In my last blog I wrote about the top 3 wells in the Bakken based on IPs (24-hour peak flow back rates) and how all 3 of the wells are operated by Brigham Exploration Company out of my residing city of Austin, TX (Brigham crowding the podium with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd highest IPs in the Bakken). I also dug a little deeper and looked at 6-month cums across the Bakken play to see how Brigham compared to other Bakken operators that didn’t make it in the top 3 IP spots. In doing this I found that Brigham, even though they have the top 3 IPs in the play, did not fare well against a couple of other Bakken operators, EOG and Whiting, on a 6-month cum bases. The blog seemed to spark some interest with one of our readers and he had some questions about the location of the 3 Brigham wells as they relate to the top 100 6-month cums Bakken wells and the offsets of the 3 highest IP wells. So in an effort to provide some more color I went back and put together some DrillingInfo maps.
The first map shows the 3 Brigham wells as black triangles and the top 100 6-month cum wells histogramed by 6-month oil cum. We can see that the 3 Brigham top IP wells are clearly northwest of a known Bakken sweet spot in the Sanish and Parshall fields and 2 of the 3 Brigham wells (the green well spots that are on top of the middle triangle) fall into that 76 MBbl – 105 MBbl range.
The next map is the 3 top IP wells in black with the Bakken offsets of the surrounding townships and ranges. These are also histogramed by 6-month cum.
I hope this blog helped with answering some of our reader’s questions and to learn more visit the Brigham Folder in the Bakken Unconventional Update in DI’s DNA.
Justin Birmingham
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