Location Of EOG's Mont Well Pad -- West-Northwest Of Williston -- November 8, 2017

More on this later.

EOG has permits for four more wells on this pad. Based on their nomenclature, they will run north to south.

Two graphics:

The existing well:

• 19409, 761, EOG, Mont 3-3403H, Painted Woods, t6/11; cum 215K 9/17; location: Lot1 34-155-102, 270 FNL 1320 FWL

The new permits:

• #34263 - EOG RESOURCES, INC., MONT 12-3404H, LOT1 34-155N-102W, WILLIAMS CO., 280' FNL AND 1173' FWL, DEVELOPMENT, PAINTED WOODS, 20663', 9-5/8 INCH , 2292' GROUND, API #33-105-04624
• #34264 - EOG RESOURCES, INC., MONT 13-3403H, LOT1 34-155N-102W, WILLIAMS CO., 280' FNL AND 1273' FWL, DEVELOPMENT, PAINTED WOODS, 20652', 9-5/8 INCH , 2291' GROUND, API #33-105-04625
• #34265 - EOG RESOURCES, INC., MONT 14-3403H, LOT2 34-155N-102W, WILLIAMS CO., 280' FNL AND 1373' FWL, DEVELOPMENT, PAINTED WOODS, 20462', 9-5/8 INCH , 2291' GROUND, API #33-105-04626
• #34266 - EOG RESOURCES, INC., MONT 102-3403H, LOT2 34-155N-102W, WILLIAMS CO., 280' FNL AND 1423' FWL, DEVELOPMENT, PAINTED WOODS, 20512', 9-5/8 INCH , 2291' GROUND, API #33-105-04627

Comments:

• I normally don't think of EOG being this far west of Williston. This is great news for mineral owners out in that area
• good operators keep looking for new locations -- and even though EOG already has one well out here, it is obvious they are interested in more than just the Parshall oil field in the Bakken
• I've always assumed operators number their "plans" chronologically, starting with #1 and moving up from there; I don't think they number them randomly; note the chronological numbers in the four new permits: #12, #13, and #14. That suggests to me that EOG has plans for at least 14 middle Bakken Mont wells -- not that they will all be drilled, but they have file folders for at least fourteen Mont middle Bakken wells; jumping to #102 suggests a different target horizon, most likely the upper Three Forks; for me this means at least two Three Forks wells (I assume many, many more)