Huge Production Reporting Mistake Over At NDIC -- August 15, 2017

September 14, 2017: HUGE MISTAKE BY SOMEONE AT NDIC OR AT BR -- Remember this well -- said to have produced 90,000 bbls in one month. I see that the production profile has been corrected at NDIC. The update shows that there was a huge error in production numbers reported. Here's the production  profile now that it's been corrected (I guess one can ignore the entire note below; it's just another well in the Bakken, nothing special:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	7-2017	0	0	298	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	6-2017	28	22597	22477	18219	18522	18509	0
BAKKEN	5-2017	15	12137	11959	11318	10314	8203	2107
BAKKEN	4-2017	7	2422	2422	6	17	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2017	3	53	53	1	7	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	8-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Disclaimer: once before, I came across a well with production that seemed impossible. I posted it; later we learned it was a commingling error. It was either that case or another case, I forget, that was later corrected by the NDIC. [Later: that case ws an example of a typographical error on an IP which was later corrected by the NDIC.]  In this case, 90,000 bbls of oil after a re-frack just seems very, very hard to believe, but that's what is being reported right now. So, I'll post what I see and then wait to see if someone has "the rest of the story" or if NDIC corrects the data.

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Updates

August 16, 2017: see first comment; reader says he sees the same thing; he notes that the well is "now flowing, not on a pump."

Original Post

Now, back to the well.

A reader alerted me to this well. Here was his note:

This well was first drilled in 2008. It had been producing for about seven years before being taken off-line. Then, re-entered and re-fracked, this well almost doubled its cumulative production in June, in just a single month, to close to 250 kbo.

It achieved an average daily production rate of over 3,000 bo/d, the highest monthly rate of any well in the history of North Dakota. It was refracked in the end of 2016, and just put back on production.

Here's the monthly production data for the past 12 months:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2017	28	90038	89027	18219	18558	18545	0
BAKKEN	5-2017	15	12137	11959	11318	10314	8203	2107
BAKKEN	4-2017	7	2422	2422	6	17	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2017	3	53	53	1	7	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	8-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Here's the monthly production data for the first 12 months:

BAKKEN	5-2009	31	2521	2464	278	1908	1908	0
BAKKEN	4-2009	30	2512	2453	276	1965	1933	32
BAKKEN	3-2009	31	2794	2787	303	1984	1826	158
BAKKEN	2-2009	28	2697	2770	286	2006	1776	230
BAKKEN	1-2009	31	3172	3211	376	2028	1694	334
BAKKEN	12-2008	31	3448	3498	406	2429	1339	1090
BAKKEN	11-2008	30	3646	3673	438	2732	2732	0
BAKKEN	10-2008	30	4798	4808	677	3622	3622	0
BAKKEN	9-2008	23	3718	3657	920	2371	2279	92
BAKKEN	8-2008	29	5156	4873	1454	3584	3510	74
BAKKEN	7-2008	31	4850	4915	1605	3808	0	3808
BAKKEN	6-2008	30	667	442	974	338	0	338

The well:

• 17106, 361, BR, CCU Bison Point 14-34H, Corral Creek, t7/08; cum 241K 6/17
• original frack back in 2008
• a refrack in early 2017: IP of 672; 26 stages; 5 million lbs (mesh and large; no small proppant)
• when re-entered, the well was extended (if I read it correctly, by 385 feet); the drilling target zone was 20 feet thick, with the top of the target window set 8 feet below the top of the middle Bakken.

Re-entry, drilling target results:

• above drilling target footage (%): 165' (43%)
• in drilling target footage (%): 220' (57%)
• below drilling target footage: 0' (0%)
• in this side-track lateral: average background gas, 430 units; max daily gas, 3,282 units

The original well, when drilled in 2008:

• in target zone, 8,292' (92%)
• above target zone, 716; (8%)
• open hole frack, 1.05 million lbs, 20-40 sand

Production profile, graphically (source, search: ):

NDIC map of the area:

Note: Mike Filloon shows a number of similar production profiles of wells in the Permian, and I have pointed them out, suggesting those are the wells I'm interested in.