Townships

T149N R96W, 5th Principal Meridian, North Dakota

Township 149 North, Range 96 West of the 5th Principal Meridian, in McKenzie County: 212 oil and gas wells, 45 federal leases and 0 active mining claims across the township.

0Active wells
212Total wells
45Federal O&G leases
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212

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45

Federal O&G leases

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Active mining claims

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212 wells are on record in this township, 0 of them active and 16 plugged and abandoned. They sit in 25 sections of the township. The Energy pack maps every well with status and operator, section by section.

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BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY LP (137), XTO ENERGY INC (37) and PETROSHALE (US) INC. (16) hold the most wells here, out of 19 operators on record.

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45 authorized BLM oil and gas leases overlap this township, 0 BLM mining claims are active in it, and USGS documents 1 orphaned well inside it. The Energy pack adds split-estate and orphaned-well screening for each section.

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How the T149N R96W wells break down

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Wells by status

From state well records

Active0
Plugged and abandoned16
Shut-in or inactive4
Other or unreported192
Total212
Orphaned wells (USGS)1

Top operators

Share of wells in the township

BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS COMPANY LP137
XTO ENERGY INC37
PETROSHALE (US) INC.16
SM ENERGY COMPANY3
AMERADA HESS CORPORATION3
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What is a PLSS township?

A Public Land Survey System township is a block of land about 6 miles on a side, divided into 36 sections of roughly 1 square mile (640 acres) each. T149N R96W sits in the 149th row of townships north of the baseline and the 96th range west of the 5th Principal Meridian, the north-south line that legal descriptions in this part of North Dakota are measured from. Corrections and older surveys leave some townships with fractional or extra sections.

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