NDIC file 16738 · API 33-105-01646-00-00
FT. BUFORD 1-16H
Operated by MERCURY RESOURCES LLC · Williams County, North Dakota
Well facts
- Operator
- MERCURY RESOURCES LLC
- Status
- Active (A)
- Well type
- Oil and gas (OG)
- Field
- BRIAR CREEK
- Spud date
- Total depth
- 14,016 ft
- Legal location
- NENE Sec 17 T152N R104W
- Footages
- 270 ft FNL · 86 ft FEL
- County
- Williams County
- NDIC file no.
16738- API no.
33-105-01646-00-00
Location & navigation
47.99210, -104.01250
Published surface location (NAD83). A horizontal well's lateral can run up to three miles from this point.
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Production
227 months reported, Oct 2007 to Aug 2026, CONFIDENTIAL and MADISON pools.
Early time
- First reported month
- Oct 2007
- Months to peak
- 6 (Mar 2008)
- Peak month rate
- 162 bbl/d on 23 days
- First 3 months, oil
- —
- First 6 months, oil
- 10,993 bbl (3 of 6 known)
- First 12 months, oil
- 28,959 bbl (9 of 12 known)
- First 24 months, oil
- 54,114 bbl (21 of 24 known)
- Share of cumulative in year 1
- 16%
Today
- Last reported month
- Aug 2026
- Last month with oil
- Aug 2026
- Latest oil rate
- 20 bbl/d
- Latest rate as share of peak
- 12.4%
- Uptime, last 12 months
- 100% of days
- Cumulative gas
- 379K mcf
- Cumulative water
- 629K bbl
- Unknown months
- 4 of 227 (confidential or not in that month's report)
- Pools reported
- CONFIDENTIAL, MADISON
Last 12 months as a table
| Month | Oil bbl | Gas mcf | Water bbl | Days | Oil bbl/d | GOR scf/bbl | Water cut |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 911 | 0 | 2,319 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 72% | |
| 502 | 0 | 2,495 | 31 | 16 | 0 | 83% | |
| 513 | 1,009 | 2,483 | 30 | 17 | 1,967 | 83% | |
| 559 | 1,028 | 2,595 | 31 | 18 | 1,839 | 82% | |
| 596 | 1,008 | 2,716 | 31 | 19 | 1,691 | 82% | |
| 537 | 810 | 2,448 | 28 | 19 | 1,508 | 82% | |
| 606 | 1,026 | 2,808 | 31 | 20 | 1,693 | 82% | |
| 587 | 919 | 2,707 | 30 | 20 | 1,566 | 82% | |
| 613 | 981 | 2,953 | 31 | 20 | 1,600 | 83% | |
| 585 | 962 | 2,947 | 30 | 20 | 1,644 | 83% | |
| 604 | 1,010 | 3,057 | 31 | 19 | 1,672 | 84% | |
| 625 | 978 | 3,091 | 31 | 20 | 1,565 | 83% |
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
- T152N R104W sections 4, 9, 161,920-acre Bakken spacing unit · 4 wells allowed by order 34201 · 7 wells inside · 0 more laterals still fit (Nov 2026 method, machine-made) · this lateral 4,459 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
- SEAMON 8-7HZENERGY, INC · Permit cancelled (PNC)422 ft
- MERIWETHER 16-15 4TFHZavanna Energy Operating, LLC · Permit cancelled (PNC)739 ft
- MERIWETHER 16-15 3HZavanna Energy Operating, LLC · Permit cancelled (PNC)739 ft
- MERIWETHER 16-15 2TFHZavanna Energy Operating, LLC · Permit cancelled (PNC)739 ft
- MERIWETHER 16-15 1HZavanna Energy Operating, LLC · Permit cancelled (PNC)739 ft
- BUFORD 12X-16BXTO ENERGY INC · Permit cancelled (PNC)0.3 mi
- WERSLAND 16-1COLUMBIA GAS DEVELOPMENT CORP. · Permit cancelled (PNC)0.8 mi
- WERSLAND 9-1XTO ENERGY INC · Plugged and abandoned (PA)0.9 mi
Closest published well heads within 3 miles; wells on one pad share a location.
Other published attributes (1)
| symbol | A-OG |
|---|
DMR shapefile columns not shown above, unchanged.