"Damn The Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead" -- CLR's Bice / Dolezal -- May 24, 2021

The NDIC hearing dockets for June, 2021, were posted last week. 

Today, the NDIC announced three new cases (see link above).

Among the three additional cases, this:

• 28847, CLR, sixteen wells on an existing 2560-acre unit; sections 29/32-146-95 and sections 5/8-145-95, Dunn County;

Note: if these wells are important to you, I recommend you go to the source for information / documentation. The notes below are for my benefit trying to understand the Bakken better. This is about as far as my headlights go so there may be content errors. As usual, there will always be typographical errors. 

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The Wells

I only checked a few, but I believe CLR already has eight wells producing in this 2560-acre unit. If so, then case 28847 is for an additional eight wells. None of the existing wells are particularly good wells. It will be interesting if newer completions strategies change things.

• 31509, running north, 306, CLR, Bice 6-32H1, Chimney Butte, t8/16; cum 112K 3/21; not a particularly good well; 30 stages; 9.5 million lbs sand; Three Forks, it looks like the vertical depth of the Three Forks first bench lateral was 10,970 feet. If these numbers are accurate, then the vertical separations was 80 feet and the horizontal separation at some points narrowed to zero feet -- in other words, the two pipes (#31509 and #17884) were "right on top of each other, but vertically separated by 80 feet;
  
• 31510, running north, 760, CLR, Bice 5-32H, Chimney Butte, t8/16; cum 221K 3/21; 
• 31511, running south, 439, CLR, Dolezal 5-5H, Chimney Butte, t1/18; cum 185K 3/21; 
• 31512, running south, 307, CLR, Dolezal 6-5H1, Chimney Butte, t1/18; cum 185K 3/21;

• 24835, running north, 1,473, CLR, Bice 3-32H, Chimney Butte, t12/13; cum 295K 3/21; 
• 24836, running north, 416, CLR, Bice 4-32H1, Chimney Butte, t12/13; cum 211K 3/21; 
• 24839, running south, 758, CLR, Dolezal 3-5H, Chimney Butte, t2/14; cum 290K 3/21; huge jump in production, 7/18; see #31511 and #31512 above; 
• 24841, running south, 954, CLR, Dolezal 3-5H1, Chimney Butte, t2/14; cum 284K 3/21; no real jump in production when neighboring wells fracked;
  

Two parent wells sited in section 5:

• 19728, running south, 549, CLR, Dolezal 2-5H, Chimney Butte, t5/11; cum 299K 3/21;
• 17372, running south, 426, CLR, Dolezal 1-5H, Chimney Butte, t9/09; cum 203K 3/21; was off line as of 2/20; returned to production  3/21; a small jump in production in early 2014, but did not last long;

Two parent wells sited in section 29:

• 17884, running south, 147, CLR, Bice 2-29H, Chimney Butte, t1/10; cum 442K 3/21; a small jump in production in early 2014, but did not last long;
• 16943, running south, 516, CLR, Bice 1-29H, Chimney Butte, t5/08; cum 201K 3/21;
  

Note: it looks like the daughter wells are going to be better than the parent wells. Or at least, just as good. Just saying. Again, it will be interesting what the granddaughter wells will look like with new completion strategies.

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Anti-Collision

17884, middle Bakken, 10,890' TVD. See #31509 above.

Note production for #17884 (reminder, the Three Forks first bench, #31509) with definite, but not huge, jump in production on/after/on/about 8/16), i.e., a halo effect between two differing formations. We talked about this a long, long time ago. If I recall correctly (and I probably don't), CLR used the Bice wells to show that the middle Bakken and the Three Forks first bench do not communicate.

BAKKEN	4-2017	30	4263	4484	4403	4189	3949	0
BAKKEN	3-2017	31	5417	5140	2566	7249	7001	0
BAKKEN	2-2017	28	6694	6756	3424	7111	6887	0
BAKKEN	1-2017	31	7544	7583	5298	5232	4984	0
BAKKEN	12-2016	30	3878	3806	5291	2641	2281	137
BAKKEN	11-2016	29	3573	3995	3751	2720	2507	0
BAKKEN	10-2016	31	4128	3526	6559	2939	2416	312
BAKKEN	9-2016	12	399	663	1018	323	233	63
BAKKEN	8-2016	31	5468	5507	12359	4062	3282	536
BAKKEN	7-2016	19	3132	2826	9249	2059	520	1413
BAKKEN	6-2016	10	441	863	250	540	474	9
BAKKEN	5-2016	31	2012	1757	1038	2267	2019	0
BAKKEN	4-2016	30	2070	2230	982	2298	2060	0
BAKKEN	3-2016	31	2304	2227	1051	2586	2338	0
BAKKEN	2-2016	29	2102	2006	960	2016	1784	0
BAKKEN	1-2016	31	2282	2656	1019	1999	1751	0
BAKKEN	12-2015	31	2282	1991	1093	1761	1518	0
BAKKEN	11-2015	30	2404	2419	1399	1914	1308	367
BAKKEN	10-2015	12	762	651	374	679	469	130
BAKKEN	9-2015	30	2227	2208	899	2062	1214	609
BAKKEN	8-2015	31	2353	2423	1000	2302	1646	408
BAKKEN	7-2015	30	2140	2172	942	1988	1338	419
BAKKEN	6-2015	30	2275	2241	959	2226	1586	402
BAKKEN	5-2015	31	2517	2553	1095	2305	1849	208

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