There is an interesting driller out here: Core 53 Oil and Gas, LLC. This is the only well that has been drilled by this company in North Dakota, at least according to the NDIC database. If it's a TF well, very, very expensive, and I would think some other large operator is backing them; if it's a vertical into the Lodgepole, that's a different story; and, it very well could be with all the recent interest in the Lodgepole.
19444, 3,106, WLL, Hecker 21-18TFH, huge story, click on link
19623, Whiting, Obrigewitch 21-17TFH, wildcat
19820, Whiting, Dietz 21-17TFH, Gaylord field
16649 -- Salt water disposal
19853, Core 54 Oil and Gas, LLC, Longshot 10-23 1, wildcat
19975, DRY, Armstrong, Zastoupil 1-17, Armstrong, wildcat, just outside Dickinson city limits on southwest side; just outside of Patterson Lake field
19275, Fidelity, Oukrop 24-24H, wildcat
20195, Oil for America, Dohrmann 14-1, wildcat; this is same immediate area as another Oil for America well, the Dohrmann 13-1, also a wildcat, on the confidential list.
Update
April 28, 2011: Due to mechanical difficulties at the Obrigewitch 21-17TFH, Whiting believes that only one or two frac stages of the well’s total 16 frac stages are contributing to current production. Despite these difficulties, the Obrigewitch well was completed flowing 1,189 BOE per day. Whiting holds a 96% working interest and a 77% net revenue interest in the well.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm new to this. My folks are both from Dickinson and we own mineral rights near South Heart and Gladstone. How do I reference the numbers on these wells and find their locations on a map? Thanks!
There are several ways to do this.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the first thing to do is open the GIS Map Server, which I assume you have done. If not, go to the NDIC home page: on the sidebar on the left, click on GIS Map Server. The map will open in a separate window.
It is the easiest map of all such maps I've seen, but still it is quirky and hard to get used to. It will take you awhile to feel comfortable with it.
If you do something you did not want to do (like zooming in), click on "previous view" and it will take you back to where you were.
Once on the GIS map server, you can locate the wells by their name. To the best of my knowledge, you cannot find a well using the file number. But just type in the first word of the well, and then scroll down until you find the well and then click on it. But just click on the first word in the well's name; for some reason, when I type in more than one word with a space, it can't locate it.
The second way, is to go back to the NDIC home page (and leave the GIS map server open), and go back to the sidebar on the left. Click on "Well Search."
When "Well Search" comes up, use the drop down menus to put in the township and range, and then click "submit." You don't have to fill in all the blocks. All you have to do is fill in township and range. Clicking "submit" will take you to a database with all the file numbers /wells in that township. You can use the search application on your browser (on Firefox it's at the bottom left; on MS IE it's at the top, I believe) to find the file number.
Once you have the file number, you match that with the name of the well, and then go back to the GIS map server and follow steps above.
I think the best thing to do, is play around with the GIS map server for awhile: zooming in and out, panning, finding distances, etc., and then once you feel comfortable with it start looking for wells.
There is a legend on the right that expands; click on the folders to see highways, cities, etc.
Let me know if you have a specific question once you start playing around with it.