Oasis To Drill Three Wells In A 2560-Acre Spacing Unit Northwest Of Williston -- Strandahl Oil Field -- December 22, 2025

 

Hearing dockets are found here at the NDIC.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Link here.

Case 32477: Oasis requests orders to establish an overlapping standup 2560-acre unit -- sections 15 / 22 / 27 / 34-157-103 in Strandahl-Bakken pool, and to authorize three wells to be drilled on that unit.

The reader noted that case and sent a screenshot of part of his mineral rights deed:

The maps:

 

 

 

 

A Reader Notified Me That Continental Resources Plans To Drill In This Area In Montana -- Case Was Scheduled To Be Presented To Montana Regulators December 11, 2025

FYI only. Just for interest. Unimportant.

Note: there may be typographical and/or content errors. I often make errors with maps. If this is important to you, go to the source. 

Just the maps:

Zoom way out: east Montana and western North Dakota, mostly along US Highway 2. 

Zoom in: local area northwest of Culbertson, Montana.

Zoom in: four-section stand-up drilling unit, sections 6 / 7 / 18 / 19 -- T28N-R56E.

 

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

Updates

A reader shares with me updates regarding the new Enerplus Lind (5) and Hamilton (1) wells, six in all:

The reader expects to see production from five new Lind wells and one new Hamilton section line well.

In the most recent production statement (February, 2026) from Enerplus, the read reports that of the five new Lind wells and the one new Hamilton section line well (six wells in all), four have reported production; the other two have not yet reported production. One would expect to see production in next two or three months.

The wells reporting production: the first number below is the NDIC number; the operator has its own number which is different and is not shown below -- 

• 41093: Lind .. 2H-WLL
• 41094: Lind .. 3H
• 41095: Lind .. 4H
• 40198: Hamilton .. 4H-WLL 

The wells not yet reporting production:

• 41093: Lind .. 2H-WLL
• 41096, Line .. 5H

Total monthly production from Enerplus for the reader's Enerplus wells:

• August 2025:                9,276 bbls
• September 2025:         7,074 bbls
• October 2025:           32,373 bbls

• November 2025:     125,950 bbls
• December 2025:       87,696 bbls
• January 2026:         111,467 bbls

Comments:

• the reader appears to have 18 wells that are / will be active
• three of those wells did not have production in last couple of months
• there will be a huge decline rate over the next twelves months (typical for Bakken wells)
• the reason for the huge decrease in December, 2025: the wells were undergoing routine maintenance as the wells were going from "new well" status to long-term production
• four of the six new wells contributed to the huge increase
• the original Lind well is off-line while the new wells were fracked; it is not yet know whether that original Lind well will come back into production; often these older wells do not come back into production 

Original Post 

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:

One day later, December 3, 2025, Enerplus announced another Hamilton well that was plugged or producing:

• 41101, Enerplus, Hamilton 146-97-35-26-5H, Dunn County;

December 8, 2025: another well, plugged or producing:

• 41094, Enerplus, Lind 145-97-2-11-3H, Dunn County;