General (Ret) David Petraeus Visited The Bakken To Check On "His" Property; Random Photos Of A Statoil Four-Well Pad; And A Probable Statoil Eight-Well Pad -- April 29, 2014

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

Retired four-star general and former CIA Director David Petraeus visited the Oil Patch on Tuesday and met with local officials at a private event in Williston.

Petraeus was hosted by North Dakota State Treasurer Kelly Schmidt.

Petraeus has a tie to the Bakken through private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which is partnering with other investors on a 164-acre housing development in Williston. Petraeus works for KKR as chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

One more swirling tea leaf that suggests the boom is just beginning.

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Unrelated Photos

In the old days (two years ago), each well pad had one or two signs designating one or two wells. This is how Statoil is  identifying multiple wells on a single pad. In the foreground to the right is a pad with three pumpers; a fourth well is waiting for a pump. Note the Statoil sign, the second picture that shows three of the Rose wells and one State well.

These four wells (three Rose wells -- one TFH, two middle Bakken wells; and one State well -- a TFH well) are located in Avoca oil field east of Williston, right next to the prolific Stockyard Creek field, just to the east.

To the left, in the far background is a well pad with four pumpers in place. Those four are also Statoil Rose wells, all in spacing unit 12-154-100 in the Avoca oil field.

I don't recall any flaring for any of these eight wells. 

Interestingly, the GIS map server shows only four wells on each pad, though the Statoil sign at the Rose/State pad clearly slows a "key" for eight wells.