Statoil's Jennifer 26-35 XW #1TFH (33577)

[dianne19...@gmail.com]

There is a 1H, 2TFH, 3H, and a XW 1TFH on sections 26-35 (East Fork).
What does the XW stand for?

Also, according to the statistics, the existing Jennifer 26-35 1H well operated 31 days but no oil was collected or sold. Is the "31 days" an error?

Thanks for any info you can offer...

[Bruce Oksol]

1. The "XW" almost certainly means this is a "unit line" well or a "line unit" well -- a horizontal that is drilled along a section line that would otherwise leave oil behind ("orphaned oil"). Generally "unit line" wells are spaced at 2560 acres.

2. I see that often: a well that is on-line for 31 days without any production. My hunch is this: companies only have so many options with regard to "well status." Obviously they did not want to take the well off-line (IA) or abandon it (AB). They want to keep the designation of the well as active (A) but they are doing some kind of work on the well site to preclude any production, perhaps putting in a pump, or doing other word on the pad. To me, and I could be wrong, this simply means the well is still an "active" well but did not produce anything this month while they work on the well site for any number of reasons.