The Bakken Never Ceases To Amaze Me -- Random Update Of A CLR Kennedy Well -- November 8, 2018

I've blogged many, many times on the CLR Miles-Kennedy wells in Dimmick Lake.

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

There are exceptions. Occasionally a well is not placed on a pump at six months; rarely we see some wells go for years without being placed on a 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

 Sundry form, operator requests change from pump 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;

Relevant portion of production profile; this well has not been re-fracked:

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.