Two New Permits; Huge Jump In Production -- September 11, 2019

Active rigs:

$55.92	9/11/2019	09/11/2018	09/11/2017	09/11/2016	09/11/2015
Active Rigs	64	66	56	37	69

Ten permits renewed:

• Crescent Point Energy (5): two CPEUSC Narcisse and three CPEUSC Austin permits, all in Williams County
• MRO (3): a Walcel USA permit, a Ranum USA permit, and a Prior USA permit, all in Mountrail County
• Slawson: an Armada Federal permit in Mountrail County
• Whiting: a Drew TTT permit in Mountrail County

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 32354, 174, CLR, Hereford Federal 8-20H2, this well was spud March 20, 2016 (almost 3.5 years ago); TD date was April 6, 2016 (about 3.5 years ago); 2nd bench Three Forks; from the well file at the NDIC site:

Operations began on March 20, 2016; two trips, I believe; KOP was reached on the morning of March 26, 2016; casing/cemented on March 27th; drilled out the shoe on afternoon of March 28th; tripped the morning of April 2nd; resumed drilling the following morning; tripped again; began drilling again late morning April 3rd; on the morning of April 4th, the directional sensor again failed, and tripped again; drilling resumed on the morning of April 5th; TD without further ado on afternoon of April 6th. So, three days for the vertical; about a day for the curve; about six days to drill the horizontal with two trips, each delaying completion by a full day or so; rare flares, from 1' to 5', brief in duration; 98% of the footage in the delineated target zone (remember, this was the second bench, Three Forks; "this was was somewhat unique, in that we had fair control from the parallel Buelingo 1-20H well to the east of us for the first section, but thereafter we had little data to confirm the structure interpretation ahead of us. Careful attention was paid to the gamma curve and other data, in order to successfully guide the well to TD in zone and without encountering the internal 1 or 2 shale. These efforsts were successful, with only one brief section out of zone. This well will provide a better template for th other eight wells of the pad. It was very important, with the length of the well, to maintain a smooth well bore, in order to not interfere with sliding as we proceeded into the third section. This was also achieved, and the well reached TD without any significant down-hole interferences.

Frack data not yet posted at the NDIC site. According to FracFocus, this well was fracked 3/28/17 - 4/15/17; a huge frack with 12.6 million gallons of water; 88.4% water by mass.

Name changes, of note: two XTO HUB Muller wells were renamed "Muller" wells, dropping the HBU (#36830 and #36839).


Two new permits, #36950 - #36951, inclusive.

• Operator: Petro-Hunt
• Field: Charlson (McKenzie County)
• Comments: 
• Petro-Hunt has permits for a 2-well USA pad in section 8-153-95, Charlson oil field.

Note this well;

• 18111, Thompson wells, Petro-Hunt; huge jump; 462K 9/18; in the neighborhood of the new Charlson permits;

BAKKEN	5-2018	30	16177	15974	5943	23619	23407	3
BAKKEN	4-2018	7	2414	2531	272	3432	3383	0
BAKKEN	3-2018	31	13360	13543	1078	17386	17170	0
BAKKEN	2-2018	28	12281	12198	1020	15598	15403	0
BAKKEN	1-2018	31	14356	14462	1247	18249	18033	0
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	15600	15655	1417	20020	19804	0
BAKKEN	11-2017	30	16570	16439	1736	21634	21425	0
BAKKEN	10-2017	31	17802	17794	2319	25838	25622	0
BAKKEN	9-2017	10	6087	5680	1165	8031	7566	395
BAKKEN	8-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2017	21	1280	1495	122	2318	2172	0
BAKKEN	6-2017	30	1897	1758	173	3401	3138	54
BAKKEN	5-2017	31	1964	2005	208	3685	3350	119
BAKKEN	4-2017	30	1997	2087	200	3675	3436	30