Random Look At A Petro Harvester Madison Well In Portal Oil Field -- May 9, 2019

Again, for newbies: this is not a Bakken well. This is a Madison well in the center of the Williston Oil Basin; the well is north of Williston. The well is located 1.75 miles south of the Canadian border. There is a fair amount of activity in this area.


The well:

• 33938, drl, Petro Harvester Operating Company, LLC, PTL2 4-28 164-92 C, target: Madison, Portal oil field, some production reported;

Production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
MADISON	3-2019	20	1315	635	11980	3786	2786	1000
MADISON	2-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

From the well file:

• permit says the spacing unit is 560 acres (slightly less than the standard section of 640 acres)
• target: Midale/Nesson Porosity; 30' thick seam; 
• this grassroots well was spud on November 9 and reached TD of 15,175' MD on November 28, 2108
• approx 2.5 miles southwest of Portal, ND, in the central portion of the Williston Basin
• lateral #1 produced 7,924' of 6" openhole volume after intermediate casing point of 6,619' MD in the 30' foot thick Midale/Nesson Target (92% in Target)
• vertical hole drilled to 1,373 MD'
• KOP in the Triassic Spearfish formation
• the Mississippian lower Midale target top was drilled at 6,490' MD / 5,923' TVD
• TD on November 3, 2018
• TD was projected to be 8,880.04' 
• [0.04' = 0.48 inch]
• average background gas, 450 units
• connection gases as high as 3,800 units
• "prepared for an anticipated hydraulic frac job to enhance, then produce, the moderately tight porosity / permeability observed in the Midale/Nesson target