Sanish Field Update

UPDATES

March 30, 2012: update of Whiting Sanish oil wells.

August 1, 2011: The Sanish is Whiting's cash cow. It is my hunch that WLL is generating cash flow that from this field that pays for its entire Bakken operations.  WLL currently has nine (9) rigs drilling in the Sanish.

February 21, 2011: Update on three monster Murex wells in the Sanish.

November 10, 2010: Huge amount of activity in the Sanish, almost all Whiting. Nine rigs on site in the Sanish.

September 10, 2010: Click here to see just how big the wells can be in the Sanish.

June 6, 2010: Commentary -- Focus on Whiting

May 5, 2010:

Take a look at Banshee 2-1H, #18309, a Slawson well: 81k in less than four months; works out to $6 million at the wellhead. A very, very good well; a short lateral.

March 8, 2010:

Township 154-91 is "owned" by Whiting and Murex. This township, section 27, holds the record IP, file #17612, the Maki. In March, 2010, Whiting spudded the Jorgensen 12-27, file #18530, in the same section. The two wells are 1900 feet apart. This is very, very exciting. Was the Maki a Bakken and the Jorgensen a TFS? After five months, there are reports that the Maki is still producing 1,200 bopd.

ORIGINAL BLOG

February 22, 2010:

The Sanish oil field is one of the two most prolific fields in the Williston Basin, the other being the Parshall. The Sanish and the Parshall oil fields sit right next to each other, like twins; the Sanish is on the west; the Parshall is on the east.

The Sanish is a rectangular field. The field encompasses four entire townships (154-91, 154-92, 153-91, and 153-92) except for 3 sections not in 154-92; and parts of four other townships (153-93, 52-91, 152-92, and 152-93). The latter three townships are in the northern edge of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (FBIR). In all, the Sanish has about 192 sections. The very interesting Alger oil field borders the Sanish on the north.

There are no hamlets, villages, towns, or cities in the Sanish. The city of Stanley, ND, is eight miles north of the Sanish field. If you drive south out of Stanley on State Highway 8, the Sanish field will on your right (to the west) and the Parshall field will be on your left, to the east, over a couple of sections. The highway is entirely within the Sanish oil field at that point, but it almost divides the Sanish and Parshall oil fields. State Highway 8 may be the most traveled road in North Dakota; certainly it has the most truck traffic of any highway in the state.

Currently there are 81 producing wells off the confidential list; there are an additional 40 wells on the confidential list, all of which will come off the list this year (2010).

There are currently 10 rigs actively drilling in the Sanish (May 24, 2010) and most of them will  move to other sites in the Sanish. There are currently 12 permits in the Sanish, all of which will probably be drilled this year.

Although Slawson, Fidelity, Murex, Zenergy and others have wells in the Sanish, this field is "owned" by Whiting.

The Parshall and the Sanish remain the most exciting fields in the Williston Basin (in North Dakota).


 February 13, 2010:

The Sanish is one of the two most prolific fields in the Williston Oil Basin in the current oil boom. The other is the Parshall. These two fields sit alongside each other, north of the river, and east of Williston.  It's hard to believe but there are no villages, towns, or cities in this field -- at least none big enough to show up on the NDIC GIS map. That map shows "urban centers" as small as Springbrook, North Dakota, which has a population of 26. Yes, 26. At least according to Wikipedia.

The Sanish is a roughly rectangular field comprised of about 192 sections. Except for three sections, the entirety of four townships are within the field: 154-91, 154-92, 153-91, and 153-92. In addition, there are a few sections in four other townships.

On February 13, 2010, this is the breakdown of activity in the Sanish: 75 producing wells, 40 wells on the confidential list, eleven (11) wells being drilled, and 15 new permits.

The producing wells are split about evenly between long laterals and short laterals.

Who are the operators/producers in the Sanish?

154-91: Murex and Whiting
154-92: Whiting and Fidelity
153-91: Whiting
153-92: Whiting, some Fidelity

Here are the "runs" of 19 wells for the month of December, 2009. Again, these are only 19 wells. Remember, there are 115 producing wells (40 on the confidential list) and 11 new wells being drilled. I am not aware of any "infill" wells being drilled.

You know, as I ramble and as I opine, the "runs" of these 19 wells are spectacular, but these are only 19 wells, and that represents only about 10% of the total number of wells in this one field.

Update by Township in the Sanish

This is the picture of the Sanish on June 6, 2010, before WLL begins putting in three wells in each section; a well on 1280-acre spacing to go in between existing wells on 1280-acre spacing

I put this information together because I am very interested to see how that third well (between two existing wells) will do; and I wanted to capture the status of the field before WLL started their "3rd well program."

T153N-91W ("owned" by Whiting) (Sanish) TRULY INCREDIBLE (selected cumulatives in bold, updated January, 2012)

• 18309, Slawson, Banshee 2-1H, 1,306, 314K
• 17820, Slawson, SL, Banshee 1-1H, 1,117, 290K
• 18252, Slawson, Golden Eye 2-2H, 991, 290K
  
• 17175, Slawson, SL, Golden Eye 1-2H, 981, 325K
• 17907,  Whiting, Patten 44-3H, 2,294, 319K
• 17035, Whiting, LL, 2,016, 564K
• 18077, Whiting, LL, Kannianen 11-5H, 2,409, 267K
• 18804, Whiting, TTT Ranch 4-6TFH, 1,561, 110K
• 17603, Whiting, LL, TTT Ranch11-6H, 2,825, 308K
• 18297, Whiting, TTT Ranch 12-6H, 2,762, 248K
• 18876, Whiting, Rohde 14-6XH, 3,023, 182K
• 17133, Whiting, LL, Smith 11-7H, 2, 421, 350K
• 18392, Whiting, Smith 12-7H, 2,530, 200K
• 18853, Whiting, Moore 14-7XH, 1,485, 139K
• 17917, Whiting, Olson Federal 42-8H, 1,912
• 17158, Whiting, LL, Richardson Federal 11-9H, 4,148, s8/08; t10/08; F; cum 659K 12/11
• 18943, Whiting, Locken 14-9XH, 2,169
• 17023, Whiting, LL, 2,669, 502K
• 17605, Whiting, LL, Braaflat 21-11TFH, 933 
• 17794, Whiting, LL, Littlefield 11-12H, 2,054, s1/09; t3/09; cum 355K 12/11
• 18635, Whiting, Littlefield 21-12H, 2,591
• 17700, Whiting, LL, Rigel State 11-16H, 3,389, 369K
• 18278, Whiting, Rigel State 12-16H, 3,205, 288K
• 16852, Whiting, LL, 1,765, 312K
• 18500, Whiting, 1,073, Marmon 12-18TFH, situated between two Bakken wells
• 17443, Whiting, LL, Fladeland 12-18H, 1,663 
• 18531, Whiting, Hansen 12-20H, 4,144
• 17134, Whiting, LL, Smith 11-20H, 3,115 
• 16731, Whiting, LL, 1,323, 358K
• 17253, Sinclair, LL, 2,045 
• 18136, Whiting, LL, Nesheim 21-24H, 1,455 
• 17586, Whiting, LL, McNamara 42-26H, 2,004 
• 16780, Whiting, LL, 2,247 
• 17032, Whiting, LL, 1,934 
• 17908, Whiting, Leo 12-29H, 3,226
• 17115, Whiting, LL, 1,788
• 18246, Whiting, Littlefield 12-31H, 2,233 
• 16871, Whiting, LL, 1,567
• 17776, Whiting, Annala 12-33H, 2,730
• 18481, Whiting, Niemitalo 12-35H, 2,822
• 17575, Whiting, LL, Niemitalo 11-35H, 3,260 

T153N-92W

• 17895, Whiting, Rohde 44-1H, 2,250
• 18399, Whiting, Rohde 43-1H, 2,685
• 16879, Fidelity, Marmon 44-3H, 83
• 17717, Fidelity, 3 Jacks LLP 44-4H, 292
• 16876, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 11-5H, 786
• 16092, Whiting, Satterthwaite 14-6H, 92
• 17964,Whiting, Satterthwaite 11-7H, 571
• 18965, Whiting, Satterthwaite 13-7H, 1,264
• 17643, Whiting, Anderson 44-10H, 1,038
• 18743, Whiting, Miller 43-10H, 1,468
• 17812, Fidelity, Anderson 11-11H, 660
• 16934, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-12H, 1,768
• 18475, Whiting, Fladeland 21-12H, 2,690
• 16937, Fidelity, Alamma 11-14H, PNC
• 16953, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-15H, 440, 123K
  
• 17898, Sinclair, Uran 2-15H, 912
• 18990, Whiting, Knife River State 21-16H, 1.054
• 17357, Whiting, Knife River State 11-16H, 619
• 18762, Whiting, KR State 11-16TFH, 1,298
• 17872, Whiting, Littlefield 12-34H, 3,445
• 17284, Whiting, Bartleson 11-19H, 1,152, 98K, if fracking data was there, I did not see it
• 18947, Whiting, Dishman 13-19H, 2,595
• 16750, Sinclair, Uran 1-22H, 337, 115K
• 16935, Fidelity, Frandson 11-23H, 780, 108K
• 16781, Whiting, Maynard Uran Trust 11-24H, 1,923
• 16463, Whiting, Peery State 11-25H, 1,081, 307K
• 17157, Whiting, Lee 11-27H, 1,176
• 17892, Whiting, Hansen 44-28H, 649
• 19068, Whiting, Bartleson 44-20H, 2,271
• 17285, Whiting, Bartleson 11-32H, 1,207
• 16734, Whiting, Peterson 11-34H, 945, 156K
• 16833, Fidelity, Annala 11-36H, 1,009, 128K

T154N-92W

• 18160, Whiting, Strobeck 11-1H, 1,658
• 18233, Whiting, Ogden 11-3TFH, 1,329
• 19029, Whiting, Heiple 11-3H, 2,411
• 18928, Whiting, Ogden 12-3H, 1,890
• 18938, Sinclair, Anderson 1-6H, 998; wildcat, just outside line
• 19044, Whiting, Anderson 21-7H, 1,866
• 18268, Whiting, Anderson 11-7TFH, 1,262
• 19025, Whiting, Moore 11-7H, 1,361
• 18318, Whiting, Fladeland 11-10, 1,759
• 18711, Whiting, Fladeland 12-10H, 4,126
• 18761, Whiting, Fladeland 43-9H, 3,027
• 18347, Whiting, Fladeland 44-9H, 2,301
• 18082,Whiting, Carkuff 11-12H, 858
• 19069, Whiting, Strobeck 12-12H, 2,320
• 18167, Whiting, Hagey 11-13H, 1,337
• 18926, Whiting, Hagey 12-13H, 1,521,
• 18639, Whiting, Iverson 21-14H, 2,551
• 18277, Whiting, Iverson 11-14H, 1,716
• 16953, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-15H, 440, 123K
• 18302, Fidelity, Fladeland 12-15H-22, 555
• 18342, Whiting, Meiers 11-17H, 2,181, 60 k in first 3 months
• 17091, Fidelity, Meiers 11-19H, 575
• 19081, Fidelity, Lyn 19-20-29H
• 19080, Fidelity, Domaskin 19-30-29H, 877
• 17098, Fidelity, Domaskin 11-20H, 516
• 16877, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-21H, 1,078
• 17102, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-22H, 629
• 18055, Whiting, Arndt 11-24H, 1,316
• 18570, Whiting, Carkuff 12-24H, 3,475, 220K
• 18004, Whiting, TTT Ranch 11-25H, 1,582
• 18462, Whiting, TTT Ranch 12-25H, 2,513
• 18401, Whiting, TTT Ranch 21-26H, 2,251
• 18098, Whiting, TTT Ranch 11-26H, 1,339
• 17652, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 44-27H, 403
• 16841, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 43-28H, 362
• 17879, Fidelity, MCD 11-29H
• 17056, Fidelity, Domaskin 11-29H, 419
• 17642, Fidelity, Fladeland 11-30H, 810
• 17641, Fidelity, Fladeland 44-31H, 448
• 18350, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 44-32H, 940
• 18346, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 11-33H, 777
• 18345, Fidelity, Deadwood Canyon Ranch 44-34H, 977

T154N-91W (added August 30, 2010)

• 18209, Murex, Fertile 22-13H, 1,380
• 17841, Murex, Clifford Gene 1-12H, 602, 389K
• 18238, Murex, Grace 2-11H, 323
• 17022, Murex, Blake Tyler 3-10H, 123
• 18373, Murex, Joyce 3-10H, 887
• 18176, Whiting, TTT Ranch 43-4H, 1,853
• 18085, Whiting, Jones 11-8H, 1,370
• 19259, Whiting, Jones 12-8H, 2,746
• 17154, Murex, Shannon Duane 11-2H
• 18409, Whiting, Kinnoin 21-14H, 2,404
• 17081, Whiting, Kinnoin 11-14H, 3,311
• 19355. Whiting, Sikes State 43-16H, 3,159
• 19166, Whiting, Mallard State 44-16TFH, 474
• 19250, Whiting, Ness 43-21H, 2,686
• 18247, Whiting, Sikes State 44-16H, 2,140
• 18006, Whiting, Braaten 11-17H, new permit
• 18244, Whiting, Ness 44-21H, 3,278
• 18507, Whiting, Lahti 24-22H, 2,058
• 17080, Whiting, Nemi 44-22H, 2,096
• 17338, Fidelity, Carter Matthew 13-24H, 352, 236K
• 18200, Fidelity, Kinnion 24-13H, 1,658
• 17263, Murex, Chandler James 25-36H, 3,124
• 18408, Murex, Amber Renee 25-36H, 1,945, 568K
• 17612, Whiting, Maki 11-27H, 4,761, 512K
• 18530, Whiting, Jorgensen 12-27H, 2,893
• 18559, Whiting, Platt 43-28H, 2,251
• 18213, Whiting, Platt 44-28H, two laterals, 3,308
• 18553, Whiting, Kannianen 43-31H, 1,776
• 19174, Whiting, Kannianen 43-33H, 2,090
• 18298, Whiting, Kannianen 44-33H, 3,419
• 17872, Whiting, Littlefield 12-34H, 1,814
• 17092, Whiting, Behr 11-34H, 3,027
• 16839, Murex, Jacob Daniel 25-36H-RE, 864

T152N-91W

• 17912, Whiting, Sorenson 11-3H, 2,770
• 17072, Whiting, Stenseth Trust 11-5H, 2,846
• 18477, Whiting, Oppenboen 12-31H, 1,685
• 17579, Slawson, Peacemaker 1-8H, 872
• 16845, Slawson, Pathfinder 1-9H, 1,418
• 18109, Whiting, Tollefson 44-10H, 2,409

T152N-92W

• 16902, Whiting, Lacey 11-1H, 2,192
• 17326, Whiting, Lacey 12-1H, 3,199
• 17137, Whiting, Pennington 11-3H, 1,305
• 18658, Whiting, Mayer 12-3, 2,685
• 17552, Whiting, Peterson 11-4H, 791
• 18724, Whiting, Foreman 11-4TFH, 1,447
• 18882, Whiting, Peterson 13-4H, 1,527
• 16905, Whiting, Brehm 44-5H, 1,135
• 17337, Whiting, Brehm 11-7H, 1,020
• 17173, Whiting, Lacey 11-10H, 1,643
• 18953, Whiting, Lacey 12-10H, 2,534
• 17544, Whiting, Lacey 11-12H, 2,164
• 18123, Slawson, Meerkat 1-12H, 1,112
• 18124, Slawson, Meerkat -17H, 670

T152N-93W

• 16068, Whiting, Bartleson 44-1H, 104, 138K
• 17554, Whiting, Hansen 21-3TFH, 489
• 18002, Whiting, Sanish Bay 42-12H, 2,638