Back in early 2010, I posted this bit of trivia:
The most successful well to date in North Dakota sits in the Charlson: file #16059, the USA 2D-3-1H, a Petro-Hunt, LLC, well that was spudded in October, 2006. To date, it has produced 915,000 barrels of oil. That well targeted the Three Forks Sanish. [At $60/barrel = almost $55 million in about 3 years]. UPDATE: USA 2D-3-1H hit a record this past June, 2010: one million bbls of oil cumulative.I'm not exactly sure what that "most successful well to date" was based on. Other wells in North Dakota have out-produced #16059. Perhaps I meant the "most successful Bakken well to date." If that's what I meant, I doubt that is still true. Certainly other Bakken wells have out-produced this well (maybe I will check later).
Whatever. It's been a great well. It was a very, very short lateral, and is still the only horizontal in that section. That won't last long: #36341 in that section is on the confidential list. Can't wait to see how that one plays out. It looks like it will be another short lateral that will parallel #16059 but in the opposite direction. Testing "halo effect"? [Later, bummer: #36341 was PNC'd 8/1/2019.]
The well:
- 16059, 729, Petro-Hunt, USA 2D-3-1H, Charlson field, t10/06; cum 1.727438 million bbls 5/19; still producing 4,000 bbls/month; it appears this well was never fracked (based on two corroborative forms in the file report); recent production:
| Pool | Date | Days | BBLS Oil | Runs | BBLS Water | MCF Prod | MCF Sold | Vent/Flare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAKKEN | 5-2019 | 31 | 4499 | 4432 | 488 | 7316 | 0 | 7316 |
| BAKKEN | 4-2019 | 30 | 4006 | 4016 | 791 | 6843 | 0 | 6815 |
| BAKKEN | 3-2019 | 31 | 4152 | 4166 | 573 | 7344 | 0 | 7128 |
| BAKKEN | 2-2019 | 28 | 3727 | 3720 | 398 | 7179 | 0 | 6984 |
| BAKKEN | 1-2019 | 31 | 4285 | 4285 | 449 | 9005 | 0 | 8789 |
| BAKKEN | 12-2018 | 31 | 4239 | 4232 | 525 | 7874 | 0 | 7658 |
| BAKKEN | 11-2018 | 30 | 4129 | 4538 | 488 | 7814 | 0 | 7772 |
| BAKKEN | 10-2018 | 24 | 3498 | 3460 | 381 | 7877 | 0 | 7877 |
| BAKKEN | 9-2018 | 30 | 3740 | 3831 | 475 | 9472 | 0 | 9472 |
| BAKKEN | 8-2018 | 31 | 3791 | 3871 | 526 | 9585 | 0 | 9585 |
| BAKKEN | 7-2018 | 31 | 3865 | 4091 | 560 | 9335 | 0 | 9335 |
| BAKKEN | 6-2018 | 30 | 4107 | 3793 | 471 | 8912 | 0 | 8912 |
