Rigzone: North Dakota Floods Idle Five Rigs, Shut Down 45 Wells

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Bad weather, flooding and road restrictions are disrupting oil production in North Dakota, shutting down the transportation by rail of 50,000 barrels a day of crude, a state official said.

"No one was prepared to deal with floods that are breaking records set 130 years ago," said Lynn D. Helms, director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission's Department of Mineral Resources said in an e-mail sent late Monday. Helms said the temporary shutdown of the rail transportation will last until it can be re-routed west, but didn't give an estimate as to when that might occur.

The weather has forced the shut in of 45 wells and idled five drilling rigs and is delaying the arrival of service crews to 500 wells waiting to be fractured, Helms said.

Significant, but not overwhelming.