Ellsworth Oil Field
Ellsworth is a 36-section (one township) oil field near the bull's eye of the Bakken. It is located about five miles south of Arnegard, southwest of Watford City.
September 14, 2012, permits issued so far in 2012:
- 22947, conf, Whiting, Norgard 41-14H, Ellsworth,
- 22425, conf, Whitng, Norgard 41-13H, Ellsworth,
- 22405, conf, Hess, BW-Hagen-149-100-1522H-1, Ellsworth,
- 22389, conf, Hess, BW-Norgard 149-100-1102H-1, Ellsworth,
- 22331, conf, Slawson, Atlas 1-16-21H, Ellsworth,
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Daily activity report, December 20, 2011 --Operators: Triangle (3), Petro-Hunt (3), Oasis (2), Hess (2), CLR, Whiting, Murex
Fields: Bell, Sanish, Ellsworth, Baker, North Tioga, Ray. Newbies should click on the Bell field link.
Hess has a wildcat in Williams; CLR has a wildcat in McKenzie.
Triangle has permits for a 3-well pad in Ellsworth oil field. Ellsworth is a 36-section (one township) oil field near the bull's eye of the Bakken. It is located about five miles south of Arnegard, southwest of Watford City.
Petro-Hunt has permits for a 3-well pad in North Tioga oil field.
Murex has a permit in Whiting's Sanish oil field.
Reported elsewhere, three wells came off confidential list; two were completed and were very good wells.
It seems like fewer permits are being issued for Williams County over the past couple of weeks. Looking at the GIS map, there appears to be numerous unpermitted acres remaining in that county. For expample, the Strandahl field, which lies in the far West area and other fields to the North have gaps in permitted areas.
ReplyDeleteStarting about six months ago or so, I started blogging that the activity was moving to McKenzie County, specifically around Watford City.
ReplyDeleteTo date, for calendar year 2011:
ReplyDelete494 new permits for McKenzie County
369 new permits for Williams County
326 new permits for Mountrail County
300 new permits for Dunn County
That leaves 422 permits for the rest of the North Dakota counties, including: Divide, Bottineau, Divide, McLean, Stark, Golden Valley, others.
Numbers are from my database; will be close, but not perfect.