News
May 18, 2010: Two new permits --
April 30, 2010: BEXP press release, #18506, Arnson 13-24 1-H, 1,339 boepd IP.
April 16, 2010: Olson 10-15 1-H, #17513 -- 100,000 bbls/oil in first 13 months. At $40/bbl this well has been paid for ... for all practical purposes.
- 19044, CLR, Goodman 1-36H
- 19045, Oasis, McFarland 5502 44-12H
April 30, 2010: BEXP press release, #18506, Arnson 13-24 1-H, 1,339 boepd IP.
April 16, 2010: Olson 10-15 1-H, #17513 -- 100,000 bbls/oil in first 13 months. At $40/bbl this well has been paid for ... for all practical purposes.
March 16, 2010: Oasis granted another permit, #18817, in Squires, Kjos 5502 44-24H. A nice well, see below.
March 12, 2010: In NDIC's daily activity report (today), Oasis was granted three permits in the Squires oil field. Two of these wells will be sited on same pad, 50 feet apart.
The Squires Field
The Squires is a very active oil field, about four miles northwest of Williston. Along with the Painted Woods, these two fields are the fields west of Williston.
It is a rectangular field, relatively small (just 64 sections), two townships, 155-103 and 155-102, in a east-west configuration. The Squires is just north of and shares a boundary with the Painted Woods field, well known to Willistonites for the very highly-promoted BEXP twin wells, the Olson and the Brad Olson wells, sitting just 1425 feet from each other.
The names of some of these wells bring back good memories of growing up in Williston. I wrestled with Clark Jorgenson in high school (if I remember correctly, he took "state" in the heavyweight division); Sukut ran a successful office supply store just off main street; the Lees were close family friends; and, Dad knew the Anseths well.
In addition, this well is personally interesting to me because it is so close to my childhood home of Williston. I used to drive the back roads of this area after my dad bought me a 1948 Willys Jeep. I could take that jeep anywhere and I did. According to Wikipedia, Willys introduced four-wheel drive in 1948, and that's exactly what I had. That was my very first "automobile." (My second one was a very sporty Chevy Nova, again, picked out by my dad.)
Testing the Willys Jeep in the 1940's
There are currently five rigs in the Squires: 18817, 18622, 18771, 18745, and 18764. The Squires oil field is directly north of Painted Woods oil field; they share a common boundary. It appears once BEXP demonstrated how productive this field might be, quite a few other drillers moved in. Unlike Painted Woods which appears to be almost all BEXP, the Squires has three main operators: BEXP, CLR, and Oasis. It's possible Oasis picked up their acreage from Fidelity.
The sites with active rigs in place (at time of original posting; now completed):
18817, 1,099, Oasis, Kjos 5502 44-24H
18622, 680, EOG, Mont 1-28H
18771, 683, Zenergy, Johnson 29-30H
18745, 1,959, BEXP, Sukut 28-33 1-H
18764, 563, CLR, Ricky 1-18H
The Squires is made up of two townships: T155N-R103W and T155N-$102W with a total of 64 sections.
There are three wells that have released their IPs and are producing:
18282, BEXP, 2,264, Strand 16-9 1-H
15878, Sigma-Lee 14-3, too old for my database
18256, BEXP, 1,241, Lee 16-21 1-H
There are at least a couple of occasions where two wells share one pad:
18623, Oasis, Odin Jorgenson 5502 44-8H
18799, Oasis, Stowers 5502 43 8-H
Another two-well pad:
18802, Oasis, 1,193, Vuki 5502 42-7H
18801, Oasis, Contreras 5502 42 7-H
There are at least a couple of occasions where two wells are right across the section line from each other:
18764, 563, CLR, Ricky 1-18H (reported above, also)
18742, CLR, Karl 1-19H
Another pair right across the section line from each other:
18782, 641, CLR, Lee 1-20H
18646, 572, CLR, Anseth 1-29H
In addition, there is another pair right across the section line from each other but one is just outside Squires:
18622, 680, EOG, Mont 1-28H
18618, EOG, Mont 2-34H, wildcat -- permit canceled
I am the daughter to Gaylen Anseth any information on that well would be helpful
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by. I will keep my eye open for news on the Anseth well.
ReplyDeleteYou might also consider the "Bakken Shale Discussion Group" -- link on the right sidebar -- they are very, very helpful.
Is there somewhere I can go online to get a labeled map that shows all (or most) of the individual fields? I 've seen some that show Parshall and others, but yet to find one that shows most if not all of the fields in North Dakota...just wondering.
ReplyDeleteGo to this site:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/
At that site, go to the sidebar on the left side of the page, and click on "GIS map server."
At the "GIS map server" zoom in by drawing a square, and then using "pan" to move around. Every oil field is labeled.