North Dakota Rigs At 57 -- March 16, 2020

Someone missed the memo?

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$28.86	3/16/2020	03/16/2019	03/16/2018	03/16/2017	03/16/2016
Active Rigs	57	65	58	47	31

Three new permits, #37449 - #37451, inclusive --

• Operator: Hess
• Field: Alger (Mountrail)
• Comments:
• Hess has permits for a 3-well EN-Abrahamson pad in SWSE 30-155-93, Alger oil field;

Five permits renewed:

• Enerplus (4): four "metamorphic rock" pad wells -- Phyllite, Quartzite, Marble, and Gneiss; in Dunn County
• Whiting: a Pronghorn permit in Billings County

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 27436, SI/A, Petro-Hunt, State 154-94-31C-32-1HS, Charlson, Three Forks B2; API: 33-053-05600; fracked 10/22/19 - 11/14/19; 13.95 million bbls water; 91.86% water by mass; friction reducer, 0.03249;
• from the file report:
• introduction: target said to be the middle Bakken
• they drilled through the upper, middle, and lower Bakken into the Three Forks
• Three Forks: measured depth of 10,646 feet, a true vertical depth of 10,485 feet
• lateral #1: initial targets to drill out were set at a measured depth of 10,900 feet and true vertical depth of 10,548 feet;
• at first trip out of the hole at 18,491 feet; back on bottom a max trip gas of 2,980 units recorded; max flare of 15 feet;
• the geologist: Charissa Arneson. While on the WHS wrestling team, there was a heavyweight wrestler, last name Arneson. It would "cool" to think that his daughter, niece, a relative was the geologist. Just reminiscing. 
• the permit: Three Forks B2