Oasis Reports a Nice Wildcat North of Williston: Sandaker 5602

Oasis Petroleum North America, LLC, is reporting a nice well north of Williston:

• 18418, 1,228, Oasis, Sandaker 5602 11-13H, Wildcat, 13-156-102, north of Williston, Bakken

This was a wildcat and it's truly out in the middle of nowhere. But there are a string of wells on the confidential list stretching to the west of the Sandaker, and there is a rig on site at another Oasis well, file #19308, Glover 5601 12-17H.

The confidential wells to the west are:

• 19131, Oasis, Somerset 5602 12-17H, Bull Butte field
• 19412, BEXP, Kalil Farms 14-23 1-H, Bull Butte field
• 19091, Oasis, Horne 5603 44-9H, Bull Butte field

Just west of the Horne 5603, is #18204, a long lateral running directly north-south, BEXP, BCD Farms 61-21 #1-H, with an IP of 1,553, reported out back in February, 2010.

I can't remember the hundreds of times I would have driven this area north of Williston when I had my 1948 Willys Jeep in high school. I remember seeing oil wells around Tioga but never, never saw any oil activity in this part of the country. And now, it looks like BEXP and Oasis are going to open up a whole new area of activity. This just really gets me excited.