Photos of the Hebron Oil Field: Stedman, Obert, and Others

Some random photos around Hebron oil field, northwest of Williston.

Drive 10 miles west of the 4-mile corner (or 14 miles west of Williston), turn right on the Grenora road (asphalt). Go north seven miles, and turn left on the scoria road. The road will be marked with a Cyclone 10 sign, and then a Continental Resources sign with their six wells in little Hebron field (a newer sign next to this sign includes two more wells, the Fashing and the Milloy):

And then, the Stedman sign:

And the Stedman well (in the photos with two wells, the Obert wells is across the road from the Stedman). The Stedman is the site with the pumper and about two dozen water containers still on site:

                                      

                                       

The Stedman well is off in the distance, on the right, and the Obert well is on the left hand (north) side of the road. This is looking east. The road is on a section line, running due east-west, with four pair of wells on either side of the road, the lateral on the north side running north, and the lateral on the south side running south.

Many of the wells in the Squires and the Painted Woods fields had eight to ten tanks on the pads, whereas the wells in the Hebron oil field (where these are located) had only four tanks. I'm not sure what to make of that. One can think of many reasons why Continental Resources chose to develop the Hebron oil field this way.

These cattle probably haven't seen so much truck traffic in years (of course, the calves all think this is the "norm." They've known nothing else.).