Thursday, February 23, 2017

Why I Love To Blog -- Reason #364 -- No Evidence This Huge Well Was Re-Fracked -- February 23, 2017

Actually this could also be reason #1, why I love to blog: the "things" my readers send me.

Years and years ago, during Bakken 1.0, I opined about the virtues of heel-to-toe horizontals being drilled alongside toe-to-heel wells (if that makes sense). At that time, early in the Bakken boom, operators were only drilling one well in each drilling unit (to get production to hold the lease) and no one was talking about heel-to-toe and toe-to-heel neighbors.

Then the slowdown in drilling so we didn't get many examples. But today a reader sent me a great example of what I'm talking about.

The well:
  • #19889, 1,678, XTO, Sand Creek 21-10SH, Sand Creek oil field, section 10-153-96, t5/11; cum 427K 12/16; in its sixth year of production; 
For full production data as of this date, see this post.

No evidence of re-frack at FracFocus: 33-053-03348. FracFocus.

This well is in its sixth year of production. By now, it should have been well past the "dreaded Bakken decline" and past its most productive years, but look at this well's production in the past six montths -- again, this well is an "old" Bakken well -- it should be on its last legs. We'll come back to it later.

Recent production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN12-201622173481710851473407032848486
BAKKEN11-20163021723217611030942107392882010
BAKKEN10-201631295172936812447549104306011010
BAKKEN9-201627271972711511042476203154515717
BAKKEN8-20163128192280741083453086511581737
BAKKEN7-20162422225222571725235045250109907

Note: in case you missed it, these are six consecutive months of 20,000+ bbls of production, and close to 30,000 bbls each month.

The best this well did back in 2011 when it was first fracked: 16,103 bbls in 29 days, and it hit the "dreaded Bakken decline" in nine months, dropping to less than 9,000 bbls/month and then quickly dropping to less than 5,000 bbls/month.

The graphic:


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