Renville Field -- Home of the Chicken Feet -- The Madison, North Dakota, USA

Every once in awhile I will see a new permit for a well inside Renville oil field. This has to be one of the most irregularly shaped fields for such a small field in the Williston Basin. It is about five sections in size, but most of the activity occurs in two sections: the northernmost section, and the southernmost section.

The field is located in the far north of North Dakota, on the far west side of Bottineau County, about eight miles east of Mohall, North Dakota, and about eight miles east of Renville County.

If you look at the GIS map server, you will see a strange cluster of chicken-footprints in a couple of sections of this field: a vertical well with three or four laterals.

Here are some representative wells,  in the south of this very small field, all still producing, all with multiple laterals,

• 18452, 0, Petro Harvester, Glessing 7-16, Madison, Renville, stwice; t1/10; cum 4K 10/11
• 18558, 6, Petro Harvester, Cramer 4, Madison, Renville, s1/10; t2/10; cum 900 bbls 10/11
• 17839, 85, Petro Harvester, Cramer 3, Madison, Renville, s8/09; t9/09; cum 19K 10/11
• 17665, 283, Petro Harvester, Cramer 2, Madison, Renville, s10/08; t11/08; cum 50K 10/11
• 15591, 4, Petro Harvester, Glessing 3, Madison, Renville, s5/04; t10/04; cum 122K 10/11
• 15360, 154, Petro Harvester, Glessing 2, Madison, Renville, s11/02; t11/02; cum 47K 10/11
• 19236, 680, Petro Harvester, Asheim 2, Madison, Renville, s7/10; t8/10; cum 80K 10/11
• 19314, 555, Petro Harvester, Rice 10, Madison, Renville, s7/10; t8/10; cum 52K 10/11

Here are some representative wells,  in the north of this very small field, all still producing, all with multiple laterals, except one,

• 17736 (simple vertical well), 95, Petro Harvester, Heller 6-31, Madison, Renville, sthrice; t2/10; cum 16K 10/11
• 19139, 99, Petro Harvester, Erickson et al 1A, Madison, Renville, 6/10; t7/10; cum 5K 10/11
• 19027, 111, Petro Harvester, Erickson et al 1B, Madison, Renville, 5/10; t7/10; 13K 10/11
• 19143, 214, Petro Harvester, Erickson et al 2B, Madison, Renville, 8/10; t9/10; 25K 10/11
• 19028, 98, Petro Harvester, Erickson et al 3B, Madison, Renville, 6/10; t8/10; cum 17K 10/11