The Ten (10) New XTO Permits In The Bakken

Remember this story over at Seeking Alpha this past week: ExxonMobil's 570,000 acres going into development mode? The very next day, June 5, 2014, XTO was granted ten (10) new permits in the Bakken -- I think that might be a record or a near-record for XTO for the number of new permits in one day.

These are the ten (10) new permits:

• 28544, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9A, Cedar Coulee,
• 28545, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9E, Cedar Coulee,
• 28546, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9B, Cedar Coulee,
• 28547, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9F, Cedar Coulee,
• 28548, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9C, Cedar Coulee,
• 28549, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9G, Cedar Coulee,
• 28550, loc, XTO, Schettler 14X-9D, Cedar Coulee,
• 28551, loc, XTO, HM Hove 34X-33C, Cedar Coulee,
• 28552, loc, XTO, HM Hove 34X-33G, Cedar Coulee,
• 28553, loc, XTO, HM Hove 34X-33D, Cedar Coulee,

Every section in the entire Cedar Coulee oil field has at least one producing horizontal well ... with one exception, section 9-147-96. That one section really stands out on the GIS server map. There are wells sited in this section but no horizontal laterals run through this section. That changes with these six XTO Schettler wells. 

The Hove wells will be in section 33-155-96 where this is but one other horizontal, from a well sited in the section to the north:

• 17823, 617, XTO, Smouse 31X-28, West Capa, 9 stages, 726,000 lbs proppant, t7/09; cum 79K 4/14;