Locator: 51817B.
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NDIC Hearing Dockets
Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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Case #31888: reminder -- this is a case and not a permit --
Fifteen wells in a four-section spacing unit works out to the standard seven- to eight-well pad in a 1280-acre spacing unit.
Application of XTO Energy Inc. for an order amending the field rules for the Bear Creek-Bakken Pool and/or Corral Creek-Bakken Pool, Dunn County, ND, as follows:
(1) create and establish a 2560-acre spacing unit comprised of Sections 29, 30, 31 and 32, T.148N., R.95W., authorizing the drilling of a total not to exceed fifteen horizontal wells on said proposed 2560-spacing unit; and,
(2) terminate two existing 1280-acre spacing units comprised of Sections 30 and 31; and Sections 29 and 32, T.148N., R.95W., authorizing the drilling of a well on each existing 1280-acre spacing unit, and/or such further relief.
Existing: an 8-well pad in section 36-148-96, just outside this new 2560-acre spacing unit.
- 30829, 1,221, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36A, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 705K 7/26;
- 30830, 485, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36E, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 268K 7/26;
- 30831, 963, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36B, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 535K 7/26;
- 30832, 245, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36A, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 464K 7/26;
- 30833, 630, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36G, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 360K 7/26;
- 30834, 326, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36D, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 387K 7/26;
- 30835, 408, XTO, TAT State Federal 14X-36H, Bear Creek, t7/17/ cum 560K 7/26;
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