Human Interest Story on Corral Creek

Link here to The Bismarck Tribune.

After three days of legging it through buttes and ravines, Paul Ziolkowski, of Lansford, bagged one and his wife another, when normally they’d have killed a dozen or more in the same time.

Blame it on the oil.

And so it goes.

Corral Creek is linked in the sidebar at the right.

On another note, the article confirms my database:

• in 2012, 18 new permits for BR in this field; 4 new permits for CLR in this field
• "they" have started drilling the Three Forks

I did not know, or had forgotten that COP purchased 50 percent of the mineral acres in the unit from BR. 

The 30,000-acre unit was approved about a year ago by the North Dakota Industrial Commission at the request of ConocoPhillips which purchased 50 percent of the mineral acres in the unit from Burlington Resources.

I assume it is simply moving money and assets around for various reasons: BR is a wholly-owned subsidiary of COP.  But yes, #22815 well file shows that the operator is now COP:

• 22815, 1,643, COP/BR, CCU Powell 21-29MBH, 29-147-95; 2-well pad;  t10/12; cum 5K 10/12;

For newbies who want to see how dense the wells are in the Bakken, see Vern Whitten's photographs and scroll through. [Something I had not noticed before: from the air, the oil pads are about the size of North Dakota "homesteads" -- the living area of the farmer and his/her family -- the home, the garages, the barns, the stables, the out-buildings, the corrals, etc; in many cases, the pads are actually much smaller than the farmsteads.]