The Decade Ends With "The Face Of The Bakken" With The Last Six Permits -- December 31, 2019

What a great way to finish the year, and the decade!

The last six permits issued by the NDIC in 2019 are CLR permits. Also, really cool, these are in the name of a pharmacist I knew very, very well when I was growing up in Williston. And, finally, several years ago, a reader asked "when" there would be more "Irgens Rexall" wells. I had no idea, of course, but I assured the reader there would eventually be more "Irgens Rexall" wells. Well, here they are.

Six new permits, #37290 - #37295, inclusive --

• Operator: CLR
• Field: East Fork (Williams County); Big Gulch (Dunn County)
• Comments:
• CLR has permits for a 5-well Irgens Rexall pad in section 19-156-99, East Fork oil field
• CLR has a permit for another Kate well in section 19-147-96, Big Gulch oil field

Ten permits renewed:

• Hess (5): five Bingeman permits in Williams County
• EOG (2): two Austin permits in Mountrail County 
• Hunt (2): two Patten permits in Mountrail County
• Berenergy: a Borstad permit in Bottineau County

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The Irgens Well

Back to "Irgens Rexall." There is currently one "Irgens Rexall" well:

• 21068, 491, CLR, Irgens Rexall 156-99-19-18-1H, East Fork, t5/12; cum 232K 10/19; 

Active rig -- on the last day of the year, the last day of the decade, active rigs and the price of WTI:

$61.06	12/31/2019	12/31/2018	12/31/2017	12/31/2016	12/31/2015
Active Rigs	55	67	49	39	61

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Look How Far We've Come

Form the file report for #21068:

• permitted by Newfield Production Company
• Newfield spudded the well on 10/29/11; surface casing
• Newfield transferred operation of the well to CLR on/about April 5, 2012;
• spud date: February 3, 2012
• TD/date: 20,565'; March 28, 2012
• total drilling days: 24
• twenty miles northeast of Williston, ND
• middle Bakken
• upper Bakken shale top: 10,706' true vertical depth (TVD); peak gas of 2,739 units;
• middle Bakken top: 10,722' TVD
• gas levels ranged from 200 units to 3,563 units; mud flow through the gas buster
• TD of 20,555' MD
• frack: 40 stages; 3.788 million lbs sand/ceramic; a pretty big frack for 2012;
• that well, drilled in 2012, now seven years old, produced a cumulative of 232K bbls of oil
• compare that with two wells that were drilled early this year in the very same field, very same area:
• 34461, 1,365, CLR, Peterson 3-29H1 (a Three Forks well), 60 stages, 6.1 million lbs; East Fork, t1/19; cum 145K 
• 34464, 1,628, CLR, Peterson 6-29H (a middle Bakken well), 60 stages; 9.1 million lbs; East Fork, t1/19; cum 154K