Just days after posting a long note about how inactive Zavanna seems to be, the daily activity report shows Zavanna with two new permits.
I guess this is payback: Zavanna making me look like an idiot.
Which is not hard to do. I guess.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Beating a Dead Horse -- Arvid Bangen USA 31-18H -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA
It's all agreed then: this well is producing at 550 bbls/day.
The NDIC report that showed an IP of 4,967 bbls is said to have been the amount of oil produced over the course of five days, which works out to about 1,000 bbls per day. A mediocre Bakken well.
Either NDIC made a typographic error, or MRO has an unusual way of reporting IPs -- five day's production.
I must be missing something.
Yes, for the umpteenth time on this blog:
The NDIC report that showed an IP of 4,967 bbls is said to have been the amount of oil produced over the course of five days, which works out to about 1,000 bbls per day. A mediocre Bakken well.
Either NDIC made a typographic error, or MRO has an unusual way of reporting IPs -- five day's production.
I must be missing something.
Yes, for the umpteenth time on this blog:
Rigzone's Musings: Unconventional Oil and Gas -- US
Rigzone has a superb essay today on the subject of unconventional oil and gas. It's mostly about natural gas, but it's still an excellent read. It leads off with a fairly lengthy report on what Mark Papa, EOG/CEO, has to say about current shale oil and shale natural gas issues. He sounds only slightly less exuberant than I often sound.
About Those Old Madison Wells -- And Picking Potatoes -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA
There's something to be said for keeping a well pumping even if it's down to a few barrels a day. It's called "holding the lease by production." As long as that well is producing something, the lease remains in effect. And if the lease doesn't specify specific formations (the usual case in North Dakota, although that may be changing), one can go back in and re-drill with minimum of paperwork. I assume.
So, file number 16949, released from the confidential list over the weekend, is an interesting story.
This is now an Oasis (OAS) well. Based on the profile, this appears to be an old Madison pool well that was drilled back in 2008 with an IP of 35. It appears that Oasis re-drilled at the same site (same well) into the Bakken, with an IP of 1,704 barrels.
This is file number 16949, Schmitz Federal 44-34H-2, in the Eightmile (yes, one word) oil field. It looks like the Madison was a short lateral; the Bakken well is a long lateral going under the river. It's located about 10 miles southwest of Williston, on the south side of the river, where Dad used to take us chokecherry and plum picking; this is also near the field where we used to pick potatoes to fill 10-pound bags. Great memories. Picking chokecherries and plums was for fun; picking potatoes was serious business. Although we kids did not know it at the time.
I assume the "-2" in "44-34H-2" refers to this being the second time they've drilled this hole.
So, file number 16949, released from the confidential list over the weekend, is an interesting story.
This is now an Oasis (OAS) well. Based on the profile, this appears to be an old Madison pool well that was drilled back in 2008 with an IP of 35. It appears that Oasis re-drilled at the same site (same well) into the Bakken, with an IP of 1,704 barrels.
This is file number 16949, Schmitz Federal 44-34H-2, in the Eightmile (yes, one word) oil field. It looks like the Madison was a short lateral; the Bakken well is a long lateral going under the river. It's located about 10 miles southwest of Williston, on the south side of the river, where Dad used to take us chokecherry and plum picking; this is also near the field where we used to pick potatoes to fill 10-pound bags. Great memories. Picking chokecherries and plums was for fun; picking potatoes was serious business. Although we kids did not know it at the time.
I assume the "-2" in "44-34H-2" refers to this being the second time they've drilled this hole.
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