Fidelity Foto! Near South Heart (Bakken, ND, USA)

This is Fidelity's Kostelecky well, permit 19264, Kostelecky 31-6H, Lot 2 6-139N-97W. This is a wildcat near South Heart. You can see the town of South Heart off in the distance: the water tower is off to the left.

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From the 3Q10 conference call, October 31, 2010:

Earlier this month we spudded the Kostelecky 31-6 well, this is our first well in the Heart River project, targeting the Three Forks Formation. We plan to drill a total of three wells on this acreage this year. We were pleased to see another producer in adjacent acreage report strong results from two recent wells, approximately 2,000 barrel of oil equivalence in the initial production, per day, per well.

The drilling rig is Nabors 108. The cylindrical containers have been painted in autumn colors as part of North Dakota's goal to attract tourists from Minnesota before the cold Minnesota winter sets in. Few people realize how wonderfully temperate northwestern North Dakota is during the winter. My dad refers to it as the "banana belt" of the north.

Four and a half miles west of this well is another Fidelity well,  permit 19688  the Wagner 11-4 well, in the Zenith oil field. The pad has been completed, but there is no metal on the pad yet.

Two miles straight north of the well in the photo is a Whiting well, permit 19562, Brueni 28-1H, with a rig in place, ready to start drilling.

South Heart is exactly midway between Dickinson to the east and Belfield to the west. State highway 85 intersects I-94 at Belfield.

On a completely different note, there are new traffic light signals just a half-mile north of Belfield on state highway 85; there are rumors that Whiting is putting in a local operations center there.