Nice 15-Fold Jump In Production -- No Explanation Yet -- The Amazing Bakken -- October 13, 2019

So, two minutes after posting the epic, I went looking for something else and stumbled upon this.

This well was drilled in 2009.

Its initial production maxed out at 23K in the first full month of production.

It suffered the typical Bakken decline but plateaued out at 5,000 bbls/month; then, 3,000 bbls/month, and then finally 2,000 bbls/month, coming close to 500, 000 bbls total production by 2019.

Then this:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	8-2019	31	36475	36739	6566	25384	13208	12176
BAKKEN	7-2019	7	4536	3961	5107	4753	4131	622
BAKKEN	6-2019	3	145	464	32	265	248	0
BAKKEN	5-2019	31	1879	2048	163	2716	2485	15
BAKKEN	4-2019	30	1652	1600	220	2600	2236	155
BAKKEN	3-2019	31	2140	2447	317	3344	3128	0
BAKKEN	2-2019	27	2304	2241	427	3693	3429	76

Let's see, 36,475 / 2,500 =  a 15-fold jump in production and off line for about two months; it never lost a full month of production.

API: 33-053-02954.

Not re-fracked: FracFocus - no data; NDIC file report -- no re-frack; last sundry form from 2015.

It's possible the paperwork is still in the mail but my hunch, based on other information, suggests that this is correct: that this well has not been re-fracked.

Original frack: August 27, 2009.

Target: Three Forks.

The well: #17668.

Wanna bet the two neighboring wells have been fracked?

• 34653, conf,
• 34654, conf, 

FracFocus: no frack data as of October 13, 2019, has been posted.