although there are several sections shaded that are already subject to approved drilling units or spacing units within the field. Marathon recently became active in the area by spudding on the Hecker lease in secs. 5 and 8, T.144, R.96., and has two more locations staked immediately to the east and the northwest of this active well. One helpful aspect of this area is the availability of the Little Knife gas processing plant about ten miles to the west. This is also the area that Encore Operating recently reported development plans (see 6/26 post), and it's possible the two companies may have entered in an operating agreement, or that Marathon has a working interest in all of these proposed units. Encore has switched to utilizing single lateral wells on 640 acre units instead using dual laterals. The company is currently drilling on the Truchan lease in sec. 33, T.145, R.95. Most of the leases in this area are set to expire in about two years.
Marathon has also requested that ten 1280 acre drilling units be established in scattered areas of T.146, R.93, T.145, R.93 & 94,and T.144, R.93. This area of interest is generally east, south and southeast of the current configuration of Bailey Field.
Word is that Marathon has one and possibly two more of its new-build Helmrich & Payne rigs arriving in August. It may be probable that the company may well meet its goal of drilling 300 Bakken wells in the next few years.
7/31 UPDATE:
Encore announced today that it may add a second and possibly a third rig to its Bakken development program by next year.
2 comments:
I would like to see a larger map of the dunn county area with a legend to tell me what all the symbols mean.
This is Encore's map so some of it's symbols are unique to the company. The circled dot's were Encore's planned Bakken wells, but most of those inside the blue shading are now defunct as there will be one well on 1280 acres instead of 640 acres. The green dots were/are producing oil wells. Dry holes are every dot that is not colored in, in addition to the green dots with the vertical line through them. Some of the green dots with lines are horizontal Madison wells. The boxes with and "L" in them are permitted locations. You would have to ask Encore what any other symbol on the map means.
As for a larger map of Dunn Co., this is the most up to date I have found and it is already out of date, and only extends a few miles east of what I posted, since it only pertains to Encore's holdings.
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