Fracking And Sand -- October 14, 2019

One of the things I hear over and over about fracking: the key is "more sand."

Nope.

Case in point:

• 35320, 7,811, MRO, Reyes USA 21-16H, Reunion Bay, t6/19; cum 82K in 30 days; cum 179K 8/19; almost 200K in little more than three months; no geologist's narrative available;
  

Frack:

• a relatively modest 7.954 million lbs of sand (remember the EOG and CLR mega-fracks of 15 million and 20 million lbs of sand before we went to "advantaged oil" -- I love that term); and,
• only 40 stages (compared to the industry's push to 60+ stages)

Nope, simply "more sand" is not the end-all and be-all to fracking.

Frack data for three other wells:

• Eunice, Three Forks: 40 stages; 6.459 million lbs
• Sears, Three Forks: 40 stages; 6.538 million lbs
• Driftwood, middle Bakken: 45 stages; 8.538 million lbs

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Another Example

The well:

• 20359, 96 (no typo), WPX, Bear Den 24-13H2, middle Bakken; Spotted Horn, 12 stages; 2.7 million lbs, t10/11; cum 512K 8/19;

Note: this well was drilled back in 2011; the frack was only 12 stages and less than three million lbs of sand and yet the well has produced more than 500,000 bbls of oil.