Enerplus' "Lithophile Element" Pad -- No Longer Three Forks -- Now The Middle Bakken -- June 11, 2020

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Active rigs:

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Enerplus re-names four wells on its "Lithophile Element" pad in Dunn County. You may recall this from the daily activity report of May 19, 2020:

Four new permits, #37583 - #37586, inclusive --

• Operator: Enerplus
• Field: Moccasin Creek (Dunn)
• Comments:
• Enerplus has four permits for its first "Lithophile Element" pad in section 16-147-93, Moccasin Creek oil field; all 9' FNL; all about 700' FEL
• this is already a very, very busy drilling unit with eight wells currently in production, to the west of where these new horizontals will run; 
• see graphic at the link above

Well, it turns out, Enerplus has re-named all these wells.  Based on their original names, these wells were all going to target the Three Forks. With their name changes, it appears Enerplus has changed the target to the middle Bakken for these four wells:

• 37583, loc, Enerplus, Beryllium....-09D-04H, Dunn County,
• 37584, loc, Enerplus, Niobium....-09D-04H, Dunn County,
• 37585, loc, Enerplus, Yttrium....-16A-21H, Dunn County,
• 37586, loc, Enerplus, Cesium 147-93-16A-21H-LL, Dunn County,

Koda completed a SWD:

• 90476, SWD, Koda Resources, Stoug 29 SWD 1, Divide County