A Look At A CLR Well On A 5,120-Acre Spacing Unit -- December 20, 2015

A CLR well on a 5,120-acre spacing unit / 8 sections will be reported Monday:

• 29194, 827, CLR, Mildred 8-19H1, Brooklyn, Three Forks B1, 30 stages, 5.8 million lbs, 5,120-acre spacing; 17/18/19/20/29/30/31/32 -155-98; 

I track the Brooklyn oil field here. In the November, 2014, and December, 2014, hearing dockets there were several cases requesting 5,120-acre spacing units. There are currently three or four such 5,120-acre drilling units in the Brooklyn oil field (I think, four).

A quick look at the NDIC GIS map server suggests there are about 10 such 5,120-acre spacing units across the Bakken, most, if not all, within the quadrangle.

See this post for some of the 5,120-acre spacing units in the dockets.

For newbies, the Bakken began with 640-acre drilling units as the standard but quickly went to 1280-acre units which is currently the norm. We are seeing more and more 2560-acre overlapping spacing units, but until recently none larger. For me, this is the largest "defined" spacing unit (there are some unitized fields in which the entire field is a "drilling unit," I suppose).

The well comes off the confidential list this weekend, and will be reported on Monday's daily activity report. Production runs to date:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
10-2015	10435	12498
9-2015	12072	16798
8-2015	13312	18819
7-2015	1175	0
6-2015	236	0

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North Dakota's Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs)

Drones - Update

From The Dickinson Press:

The progress at the test site is just part of advancement seen on several fronts for the unmanned aircraft industry in North Dakota. Major players such as the University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University made strides this year in terms of research, but now have set their focus for 2016.

On the horizon for NDSU is a large-scale agricultural research project aimed at comparing imagery taken by unmanned aircraft from various altitudes while UND intends to create an unmanned aircraft flight training program. 

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ObamaCare Update In The New York Times

This op-ed could easily have been written for The Wall Street Journal.

The worse thing the opposition could have done was de-fund ObamaCare.

To some extent, one can argue ObamaCare has been defunded by the entire Congress by delaying (and ultimately) killing the tax on "Cadillac" policies and the tax on medical devices.

The NY Times writer conveniently failed to mention that more than half of the ObamaCare co-ops have failed; it's just a matter of time before the rest go. The writer also failed to mention that one of the largest health care insurers is likely to drop out of ObamaCare (perhaps UnitedHealth already has).