birdman said:
If you are looking for a theme, I had a cool block of names that we never used.
I named them after Texas rivers. Rio Grande, Nueces, Brazos, Frio, Canadian, etc. That would get you 10 names easily. I also named them North to South, so the northernmost location was Canadian and the southernmost was the Rio Grande.
Fivestones did this in Glasscock. Went to Energen. Now I believe Diamondback operates them.
We started out with largest mineral owner, section number, well number. After ~100 wells or so we started running into repeating mineral owner names, so we quit doing that.
Now we have prospect names, and the well names are related to the prospect name.
Just pick something with a lot of names. It's not hard.
We're coming up on ~300 wells drilled as a company. If anyone has an idea of names for a prospect that's not ridiculous, we just go with it. No one wants to spend time on well names anymore.