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NDIC file 21310 · API 33-105-02326-00-00

MERLYN OLSON 34-8H

Operated by KRAKEN OPERATING, LLC · Williams County, North Dakota

Active (A)Oil and gasSpud 2012

Well facts

Operator
KRAKEN OPERATING, LLC
Status
Active (A)
Well type
Oil and gas (OG)
Field
ZAHL
Spud date
Total depth
18,944 ft
Legal location
SWSE Sec 8 T159N R101W
Footages
368 ft FSL · 1,569 ft FEL
County
Williams County
NDIC file no.
21310
API no.
33-105-02326-00-00

Location & navigation

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48.60563, -103.76128

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

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Production

173 months reported, Apr 2012 to Aug 2026, BAKKEN and CONFIDENTIAL pools.

Cumulative oil69.9KbblApr ’12 to Aug ’26 · 171 of 173 months known
Peak oil rate152bbl/dJul 2012 · 4,710 bbl in 31 days
Oil, last 12 months2,381bbl-25% against the 12 before
Gas–oil ratio, last 12 months2,325scf/bblfirst year 3,020 scf/bbl
Water cut, last 12 months85%first year 76% · 286K bbl water in all
Gas sold, last 12 months0%of gas produced · 405 mcf reported flared
0100200Oil bbl/d62014201620182020202220242026

Early time

First reported month
Apr 2012
Months to peak
4 (Jul 2012)
Peak month rate
152 bbl/d on 31 days
First 3 months, oil
1,496 bbl (1 of 3 known)
First 6 months, oil
8,070 bbl (4 of 6 known)
First 12 months, oil
8,087 bbl (10 of 12 known)
First 24 months, oil
23,282 bbl (22 of 24 known)
Share of cumulative in year 1
12%

Today

Last reported month
Aug 2026
Last month with oil
Aug 2026
Latest oil rate
6 bbl/d
Latest rate as share of peak
4.1%
Uptime, last 12 months
93% of days
Cumulative gas
115K mcf
Cumulative water
286K bbl
Unknown months
2 of 173 (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
1873351,4832671,79189%
1943771,2613061,94387%
2283811,2652981,67185%
2063931,1153171,90884%
1983899053161,96582%
1534188582272,73285%
2655891,2173192,22382%
1905701,0203063,00084%
1875701,2983063,04887%
1754341,0022472,48085%
2175321,0232882,45282%
1815491,2222963,03387%

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.