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;
  

  Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
  BAKKEN	10-2019	28	40000	39411	33352	27215	22994	0
  BAKKEN	9-2019	30	37453	37939	33956	25316	21298	20
  BAKKEN	8-2019	29	53320	52834	39184	27544	22884	0
  BAKKEN	7-2019	31	33921	34045	1098	23126	19317	141
  BAKKEN	6-2019	22	29585	30475	29452	16579	12787	471
  BAKKEN	5-2019	30	36801	37642	26249	22557	17513	935
  BAKKEN	4-2019	29	136924	135272	93535	98300	79805	3959
  BAKKEN	3-2019	4	15385	15626	7510	6506	0	4747

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 Pool Date Days BBLS Oil Runs BBLS Water MCF Prod MCF Sold Vent/Flare BAKKEN 4-2019 29 139068 135272 93535 97897 79402 3959 BAKKEN 3-2019 4 15385 15626 7510 6506 0 4747 BAKKEN 2-2019 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BAKKEN 1-2019 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BAKKEN 12-2018 8 23402 21672 26046 9666 0 7115

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:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2019	29	139068	135272	93535	97897	79402	3959
BAKKEN	3-2019	4	15385	15626	7510	6506	0	4747
BAKKEN	2-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2018	8	23402	21672	26046	9666	0	7115

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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:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2019	30	34767	34915	32321	76106	25649	47196
BAKKEN	3-2019	31	52081	52872	46748	85724	16771	62683
BAKKEN	2-2019	22	38759	37401	35904	56589	21944	31313
BAKKEN	1-2019	1	28	959	11	36	1	32
BAKKEN	12-2018	29	37430	37048	40410	59261	15451	39814
BAKKEN	11-2018	28	56299	56577	55748	99904	32294	63510
BAKKEN	10-2018	31	133711	133069	124441	201573	35899	156881
BAKKEN	9-2018	5	19416	19229	17619	20980	0	19699

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."