NDIC file 13253 · API 33-013-01239-00-00
E. M. MELBY 13-7
Operated by CHALLENGER POINT ENERGY, LLC · Burke County, North Dakota
Well facts
- Operator
- CHALLENGER POINT ENERGY, LLC
- Status
- Plugged and abandoned (PA)
- Well type
- Oil and gas (OG)
- Field
- CARTER
- Spud date
- Total depth
- 7,516 ft
- Legal location
- SWNE Sec 13 T162N R90W
- Footages
- 1,980 ft FNL · 1,980 ft FEL
- County
- Burke County
- NDIC file no.
13253- API no.
33-013-01239-00-00
Location & navigation
48.85972, -102.29184
Published surface location (NAD83). A horizontal well's lateral can run up to three miles from this point.
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Production
284 months reported, Jan 2003 to Aug 2026, MADISON and MIDALE/NESSON pools.
Early time
- First reported month
- Jan 2003
- Months to peak
- 18 (Jun 2004)
- Peak month rate
- 139 bbl/d on 1 days
- First 3 months, oil
- 592 bbl
- First 6 months, oil
- 1,247 bbl
- First 12 months, oil
- 2,361 bbl
- First 24 months, oil
- 4,238 bbl
- Share of cumulative in year 1
- 10%
Today
- Last reported month
- Aug 2026
- Last month with oil
- Apr 2024
- Latest oil rate
- 10 bbl/d
- Latest rate as share of peak
- 7.2%
- Uptime, last 12 months
- 0% of days
- Cumulative gas
- 23.3K mcf
- Cumulative water
- 148K bbl
- Pools reported
- MADISON, MIDALE/NESSON
Last 12 months as a table
| Month | Oil bbl | Gas mcf | Water bbl | Days | Oil bbl/d | GOR scf/bbl | Water cut |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
As first reported to NDIC in each month's report (NDIC Monthly Production Reports, Jan 2003 to Aug 2026). Operators amend past months later and the published reports are not updated, so a month can differ from the current record. A blank or missing month is unknown, not zero, and a cumulative over such months is a lower bound; two pools reported in one month are summed. Rates per producing day divide the month's volume by the days reported, so a month reported without producing days has no rate. Gas–oil ratio is gas produced over oil produced; water cut is water over oil plus water. Months from Jan 2003 to Apr 2015 are read from the Division's PDF reports, which print no flared gas and list a well in a unitized pool only inside its unit's total.
Spacing units
- Footprint d85ce16f1,280-acre Bakken drilling unit · 2 wells inside · 4 more laterals still fit (Nov 2026 method, machine-made) · this lateral 4,249 ft inside (100%)
Units whose published footprint holds at least 660 ft of this well's surveyed lateral. Allowances are facts extracted from signed NDIC orders, machine-extracted and not human-reviewed.
Nearby wells
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- CLAYTON 1MUREX PETROLEUM CORPORATION · Active (A)0.5 mi
- HILBERT 1MUREX PETROLEUM CORPORATION · Active (A)0.5 mi
- SUMMERS 11-19HBURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY · Permit cancelled (PNC)0.8 mi
- PEDERSEN 44-11HFORMENTERA OPERATIONS, LLC · Inactive (IA)0.8 mi
- DURWARD ET AL 11-24FORMENTERA OPERATIONS, LLC · Inactive (IA)0.9 mi
- CRYSTAL 44-18HCHALLENGER POINT ENERGY, LLC · Active (A)1.3 mi
Closest published well heads within 3 miles; wells on one pad share a location.
Other published attributes (1)
| symbol | PA-OG |
|---|
DMR shapefile columns not shown above, unchanged.