MRO Reporting Some Nice Wells In Reunion Bay -- I Completely Missed These -- April 18, 2020

Sometime ago, in passing, I mentioned that "all" Bakken wells end up on the confidential list at some time or other. At least one reader took exception to that. The reader may be correct. I really don't know, but it is certainly my impression that it is still the exception that a Bakken well never ends up on the confidential list at some time or another.

Of course, it doesn't matter to most of us. It's just an observation.

So, back on August 21, 2019, a reader commented:

The reader suggested that wells #36840 - #36851, inclusive were examples of recently permitted wells that were not on the confidential list.

At the time, I wrote:

August 20, 2019: a reader gave these wells as an example of wells that did not go on the confidential list. I suggested that "all" wells eventually end up on the confidential list at some point. So we will follow these wells to see if they do indeed end up on the confidential list: I believe 36840 thru 36851 would be examples of ones not confidential but permitted recently; in 9/19, some are on DRL status. See comments at this post; 36840 thru 36851.

It's possible I misstated -- perhaps I said (or implied) that all "new" permits were immediately placed on the conf list. If I did, I was mistaken, but it would have been a "content" error on my part. Many new permits are loc permits and don't go conf until later.


So, tonight, completely bored, with nothing else to do, I went back to look at these wells:

• 36840, conf, Hess, Ti-State-158-95-3635H-9, Tioga,
• 36841, conf, Hess, Ti-State-158-95-3635H-8, Tioga,
• 36842, conf, Hess, Ti-State-158-95-3635H-7, Tioga,
• 36843, conf, Hess, Ti-State-158-95-3635H-6, Tioga,
• 36844, drl, MRO, Akko USA 44-21H, Reunion Bay, see below;
• 36845, drl, MRO, Aslak USA 44-21TFH, Reunion Bay, see below;
• 36846, drl, MRO, Donaason USA 34-21TFH, Reunion Bay, see below;
• 36847, drl, MRO, Nokelby  USA 34-21H, Reunion Bay, see below;
• 36848, drl, MRO, Akko USA 44-21H, Reunion Bay, see below;
• 36849, loc, Hess, EN-VP And R-154-94-2536H-13, Alkali Creek,
• 36850, loc, Hess, EN-VP And R-154-94-2536H-15, Alkali Creek,
• 36851, loc, Hess, EN-VP And R-LW-154-94-2536H-1, Alkali Creek,

It turns out that four of the Hess wells did go conf, and I would bet (if I were a betting man) a month's worth of wages the other three Hess wells will eventually on the conf list.

I can't say one way or the other if the MRO wells were ever confidential. My hunch: they were never on the conf list, otherwise I would not have missed these incredible wells.

Regardless the exercise was very rewarding. Look at these incredible MRO wells:

• 36844, drl, MRO, Akko USA 44-21H, Reunion Bay, extrapolates to 76,872 bbls in a 30-day month:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2020	28	44239	44745	36469	46174	0	43195
BAKKEN	1-2020	20	51248	50398	54585	53504	0	50032

• 36845, drl, MRO, Aslak USA 44-21TFH, Reunion Bay, extrapolates to 48,128 bbls in a 30-day month:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2020	27	26255	26477	48153	27122	0	25356
BAKKEN	1-2020	16	25668	25242	86875	24654	0	22922

• 36846, drl, MRO, Donaason USA 34-21TFH, Reunion Bay, extrapolates to 60,865 bbls in a 30-day month:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2020	28	36229	36150	72571	35128	0	32697
BAKKEN	1-2020	6	12173	11971	35766	10795	0	9974

• 36847, drl, MRO, Nokelby  USA 34-21H, Reunion Bay, extrapolates to 85,458 bbls in a 30-day month:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2020	26	74064	73489	74123	70427	0	65466

The parent well is still off line:

• 17966, IA/358, MRO, Jerry Pennington USA 34-21H, Reunion Bay, t6/09; cum 434K 8/19; 

Another well in the immediate area, to the east, also remains off line:

• 19833, IA/1,458, MRO, Shirley Pennington USA 14-22H, Reunion Bay, t8/11; cum 360K 11/19;

And finally, to the west, this well remains off line:

• 20530, IA/1,792, MRO, Ella USA 11-16H, Reunion Bay, t10/11; cum 376K 12/19;

Akka, by the way, is the name of a most impressive mountain in Sweden. Aslak is likely Norwegian: used as the Finnish rendering of the Northern Sami name Ásllat, but also a strong Swedish connection.