This is something I had not seen before.
Everyone following the Bakken knows the routine:
- drill
- complete/frack or go to SI/NC status, but eventually complete/frack
- after completion, first one or two months of "constrained flow" while getting things in order
- flow freely for about six months; max production first few months and then decline
- place well on pump
On the other hand, I seldom see a well be changed from a well to free flowing. But here is one case. (I will check the other wells in the area later.) This well was completed/fracked in early 2015. It was placed on a pump, but recently it was noted that:
- production jumped; the well has not been re-fracked (see full production profile at this post)
- the operator requested that the well be "changed from pumping to flowing
And the scout ticket verifies that was not a typographic error. Note that the well is on "F" status, flowing, no AL (artificial lift). Also note that although this is an "old well" (drilled back in early 2015) it is drilled on a large overlapping 2560-acre unit:
The well:
- 29124, 633, CLR, Kennedy 3-31H, Dimmick Lake, t3/15; cum 254K 9/18;
Pool | Date | Days | BBLS Oil | Runs | BBLS Water | MCF Prod | MCF Sold | Vent/Flare |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BAKKEN | 9-2018 | 30 | 10389 | 10621 | 7793 | 18161 | 6461 | 11343 |
BAKKEN | 8-2018 | 30 | 11832 | 11304 | 8442 | 19962 | 3341 | 16240 |
BAKKEN | 7-2018 | 31 | 15389 | 15509 | 11442 | 27957 | 16422 | 11136 |
BAKKEN | 6-2018 | 22 | 8243 | 8295 | 6875 | 16676 | 9031 | 7444 |
BAKKEN | 5-2018 | 14 | 1600 | 1351 | 1309 | 2857 | 1944 | 913 |
BAKKEN | 4-2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 3-2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 2-2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 1-2018 | 17 | 2082 | 2326 | 975 | 6466 | 6466 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 12-2017 | 31 | 4219 | 4209 | 1809 | 12711 | 12711 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 11-2017 | 30 | 4794 | 4882 | 1978 | 12336 | 12336 | 0 |
BAKKEN | 10-2017 | 31 | 4235 | 4035 | 2298 | 8587 | 8304 | 283 |
Maybe this happens a lot. Maybe I just haven't noticed. But this one is a new one for me. The Bakken never ceases to amaze me.
The Kennedy-Miles wells are tracked here.
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