EOG's Request For Drilling In Squaw Creek-Bakken -- September 3, 2018

From the September, 2018, hearing dockets:

26916, EOG, alter the definition of the stratigraphic limits for the Squaw Creek-Bakken, for the existing 1280-acre unit as described; to allow all future wells to be drilled in the stratigraphc interval from 50 feet above the top of the Bakken formation to above the top of the Birdbear formation; McKenzie County.

See stratigraphic map (linked at the sidebar at the right), here.  

Screenshot here for North Dakota Bakken:

I'm not sure what this is all about. Perhaps a reader can help me understand the nuances of this request. I don't subscribe to the NDIC rulings of these cases, so I might miss the outcome.