Summary Of The May, 2019, NDIC Hearing Dockets

NDIC posts the hearing dockets here.

Dockets are tracked here.

The usual disclaimer applies. As usual this is done very quickly and using shorthand for my benefit. There will be factual and typographical errors on this page. Do not quote me on any of this. It's for my personal use to help me better understand the Bakken. Do not read it. If you do happen to read it, do not make any investment, financial, job, relationship, or travel plans based on anything you read here or think you may have read here. If this stuff is important to you, and I doubt that it is, but if it is, go to the source.

Note: the overlapping units are getting larger and larger; the units are often composed of smaller-than-full sections; it's difficult to abbreviate the description and/or visualize the overlapping unit; expect many typographical errors in the summary below; if this is important to you, go to the source.

See more at this post regarding case #27556.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

One continuation case, #26073. 

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 -- Six Pages

27517, Oasis, Enget Lake-Bakken, establish two 1920-acre units; 12 wells on each unit; Mountrail
27518, Kraken Operating, Oliver-Bakken, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit; one well; Williams County
27519, Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC, Manitou-Bakken; establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit; one well; Mountrail County
27520, Hess Bakken Investments II, LLC, Big Bulch and/or Cedar Coulee-Bakken; establish an overlapping 2560-are unit; one well; Dunn County
27521, Hess, Tioga-Bakken, relief from 1220-foot setback policy for a specific well; Mountrail County
27522, True Oil LLC, Red Wing Creek-Madison, setback rules, McKenzie County
27523, Bruin E&P, treaters at the wellhead or wellheads at the Missouri Pad in section 14-152-94; McKenzie County
27524, Petro-Hunt, Charlson-Bakken, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit; one well; McKenzie
27525, EnvinoVault, indirect flameless tank heating unit; tank farm,
27526, Petro-Hunt, West Ambrose-Bakken; four wells on a standup 1280-acre unit; Divide County
27527, Petro-Hunt, Alexandria-Bakken, four wells on each of two standup 1280-acre units; Divide
27528, Hess, commingling
27529, Hess, commingling
27530, Hess, Alkali Creek-Bakken, fifteen wells on a standup 1280-acre unit, sections 25/36-154-94, Mountrail County; see this post;
27531, Hess, pooling
27532, Hess, pooling
27533, Whiting, pooling
27534, Whiting, pooling
27535, Whiting, pooling
27536, Whiting, pooling
27537, Whiting, pooling
25738, Whiting, pooling
27539, Whiting, pooling
27540, Whiting, pooling
27541, Whiting, pooling
27542, Whiting, pooling
27543, Whiting, pooling
27544, Whiting, pooling
27545, BR, commingling
27546, Bruin E&P, pooling
27547, Petro Harvester, SWD

Thursday, May 23, 2019 -- Ten Pages

27548, NDIC, review the TA status of the Cobra Oil well, #1 Sagaser, file #9920, Temple Field, Williams County
27549, NDIC, consider appropriate spacing for wells completed in Lost Bridge-Bakken, in the 2560-acre unit, 7/18/19/30-148-96; Dunn County
27550, XTO, Haystack Butte-Bakken, amend, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit; 20/21/28/29-149-97; one well; McKenzie County
27551, North Range Resources, LLC, authorize recompletion of the Duncan Federal 30-24 well (file #6959), Scairt Woman Field; into the Duperow Formation; section 30-145-99, McKenzie County
27552, Newfield, South Tobacco Garden-Bakken, amend, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit, 28/29/32/33-150-99, one section line well; McKenzie
27553, Liberty Resources, East Tioga-Bakken; allow one lease-line well on the east-west orientation, rather than a north-south orientation on an existing overlapping 2560-acre unit; also, for the White Earth and/or East Tioga-Bakken, i) establish two overlapping laydown 1280-acre units; 25/26- and 35/36-158-94, 8 wells on each; ii) amend, decrease the number of wells on an existing standup 1280-acre unit, 25/36-158-94, from eight wells to one well; and, iii) terminate an existing standup 1280-acre unit, 26/35-158-94; all in Mountrail County
27554, WPX, Spotted Horn-Bakken, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit, 15/16/21/22-150-94; one well; McKenzie County
27555, Slawson, Big Bend-Bakken, i) establish an overlapping 2240-acre unit, 10/11/12-151-92 and 7-151-92; seven wells; ii) establish an overlapping 5120-acre unit, 24/25/36-152-92; 19/30/31-152-91; 1-151-92; and, 6-151-91, fifteen wells on that overlapping 5120-acre unit; iii) decrease the number of wells on each existing 1280-acre unit, 24/25-152-92; and 19/30-152-91, from ten wells to three wells; v) decrease the number of wells from ten to six on the existing 1600-acre unit, 10/11/12-151-92; v) decrease the number of wells from two north/south orientation section line wells to one north/south section line well; vi) decrease the number of wells from eleven wells to ten wells on an existing 3200-acre unit, 36-152-92; 31-152-91; 1-151-92; and, 6/7-151-91; Mountrail County
27556, Slawson, Parshall-Bakken; i) establish three overlapping 1920-acre units, E/2-20/21/22/W/2-23/W/2-26/27/28/E/2-29;33/34/35-151-91; twenty wells on each of those three 1920-acre units (60 wells in all) -- see this post; ii) establish two overlapping 3840-acre units, E/2-20 and 29/ 21/22/27/28, and W/2-23 and 26; 26/27/28/33/34/35-151-91, two wells; iii) decrease the number of wells from 22 to two wells on an existing 1280-acre unit, 34/35-151-91; iv) decrease the number of wells on each of two 1600-acre units, 21/22/W/2-23; and W/2-26, 27/28-151-92, from 22 wells to two wells; Mountrail County
27557, Iron Oil Operating, Bear Butte-Bakken, i) establish two overlapping 1920-acre units, 3/10/15-148-101; and 4/9/16-148-101; multiple horizontal wells on each unit; ii) decrease the number of wells from seven to one on each of two existing 1280-acre units; 3/10-148-101; and 3/9-148-101; McKenzie County
27558, CLR, Haystack Butte-Bakken, a drilling of a section line well on an existing 2560-acre unit; Dunn County
27559, Whiting, revoking case #27089, the application of Kraken Oil & Gas, amending the field rules for the Sanish-Bakken as follows: i) establish four overlapping 1280-acre units with fourteen wells on each of these units; 21/28-154-92; 29/30-154-92; 31/32-154-92; and 33/34-154-92; ii) establish two overlapping 1920-acre unit, fourteen wells on each of these two units; 15/22/27-154-92; and 3/4/5-153-92; Mountrail County
27560, Nine Point Energy; revoke the Stallion 33-28 XW 1H well (#35841); Ragged Butte-Bakken; or alternatively designating Nine Point Energy as the operator for the well; McKenzie County
27561, WPX, pooling
27562, CLR, pooling
27563, CLR, Pershing-Bakken, two section line wells; of each of two 2560-acre units, 13/24-150-97 and 18/19-150-96; 25/36-150-97; McKenzie County
27564, RimRock Oil & Gas, pooling
27565, XTO, pooling
27566, XTO, pooling
27565, XTO, pooling
27568, XTO, pooling
27569, Slawson, pooling
27570, Slawson, commingling
27571, Newfield, pooling
27572, Newfield, pooling
27573, Newfield, pooling
27574, Equinor, Williston-Bakken, nine wells on an existing 1280-acre unit; 3/10-154-100; Williams County
27575, WPX, commingling
27576, WPX, commingling
27577, Crescent Point Energy, SWD, file #33755 conversion, Williams County
27578,  Dakota Fluid Solutions, SWD
27579, Nine Point Energy, two SWD wells, Williams County