So, How Did This Happen? Closer Look At A New Case For Nine Wells In One Drilling Unit In The February, 2020, Hearing Dockets: New Operator In The Bakken -- January 24, 2020

Maroon Bells Partners: expanding the Bakken Core website.  From the website:

Our company was formed in 2018, but has been focused on the Bakken since the beginning of the boom in 2011. Our firsthand knowledge of the rock, the people, and the infrastructure that make up this play combined with our passion for the Bakken and over 25 years of engineering experience have produced a team strongly suited and ready to develop a Bakken asset. 

The team: 

• J.D. Diamantopoulos: co-founder; 12-year career as a reservoir engineer with ExxonMobil/XTO; seven years specifically dedicated to the Bakken play;
• Billy Beery, co-founder; 14 years in various petroleum engineering disciplines; XTO's senior drilling engineer, personally overseeing XTO's growth in activity from 2 to 16 rigs during the Bakken boom;

Maroon Bells? see this site and this wiki site.

Maroon Bells not yet listed as an operator over at the "well search" site at the NDIC.

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The Case

The February, 2020, hearing dockets posted here.

The case:

• 28256, Maroon Bells Partners, Ross-Bakken, a 1920-acre unit; nine wells; sections 32/33/34-156-90; Mountrail County;

The graphics: