Closer Look At Four Stand-Up 1280-Acre Drilling Units Proposed By Hess For 48 Horizontal Wells -- February 24, 2019

From the March, 2019, NDIC hearing dockets, this single case (again, this is a case, not a permit):

• 27361, Hess, Tioga-Bakken, establish four stand-up 1280-acre units (5/8; 6/7; 17/20; and 18/19-158-94); 12 wells in each; 48 wells total; Mountrail

The graphic:

Four stand-up 1280-acre units:

• 12 wells in each of these units

So, pop quiz: what do you notice about these four 1280-acre units? Or what do these four units have in common? Later, the answer: not one of the four 1280-acre units has an active Bakken horizontal well. Generally we see an initial "exploratory" well before jumping into 12 wells for a drilling unit.

By the way, on another note, #345 (in the southwest drilling unit highlighted above) is a monster Madison well:

• 345, 504/PNA, Hess, Tioga-Madison Unit L-144, Tioga, t8/53; cum 2.1 million bbls; 5/07; it produced oil from 1953 to 2007 (54 years) 

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