections:


Here are some interesting data points:

16537, 202, CLR, Dvirnak 14-6H, Jim Creek, t9/07; cum 170K 8/15;
16510, 1,082, CLR, State Weydahl 44-36H, Corral Creek, t4/07; cum 300K 8/15; 
16509, 484, CLR, Candee 11-9H, Chimney Butte, t6/07; cum 138K 8/15;
16316, 280, CLR, Jensen 1-5H, Chimney Butte, t1/07; cum 199K 8/15;

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Note the production profile of #16510, with nothing in the file report to explain the jump (see production in bold red). It is interesting that a CLR Ecopad to the north (#30362, #30363, and #30364, are on DRL status) has a rig on site (being fracked?), all of which run right under/over #16510 (halo effect).

In addition, interestingly enough, #29555 was fracked at exactly this same time. See data for #29555 farther down the post. This is production data for #16510:

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN8-201531472744661345380003800
BAKKEN7-2015914271102965104301043
BAKKEN6-20155984342219614848
BAKKEN5-20153188486721313711108263
BAKKEN4-201530930911287722220502
BAKKEN3-20153112061168378143710553


29555, 1,497, CLR, State Weydahl 4-36H1, Corral Creek, t7/15; cum 45K 8/15:

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN8-201520158461614253321639616283113
BAKKEN7-201528251312549987782625025636614
BAKKEN6-20159446137186591189287511017

I'm getting way beyond my comfort zone, but if this has to do with halo effect, fracturing, fracture lines, and porosity, we might be seeing something that the operators suspected some time ago. And, of course, with operators choking back and controlling monthly flow on producing wells, maybe nothing is going on, and this is all simply my imagination.

Here's the graphic:


(Note: in the graphic above, "#295" should be "#29555." Sorry.)

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