Activity in Fertile Township, Parshall Oil Field

I opined some time ago that due to bureaucratic red tape inside the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (FBIR) resulted in about a 2-year delay in bringing the drilling inside the FBIR up to speed. I also opined that it appears 2010 will be the year that drilling in the FBIR will catch up with the rest of the Bakken.

To see how that prediction is playing out, one has only to look at Fertile Township, T151N-90W, entirely within the FBIR, and entirely within the prolific Parshall oil field, "owned" by EOG.

According to the NDIC GIS map server, there are four wells being drilled (two of them almost complete) in Fertile Township. In addition, there are three rigs currently on-site in Fertile Township. Another four (4) wells are on the confidential list, and there are another seven (7) permits yet to be acted upon. In other words, out of 36 sections, there is activity in eleven (11) sections.

EOG has put in as many as three wells in some of the sections in the Wayzetta Township, 153-90, also part of the Parshall field, so it is only logical to assume EOG will do the same in Fertile. EOG has just been granted permit #18800, the second file  number in section 20 of 151-90.  Both of these permits in section 20 have "simple" EOG nomenclature, so I assume they are simply development wells, both going into the Bakken pool. Perhaps one will target the Middle Bakken (MB) and the other will target the Three Forks Sanish, coming from opposite directions.