Wednesday, June 5, 2019

This Is Another One: I Cannot Make This Stuff Up! The Bakken Never Ceases To Amaze Me? How About 140,000 Bbls Crude Oil In One Month? Or Almost 200,000 BOE In Initial Production? -- Slawson, #31278

Update

The well:
  • 31278, 4,862, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 10H, Big Bend, t12/18; cum 407K 10/19;
    PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
    BAKKEN10-20192840000394113335227215229940
    BAKKEN9-201930374533793933956253162129820
    BAKKEN8-20192953320528343918427544228840
    BAKKEN7-201931339213404510982312619317141
    BAKKEN6-2019222958530475294521657912787471
    BAKKEN5-2019303680137642262492255717513935
    BAKKEN4-2019291369241352729353598300798053959
    BAKKEN3-2019415385156267510650604747
Original Post

I'm just going to post the scout report now and then come back to this one later. When I get something this amazing, it generally takes everything out of me and I have to take a break.

In addition, I will be picking up Sophia from TutorTime in a few minutes.

The well:
  • 31278, 4,862, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 10H, Big Bend, t12/18; cum 178K in 41 days; TD: 25,490 feet;
    • cum oil: 177,855 bbls
    • cum MCF: 114,069 = 19,008 boe
    • total boe over first 41 days:  196,863 boe
The scout report:
NDIC File No: 31278     API No: 33-061-03696-00-00     CTB No: 231270
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 3/15/2019     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: SESE 30-152-91     Footages: 635 FSL 498 FEL     Latitude: 47.950592     Longitude: -102.366822
Current Operator: SLAWSON EXPLORATION COMPANY, INC.
Current Well Name: TORPEDO FEDERAL 10H
Elevation(s): 1909 KB   1890 GR   1913 GL     Total Depth: 25490     Field: BIG BEND
Spud Date(s):  1/22/2018
Casing String(s):  9.625" 1877'   7" 10191'  
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Perfs: 10205-25276     Comp: 12/21/2018     Status: F     Date: 12/27/2018     Spacing: ICO
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 177855     Cum MCF Gas: 114069     Cum Water: 127091
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 12/27/2018     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 4862     IP MCF: 1998     IP Water: 3561
Monthly Production Data
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN4-2019291390681352729353597897794023959
BAKKEN3-2019415385156267510650604747
BAKKEN2-20190000000
BAKKEN1-20190000000
BAKKEN12-20188234022167226046966607115

Look at the completion strategy / frack:


Altogether:
  • 87 stages
  • 13.4 million lbs of proppant
  • 14.6 million gallons of water; 89.6% water (FracFocus)
Production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN4-2019291390681352729353597897794023959
BAKKEN3-2019415385156267510650604747
BAKKEN2-20190000000
BAKKEN1-20190000000
BAKKEN12-20188234022167226046966607115

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I verified with Slawson Exploration Company, Inc, that this is not a typo. It is an accurate number.

The second question: to the best of their knowledge is this the highest production number for any month in a Bakken well? To the best of their knowledge it is. Note:
  • it was not quite a full 31-day month; if so, it would have been higher
  • the company did note that had they not had those four days in March, the full month of April would have been even greater
  • the previous record was probably a Marathon well in Reunion Bay that had around 133,000 bbls in one month
I suppose, if one wanted, one could extrapolate the 139,068 over 29 days to 148,659 bbls over 31 days but one might say that this is gilding the lily and "it is what it is."

I suggested that "nothing special" was done (completion strategy/frack operation), and Slawson agreed: they may have let the well "rip" to see what it could do but nothing "special" was done in terms of a completion strategy. Don't take that out of context. I was asking in a general sense and not asking for specifics.

Anyway, there's a lot more to write about this well, but I do have to take a break to think about this.

From the geologist's report:
  • drilled during the coldest part of the year in ND: drilled out of surface casing on February 1, 2018
  • the lateral targeted the middle Bakken, ranging from 16' below the upper Bakken shale down to approximately 28' below the upper Bakken shale (about 12' thick)
  • gas levels ranged between 50 - 1,000 units; peaks in excess of 6,000 units while in the target zone
  • approximately 88% of the lateral was drilled within the target zone with minimal exposure out of target zone 
Congratulations to Slawson, and all the folks involved. This is really quite amazing. I would imagine there are some very, very happy "mom and pop" mineral owners.

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The MRO Well

The previous monthly record?
  • 32975, 9,166, MRO, Jerome USA 12-23TFH, Reunion Bay, t9/18; cum 372K 4/19; TD: 23,722 feet;
Monthly Production Data:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN4-201930347673491532321761062564947196
BAKKEN3-201931520815287246748857241677162683
BAKKEN2-201922387593740135904565892194431313
BAKKEN1-20191289591136132
BAKKEN12-201829374303704840410592611545139814
BAKKEN11-201828562995657755748999043229463510
BAKKEN10-20183113371113306912444120157335899156881
BAKKEN9-2018519416192291761920980019699

Note: looking at the NDIC map, the Slawson well, under the lake, looks like the horizontal was a full three-section lateral, or a "3-mile well." The MRO wells looks like the horizontal, also under the lake, was 2.5 sections or a "2.5-mile well."

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