Tea Leaves -- Random Comment -- Idle Chatter -- Sleeper Story in The Williston Basin: The Red River

It is very, very tedious but I periodically go through the wells/permits at the NDIC site, one at a time, maybe two hundred (200) at a time, to get a feeling of what is happening.

Today I went through about 200 wells drilled back in 2008 and was surprised to see the results of the Continental Resources wells that targeted the Red River formations (and there are several). There are too many to list, but one gets an idea of some of these wells at the "Monster Wells" page; when you get there, scroll down to the Red River. There are not many there because I use a cut-off of at least 750,000 bbls but CLR has quite an impressive Red River inventory.

If interested, check the CLR wells in Cedar Hills oil field. Interestingly, today there are no rigs in that large field. However, CLR has one rig in the general area:

• 23818, conf, CLR, MPHU 32-10H, Medicine Pole Hills, 

Looking at some of the Red River wells in the immediate area:

• 5456, 200, CLR, Wallman-Rausch 1-8, Medicine Pole Hills, a West Red River well, t12/74; cum 630K 10/12; and still active and coming up on its 40th birthday in a year or so. 
• 5530, 110, CLR, Susag-Wallman 1-17, Medicine Pole Hills, a West Red River well; t3/75; cum 416K 10/12; 
• 5749, 100, CLR, MPHU 42-16, Medicine Pole Hills, a Red River well; t5/76; cum 485K 10/12;
• 11797, 90, CLR, MPHU 44-14, Medicine Pole Hills, a Red River well; t11/85; cum 381K 10/12; 
• 11891, 6 (no typo), CLR, MPHU 31-10, Medicine Pole Hills, a Red River well, t1/86; cum 195K 10/12; a vertical well that could not have cost much;

Time precludes me from continuing, but one gets the idea. A single CLR rig targeting the Red River in southwest North Dakota.