A Reader May Have A New Zabolotny Well -- September 11, 2021

Updates

September 14, 2023: another permit for another Zabolotny well. See this post.

August 3, 2023: update, production --

• 37987, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife; total depth: 21,940 feet; sections 4/9-144-98; first production, 7/21; t--; cum 12K 8/21; cum 180K 6/23; stimulated July 13, 2021; IP: 420; volume: 469,747 bbls; stimulation stages: 60; proppant: 10,715,004 lbs.
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2023	28	4738	4830	11857	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2023	31	4906	4991	11910	4315	4315	0
BAKKEN	4-2023	30	5550	5468	14310	4932	4932	0
BAKKEN	3-2023	31	6057	5888	5519	5200	5200	0
BAKKEN	2-2023	28	5120	5177	12937	4179	4179	0
BAKKEN	1-2023	31	5811	5876	15264	4938	4937	1
BAKKEN	12-2022	31	6584	6745	17521	5700	5700	0
BAKKEN	11-2022	23	5458	5276	14679	4877	4800	77
BAKKEN	10-2022	31	6722	6707	17987	6559	6559	0
BAKKEN	9-2022	30	5914	6034	15567	5392	5349	43
BAKKEN	8-2022	31	6485	6426	17021	5892	5892	0
BAKKEN	7-2022	31	7001	6995	18438	6394	6394	0
BAKKEN	6-2022	30	7200	7235	18901	6694	6694	0
BAKKEN	5-2022	31	8182	8123	21535	7667	7667	0
BAKKEN	4-2022	30	9025	9094	23730	8504	8502	2

June 4, 2022: update, 

• 37987, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife, first production, 7/21; t--; cum 12K 8/21; cum 94K 4/22;

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2022	30	9025	9094	23730	8504	8502	2
BAKKEN	3-2022	31	10756	10736	26935	9969	9969	0
BAKKEN	2-2022	28	8664	8644	21497	7716	7716	0
BAKKEN	1-2022	31	10160	10180	24883	9006	9006	0
BAKKEN	12-2021	31	9802	9820	22874	8403	8403	0
BAKKEN	11-2021	30	9708	9712	22272	8200	8200	0
BAKKEN	10-2021	31	10692	10834	23634	9067	9067	0
BAKKEN	9-2021	30	12053	12195	27585	10392	10231	161
BAKKEN	8-2021	31	12966	12394	37634	11397	11385	12
BAKKEN	7-2021	22	552	458	0	121	25

Original Post 

A reader asked about a Petro-Hunt Zabolotny well.

My reply:

Your might have a new Zabolotny well.

I often make mistakes but this is what I'm seeing.

I track the Petro-Hunt lease you mentioned at this post:

https://readerswells.blogspot.com/2021/02/petro-hunt-tuckerekke-deed-66-parcels.html

I often make mistakes, but if I have this correct, chronology:

You told me you received a check up-front for $310 (or thereabouts) for a lease, March 11, 2021.

You said this had to do with Petro-Hunt, sections 4 and 9 -- T144N - R98W.

There are several completed Zabolotny wells to the east (sections 3 and 10) but you don't have minerals in those sections, so ignore.

However, it appears Petro-Hunt drilled a new Zabolotny well that runs horizontally through your two sections, sections 4 and 9, and that was what the lease was for.

The new well:

• 37987, a new permit, still confidential, November 20, 2020, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife,

It's still on confidential so we don't know anything about the well but it has started producing and in July, 2021, the NDIC reported Petro-Hunt had sold a few bbls from this well ("runs": oil that is actually sold; since it's confidential we don't know how much was actually produced, but generally how much was sold --"runs" -- is usually about the same as how much was produced):

NDIC File No: 37987     API No: 33-053-09609-00-00 Well Type: ON CONFIDENTIAL STATUS Location: SESE 36-145-98     Footages: 250 FSL 270 FEL     Latitude: 47.329499     Longitude: -103.100208 Current Operator: PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C. Current Well Name: Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H     Field: LITTLE KNIFE

Monthly Sales Data:  Date Oil Runs MCF Sold 7-2021 458 25

When checking the deeds, this one is in Billings County.

 

Note the name of the well:

Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H.

The 144 and 98, T and R, obviously.

4A - 9:   this well will begin in section 4 and run south into section 9 (Carl/Ruth lease).

The "A"? Petro-Hunt labels their pads in each drilling unit alphabetically, so this is the first pad in this drilling unit. In great areas, Petro-Hunt can have several pads with two to four wells on each pad which will be labeled A through D.

1H: H for horizontal and "1" because it's the first well on this pad to be drilled.

This is not a great area in the Bakken but it's not bad. If this well is even "kind of" good, I would suspect we will see a number of more Petro-Hunt wells in this drilling unit.

The "decimal" unit for the Petro-Hunt wells you have are generally very low so I don't expect much in the way of royalties, but you should enjoy watching these wells.

Anyway, that's what I am seeing.

This well comes off the confidential list October 19, 2021 -- next month. If it's been completed and is producing, we will get the information then.