Sunday, December 16, 2012

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.]

2 comments:

  1. I drive the CCU road almost daily as the mud engineer that handles the rigs drilling in the CCU and there are more turkeys and deer in this area than in any of the other areas of western ND that I drive. I think COP is doing a good job in the area and the wildlife is as strong as ever!

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    1. Thank you.

      How coincidental, the timing of this comment and a note I just posted. You will enjoy this post:

      http://www.milliondollarwayblog.com/2012/12/putting-things-into-perspective.html

      But thank you for confirming what I already thought. Someone else sent me a personal note (e-mail, that I cannot post) that said almost the same thing.

      The best data point: this field, the Corral Creek field, is about 60 square miles, and there are two rigs on this field. One can drive a lot of miles before seeing a rig.

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