Random Look At QEP's Concentration of Wells in Heart Butte Oil Field Today

Additional permits have been added since the original post.

Random look at two 5-well pads in the general area, in Heart Butte. These five are here more because of the river, but if you can access the NDIC GIS map server, it's quite remarkable; these all "radiate" to the northwest to extend under the river:

• 21551, drl, QEP, MHA 3-31-25H-150-92,
• 21552, drl, QEP, MHA 2-31-25H-150-92,
• 21553, drl, QEP, MHA 4-31-25H-150-92,
• 21554, drl, QEP, MHA 1-31-25H-150-91,
• 21556, drl, QEP, MHA 3-31-25H-150-91, 

And then just three hundred feet south, is another 5-well pad:

• 21557, conf, QEP, MHA 1-31-36H-150-92, 
• 21558, conf, QEP, MHA 3-31-36H-150-92, 
• 21559, conf, QEP, MHA 5-31-25H-150-92, 
• 21560, conf, QEP, MHA 7-31-25H-150-92, 
• 21561, conf, QEP, MHA 1-31-25H-150-92, 

Four new permits for QEP in this general area issued November 8, 2012

• 24398, conf, QEP, MHA 1-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24399, conf, QEP, MHA 3-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24400, conf, QEP, MHA 2-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24401, conf, QEP, MHA 4-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,

Four new permits for QEP today

• 24206, loc, QEP, MHA 8-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24207, loc, QEP, MHA 6-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24208, loc, QEP, MHA 6-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,
• 24209, loc, QEP, MHA 6-04-33H-150-92, Heart Butte,

One mile to the east, QEP has two five-well pads. Both five-well pads are in T149N-R92W:

• Permits: 23331 - 23335, with rig on site, 23335.
• Permits: 23336 - 23340.

Just to the south of these two five-well rigs, XTO has a four-well pad:

• 20036, 2,331, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10, Heart Butte, t10/11; cum 115K 9/12; 30 stages; 3.2 million pounds
• 23401, ros, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10E, Heart Butte,
• 23402, conf, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10F, Heart Butte,
• 23403, conf, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10A, Heart Butte,

This is really quite incredible.