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NDIC file 17471 · API 33-053-02921-00-00

MERTON 1-3H

Operated by BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY LP · McKenzie County, North Dakota

Active (A)Oil and gasSpud 2008

Well facts

Operator
BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY LP
Status
Active (A)
Well type
Oil and gas (OG)
Field
NORTH FORK
Spud date
Total depth
20,560 ft
Legal location
NWNE Sec 3 T149N R96W
Footages
145 ft FNL · 1,320 ft FEL
County
McKenzie County
NDIC file no.
17471
API no.
33-053-02921-00-00

Location & navigation

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47.76038, -102.94694

Published surface location (NAD83). A horizontal well's lateral can run up to three miles from this point.

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Production

210 months reported, Mar 2009 to Aug 2026, BAKKEN pool.

Cumulative oil646KbblMar ’09 to Aug ’26 · 210 of 210 months known
Peak oil rate733bbl/dApr 2009 · 8,067 bbl in 11 days
Oil, last 12 months5,748bbl+95% against the 12 before
Gas–oil ratio, last 12 months5,576scf/bblfirst year 1,213 scf/bbl
Water cut, last 12 months61%first year 38% · 318K bbl water in all
Gas sold, last 12 months90%of gas produced · 307 mcf reported flared
0250500750Oil bbl/d11201020122014201620182020202220242026

Early time

First reported month
Mar 2009
Months to peak
98 (Apr 2017)
Peak month rate
733 bbl/d on 11 days
First 3 months, oil
22,074 bbl
First 6 months, oil
47,239 bbl
First 12 months, oil
75,098 bbl
First 24 months, oil
95,795 bbl
Share of cumulative in year 1
12%

Today

Last reported month
Aug 2026
Last month with oil
May 2026
Latest oil rate
11 bbl/d
Latest rate as share of peak
1.5%
Uptime, last 12 months
67% of days
Cumulative gas
968K mcf
Cumulative water
318K bbl
Pools reported
BAKKEN
Last 12 months as a table
MonthOil bblGas mcfWater bblDaysOil bbl/dGOR scf/bblWater cut
8904,1351,59630304,64664%
8444,5321,35231275,37062%
7094,7441,10930246,69161%
5283,35475324226,35259%
4012,17871525165,43164%
7734,0471,10028285,23559%
6863,53589230235,15357%
7534,4071,02630255,85358%
1641,11835515116,81768%
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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

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

Closest published well heads within 3 miles; wells on one pad share a location.

Other published attributes (1)
symbolA-OG

DMR shapefile columns not shown above, unchanged.