Well Number 23641 -- A Reader Looking For Thoughts On This Well

Updates

June 4, 2018: a reader opines -- "I would THINK several things.  If it is a newly drilled well, then it is being set up for the natural gas removal, maybe it has maintenance work that the drillers need to do where they may have to repeat said maintenance being preformed because the first time did not work out right...These are just a few things, and I am sure there are others."

My hunch: this is an old well; the operator is simply "managing" the company's assets. 

Original Post

A reader over at the discussion group would like thoughts from someone why this well seems to be struggling. It has produced oil for only half the days in each of the last three months:

• 23641, 1,153, Whiting, Buresh 41-15PH, Dickinson, t2/13; cum 162K 3/18; 

The well is about five miles northwest of Dickinson.

Recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	3-2018	17	752	742	388	420	387	0
BAKKEN	2-2018	12	533	533	299	257	233	0
BAKKEN	1-2018	19	668	686	342	428	330	60
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	1437	1427	764	957	895	0
BAKKEN	11-2017	29	1337	1333	906	818	760	0
BAKKEN	10-2017	30	1286	1288	706	837	783	0
BAKKEN	9-2017	28	1092	1109	638	731	680	0
BAKKEN	8-2017	27	1296	1275	601	955	901	0
BAKKEN	7-2017	31	1564	1577	712	1150	1088	0
BAKKEN	6-2017	30	1448	1445	768	991	931	0
BAKKEN	5-2017	31	1548	1591	671	1096	865	169
BAKKEN	4-2017	30	1782	1801	750	1041	982	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	31	1822	1788	720	1101	1036	5
BAKKEN	2-2017	28	1764	1743	908	1035	979	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	31	1993	2080	894	1214	1152	0

Comments:

• looking at the NDIC map, there is nothing going on in the area, unless wells are being re-worked or re-fracked (very, very unlikely due to nature of days on / days off)
• operators manage their assets: Whiting may simply be "managing" production -- just enough production to keep the well flowing but not maximizing production, for overall operational reasons
• there may be local issues for Whiting to throttle back production