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:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2016	22	17348	17108	5147	34070	32848	486
BAKKEN	11-2016	30	21723	21761	10309	42107	39288	2010
BAKKEN	10-2016	31	29517	29368	12447	54910	43060	11010
BAKKEN	9-2016	27	27197	27115	11042	47620	31545	15717
BAKKEN	8-2016	31	28192	28074	10834	53086	51158	1737
BAKKEN	7-2016	24	22225	22257	17252	35045	25010	9907

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: