Random Update Of A Well Showing Significant Jump In Production -- Simply Magic? -- October 5, 2015

Updates

March 27, 2016: these wells have now been updated, and are now tracked here. 

November 8, 2015: production profiles have been updated; now includes another month (August, 2015) of production. 

Original Post

 

I'm just throwing this out there. I am doing it quickly. There may be other explanations. I may be misreading something. In short, there may be all kinds of errors on this page. I will come back to it later if necessary. If this information is important to you, go to the source. I would be interested in comments from folks with knowledge of these CLR Bridger wells.

A reader alerted me to this well about one month ago before the data was available (see below). Look at the production profile for the past year. Note the jump in production in August, 2015, after it came back on line. Nothing was done directly to this well to explain this jump in production. There was no work-over rig, for example on this pad during the month of July, 2015:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	8-2015	26	13306	13330	16161	15741	9783	5958
BAKKEN	7-2015	9	231	225	222	443	443	0
BAKKEN	6-2015	30	1276	1333	460	1925	1817	108
BAKKEN	5-2015	31	1390	1335	468	1786	1631	155
BAKKEN	4-2015	30	1395	1336	527	1892	1569	323
BAKKEN	3-2015	31	1639	1795	585	2142	2090	52
BAKKEN	2-2015	28	2021	2067	683	1993	1761	232
BAKKEN	1-2015	9	368	240	258	348	348	0
BAKKEN	12-2014	31	1524	1788	632	2142	2142	0
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	1606	1597	612	2110	2087	23
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	1562	1382	542	1882	1882	0
BAKKEN	9-2014	30	1481	1815	502	1836	1658	178
BAKKEN	8-2014	31	1579	1355	567	2022	1935	87

The production profile above is from this well:

• 19013, 399, CLR, Bridger 2-14H, Rattlesnake, t12/10; cum 172K 8/15; this well is a THREE FORKS well.

Okay, so you've seen the production profile of that well for the past few months.

Now the next thing.

On 7/11/15, a "neighboring" well was fracked: 30 stages; 6 million lbs;

• 29554, 290, CLR, Bridger 4-14H2, Rattlesnake, t7/15; cum -- ; this well is also a THREE FORKS well (B1 in the permit application).

Note where these two horizontals are in the graphic below. Note the three horizontals under discussion. There is a middle Bakken horizontal running between the two THREE FORKS horizontals. 

The Three Forks horizontals are 950' apart once the horizontals "straighten out" and run directly to the north. 

Production in the middle Bakken did not show any appreciable jump in production.

So here we have an old well, #19013, that sees a jump in production from about 1,300 bbls/month to 13,000 bbls/month (10x increase in production) and it seems to have just happened magically. 

Again, a reader (thank you, very much) alerted me to this possibility a month ago. 

Also, some other information about Rattlesnake Point.  

By the way, I have another example of where the halo effect might have been in play with other Three Forks wells, as far as 2,000 feet apart, the Stroh wells that are among the "things that need to be followed up."