Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Hess GO-Ron Viall Wells In Wheelock, Northeast Of Williston

A reader wrote that he was interested in the Ron Viall wells in the Wheelock field northeast of Williston. The reader wrote:

I see Hess is becoming more active drilling in the Bakken. I am curious as to what plans Crescent and Hess have with this spacing unit. Crescent must have won the dispute hearing with Hess because they [Crescent] pulled 4 permits on 156-98-25 which is leased by Hess.  

Several comments:

  • Hess has become much more active over the past several years and Hess is reporting very, very good wells;
  • I've not followed Crescent closely enough to know for sure, but it's my anecdotal impression, Hess is getting better wells than Crescent but I could be very wrong;
  • the wells/permits are still confidential, but everything I see suggests Crescent will be drilling standard Bakken two-mile, 1280-acre horizontals, to the south, completely within Wheelock; whereas,
  • Hess will be drilling three-mile, 1920-acre horizontals, to the north, also completely within Wheelock;
  • the graphics:
    • the NDIC map shows the 1280-acre spacing unit and the overlapping 1920-acre spacing unit;
    • the Hess well names include "2513" which indicates sections 25, 24, 13, drilling to the north;
    • the two Hess wells PNC'd were "2524" which would have been sections 25 and 24
    • I haven't paid attention to Crescent naming schemes so I can't comment but nothing suggests anything other than two-section spacing/drilling for these Crescent wells;
  • I didn't listen to the hearing so I don't know why NDIC granted the permits to Crescent rather than Hess, but I can guess. I've seen this before. 
  • hopefully a reader will comment, adding more granularity and correcting me where I'm wrong.

The graphics:



The Hess wells
:
  • 38686, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-1, Wheelock,
  • 38685, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-2, Wheelock,
  • 38684, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-3, Wheelock,
  • 38683, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-4, Wheelock,
  • 23316, PNC, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2524H-3, Wheelock,
  • 23315, PNC, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2524H-2, Wheelock,
  • 17843, 1,981, Hess, Ron Viall 1-25H, Wheelock, t5/10; cum 244K 10/22; just went off line:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN12-20220000000
BAKKEN11-20220000000
BAKKEN10-20222770192912985381513513
BAKKEN9-202230102089520127458716817
BAKKEN8-202231154618551872874684550
BAKKEN7-202229123511621262294727080
BAKKEN6-202230170016791610219319420
BAKKEN5-202244224832312532160
BAKKEN4-202262402813706035500
BAKKEN3-20221512451219827240522760
BAKKEN2-20220000000
BAKKEN1-202228571458521157413100
BAKKEN12-202131814897739224519620
BAKKEN11-202130892928869219719150
BAKKEN10-202129941920767250022340

The maps:


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