Spacing unit · North Dakota
1,280-acre Bakken spacing unit
T143N R101W sections 23, 26
Unit facts
- Formation
- Bakken
- Acres
- 1,280
- Type
- Spacing unit
- Land described
- T143N R101W sections 23, 26
- Pool
- Elkhorn Ranch-Bakken
- Zone
- Zone VII
- Surveyed wells inside
- 0
- Unit id
dsu-ac5c7c863d0e2f4d7b56- Wells allowed by the latest linked order
- 4
- Wells assigned to this unit
- 0
- Pending permits inside
- 0
- Balance under the allowance
- +4
- First linked order
- Feb 14, 2012
- Laterals that still fit (Nov 2026 method)
- 3 (2.85 two-mile equivalents)
- Neighbourhood target density
- 2.61 two-mile laterals per 1,280 acres
- Density drilled so far
- 0 per 1,280 acres
Room to drill: 3 laterals still fit at the density this unit's neighbourhood has reached (the larger of the 75th percentile of mature units within 10 miles and the median of units drilled in the last three years), placed in the widest gaps with the setbacks of the November 2026 method. Machine-made and geometric: not a commitment to drill, not a permit, order, lease or plan, and no economics. Land is counted once, so a unit under a larger unit shows only what the larger one left. How it is computed.
Map
DMR footprint (NAD83) with the published surface locations of its wells. Laterals run under the unit; pads often sit on a neighbouring section.
Wells inside the unit
No surveyed lateral has 660 ft or more inside this footprint.
Order history
- Order 17474Case 15229Established the spacing unit, 1 well allowedGMX RESOURCES INC.
- Order 17474Case 15229Designated the spacing unitGMX RESOURCES INC.
- Order 20116Case 17847Designated the spacing unitGMX RESOURCES INC.
- Order 18021Case 15766Pooled all interests in the unitGMX RESOURCES INC.
- Order 19187Case 16919Designated the spacing unit, 4 wells allowedWHITING OIL & GAS CORP.
- Order 21420Case 19117Established the spacing unit, 4 wells allowedGMX RESOURCES INC.
Facts extracted from signed NDIC orders whose land description covers this footprint; machine-extracted and not human-reviewed. A stated allowance is what that order allowed, not proof that it governs today.