For Newbies -- August 20, 2017 -- One Of The Peculiarities Of The Bakken

There are now enough wells drilled throughout the Bakken that one can do this:

• find a recently fracked Bakken well that has a huge initial production
• go to the NDIC map and find a horizontal well parallel to the recently fracked Bakken well
• check FracFocus to see if the older Bakken well was re-fracked

So, let's do that.

These two wells were recently fracked by Oasis and will come off the confidential list this week:

32241, see below, Oasis, Forland 5198 41-33 3B, Siverston:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
6-2017	28584	49766
5-2017	33877	87928
4-2017	44180	83282
3-2017	42023	85555
2-2017	7306	11303

32242, see below, Oasis, Forland 5198 41-33 4T, Siverston:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
6-2017	26749	43014
5-2017	35839	87549
4-2017	42072	123402
3-2017	30564	66825
2-2017	2118	5692

Let's check a nearby Bakken well that was fracked some time ago. In this case,

• 21657, 1,844, Oasis, Forland 28-33H, Siverston, t3/12; cum 461K 9/19;

There is no report at FracFocus to suggest this well was ever fracked after the original frack in 2012. So what was the production profile for this well over the past 12 months?

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2017	30	20037	19893	21285	47223	46923	0
BAKKEN	5-2017	31	22370	22625	31072	46142	45832	0
BAKKEN	4-2017	30	16423	15355	36574	22371	22071	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2016	1	0	0	0	10	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2016	5	95	414	140	294	274	0
BAKKEN	10-2016	29	2359	2297	939	5542	5329	213
BAKKEN	9-2016	27	1909	2023	1155	4802	4532	0
BAKKEN	8-2016	31	2284	2198	1060	7758	7448	0
BAKKEN	7-2016	31	2301	2439	885	6488	6178	0
BAKKEN	6-2016	30	2371	2469	1035	6369	6069	0

In this case, this well was producing about 2,000 bbls / month; it was taken off-line for five to six months, and then brought back on line, and produced about 22,000 bbls in one month -- equal to what this well would have produced in one year. 

The graphic:

Just one of the peculiarities of the Bakken, I guess. Take a Bakken well off-line for a couple of months, in this case five or six months, and watch production jump 10-fold. Rinse. Repeat.