CLR's LCU Jessie Wells -- Update -- July 21, 2022

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Updates

Later, 2:35 p.m. CT: to reader. I will quit on these for the moment. If I was at the deli in Williston and this came up my narrative might go something like this:

CLR continues to  move slowly -- more slowly than planned -- to drill out the Long Creek Unit. It looks like the five Truman wells were the most recent ones to be completed, and are huge wells. It's hard to say if the wells are still off line or coming back on line after the blizzard in April. They all report production in May, 2022, but some were on line for only five days.

One of the Truman wells, #36983, was drilled to depth, went to TA status, and to date, FracFocus does not provide any data for a frack. I checked one of the other Truman wells, #36867, LCU Truman 11-23H and FracFocus does show that it was fracked end of August/early September. However, the file report shows that this last Truman well, the only one TA, #36867, was indeed fracked, at the same as the others, with 42 stages; 178,616 bbls of fluid; 10,894,791 pounds of proppant.

It's ironic that the first well I looked at was renamed and was not drilled because they found "bones" when building the pad. See original note, a Jessie well, #36751.

Of more interest, two wells, as you noted, #36960 and #36958, were dry. For one of them, #36960, the file report was not helpful, no data yet; but for #36958, LCU Reckitt Federal 11-22H, casing failed at a depth of 2,037 feet and the well was abandoned and plugged. 

Bottom line: overall, not going as well as usual with a couple of dry holes, probably both due to casing problems; a "bones" problem with one pad; and perhaps some delays due to lack of frack spreads.

Later, 2:13 p.m. CT:

• the scout tickets of all wells have been viewed;
• data for all wells on the Long Creek Unit have been updated.See link below.
• it appears CLR continues to advance slowly on this unit
• I need to check the file reports of the following wells; I've only looked at the file report for #36960
• 36983: the only well in this group of seven wells that did not go to TATD status but is on TA status; according to file report, was successfully drilled to total depth on June 30, 2021;
  
• 36960: one of two wells in the LCU that I found to have a status of dry; the file report was not helpful;
• 36958: one of two wells in the LCU that I found to have a status of dry; was spud 2/24/20; dated completed 9/15/21; driller total depth: 2,037 feet; shut in; well plugged with cement 2021-09-11; narrative: attempted to drill 8 3/4" vertical and curve on well; drilled out surface shoe at 2035' down to 2307'. Ran FIT, lost pressure. Attempted cement squeeze, pressured up after but would not hold pressure. Decided to plug well and drill in another location.
  
• appears to have had two wellbores; one reached 2,035 feet; and one reached 2,307 feet;
  
• 36751, PNC, but previously noted; nothing new;
• 36752, PNC, but previously noted; nothing new;
• 36753, PNC, but previously noted; nothing new;
• I probably won't look at the file reports of the following wells
  
• 36865, one of five wells, recently completed; big wells, taken off line 5/22;
• 36866, one of five wells, recently completed; big wells, taken off line 5/22;
• 36867, one of five wells, recently completed; big wells, taken off line 5/22;
• 36868, one of five wells, recently completed; big wells, taken off line 5/22;
• 36869, one of five wells, recently completed; big wells, taken off line 5/22;
• note: of these five wells, #36765 - #36869,  it's possibly they are coming back on line after the April blizzard.

Original Post

A reader asked about the status of the LCU Jessie wells. These wells are tracked here.

My reply: 

I will run through the wells later and see if there are any updates. I quit following a lot of wells when the NDIC GIS map server went down.

As a start, with regard to one well: this is very old news but CLR changed the name of #36751, LCU Jessie 2-24H1 (obviously a Three Forks well) to LCU Jessie 2ND -- I don't know what "ND" means but it could certainly mean "not drilled."

The file report received September 3, 2019 said:

"Continental Resources requests to cancel the approved drilling permit. The pad construction has been started but was put on hold due to the discovery of bones. Continental Resources has decided to move the location of the well to the LCU Jessie 5-12 pad location. A decision on reclamation or a landowner's release for the partially constructed pad will be done as soon as possible once the investigation is complete for the bone discovery."

So, I will run through the LCU wells and update them. I doubt I will find much more. Maybe a reader knows something. 

These wells are tracked here. It will take awhile to update the wells, and even longer to check the file reports.