CLR Surprises With A Pair Of Huge Wells Near The Canadian Border -- October 19, 2025

Locator: 49446B.

The sister wells on a two-well pad, coming off confidential list this next week: 

• 41823, conf, CLR, Kleist 4-35HSL, Upland, section line well:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
8-2025	41467	37273
7-2025	7404	7240

• 41622, conf, CLR, Kleist 3-35H, Upland, 

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
8-2025	41075	38857
7-2025	10545	10988

According to AI:

Permits: 

Three-section / three-mile horizontals / laterals.

The maps:

Why I Love To Blog, Reason #1 -- Now I Know What All The Excitement Was About -- Updating Nine Point Energy' Wells In Eightmile -- May 30, 2020

This is really, really cool, on so many levels. I actually missed this story for several days, maybe weeks, but with time on my hands today, I decided to take a look. 

At the sidebar at the right, there is an app that posts the top ten trending posts. Most top trending posts are recent posts, but when an "old" post rises to the top, it's time to take a look.

See this post. The original post was January 28, 2020. At that time, the most recent production data was for the month 11/19. At that time all completed wells were producing.

It is strange to see a post this old to be trending among the top ten. So, let's take a look.

Well, well, well. What do we see? The producing wells at the time of the original post are now all off line; and, the wells that were on "drl" status are now producing and have moved to the conf list. And finally the wells that were producing a small amount back in November, 2019, are now into full production.

So, now we know. The mom-and-pop mineral rights owners were checking into see what was going on. They must have received their royalty checks. Whoo-hoo!

There are so many story lines here:

• first, of course, the royalty checks for small mineral owners;
• second, once the price oil "comes back," the checks will be bigger;
• third, this opens up an entire new area for E&P;
• fourth, hopefully Nine Point Energy can hang through this downturn; they've been through this once before;  
• fifth, the tenacity, the persistence, the git 'er done attitude of oil men and women; and, 
• probably a lot more.

By the way,  a huge apology for failing to get this posted. I completely missed it. I'm sure a lot of mineral owners were upset with my delay in getting this posted. I learned a lesson.

The wells:

• 34783, 1,004, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-1H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 190K 11/19; a 24K month; now, 221K 3/20; only seven days 3/20; remains off line 4/20;
  
• 34784, 1,098, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-2H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 207K 11/19; a 30K month; off line 11/19; remains off line 4/20;
  
• 34785, 1,083, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-3H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 241K 11/19; a 24K month; off line 11/19; remains off line 4/20;

• 34786, drl-->conf, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-4H, Eightmile, 

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	11917	2886
  3-2020	739	0

• 34787, drl-->conf, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-5H, Eightmile,
  

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	16907	6850
  3-2020	697	466

• 34788, drl, drl-->conf, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-6H, Eightmile,

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	16535	7390
  3-2020	35	13

• 36157, 895, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-12H, Eightmile, t12/19; cum 105K 4/20;
  
  

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  3-2020	17389	0
  2-2020	15701	0
  1-2020	26216	0
  12-2019	30245	0
  11-2019	19	0



• 36156, 1,018, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-11H, 80 stages; 13 million lbs; some ceramic; proposed 1600 acres (sections 10, 11 &E2/9-152-103); TD = 24,263 feet; lateral drilled in 64 hours; length of lateral, 12,840 feet; curve, 820 feet drilled in 13 hours; vertical (big rig), 1,700 feet drilled in 17 hours; gas: averaged 1,233 units in the lateral; maxed out at 7,013 units; Eightmile, t12/19; cum 106K 4/20;
  
  

  Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
  BAKKEN	3-2020	31	23032	22538	61899	25306	0	25306
  BAKKEN	2-2020	24	10121	10304	32366	11323	0	11323
  BAKKEN	1-2020	31	20653	20661	60923	15769	0	15769
  BAKKEN	12-2019	30	25642	25921	76274	26702	0	26702
  BAKKEN	11-2019	9	7582	6950	48719	2373	0	2373



• 36155, 983, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-110H, 80 stages; 13 million lbs; some ceramic; proposed 1600 acres (sections 10, 11 &E2/9-152-103); TD = 24,263 feet; Eightmile, t11/19; cum 118K 4/20;
  
  

  Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
  BAKKEN	3-2020	28	19982	19612	55898	26359	0	26359
  BAKKEN	2-2020	27	12408	12512	36613	13415	0	13415
  BAKKEN	1-2020	31	18163	18253	56928	24050	0	24050
  BAKKEN	12-2019	31	28579	29697	72341	32286	0	32286
  BAKKEN	11-2019	24	18117	16605	58555	11698	0	11698

• 37259, drl, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-4-11-9H, Eightmile,
• 37258, rig-on-site (January, 2020)-->drl, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-4-11-8H, Eightmile, 

The graphics:

June 10, 2020:

May 30, 2020:

 

The Enerplus Patriot Pad Wells Have Been Updated -- May 18, 2020

Production data for the Enerplus Patriot pad wells has been updated several times. I finally got my act together on this pad. The production data and the wells will be updated at this post.

These are extended long laterals, or super-long laterals or 3-section laterals, whatever one wants to call them. These are incredibly good wells. One is approaching 700,000 bbls of oil, cumulative since 2014.

Note: three of the four wells are 3-section laterals; one of the four is a standard two-section lateral. Based on cumulative production, one can guess as to the standard two-section lateral.

What's Going On Out In Eightmile? Nine Point Energy Active -- January 28, 2020

Updates

September 21, 2020:

• 34788, drl/A, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-6H, Eightmile, no production data,
• 34787, drl/A, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-5H, Eightmile, no production data,
• 34786, drl/A, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-2H, Eightmile, producing, 54K over 4.5 months; see this post;
  

May 30, 2020: these wells have been updated here; at a later date this post will be updated but I want folks to see what this looked like back in November, and compare to that to the update at the link. Updated graphic:

Original Post

Eightmile oil field is southwest of Williston, heading out toward Montana, north of the river. I would consider this immediate area Tier 2, maybe Tier 3, based on historic activity. But all of a sudden, a bit of activity.

The wells:

• 34783, 1,004, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-1H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 221K 3/20; a 24K month; off line 3/20; remains off line 4/20;
• 34784, 1,098, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-2H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 207K 11/19; a 30K month; off line 11/19; remains off line 4/20;
• 34785, 1,083, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-3H, Eightmile, t11/18; cum 242K 11/19; a 24K month; off line 11/19; remains off line 4/20;
  

• 34786, drl, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-4H, Eightmile,

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	11917	2886
  3-2020	739	0

• 34787, drl, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-5H, Eightmile,

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	16907	6850
  3-2020	697	466

• 34788, drl, Nine Point Energy, Missouri 152-103-4-2-6H, Eightmile,

  Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
  4-2020	16535	7390
  3-2020	35	13

• 36157, 895, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-12H, Eightmile, t12/19; cum 105K 4/20;
• 36156, 1,018, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-11H, Eightmile, producing, 7K in first report; unknown number of days; t12/19; cum 106K 4/20;
• 36155, 983, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-110H, Eightmile, producing, 17K in first report; unknown number of days; t11/19; cum 118K 4/20;

• 37259, drl, Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-9H, Eightmile,
• 37258, rig-on-site (January, 2020), Nine Point Energy, S Missouri 152-103-9-11-8H, Eightmile,

Graphics:

CLR's Rath Federal Wells In The Sanish -- November 28, 2016

The Brangus, Rath Federal, Maryland, and Nashville wells were highlighted in CLR's most recent corporate presentation. I delayed reporting them until a reader sent me a reminder -- a big "thank you" to the reader. The Brangus, Maryland, and Nashville pads are posted at separate posts.

Nine CLR Rath Federal wells in the Sanish field (original post back in September, 2016):

• 31675, SI/NC-->SI/AB, CRL, Rath Federal 10-22H1, Sanish, no production data, TD = 21,034;
• 31676, 2,028, CLR, Rath Federal 11-22H, Sanish, t10/17; cum 272K 4/20; TD = 25,370 ; off line 5/20; back on line 8/20; cum 305K 5/21;
  
• 31677, 405, CLR, Rath Federal 12-22H2, Sanish, t10/17; cum 400K 5/20; TD = 25,700; a directional component? see graphic below; cum 435K 5/21;
  
• 31678, 1,424, CLR, Rath Federal 13-22H, Sanish, t10/17; cum 397K 4/20; TD = 25,495; off line 5/20; back on line 8/20; cum 468K 5/21;
  
• 31670, 2,063, CLR, Rath Federal 5-22H, Sanish, 62 stages, 14 million lbs, t8/16; cum 445K 5/20; TD = 25,266; was off-line for seven months; cum 490K 5/21;
  
• 31671, 1,486, CRL, Rath Federal 6-22H1, Sanish, 25K first full month, TD = 25,416; t9/17; cum 367K 5/20; cum 411K 5/21;
  
• 31672, 2,063, CRL, Rath Federal 7-22H, Sanish, 34K first full month, TD = 25,305; t8/16; cum 261K 4/20; off line 5/20; back on line 8/20; cum 292K 52/1;
• 31673, 2,031, CRL, Rath Federal 8-22H2, Sanish, 36K first full month, TD = 25,500; t9/17; cum 535K 5/20; cum 591K 6/21;
• 31674, 1,808, CRL, Rath Federal 9-22H, Sanish, 34K first full month TD = 25,322; t9/17; cum 323K 4/20; off line 5/20; back on line 8/20; cum 342K 5/21;
  

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31670, see above, CRL, Rath Federal 13-22H, Sanish, easily exceeding a 900,000 bbl-EUR type curve (per CLR corporate presentation, data as of 9/6/16):

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
12-2016	18847	0
11-2016	22496	0
10-2016	26521	0
9-2016	30540	0
8-2016	21041	0

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A Blow-Out In The Bakken, Under Control; Contained For The Most Part; Fairly Good Size; No Injuries -- September 1, 2015

I missed this one; a reader alerted me to it. Reuters is reporting:

A North Dakota oil well owned by Exxon Mobil subsidiary XTO Energy blew out on Saturday, leaking more than 550 barrels (23,100 gallons) of crude, some of which left the wellpad and seeped into surrounding grasses.

The well, located in a rural area 25 miles southeast of Watford City, was being hydraulic fractured when its pressure control valves failed and it leaked the oil and about 110 barrels (4,620) of saltwater.

The well was brought under control on Sunday morning. No one was injured.

The well, Deep Creek Federal 43X-5D (#30042), is located on the same drilling pad as four other wells and was first drilled on April 25.

This is on a 5-well pad. Two were older wells, completed some time ago. Two new wells are on the pad, and one of them was one that had the blowout.

A quick look at the other two older wells on the pad: one had a minimal geologist's report; the other has a pretty in-depth report. Background gases jumped up to over 8,000 during various pipe connections. That's fairly high pressure in the Bakken, but not unusual. If there are no equipment failures, it seems operators deal with these pressures without incident ....

... the reader that alerted me to the story had some thoughts/insights on background. There is no question the operator will study this very, very hard and will learn more about the Bakken if it turns out that all equipment and parts (valves, etc) were in good working order and that all procedures were followed. 

The size of the blowout is a fairly significant: 550 bbls. Significant in terms of getting one's attention if one was on-site or in the area to observe it. The typical storage tank on-site in the Bakken is 400 bbls.

Disclaimer: my maps may have mistakes. If this information is important to you, go to the source: Reuters and the NDIC.

XTO's Propsed Five-Well JMB Pad In Capa Oil Field -- August 31, 2015

XTO has five new permits in Capa oil field, Williams County.

I'll come back to this later, but note the triple lateral about a mile away to the southeast. The Bakken never fails to surprise.

I already know how the roughnecks will refer to this 5-well pad. 

Random Update Of Honor, Grace, Courage, And Pride (Enerplus) In Spotted Horn -- January 11, 2015

Updates

February 6, 2020: Enerplus' Pride well updated here.  

Original Post

Original Post: Honor, Grace, Courage, and Pride

• 23541, 1,545, Enerplus, Honor 150-94-06B-18H TF, Spotted Horn, Three Forks, 59 stages; 14 million lbs sand, 1280 acres, t6/14; cum 705K 12/20; three-section lateral; t6/14; cum 737K 11/21;
  

NDIC File No: 23541    
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 6/7/2014     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: LOT3 6-150-94     Latitude: 47.846805     Longitude: -102.760842
Current Operator: ENERPLUS RESOURCES USA CORPORATION
Current Well Name: HONOR 150-94-06B-18H TF
Total Depth: 25465     Field: SPOTTED HORN
Spud Date(s):  10/8/2013
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Perfs: 113650-25465     Comp: 6/7/2014     Status: AL     Date: 6/15/2015    Spacing: ICO
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 165,895     Cum MCF Gas: 197341     Cum Water: 93937
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 6/20/2014     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 1,545     IP MCF: 2268     IP Water: 1130

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	29043	28811	10852	33034	26377	6656
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	30846	31376	12558	36357	36357	0
BAKKEN	9-2014	9	8882	8380	3450	8887	8887	0
BAKKEN	8-2014	27	27549	28175	12395	29831	29831	0
BAKKEN	7-2014	31	38361	37891	18537	42065	42065	0
BAKKEN	6-2014	24	31214	30649	36145	47167	47167	0

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23542, 1,007, Enerplus, Grace 150-94-06B-07H, Spotted Horn, t2/13; cum 371K 12/20;TD -20,753 feet, two section lateral; cum 389K 11/21;

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	7336	7070	2347	3554	1655	1899
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	8419	8384	3025	4399	4399	0
BAKKEN	9-2014	9	2750	2940	998	72	72	0
BAKKEN	8-2014	27	7291	7116	3782	2257	2257	0
BAKKEN	7-2014	26	4741	4501	4286	2413	2413	0
BAKKEN	6-2014	24	2675	2888	9088	429	429	0
BAKKEN	5-2014	5	353	473	851	289	289	0
BAKKEN	4-2014	3	1229	1197	18	723	723	0
BAKKEN	3-2014	25	7611	7649	2023	6739	6739	0
BAKKEN	2-2014	3	1165	927	256	605	605	0
BAKKEN	1-2014	8	2801	3066	668	2011	2011	0
BAKKEN	12-2013	23	6062	5954	1791	8292	8292	0
BAKKEN	11-2013	29	8627	8456	3011	17795	17795	0
BAKKEN	10-2013	25	10728	10738	3885	16559	16559	0
BAKKEN	9-2013	18	4622	4912	1610	6309	6309	0
BAKKEN	8-2013	19	9679	9414	3686	12893	12893	0
BAKKEN	7-2013	24	10816	10866	2909	15783	15783	0
BAKKEN	6-2013	30	10949	11023	2831	13164	13164	0
BAKKEN	5-2013	31	12944	12875	3478	15585	15585	0
BAKKEN	4-2013	30	13335	13486	4751	17897	17897	0
BAKKEN	3-2013	31	22405	22494	8613	13443	0	13443
BAKKEN	2-2013	17	13308	12674	13324	7985	0	7985

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26608, 1,601, Enerplus, Courage 150-94-06A-18H, Spotted Horn, t6/14; cum 655K 12/20; TD - 25,023 feet, three section lateral; 42K extrapolates to 54K over 30 days; cum 675K 11/21;

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	24385	24202	8135	27254	22892	4362
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	30672	30734	12125	36316	36316	0
BAKKEN	9-2014	9	6773	6493	6301	6904	6904	0
BAKKEN	8-2014	27	28626	28867	10046	31727	31727	0
BAKKEN	7-2014	31	38494	38431	16628	42388	42388	0
BAKKEN	6-2014	23	41464	40920	34773	35671	35671	0

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26609, 1,703, Enerplus Resources, Pride 150-94-06A-18H TF, t10/14; cum 564K 12/20; TD = 25,431 feet, three section lateral; cum 590K 11/21;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2014	29278	27725
10-2014	44575	53816
9-2014	7973	8893

The Enerplus Patriot Pad: Honor, Grace, Courage, And Pride

Updates

October 3, 2024: production updated. 

September 25, 2021: production updated. 

May 18, 2020: production data updated. This is where these wells will be tracked going forward. 

January 12, 2015: the production numbers for these four wells have been updated elsewhere. The original post may or may not be updated going forward.
 

Original Post

Enerplus Resources has a well pad in the Spotted Horn oil field with some interesting well names.

I've always assumed Spotted Horn was named after Chief Spotted Horn of the Assiniboine mentioned in the journal of Rudolph Friedrich Kurz, 1851 - 1852. Families names and genealogy of native Americans have always been a challenge for me, and if I do not read of their history on a regular basis, I forget the history.

Be that as it may, as I was saying has interesting names for four new wells in Spotted Horn oil field:

• 23541,1,545, Enerplus Resources, Honor 150-94-06B-18H TF, Spotted Horn, t6/14; cum 704K 12/20; off line 5/20; returned to production 9/20; cum 726K 7/21; cum 748K 4/22; cum 766K 12/22; cum 788K 8/23; off line; new wells on pad being fracked;
  
• 23542, 1,007, Enerplus Resources, Grace 150-94-06B-07H, Spotted Horn, t2/13; cum 371K 12/20; of the four, this is the only standard two-section lateral; the other three are the much-talked about, seldom-seen three-section laterals; was off line 4/20; but seems to be back on line 5/20; cum 382K 7/21; cum 396K 4/22; cum 410K 12/22; cum 426K 11/23; off line; new wells on pad being fracked;
• 26608, 1,601, Enerplus Resources, Courage 150-94-06A-18H, Spotted Horn, t6/14; cum 655K 12/20; cum 669K 7/21; cum 682K 4/22; cum 697K 12/22; um 716K 11/23; new wells on pad being fracked;
• 26609, 1,703, Enerplus Resources, Pride 150-94-06A-18H TF, Spotted Horn, t10/14; cum 564K 12/20; was off line 4/20 but seems to be back on line 5/20; cum 575K 7/21; cum 605K 4/22; cum 635K 12/22; cum 661K 11/23; new wells on pad being fracked;
• 40432, 2,539, Enerplus, Fearless 150-94-06A-18H-LL, appears to have been complete 8/24;
  

By the way, there was a "Mrs Spotted Horn Bull," a Hunkpapa Sioux who provided a fascinating oral history of that fateful day in June, 1876.