Kraken Bigfoot Wells Are Extended Lateral Wells In The Sanish; Huge Wells -- December 24, 2019

The Kraken Bigfoot wells are still on confidential list; they are going to be huge wells. I was curious whether these would be extended long laterals. It appears they are. See this link for initial production data.

Let's look at one of the wells.

The well:

• 36012, conf, Kraken, Bigfoot 23-11 3H, Sanish, t--; cum --; in less than four months, crude oil runs have totaled nearly 175,000 bbls or crude oil;

Runs to date:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
10-2019	48853	17753
9-2019	53702	18345
8-2019	48099	27591
7-2019	21239	43

From the file report --

Summary:

• the Bigfoot 23-11 3H well is a north facing lateral wildcat well in the middle Bakken
• Mountrail County
• on a 4-well pad
• goal: to land 20' below the base of the upper Bakken shale
• the lateral section was drilled to a depth of 26,188 feet measured depth, 10,237' total vertical depth
• the target formation was 56' thick

Additional data

• spud date: April 4, 2019
• TD date: April 13, 2019
• a triple section lateral targeting the lower middle Bakken formation in the Sanish field
• the goal of the build section was to land in a 10' thick zone with the top of the target zone 24' below the base of the upper Bakken shale;
• lateral portion began in the early evening, April 8, 2019
• TD reached at 26:30 on April 13, 2019 (sic)
• From the permit:
• proposed TD for lateral 1: 26,192 feet
• actual TD: 26,188 feet

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The Global Warming Page

As mentioned early, the main purpose of reading this book was to get a better understanding of the geography and waterways around New York City.

From The Battle For New York: The City At The Heart Of The American Revolution, Barnet Schecter, c.2002, pp. 5 - 6.

The unique topography of the New York (city) area also played a decisive role in shaping the strategy and tactics of both sides.

The entire area was then, and remains, an archipelago, its islands and peninsulas, rivers, channels and straits, creeks and inlets formed by the advance and retreat of a glacier. The underside of the thick, heavy ice sheet raked the flat terrain some 50,000 years ago, carrying rocks and soil forward while leaving behind new troughs and valleys. When the glacier stopper, it deposited the rocks and soil and created a terminal moraine -- a line of hills that run lengthwise across the middle of Long Island and continues on the southern part of Staten Island. The portion of this ridge at the western end of Long Island includes the hills of today's Prospect Park and was called Gowanus Heights.

When the climate became warmer, about 17,000 years ago, these hills trapped the melting ice, and the New York area was submerged under glacial lakes.

Several thousand years later, the water broke through the hills, creating the Narrows (between State Island and Brooklyn -- the strait now spanned by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge) and draining the landscape.

However, as temperatures increased, approximately 9,000 years ago, rising sea levels sent water coursing back up through the Narrows, flowing into the depressions that the glacier had excavated and establishing New York's waterways: Upper New York Bay, the Arthur Kill, the East River, the Harlem River, Long Island Sound, and numerous smaller creeks and inlets. 

Below the Narrows, the Lower Bay connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the gap between Coney Island and Sandy Hook. A wide sandbar between these two points ...

The only other access to New York from the Atlantic was farther north, though Long Island Sound. Here, too, ships had to pass through a narrow strait -- Hell Gate -- an aptly named, rocky passage at the western end of the Sound where it meets the East River ...