Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Are There Any Active Wells In Wells County, North Dakota?

This came in as a comment from a reader, but comments are not google-searchable; I will post it here:
Do you have any idea what's with the production data for Wells County displayed on page 2 of the latest (November 2013) monthly oil and gas production report (available at https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/mprindex.asp)? 
Apparently there was a newly productive gas well there in November, and a rather decent one at that, but I hadn't heard about any drilling there, nor can I find any additional information within the report or on the NDIC GIS map server. As far as I can tell, while also appreciating the irony, there should be no active wells in Wells County.
When you get to the link, click on November, 2013; it's a pdf. At the pdf, go to page two. Note the gas well in Wells County. Neither the reader nor I can find any other data at the NDIC site regarding this well.

The reader and I both hope this well is indeed active; another fifty years with no active wells in this county and they may have to change the name.