Grayson Mill (Equinor) -- Looking To Put A Section Line Well In Catwalk-Bakken -- November 20, 2021

From the NDIC December, 2021, hearing dockets.

This is a case, not a permit. This simply means that Grayson Mill is seeking permission from the regulator to place a well in this drilling unit.

• 29097, Grayson Mill Energy (Equinor), Catwalk-Bakken, establish an overlapping 2560-acre unit, 25/36-154-101 and 30/31-154-100; one well; McKenzie, Williams.

See Tucker, parcel 1057. 

The deed and background:

• Williams County 
• Catwalk Oil Field.  
• Section 30-154-100 
• Section 30: E1/2NW1/4 less 7.23 acre tract in NE1/4NW1/4, W1/2NE1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, SE1/4 (E2NW4 less 7.23 acre tract in NE4NW4, W2NE4, E4NW4, SE4)
  
  
  • Sections 30/31 is a 1280-acre drilling unit.
  • Section 27 is not yet part of a 2560-acre drilling unit.
    

Within a day or two of the NDIC December, 2021, hearing dockets to be posted, including the case noted above, a reader sent me this scanned copy of an offer for his/her mineral rights in that drilling unit;

 

White Rock Oil & Gas LLC

Policies

Royalty checks:

• minimum: $50
• North Dakota has $100 requirement
• Texas has $50 requirement; White Rock HQs: Plano, TX
• at least one check every six months, June, January
• North Dakota has "one year" rule

Updates

November 25, 2023:

• still the same wells; nothing has changed
• two wells
• Rehab 4-33
• State of North Dakota F-1

August 20, 2022:

• two wells
• Rehab 4-33
• State of North Dakota F-1

December 19, 2021: White Rock brings an old Madison well back on line. Link here.

15344, AB/109, White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC; Rehab 4-33, a Red River well, Indian Hill, t2/03; cum 128K 8/19; producing about 200 bbls/month; update: went on the abandoned list and quit producing oil as of October, 2019; out of the blue, this well began producing again, two years later, in October, 2021, producing 122 bbls in October, 2021.

Original Post

Section 33-153-101, Indian Hill.

One well:

• 11492, 475, White Rock, State of North Dakota F 1, Indian Hill, the Madison formation, t5/85; cum 379K 9/21; recent production --

Monthly Production Data:

NDIC	Name	Pool		Oct 22	Sep 22	Aug 22	Jul 22	Jun 22	May 22	Apr 22	Mar 22	February
15344	Rehab 4-33	Red River				200	221	213	218	215	73	8
11492	State of ND F 1	Madison				711	708	718	223	385	810	217

End.

Harrisburg 2-27HSL -- Indian Hill -- November 16, 2021

Updates

April 5, 2022: reader says Harrisburg section line well now showing up on statement; started showing up in February, 2022, statement and again, in March, 2022.

April 4, 2022: Tucker / Ekke received division orders this week for the CLR Harrisburg 2-27HSL well, a section line well with 2560-acre spacing.  Production to date:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2022	28	13761	13820	25865	11511	11151	0
BAKKEN	1-2022	29	22472	22393	36565	14523	14164	0
BAKKEN	12-2021	23	19811	19860	31431	14669	14387	0
BAKKEN	11-2021	27	28196	27987	45471	21468	21125	0
BAKKEN	10-2021	3	145	145	1091	13	0	0

December 1, 2021: the well discussed below --

• 37661, 33-053-09474, conf, CLR, Harrisburg 2-27HSL, Indian Hill, fracked 9/17/21 - 9/23/21; 7.61 million gallons of water. 87.388% water by mass;

The reader noted that in his/her November 24, 2021 XTO statement some wells did not produce any oil for the month of September, 2021.

I checked XTO's three Nelson Federal wells on Indian Hill:

• 20971, 1,087, XTO, Nelsen State 24X-33R, Indian Hill, t9/11; cum 203K 9/21; this is an active well, but it was taken off line 5/21 (May, 2021); it produced very little oil when it was producing;
• 23761, 825, XTO, Nelsen State 24X-33F, Indian Hill, t2/13; cum 113K 7/21; this well was taken off line 8/21 (August, 2021) and remains off line 9/21;
• 23762, 1,246, XTO, Nelsen State 24X-33A, Indian Hill, t2/13; cum 253K 8/21; this well was taken off line 9/21 (September, 2021)

The fact that these three wells were taken off line suggests CLR is fracking the Harrisburg site discussed in the original post. 

Original Post 

1. Continental Resources (CLR) has a 4-well Harrisburg pad sited in NENW 27-153-10, Indian Hill. 

2. These wells are still confidential but are due to come off the confidential list this week. Unfortunately because of IT problems at NDIC, the NDIC is not updating scout tickets so even when this well comes confidential list we may not know what is going on for awhile.

3. My hunch: all of these wells, with one exception, will be 1280-acre spacing, sections 27 / 34-153-101 which does not affect Ekke. 

4. Ekke has minerals:

• section 33-153-101, S1/2NE1/4, N1/2SE1/4, SW?

5. The one exception:

• Harrisburg 2-27HSL
• I'm pretty sure that HSL = horizontal middle Bakken, section line
• a section line well is generally spaced for four sections, 5280-acre spacing
• if so, this section line well run down the section line between sections 33 and 34 of that township
• those sections are already spaced for 5280-acre drilling

6. If this is all accurate, then Ekke should have minerals in this Harrisburg 2027HSL, NDIC ##37761.

The graphics:

• the red star: section where Ekke has minerals
• the black stars: the 4-section drilling unit
• the big black arrow running south: likely location of the Harrisburg 2-27HSL horizontal bore
  

Zabolotny -- November 12, 2021

 

1. Petro-Hunt has a well sited in SE SE section, #37987, a Zabolotny well. It's still on confidential but has sold oil for three months, August, September, and October, 2021.

2. It's on confidential but the name and the location suggest will will run through the 1280-acre drilling unit to the south:

• sections 4 and 9 -- T144N - R98W.

3. If that is correct, Tucker had a deed for that drilling unit in the Billings County deeds:

• Section 4: Lot 4, SW4NW4,W2W4
• Section 9: N2

4. In Petro-Hunt's pay and production statement of October, 2021, this well did not show up.

Random Update On A Reader's Vertical Well In The Bicentennial Field -- October 25, 2021

Updates

July 26, 2022: update. Production from both the Birdbear and Red River from this well. Production since (including) November, 2021:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BIRDBEAR	5-2022	10	83	0	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	5-2022	10	209	0	1101	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	4-2022	1	2	71	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	4-2022	1	4	169	13	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	3-2022	31	141	141	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	3-2022	31	341	339	1790	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	2-2022	28	138	142	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	2-2022	28	327	342	1714	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	1-2022	31	151	141	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	1-2022	31	369	339	1972	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	12-2021	31	145	137	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	12-2021	31	356	330	2051	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	11-2021	30	160	135	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	11-2021	30	404	323	2259	0	0	0
BIRDBEAR	10-2021	24	109	140	0	0	0	0
RED RIVER	10-2021	24	191	337	1326	0	0	0

October 26, 2021: the reader who alerted me to this well, provided this for the archives -- looking back through my records, this well used to be operated by Eighty-Eight LLC ( starting in 2015 - - I don’t know the history before 2015) and then in 2016, Sunoco took over as operator. This is an overriding royalty interest owned by Tucker. Ekke did not have an interest in this well.

Original Post

A reader alerted me to a recent check from "Energy Transfer Crude Marketing, LLC," dated 10/20/21. The well is currently operated by FH Petroleum Corp but payment was handled by the company noted.

It appears the check was for production going back to September, 2020, and through, August, 2021. That would make sense: operators don't have to "cut" checks for any amount less than $100, but must send a royalty check at least annually, no matter how small.

The average price received by the company for the crude oil it sold:

• September, 2020: $32.13
• July, 2020: $65.05
• July, 2021: $65.05

The prices suggest this oil was hedged.

It's hard to believe the reader received any royalties at all considering how little oil is being produced by this vertical Birdbear / Red River well (not a Bakken well, not horizontal). 

This well is located out in the "middle of nowhere," even by North Dakota standards. It is on/near the county line of McKenzie County and Golden Valley, near the Montana state line, in the Bicentennial oil field. There are very, very few wells out here.

Here is a screenshot of the scout ticket going back about one year. Note that the vertical well is drawing oil from two formations, the Birdbear and the Red River. 

The best thing about this well for the reader is that it holds this "entire" area for future development. Note that the well went inactive in August, 2021. I do not know what this means for this well going forward.

NDIC File No: 15206     API No: 33-033-00234-00-00     CTB No: 115206 Well Type: OG     Well Status: IA     Status Date: 10/15/2021     Wellbore type: Vertical Location: NWSE 20-144-103     Footages: 1963 FSL 1950 FEL     Latitude: 47.274054     Longitude: -103.759648 Current Operator: FH PETROLEUM CORP. Current Well Name: FEDERAL 33-20 Elevation(s): 2456 KB     Total Depth: 12820     Field: BICENTENNIAL Spud Date(s):  9/2/2001 Casing String(s):  9.625" 1827'   5.5" 12820'   Completion Data    Pool: BIRDBEAR     Perfs: 10729-10732     Comp: 9/17/2003     Status: AL     Date: 9/17/2003     Spacing: E2    Pool: RED RIVER     Perfs: 12609-12723G     Comp: 12/14/2001     Status: AL     Date: 12/14/2001     Spacing: E2 Cumulative Production Data    Pool: RED RIVER     Cum Oil: 74265     Cum MCF Gas: 94721     Cum Water: 352276    Pool: BIRDBEAR     Cum Oil: 28534     Cum MCF Gas: 0     Cum Water: 69 Production Test Data    IP Test Date: 12/14/2001     Pool: RED RIVER     IP Oil: 106     IP MCF: 100     IP Water: 100

Monthly Production Data Pool Date Days BBLS Oil Runs BBLS Water MCF Prod MCF Sold Vent/Flare BIRDBEAR 8-2021 0 0 69 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 8-2021 0 0 167 0 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 7-2021 17 81 65 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 7-2021 17 219 157 767 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 6-2021 17 120 115 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 6-2021 17 280 277 1365 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 5-2021 6 65 63 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 5-2021 6 158 152 282 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 4-2021 3 39 0 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 4-2021 3 124 0 182 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 3-2021 5 30 65 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 3-2021 5 40 156 303 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 2-2021 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 2-2021 6 20 0 594 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 1-2021 30 131 128 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 1-2021 30 317 308 2126 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 12-2020 19 116 131 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 12-2020 19 267 314 1838 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 11-2020 15 35 61 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 11-2020 15 67 148 1139 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 10-2020 16 81 0 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 10-2020 16 224 0 1028 0 0 0 BIRDBEAR 9-2020 11 1 61 0 0 0 0 RED RIVER 9-2020 11 61 571 760 0 0 0

CLR Activity In Catwalk, Last Chance -- November, 2021 -- Hearing Dockets -- Posted October 22, 2021

From the hearing dockets, November, 2021:

Case #29066:

Application of Continental Resources, Inc. for an order for the
Catwalk, Last Chance, and/or Baker-Bakken Pool, Williams andMcKenzie Counties, ND, as follows: 

(i) create and establish an overlapping 1280-acre spacing unit comprised of Sections 4 and 5, T.153N., R.100W., authorizing the drilling of a total not to exceed ten horizontal wells on said proposed overlapping 1280-acre spacing unit; 

(ii) create and establish an overlapping 1920-acre spacing unit comprised of Sections 30 and 31, T.154N., R.100W. and Section 6, T.153N., R.100W., authorizing the drilling of a total not to exceed eleven horizontal wells on said proposed overlapping 1920-acre spacing unit; 

(iii) create and establish an overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit comprised of Sections 32 and 33, T.154N., R.100W. and Sections 4 and 5, T.153N., R.100W., authorizing the drilling of two horizontal wells on or near the section line between the existing spacing units of said proposed overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit; and, 

(iv) create and establish two overlapping 3840-acre spacing units comprised of Sections 25 and 36, T.154N., R.101W., Sections 30 and 31, T.154N., R.100W., Section 1, T.153N., R.101W. and Section 6, T.153N., R.100W.; and Sections 29, 30, 31 and 32, T.154N., R.100W. and Sections 5 and 6, T.153N., R.100W., authorizing the drilling of two horizontal wells on or near the section line between the existing spacing units of each proposed overlapping 3840-acre spacing unit, and such further relief as appropriate.

A Reader May Have A New Zabolotny Well -- September 11, 2021

Updates

September 14, 2023: another permit for another Zabolotny well. See this post.

August 3, 2023: update, production --

• 37987, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife; total depth: 21,940 feet; sections 4/9-144-98; first production, 7/21; t--; cum 12K 8/21; cum 180K 6/23; stimulated July 13, 2021; IP: 420; volume: 469,747 bbls; stimulation stages: 60; proppant: 10,715,004 lbs.
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2023	28	4738	4830	11857	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2023	31	4906	4991	11910	4315	4315	0
BAKKEN	4-2023	30	5550	5468	14310	4932	4932	0
BAKKEN	3-2023	31	6057	5888	5519	5200	5200	0
BAKKEN	2-2023	28	5120	5177	12937	4179	4179	0
BAKKEN	1-2023	31	5811	5876	15264	4938	4937	1
BAKKEN	12-2022	31	6584	6745	17521	5700	5700	0
BAKKEN	11-2022	23	5458	5276	14679	4877	4800	77
BAKKEN	10-2022	31	6722	6707	17987	6559	6559	0
BAKKEN	9-2022	30	5914	6034	15567	5392	5349	43
BAKKEN	8-2022	31	6485	6426	17021	5892	5892	0
BAKKEN	7-2022	31	7001	6995	18438	6394	6394	0
BAKKEN	6-2022	30	7200	7235	18901	6694	6694	0
BAKKEN	5-2022	31	8182	8123	21535	7667	7667	0
BAKKEN	4-2022	30	9025	9094	23730	8504	8502	2

June 4, 2022: update, 

• 37987, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife, first production, 7/21; t--; cum 12K 8/21; cum 94K 4/22;

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2022	30	9025	9094	23730	8504	8502	2
BAKKEN	3-2022	31	10756	10736	26935	9969	9969	0
BAKKEN	2-2022	28	8664	8644	21497	7716	7716	0
BAKKEN	1-2022	31	10160	10180	24883	9006	9006	0
BAKKEN	12-2021	31	9802	9820	22874	8403	8403	0
BAKKEN	11-2021	30	9708	9712	22272	8200	8200	0
BAKKEN	10-2021	31	10692	10834	23634	9067	9067	0
BAKKEN	9-2021	30	12053	12195	27585	10392	10231	161
BAKKEN	8-2021	31	12966	12394	37634	11397	11385	12
BAKKEN	7-2021	22	552	458	0	121	25

Original Post 

A reader asked about a Petro-Hunt Zabolotny well.

My reply:

Your might have a new Zabolotny well.

I often make mistakes but this is what I'm seeing.

I track the Petro-Hunt lease you mentioned at this post:

https://readerswells.blogspot.com/2021/02/petro-hunt-tuckerekke-deed-66-parcels.html

I often make mistakes, but if I have this correct, chronology:

You told me you received a check up-front for $310 (or thereabouts) for a lease, March 11, 2021.

You said this had to do with Petro-Hunt, sections 4 and 9 -- T144N - R98W.

There are several completed Zabolotny wells to the east (sections 3 and 10) but you don't have minerals in those sections, so ignore.

However, it appears Petro-Hunt drilled a new Zabolotny well that runs horizontally through your two sections, sections 4 and 9, and that was what the lease was for.

The new well:

• 37987, a new permit, still confidential, November 20, 2020, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H, Little Knife,

It's still on confidential so we don't know anything about the well but it has started producing and in July, 2021, the NDIC reported Petro-Hunt had sold a few bbls from this well ("runs": oil that is actually sold; since it's confidential we don't know how much was actually produced, but generally how much was sold --"runs" -- is usually about the same as how much was produced):

NDIC File No: 37987     API No: 33-053-09609-00-00 Well Type: ON CONFIDENTIAL STATUS Location: SESE 36-145-98     Footages: 250 FSL 270 FEL     Latitude: 47.329499     Longitude: -103.100208 Current Operator: PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C. Current Well Name: Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H     Field: LITTLE KNIFE

Monthly Sales Data:  Date Oil Runs MCF Sold 7-2021 458 25

When checking the deeds, this one is in Billings County.

 

Note the name of the well:

Zabolotny 144-98-4A-9-1H.

The 144 and 98, T and R, obviously.

4A - 9:   this well will begin in section 4 and run south into section 9 (Carl/Ruth lease).

The "A"? Petro-Hunt labels their pads in each drilling unit alphabetically, so this is the first pad in this drilling unit. In great areas, Petro-Hunt can have several pads with two to four wells on each pad which will be labeled A through D.

1H: H for horizontal and "1" because it's the first well on this pad to be drilled.

This is not a great area in the Bakken but it's not bad. If this well is even "kind of" good, I would suspect we will see a number of more Petro-Hunt wells in this drilling unit.

The "decimal" unit for the Petro-Hunt wells you have are generally very low so I don't expect much in the way of royalties, but you should enjoy watching these wells.

Anyway, that's what I am seeing.

This well comes off the confidential list October 19, 2021 -- next month. If it's been completed and is producing, we will get the information then.

Enerplus Acquires Bruin's Assets In The Bakken -- May, 2021; Enerplus Acquires Hess Wells In Little Knife Oil Field, 2022

January 31, 2023: The reader has 12 -- twelve -- Enerplus wells -- in the spreadsheet below the SC-Foster is not an Enerplus well and the Hamilton is no longer producing so it will no longer show up on production statements. 

January 30, 2022: Enerplus acquires Hess wells in Little Knife oil field, Dunn County.

May, 2021:

To the best of my knowledge, Tucker/Ekke had just one Bruin well: the Berg well in Good Luck oil field. See this post.  

One of the Tucker/Ekke heirs received a royalty check for that Berg well in June, 2021. At least one other heir did not. Tucker/Ekke heir, apparently notified Enerplus in a letter sent this date, July 5, 2021.

Update: one heir said he/she received a change-of-address form from Enerplus, suggesting Bruin did not do a great job transferring address changes to Enerplus, or vice versa.

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Enerplus Wells -- Production

The first spreadsheet posted April 16, 2022, but now new spreadsheets are being posted.

These were all acquired from Hess. Prior to the Hess wells being transferred,

• Enerplus had the BERG well;
• Hess retained one well, the SC-Foster well.

January 31, 2023:

Enerplus RUNS	Karla’s Decimal	File Number	Full Name	Sep 22	Aug 22	Jul 22	Jun 22	May 22	Apr 22	Mar 22	Feb 22	Jan 22
1	0.0001464800	22823	Berg 1-20-17H		297	290	554	297	292	300	605	301
2	0.0000130000	17980	Dukart 3-1H		430	416	186	210	189	222	399	226
3	0.0000119800	18450	Lind 2-1H		860	630	789	806	401	602	651	635
4	0.0000195500	18276	Obrigewitch 4-1H		839	834	963	1,030	1,408	1,418	223	881
5	0.0000108500	18227	Obrigewitch 34-1H		812	830	580	618	580	608	815	639
6	0.0000217000	21857	LK-Esther-146-97-3328H-1		410	1,250	1,044	1,230	1,062	1,047	1,270	862
Doesn’t show up; still on HESS.	IGNORE	21469	SC-Foster 153-99-2932H-1		1,787	2,009	1,755	609	834	2,570	2,330	1,405
7	0.0000130000	22799	LK-Dukart 145-97-0310H-2		1,077	839	615	1,195	795	790	828	1,105
8	0.0000130100	22802	LK-Dukart 145-97-0310H-3		415	838	421	599	429	571	630	674
9	0.0000130000	22804	LK-Dukart 145-97-0310H-4		625	838	813	802	818	964	843	631
10	0.0000108500	22798	LK-Obrigewitch 146-97-3427H-2		847	1,085	847	1,049	787	952	1,089	882
11	0.0000108500	22800	LK-Obrigewitch-146-97-3427H-3		831	840	819	1,046	591	968	825	882
12	0.0000108500	22803	LK-Obrigewitch 146-97-3427H-4		636	1,031	818	798	942	899	876	892
	IGNORE	37452	LK-Hamilton-LW-146-97-3526H-1

END.