Newburg Oil Field Where Enduro Has Permit For Water Injection, Enhanced Oil Recovery -- November 3, 2016

An area where Enduro will be using water injection for enhanced oil recovery. From today's daily activity report, this well has been permitted for water injection, enhanced oil recovery, see graphic below:

• 3440, loc/30, Enduro Operating, NSCU K-709, Newburg oil field, Spearfish/Charles pool, t10/63, cum 327K 2/08;

Comments regarding the renewed permit:

• it appears that #3440, was an old Spearfish/Charles well drilled back in 1963, and abandoned back in 2008; and is now going to be converted to a water injection well (an enhanced recovery well); the application was initially submitted in February, 2014;
• further reading
• how does water injection work - Rigzone
• injection wells, pdf - FracFocus
• old oil field waterflood operations and EOR, pdf -- New York state

This well is located in Newburg oil field, Spearfish/Charles pool, many of which are simple vertical wells. Many of them produced a fair amount of oil over the course of their life times.

Some are still active. For example, the index well in the graphic below, has produced more than one million bbls of oil is still active, and will celebrate its 60th anniversary next November, 2017:

• 1645, 30, Enduro Operating, Newburg-Spearfish-Charles Unit Q-715, Spearfish/Charles pool, t11/57; cum 1.14 million bbls 9/16; still producing about 250 bbls/month

I forgot to place an arrow designating the location of this field on the overview map of North Dakota, but if you look closely you can see a red "dot" near the Canadian border, in Bottineau County.