Reader Has Question About New Overlapping 2560-Acre Unit In Big Butte -- December 3, 2018

A reader asked this question. It came in as a comment but because it had his e-mail address, etc, I did not post the comment.

Here was the reader's question: The following was on the ND Dockets for Nov 2018:

Case No. 27030: Application of Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC for an order amending the applicable orders for the Big Butte-Bakken Pool to establish an overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit described as Sections 13 and 24, T.157N., R.94W. and Sections 18 and 19, T.157N., R.93W., Mountrail County, ND, and authorize one horizontal well to be drilled on such unit, and for such other relief as may be appropriate. 

Do you know if the drilling of the one horizontal well is on any timeframe ?

My reply: unfortunately I don't have any information. The only way I will know is when I see a permit issued for that drilling unit.

This is the area we are talking about: