Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Re-Frack Of A Well Originally With An Open-Hole Frack -- Back In 2017 -- Posted November 11, 2025

Locator: 49399B.

The well:

  • 17171, 391, MRO, Fred Hansen 34-8H, Bailey, t10/08; cum 536K 9/25; huge jump / halo effect 7/17 that lasted for quite some time; 

This is so cool.

This well was drilled in 2008. Cumulative production has exceeded 500K bbls crude oil cumulative. Pretty good. I was curious. To get to 500K this well had to have had a jump in production somewhere along the way. 

I noted this on the production profile; I found the jump! Again, the well was originally drilled/completed/tested 10/08. The data below is from 2017, nine years later.

BAKKEN12-20172067656826627246083340441
BAKKEN11-201730120021206611587700833102238
BAKKEN10-2017311480514624142561431291243420
BAKKEN9-201730172321729618269935107329
BAKKEN8-201731205482036627684112591098769
BAKKEN7-2017291689716945254611021636394605
BAKKEN6-201711910091425202488310992748
BAKKEN5-20170000000
BAKKEN4-2017513814168954323
BAKKEN3-20173162558134954428234
BAKKEN2-20172864265317848823615
BAKKEN1-20173166961121152324817
BAKKEN12-2016317116612085572923
BAKKEN11-20163073872918952225013
BAKKEN10-2016317517671975422733
BAKKEN9-201630742789205504142103
BAKKEN8-2016317207002095222536
BAKKEN7-2016317557812275542843
BAKKEN6-2016307456982095783180
BAKKEN5-2016317877962175943231
BAKKEN4-2016307517381985412783
BAKKEN3-20163178080921156528610
BAKKEN2-20162978776119751022032

The cause of the jump?

I first checked the neighboring wells to see when they were fracked. Nothing matched.

So, I went back to the well file:

Date of sundry form, received by NDIC: August 11, 2017!

"Refrack of original open hole lateral.Did lateral cleanout with H&P 438, and ran 4.5" line (cemented), then did 45-stage plug and perf."

Re-frack, test, initial production: 1,386 bbls in first 24 hour.

  • 45 stages
  • volume: 98,243 bbls
  • sand frack
  • lbs proppant: 5,553,640
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