Active Rig Not Showing Up on the Active Rig List -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Apparently there is at least one rig drilling that is not on the active drilling list (see comment at this link).

This is a two-well pad in the South Tobacco oil field, section 21-T150N-R99W. The two wells on this pad:

• 19597, Newfield, Obenour 150-99-28-33-1H, will go south from the pad
• 20347, Newfield, Obenour 150-99-21-16-1H, will go north from the pad

These will both be long laterals. #19597 comes off the confidential list on July 31, 2011, which confirms that it has spudded; there is no release date for the second well on that pad.

By the way, there is already a producing well in that very same section, a short lateral.

• 18086, 30, Sergeant Major 1-21H. That well was completed in July, 2009, and has produced a total of 17,677 barrels of oil as of December 31, 2010.

The South Tobacco field is a small field, just west of Watford City. The wells mentioned above are about 3 miles west-south-west of Watford; less than a mile south of US Highway 85 as it goes into Watford City.