EOG has completed the Patten 1-02H well, sec. 2, T.152, R.90, in Parshall Field as another impressive producer at 1487 bbls/day. This well is a slight southeast stepout to the other producers in the field that are off confidential status and it has produced 42k bbls in the three months up to and including May. In May, the Bartelson well produced about 11k bbls, and the Warberg well made about 10k bbls. Some of the newer wells still on confidential status are reportedly producing in excess of a steady 1k bbls day, including a Whiting O. & G. well about ten miles to the west.
The best Bakken well in the state with reportable production, the Petro-Hunt USA 2B-3-1H well in Charlson Field, made just over 24k bbls for the month of May.
In the context of significance for the state oil industry, this find at Parshall Field appears to be on the scale not seen since the Lodgepole play in the Dickinson area in the early 90s, which had the industry in the entire country abuzz with the incredible production figures and reserves of those wells. Whether the geologic conditions involved in Parshall field include or extend beyond a township or two is the million dollar question, literally. Another area with some very impressive production figures still on confidential status is in the north Oakdale area of Dunn Co. Unfortunately, many of the Bakken wells outside of a few currently proven areas in other parts of the Bakken play appear to be marginally economic at best. I'm sure a few papers will be written about the Parshall field in the coming years that should shed some light on the interesting background information regarding its discovery and development.
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One well still on tight hole is EOG's Ehlert 1-35H well, T153-R90, sec 35, reported 42,139 bbls sold for an unknown number of days in May. This well is directly west of the Parshall field opener. It looks like EOG is getting their laterals further out in length.
It appears the earlier completed wells are choked way back due to flaring restrictions. Once a gas line is connected, the field production will probably triple.
Do you know if the gas line is now connected and, if so, when it was connected? Also, assuming the gas line is now connected, do you know if the production from EOG's wells and the other wells has increased significantly as you observed it would in late July?
As of two months ago, the latest prod. figures available, the wells I checked still had no gas sales. I don't know where they are planning to sell the gas, as I believe the Tioga plant is at capacity and Whiting is planning to bring a plant on line this fall sometime. As for production, I believe the field is approaching about 200k bbls in Aug from about a dozen wells, so maybe there are no production restrictions in this field for flaring wells, and there won't be a bump in production once gas sales begin. I'm too lazy to look up the Parshall field order but normally, new wells can produce at an unrestricted rate while flaring for the first 30 days and then are reduced to 100 bbls/day until connected to a gas line.
Thanks.
Do you know if the new wells are producing from the carbonate/clastic section or in the actual upper or lower shales?
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