Missouri Ridge Oil FIeld: Why I Remain Inappropriately Exuberant About the Williston Basin

While checking out the new Liberty wells in the Tyrone oil field, I ran across this cluster of wells just to the south in Missouri Ridge oil field (north of Williston):

• 6306, Encore, Jensen 41, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s1/78; t6/78; cum ~ 400K bbls 10/11
• 6642, Encore, Jensen 5 1, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s9/78; t3/79; cum ~ 350K bbls 10/11 
• 6757, Encore, Clark 1, RR, Stonewall, Birdbear fms; s5/79; t8/79; cum almost 1 million 10/11
• 6806, Oasis, Booke 1, Red River, Stonewall, s12/78; t4/79; cum 500K bbls 10/11
• 8426, Meridian, Robert Rieder 1, Birdbear, s3/81; t7/81; cum 320K bbls 10/11
• 10414, Encore, Winter Lesnick 1, Red River, Stonewall, s10/83;t2/84; cum 300K bbls 10/11
• 10647, Encore, Winter Lesnick 2, Birdbear, s7/84; t8/84; cum 405K bbls 10/11
• 10840, Conoco, Jensen 4 2, Birdbear, s8/84; t11/84; cum 94K bbls; PNA
• 11704, Encore, Jensen 4 3, Madison, s8/85; t9/85; cum 255K bbls 10/11
• 13666, Citation, Rieder 1-9R, Birdbear, Madison, s6/94/t7/94 ane 12/09; 105K bbls 10/11

Some of these wells are still producing, thirty years out. The Stonewall at #6757, completed in 1979, is still producing about 1,000 bbls/month. Maybe not as good as the Red Wing Creek cluster, but not bad.

Enjoy. Someone said the following sounded like Bob Dylan (vocals) being backed up by the Ventures.
 
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