Director's Cut -- March, 2024, Data -- WTI Breaks Through $80

Locator: 47172INV.

Link here.

Data:

• March, 2024: 1,229,156 bopd, down 2% from February, 2024
• February, 2024: 1,252,102 bopd

ND Light Sweet (WTI):

• today: $71.75 ($79.23)
• March: $70.53 ($77.25)
• February: $66.56 ($76.61)

Natural gas production:

• March, 2024: 3,388,482, MCF/day, all-time high; up 7% from February, 2024
• February, 2024: 3,365,395 MCF/day
• 95% capture

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Today's Daily Activity Report

WTI: $80.06

Active rigs: 36.

Six new permits, #40762 - #40767, inclusive:

• Operators: XTO Energy, Oasis (3), Enerplus (2)
• Fields: Hofflund (Williams), Crazy Man Creek (Williams), Little Knife (Dunn),
• Comments:
• XTO has a permit for an HBU Shoshoni well, NWNW 15-154-95, 
• to be sited 565 FNL and 560 FWL
• Oasis has permits for three Olson State Federal wells, SWSW 9-153-99, 
• all three to be sited on/about 310 FWL with one well 310 FSL; the second well 277 FSL; and, the third well, 376 FSL
• Enerplus has permits for two Olson wells, SWSW 34-147-97; 
• one to be sited 562 FSL and 359 FWL; and the other to be sited 550 FSL and 386 FWL;

Four producing wells (DUCs) reported to be completed:

• 34525, 870, Slawson, Armada Federal 7-14-18H, Mountrail,
• 40069, 3,024, MRO, Graves 11-1H, Dunn,
• 40070, 2,383, MRO, Simpson 11-1TFH, Dunn,
• 40071, 1,077, MRO, Roscoe 21-1H, Dunn, 

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From March 4, 2024: 

Locator: 46675B.

This well is tracked here. It looks like this well is about to be fracked.

• 40069, drl, MRO, Graves 11-1H, Killdeer, no production data.

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From March 24, 2024:

Locator: 45674B.
Locator: 40069B.

Updates

March 4, 2024: is this well about to be fracked? If so, will affect a number of other wells on that same pad, as well as neighboring wells.

• Spud date for this well (from sundry form): 8/28/2023.  
• FracFocus has no frack data for this well. 
• From the NDIC file: 

 
In addition, a neighboring horizontal has been taken off line:

• 21959, 1,200, MRO, Elizabethh Strommen 24-12H, Killdeer, t7/12; cum 305K 11/23; recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	1-2024	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2023	5	175	641	185	168	84	56
BAKKEN	11-2023	30	1038	766	676	1049	632	235
BAKKEN	10-2023	30	737	860	1145	810	401	232
BAKKEN	9-2023	11	312	326	167	332	236	34
BAKKEN	8-2023	31	972	1173	508	1016	715	113
BAKKEN	7-2023	31	980	855	458	1022	736	99
BAKKEN	6-2023	30	957	1016	477	893	713	0
BAKKEN	5-2023	31	999	990	504	1012	572	25

Original Post

• Map of well: 1280-acre spacing, sections 1/12-145-95; drilled north to south; straight south

File report as of October 10, 2023. On "drl" status, confidential.

Spud: 8/28/2023. Big rig, H&P 603.

• surface site: 915 S 641 E section 35-146-95
• kick-off point: 585 S 1133 E section 36-146-95 MD: 10422; TVD: 10316
• proposed bottom hole: 175 S 520 W section 12-145-95 MD:21,385 TVD: 10756

A reader had a question. Here are the pads / wells in question, including 40069:

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From July 22, 2023

Locator: 45177B.

Five new MRO permits:

• MRO has permits for Coombs, Taylor, Malloy, Frye, Graves, Simpson, and Roscoe, SESE 35-146-95; 
• to be sited at 914 FLS, 915 FSL and, 916 FSL and betweeen 561 FEL and 801 FEL;
• wells of interest: #34755 (Higgins); #26015 (Rebecca); #26017 (Zimmerman); 19626 (Wardner); 17413 (Wardner); 26726, 26727, 26728, 26729 (Edwards, Herb, Walter, Jakob)

The Graves well, #400069:

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The Same General Area

These wells won't affect the Graves well but these wells are in the same area. Just to show readers how busy this area is.