The Enerplus Lind Wells And Hamilton Wells In Dunn County Are Now Reported As Producing Or Plugged -- December 2, 2025

The Enerplus Lind and Hamilton wells are tracked here.

These wells will come off confidential April 22 - April 26, 2026, link here.

From the daily activity report, #19396, dated December 2, 2025:

Reader Has Questions About The Brakken FIU Wells -- November 8, 2025

With regard to the CLR Brakken FIU wells, a reader asks two questions:

1. On the 'North Dakota Industrial Commission Permits Approved' listing of the four new Brakken FIU wells, why does the legal description show McKenzie County instead of Williams County? 

2. And after each well, there is the wording "location outside of spacing unit". What does this mean? 

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My reply follows. This was done quickly and has not been proofread. There will be typographical and content errors, but will be corrected when found.

The answers to the two questions: 

The first question is easy to answer: like all Bakken shale wells, the Brakken FIU wells are horizontal laterals. The wells are sited in section 7 of T153N-R100W, just south of the river (a few miles east of Indian Hill) and thus sited in McKenzie County, and that's why their legal description is McKenzie County, not Williams County.

The wells are horizontal wells and the horizontal laterals run north (three sections long) and the bottom hole -- where the horizontal laterals end -- is in the CATWALK OIL FIELD, section 30  of T154N-R100W on the north side of the river, Williams County. So NDIC considers them Catwalk wells with regard for "rules," because the horizontal wells end in Catwalk oil field, Williams County. And it's not so much where they ended, but the fact that the horizontals drained oil from two townships in Williams County and only one township in McKenzie County.

But the fact that the oil well pad where the wells are sited is in McKenzie County, their legal description is McKenzie County, not Williams County.

The spacing unit for these wells are three sections: section 7 of T153N-R100W and sections 30 and 31 of T154N-R100W. Anyone owning minerals in any of these sections will collect royalties from these wells.

Even though the well is sited in section 6, folks who own minerals in that section, section 6-153-100, will not receive royalties because the horizontals will not be collect oil from that section.

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The second question is also easy to answer but hard to put into writing. Bottom line is this: the well will be sited / will be drilled in section 6-153-100 but that section is "outside" of the spacing unit. The NDIC notes this because folks who read that this well is located in section 6-153-100, they might think they will get royalties from these wells. They won't because the well is located / sited outside the spacing unit.

The reason this works is because the operator drills the well to depth, about 9,000 feet, and then turns the vertical well into a horizontal well and turns the well north, in this case. Any part of the horizontal well in section 6 will not be perforated so the horizontal will not collect oil from section six.

The operator chose to drill the well outside the spacing unit, which is something operators could always do but now are doing it more often for geologic / economic reasons. In some cases, they have to drill outside the spacing unit because of surface conditions. That's why no wells are drilled in the Missouri River. They drill outside of the Missouri River and drill under the river, as they did here in the Brakken FIU wells.

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This map may help:

Update: Devon's Brakken 30-31 1H, Catwalk, #19008 -- Back On Line -- Posted November 8, 2025

The well:

• 19008, 2,804, Devon, Brakken 30-31 1-H, Catwalk, t12/10; cum 314K 9/25;

Recent production:

Reader's Wells -- Continental Resources -- Updated October 27, 2025

In a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors. When I find them, I will correct them.

Because of the limitations of space, I can only go back to November 2024.

This data is for wells in which a reader has interests.

I only track North Dakota wells so Montana wells are listed but no data provided.

From what I can tell, all wells are accounted for; all of the "new" wells are now accounted for and producing.

The production data begins in column six with August, 2025, data. These are "RUNS" -- actual number of barrels of crude oil sold, which is not actual production but is generally very, very close. RUNS affect the dollars received; production gives one an idea how good the well is.

First column is operator number. I don't have the operator number for Earl 1-24H and Bratlien -- doesn't matter. Ignore.

Second column is the NDIC file number. If there's no NDIC file number that's because it's a Montana well.

Third column -- name of well.

Fourth column -- 0 or 1 -- whether it was on the most recent production statement or not.

Fifth column -- empty.

 SCROLL TO THE VERY BOTTOM. 

Bottom line:

• Total barrels for the month.
• Last February through July, less than 25,000 total barrels. per month.
• In the last four months:
• August, 2025: 188,652 bbls
• July, 2025: 216,339 bbls
• June, 2025: 351,866 bbls
• May, 2025: 347,571 bbls

I find that absolutely incredible -- going from 20,000 bbls to 350,000 bbls per month.

That means the most recent new wells are incredibly good wells, but they will deplete quickly.

These four wells are the most recent wells which are simply incredible:

Of interest: the Anna wells have pretty much petered out but some that had not production are now producing a bit, so it suggests Continental Resources is still interested in these wells.  

Operator Number	File Number	Name — RUNs			Aug 25	July 25	Jun 25	May 25	Apr 25	Mar 25	Feb 25	Jan 25	Dec 24	Nov 24
1		Earl 1-24H	0
2	9718	Bratlien 5 14-27	0		PA	PA	PA	PA	PA	PA	PA	PA	PA	PA
100373		Earl 2-25H	1		A
102006		McKenzie 1-34H	1		A
102046	19424	Bud 1-19H	1		582	874	811	2046	2985	314	0	611	334	634
102756	21692	Todd 1-6H	1		612	560	818	575	559	632	679	976	279	273
102859	23714	Memphis 2-4H	1		1189	889	1149	891	1078	1266	1223	912	1142	1131
102905		Earl 3-25H	1
103055	23279	Anna 1-27H	1		403	459	473	493	402	249	501	245	738	482
103396		Earl-Reimann 4 HSU	1
103399		Earl-Rita HSU	1
103551	26123	Morgan 1-29H1	1		732	478	681	719	700	972	755	493	754	447
103784	28937	Bud 3-30H1	1		865	847	866	900	910	885	653	638	840	595
103785	28935	Alfsvaag 3-31H1	0		AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB
103786	28936	Alfsvaag 2-31H	1		1214	1748	1392	1764	1913	926	1311	1601	1843	2161
103787	28938	Bud 2-30H	1		851	1102	1124	864	956	1214	929	936	1220	1257
104774	30237	Alfsvaag 4-31H	1		262	288	261	551	761	0	0	322	790	899
104775	30238	Alfsvaag 5-31H1	1		838	847	0	0	0	0	0	2288	1893	1865
104776	30239	Bud 4-30H	1		2000	2927	3792	7457	2014	IA	IA	0	168	279
104777	30240	Bud 5-30H1	1		866	1368	1366	1424	311	IA	IA	IA	568	1169
105004	30154	Anna 2-34H	1		650	696	972	776	400	104	IA	IA	0	0
105005	30155	Anna 3-34H	1		212	196	64	IA	IA	IA	IA	IA	IA	IA
105006	30156	Anna 4-34H1	1		307	217	234	255	235	209	264	215	217	205
105007	30157	Anna 5-34H	1		1619	2070	1592	1207	597	1015	1184	1200	1323	1373
105671	32968	Anna 8-34H1	1		11	108	269	362	462	273	488	680	248	336
105672	32967	Anna 7-34H	0	IA	0	0	0	0	118	371	856	572	126	465
105673	32966	Anna 6-34H1	1		265	417	487	411	667	551	323	407	729	662
105685	32969	Anna 9-34H1	0		AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	AB	IA
107542	41021	Bud FIU 7-30H	1		19954	25937	60319	59318	150			CONF	CONF	CONF
107543	41019	Bud FIU 6-30H	1		15604	24419	41627	52140	50			CONF	CONF	CONF
107548	41020	Alfsvaag Federal 7-31H	1		36589	53593	75006	56934	0	0		CONF	CONF	CONF
107593	41013	Alfsvaag FIU 6-31H	1		15778	36617	47896	48116	3046	0		CONF	CONF	CONF
107597	41022	Alfsvaag Federal 8-31H	1		52366	12487	48188	51909	669			CONF	CONF	CONF
107600	41023	Bud FIU 8-30H	1		32347	44457	59729	55868	2222			CONF	CONF	CONF
107917	37661	Harrisburg 2-27HSL (4-section)	1		2536	2738	2750	2591	2300	2064	1647	1875	1942	2068
	TOTAL		28	0	188,652	216,339	351,866	347,571	23,505	11,045	10,813	13,971	15,154	16,301

Two of these incredible wells. Wells this good in the Bakken are practically unheard of; as rare as hen's teeth. Most wells in the Bakken don't produce this much oil in eighteen months.