QEP Re-Fracks Its MHA Wells In Deep Water Creek Bay -- July 30, 2018

For newbies: I've always maintained the number of rigs in the Bakken was irrelevant with regard to the amount of production (do not take that out of context). For me, the purpose of tracking the number of wells was that it was a good indicator of the amount of activity in the Bakken. The other reason, of course: everyone tracks rig count, even if it really doesn't matter any more. LOL.

I digress.

If folks have been paying attention, the number of rigs in the Bakken has actually been decreasing these last couple of weeks after hitting a recent high of 70. And yet, we are going to see new production records for the next several months. What's going on? Re-fracks. And re-fracks are not reflected in rigs counts.

I assume QEP has been re-fracking for awhile; I don't know. But now we have some examples of QEP re-fracking. This was in a field not often followed by me. I will have to go back and check QEP's "Helis Grail" field. [Later: yup. QEP has begun re-fracking in the Bakken. Link here to Grail oil field.]

The well:

• 20271, 592, QEP, MHA 5-13-14H-150-91, Deep Water Creek Bay, API - 33-055-00142; t12/17; cum 231K 5/18; no report of the re-frack in the file report, but at FracFocus, 10/16/17 - 10/25/17; 6.6 million gallons of water; 85% water;

Production profile:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2018	24	7293	7262	10348	4056	2191	801
BAKKEN	4-2018	30	10172	10259	13879	5120	3599	362
BAKKEN	3-2018	16	6088	5866	9085	3564	2160	690
BAKKEN	2-2018	23	8117	8210	11207	4809	2407	1301
BAKKEN	1-2018	31	11712	11600	26148	7510	2385	3649
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	13474	13422	40361	8808	1047	6690
BAKKEN	11-2017	22	7098	6991	47916	4455	0	4163
BAKKEN	10-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2017	7	242	195	67	76	76	0
BAKKEN	8-2017	31	671	670	232	321	321	0
BAKKEN	7-2017	31	868	865	287	876	455	1
BAKKEN	6-2017	29	345	334	94	699	74	217
BAKKEN	5-2017	31	886	920	227	670	9	242
BAKKEN	4-2017	30	484	463	427	638	230	0

And I find this interesting. This well is pretty isolated. There are only three horizontal wells in this drilling unit.

• 20271, above
• 19683, on the same pad, and paralle with #20271, also re-fracked; 766, QEP, MHA 2-13-14H-150-91, Deep water Creek Bay, t12/11; cum 231K 5/18; huge jump in production; same profile as above;
• 17940, a bit farther south on a separate two-well pad, also re-fracked, 1,217, QEP, MHA 1-13-14H-150-91, t1/10; cum 367K 5/18; production profile:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2018	31	11676	11790	7444	4935	2677	1011
BAKKEN	4-2018	19	6816	6562	8853	2689	1733	248
BAKKEN	3-2018	19	6690	6982	5953	3735	2202	670
BAKKEN	2-2018	24	9105	8923	9480	4833	3508	390
BAKKEN	1-2018	30	15035	15339	16952	8351	3834	3937
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	19139	18697	37343	9084	3457	5219
BAKKEN	11-2017	15	4519	4206	4180	1085	0	854
BAKKEN	10-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2017	6	241	252	169	1349	198	1151
BAKKEN	8-2017	31	1436	1446	848	1054	1054	0
BAKKEN	7-2017	31	1532	1588	918	1661	1238	2
BAKKEN	6-2017	30	1659	1665	913	2095	792	895
BAKKEN	5-2017	31	1792	1754	969	2099	321	1357