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Lots Of Work Left In The Bakken -- March 23, 2022

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March 24, 2022: see first comment. I brought it up here for easier searching / browsing: 

The Rolf 1 as well as The Gjorven 1 both completed drilling in the very early spring of 2011 and required significant cost and effort to get both rigs off and get the pads ready for frac.

They sit on 56th street. I can't tell you how many thousands of loads of Scoria were bladed out on 56th street between the Hartford 1 to the east going back west to Barney 1 fixing 56th street itself and the wells on it. I had two blades working on 56th street and we probably had 12 - 20 trucks hauling to us daily.

The Hartford, Gronfur and Barney were producing but shut in until we got the locations built back up to support truck traffic. If memory serves me correctly the rig on the Rolf went right down the street to the Rennerfeld 1 and the rig on the Gjorven likely went close as well so I'd have to say two rigs drilled that field.

I'm sure a lot of folks have forgot how bad that winter was and how devastating the thaw and runoff were. You had to be there for the duration to truly appreciate it.

At the same time there were rigs done drilling mudded in on the Rosenvold 1 and Gerhardsen 1 north of Wildrose in Divide County and a rig mudded in just NE of McGregor ND on the first Lawrence Omar Eco pad. Another on the Freddie 1 south of Noonan.

We worked on all these through the summer of 2011. Doing rig moves and drill pad clean offs was considerably easier the following years LOL 

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Random look at one section in the CLR-owned Brooklyn oil field.

Brooklyn: a small, non-descript field NE of Williston; "owned" by CLR; excellent example of how an operator systematically drilled one entire field with one rig; holding the entire field by production within a year or so; has received the most comments of any field. 

Twenty-two well locations in this screen shot. Approximately half will run north, half will run south.

The older well running from the south to the north:

  • 21083, 282, CLR, Rolf 1-20H, Brooklyn oil field, t6/11; cum 444K 1/22;

Current production:

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN1-2022312025190722818248775673
BAKKEN12-20213119672062239296489011220
BAKKEN11-202130206519152589906686620
BAKKEN10-202131215323122803823178130
BAKKEN9-202126167515982230525949350
BAKKEN8-202131212222312243830167111171
BAKKEN7-202131234622872572823878200
BAKKEN6-202130198919642153706066660
BAKKEN5-202131224522312214841279930
BAKKEN4-202130226622692370832779220

Jump in production back in 2019:

BAKKEN5-20192913102132871979226031198115828
BAKKEN4-201930251112526640169504383507414972
BAKKEN3-201931289352899952607466053238913797
BAKKEN2-20192823561234334998531156307910
BAKKEN1-2019301963619251588552552224915220
BAKKEN12-20185462435229230882
BAKKEN11-20180000000
BAKKEN10-20180000000
BAKKEN9-201841452658733526720
BAKKEN8-20183114891614885344130250
BAKKEN7-20182912841147691292125460

Initial production:

BAKKEN11-20113089918616253814460144600
BAKKEN10-2011311113911124311013966139660
BAKKEN9-2011271060910549323014832148320
BAKKEN8-201129737276592768949894980
BAKKEN7-2011311451214719680713969139690
BAKKEN6-20116313524561597000

The "lonely" well to the north:

  • 21086, 667, CLR, Springfield 1-8H, Brooklyn, t1/12; cum 321K 1/21;

It also had a jump in production back in 2019:

BAKKEN3-20193116055160954327521599185762605
BAKKEN2-2019281505815095436351992919276296
BAKKEN1-2019311702316908605912205120759874
BAKKEN12-2018255537514927524810946033198
BAKKEN11-20180000000
BAKKEN10-20180000000
BAKKEN9-2018252039100
BAKKEN8-2018278941124990222318720
BAKKEN7-201831114612181131278123750
BAKKEN6-201830117711591080280924040

2 comments:

  1. The Rolf 1 as well as The Gjorven 1 both completed drilling in the very early spring of 2011 and required significant cost and effort to get both rigs off and get the pads ready for frac.

    They sit on 56th street. I can't tell you how many thousands of loads of Scoria were bladed out on 56th street between the Hartford 1 to the east going back west to Barney 1 fixing 56th street itself and the wells on it. I had two blades working on 56th street and we probably had 12 - 20 trucks hauling to us daily.

    The Hartford, Gronfur and Barney were producing but shut in until we got the locations built back up to support truck traffic. If memory serves me correctly the rig on the Rolf went right down the street to the Rennerfeld 1 and the rig on the Gjorven likely went close as well so I'd have to say two rigs drilled that field.

    I'm sure a lot of folks have forgot how bad that winter was and how devastating the thaw and runoff were. You had to be there for the duration to truly appreciate it.

    At the same time there were rigs done drilling mudded in on the Rosenvold 1 and Gerhardsen 1 north of Wildrose in Divide County and a rig mudded in just NE of McGregor ND on the first Lawrence Omar Eco pad. Another on the Freddie 1 south of Noonan.

    We worked on all these through the summer of 2011. Doing rig moves and drill pad clean offs was considerably easier the following years LOL

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    1. Wow, what a great comment, thank you. I've brought your note up to the main body of the blog for easier browsing / searching. Great note. Folks just have no idea how many thousands (?) of miles of road that have been put into support the Bakken. It is simply incredible. It's great to have the story for the archives. Thank you.

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