BBakken SubsurfaceNorth Dakota well index

NDIC file 20512 · API 33-061-01695-00-00

MERGANSER STATE 44-16TFH

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

Plugged and abandoned (PA)Oil and gasSpud 2011

Well facts

Operator
WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION
Status
Plugged and abandoned (PA)
Well type
Oil and gas (OG)
Field
SANISH
Spud date
Total depth
20,210 ft
Legal location
SESE Sec 16 T154N R91W
Footages
960 ft FSL · 385 ft FEL
County
Mountrail County
NDIC file no.
20512
API no.
33-061-01695-00-00

Location & navigation

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48.15600, -102.37673

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

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Production

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

Cumulative oil107KbblOct ’11 to Aug ’26 · 175 of 179 months known
Peak oil rate268bbl/dFeb 2012 · 7,782 bbl in 29 days
Oil, last 12 months0bbl12 of 12 months known
Gas–oil ratio, last 12 months—scf/bblfirst year 617 scf/bbl
Water cut, last 12 months—%first year 43% · 128K bbl water in all
Gas sold, last 12 months—%of gas produced · 0 mcf reported flared
0100200300Oil bbl/d020122014201620182020202220242026

Early time

First reported month
Oct 2011
Months to peak
5 (Feb 2012)
Peak month rate
268 bbl/d on 29 days
First 3 months, oil
—
First 6 months, oil
12,871 bbl (2 of 6 known)
First 12 months, oil
33,125 bbl (8 of 12 known)
First 24 months, oil
51,817 bbl (20 of 24 known)
Share of cumulative in year 1
31%

Today

Last reported month
Aug 2026
Last month with oil
Jan 2024
Latest oil rate
0 bbl/d
Latest rate as share of peak
0.0%
Uptime, last 12 months
0% of days
Cumulative gas
78.9K mcf
Cumulative water
128K bbl
Unknown months
4 of 179 (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
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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)
symbolPA-OG

DMR shapefile columns not shown above, unchanged.