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NDIC file 20041 · API 33-061-01610-00-00

MERILYN SMITH 12-7TFH

Operated by WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION · Mountrail County, North Dakota

Active (A)Oil and gasSpud 2011

Well facts

Operator
WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION
Status
Active (A)
Well type
Oil and gas (OG)
Field
SANISH
Spud date
Total depth
20,440 ft
Legal location
LOT2 Sec 7 T153N R91W
Footages
1,815 ft FNL · 247 ft FWL
County
Mountrail County
NDIC file no.
20041
API no.
33-061-01610-00-00

Location & navigation

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48.09061, -102.43876

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

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Production

181 months reported, Aug 2011 to Aug 2026, BAKKEN and CONFIDENTIAL pools.

Cumulative oil185KbblAug ’11 to Aug ’26 · 173 of 181 months known
Peak oil rate180bbl/dAug 2012 · 5,595 bbl in 31 days
Oil, last 12 months5,227bbl-4% against the 12 before
Gas–oil ratio, last 12 months977scf/bblfirst year 650 scf/bbl
Water cut, last 12 months42%first year 41% · 111K bbl water in all
Gas sold, last 12 months84%of gas produced · 90 mcf reported flared
0100200Oil bbl/d1220122014201620182020202220242026

Early time

First reported month
Aug 2011
Months to peak
13 (Aug 2012)
Peak month rate
180 bbl/d on 31 days
First 3 months, oil
0 bbl
First 6 months, oil
0 bbl (3 of 6 known)
First 12 months, oil
4,984 bbl (4 of 12 known)
First 24 months, oil
48,203 bbl (16 of 24 known)
Share of cumulative in year 1
3%

Today

Last reported month
Aug 2026
Last month with oil
Aug 2026
Latest oil rate
12 bbl/d
Latest rate as share of peak
6.6%
Uptime, last 12 months
99% of days
Cumulative gas
186K mcf
Cumulative water
111K bbl
Unknown months
8 of 181 (confidential or not in that month's report)
Pools reported
BAKKEN, CONFIDENTIAL
Last 12 months as a table
MonthOil bblGas mcfWater bblDaysOil bbl/dGOR scf/bblWater cut
38543237730131,12249%
545461302311884636%
2724403102991,61853%
589431317311973235%
553451318311881637%
387322256281483240%
414382274281592340%
452410326301590742%
43043826731141,01938%
40443529030131,07742%
42444636931141,05247%
37245932531121,23447%

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.