The Hess GO-Ron Viall Wells In Wheelock, Northeast Of Williston

A reader wrote that he was interested in the Ron Viall wells in the Wheelock field northeast of Williston. The reader wrote:

I see Hess is becoming more active drilling in the Bakken. I am curious as to what plans Crescent and Hess have with this spacing unit. Crescent must have won the dispute hearing with Hess because they [Crescent] pulled 4 permits on 156-98-25 which is leased by Hess.  

Several comments:

• Hess has become much more active over the past several years and Hess is reporting very, very good wells;
• I've not followed Crescent closely enough to know for sure, but it's my anecdotal impression, Hess is getting better wells than Crescent but I could be very wrong;
• the wells/permits are still confidential, but everything I see suggests Crescent will be drilling standard Bakken two-mile, 1280-acre horizontals, to the south, completely within Wheelock; whereas,
• Hess will be drilling three-mile, 1920-acre horizontals, to the north, also completely within Wheelock;
• the graphics:
  
• the NDIC map shows the 1280-acre spacing unit and the overlapping 1920-acre spacing unit;
• the Hess well names include "2513" which indicates sections 25, 24, 13, drilling to the north;
• the two Hess wells PNC'd were "2524" which would have been sections 25 and 24
• I haven't paid attention to Crescent naming schemes so I can't comment but nothing suggests anything other than two-section spacing/drilling for these Crescent wells;
• I didn't listen to the hearing so I don't know why NDIC granted the permits to Crescent rather than Hess, but I can guess. I've seen this before. 
• hopefully a reader will comment, adding more granularity and correcting me where I'm wrong.
  

The graphics:

The Hess wells:

• 38686, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-1, Wheelock,
• 38685, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-2, Wheelock,
• 38684, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-3, Wheelock,
• 38683, conf, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2513H-4, Wheelock,
• 23316, PNC, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2524H-3, Wheelock,
• 23315, PNC, Hess, GO-Ron Viall-156-98-2524H-2, Wheelock,
• 17843, 1,981, Hess, Ron Viall 1-25H, Wheelock, t5/10; cum 244K 10/22; just went off line:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2022	27	701	929	1298	5381	5135	13
BAKKEN	9-2022	30	1020	895	2012	7458	7168	17
BAKKEN	8-2022	31	1546	1855	1872	8746	8455	0
BAKKEN	7-2022	29	1235	1162	1262	2947	2708	0
BAKKEN	6-2022	30	1700	1679	1610	2193	1942	0
BAKKEN	5-2022	4	422	483	231	253	216	0
BAKKEN	4-2022	6	240	281	370	603	550	0
BAKKEN	3-2022	15	1245	1219	827	2405	2276	0
BAKKEN	2-2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2022	28	571	458	521	1574	1310	0
BAKKEN	12-2021	31	814	897	739	2245	1962	0
BAKKEN	11-2021	30	892	928	869	2197	1915	0
BAKKEN	10-2021	29	941	920	767	2500	2234	0

The maps: