Three New Permits; Another Day With No DUCs Reported As Completed -- June 28, 2018

Active rigs:

$73.36↑↑	6/28/2018	06/28/2017	06/28/2016	06/28/2015	06/28/2014
Active Rigs	66	58	30	75	19

LLS: DAPL-Bakken proxy -- $79.91

Three new permits:

• Operator: Whiting
• Field: Pembroke (McKenzie)
• Comments: Whiting has permits for a 3-well Stenehjem Federal pad in SESW 7-149-98;

Five permits renewed:

• Texakota (4): four H. Borstad permits in Williams County
• Resource Energy Can-Am: a Lincoln State permit in Divide Count

DUCs: another day without any DUCs reported as completed.

These were the two wells that came off the confidential list today:

• 30230, 1,006, Nine Point Energy, Simpson 151-102-5-8-4H, Elk, t1/18; cum 65K 5/18; taken off line as of 5/18 after strong production; fracked 11/11/17 - 12/9/17; 13.291 million gallons of water; 91.46% water; sand, 8.2%; two of the three neighboring wells showed a significant bump in production; the third neighboring well is still off-line;
• 24521, SI/NC Slawson, Gabriel 7-36-25TFH, North Tobacco Garden, no production data,

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Idle Figuring

The other day I suggested how one can go about calculating the amount of sand used before the NDIC posts the sundry form completion report using FracFocus data. See this post.

This is a real world example that I just did a few minutes ago. I did the calculations based on FracFocus data without looking at the sundry form completion report in the file report.

After I did the calculations, I looked at the sundry form completion report and compared the data.

A real world example --

Let's see how well the procedure at the linked site works, using a real world example. We will look at this well that came off the confidential list, today, June 28, 2018, FracFocus data embedded:

• 30230, 1,006, Nine Point Energy, Simpson 151-102-5-8-4H, Elk, t1/18; cum 65K 5/18; taken off line as of 5/18 after strong production; FracFocus data: fracked 11/11/17 - 12/9/17; 13.291 million gallons of water; 91.46% water; sand, 8.2%;

Calculations:

• 13.291 million gallons x 8.35 pounds = 110.98 million lbs
• 91.46% of what = 110.98 million lbs
• total frack mix weighed: 121.3425 million lbs
• of that, 0.082 x 121.3425 = 9.95 million lbs sand
• 9.95 million lbs / 200,000 lbs = 49.75 = 50 stages

Let's look at the frack report in the NDIC file report for this well, #30230:

• 50 stages; 10.02 million pounds sand (7 million lbs mesh; 3 million lbs medium)