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🛢️ HAZY 3316-3BH
KODA Resources Operating, LLC · Divide County County, ND · File #42641 · Generated 2026-02-13 12:33
- API
- 3302301742
- Target Formation
- Middle Bakken
- Permit Explained
- Partially
📋 Permit Cycle Assessment
The permit issuance is partially explained by the well file. Commission Order No. 34629 and the Daneville-Bakken Pool definition directly justify setback conditions and vertical drilling limits. The closed mud system requirement and remote shutoff device mandate are standard environmental/safety conditions. Anti-collision modeling, directional design files, and the Order 31973 waiver support technical and regulatory compliance. However, the permit approval date is not provided in the file (only a dirt work date of 09/01/2026 appears). The file contains pre-permit materials and technical justifications but does not include the actual permit issuance document with approval date, making temporal anchoring and final contemporaneous analysis impossible. The regulatory framework and technical design support the permitting pathway, but explicit approval rationale and conditions of approval document are absent.
🔍 Permit Cycle Signals (5)
📄 Permit Information - NDIC Field Order Info (Stipulations section)
📅 Unknown (Missing confidence)
Setback requirements are non-standard and restrictive, directly conditioning the permit approval. South setback explicitly justified by production liner with wet shoe and frac-out capability.
📄 Permit Information - NDIC Field Order Info (Stipulations section)
📅 Unknown (Missing confidence)
Pool definition is a regulatory constraint issued as permit condition, not background information. Defines vertical limits for completion operations.
📄 Permit Information - Permit Review Policy (Stipulations section)
📅 Unknown (Missing confidence)
Environmental compliance requirement. Drilling Fluids Program confirms closed loop system utilization with cuttings disposal at 13 Mile Landfill.
📄 Drilling Plan Section 5 (Directional Planning/Anti-Collision) and KLX Anticollision Report dated 11/24/2025
📅 2025-11-24 (Exact confidence)
Anticollision analysis is a pre-permit requirement justifying directional design. Level 3 warnings on adjacent offset well (Hazy 3309-1BHN) indicate tight well spacing and complex geometries requiring detailed technical justification for permit issuance.
📄 Letter dated 5 December 2025 requesting waiver from Order 31973
📅 2025-12-05 (Exact confidence)
Operator-controlled adjacency eliminates a standard regulatory notification. Demonstrates resolution of a regulatory condition precedent to permit issuance.
📖 Historical Context (4)
Surface Use Agreement executed 26 November 2025 with Mae Ludwig Life Estate (surface owner); subsequent affidavit of executed agreement dated 12 January 2026
📄 Two Affidavits of Pending/Executed Surface Use Agreement (November 2025 and January 2026) · 📅 2025-11-26 | 2026-01-12
Surface rights encumbrance persists through all drilling, completion, and production phases. Executed agreement provides liability indemnification for all operational phases and affects abandonment/reclamation obligations.
KODA working interest: 96.12% in Hazy 3316-3BH spacing unit (Sections 4, 9, 16 T161N-R102W and Section 33 T162N-R102W); majority interest in all four wells on pad (56.41%–96.12% WI)
📄 Affidavit of Working Interest dated 17 November 2025 · 📅 2025-11-17
Operator control and working interest ownership define long-term operational authority, revenue obligations, and regulatory liability. High WI concentrates risk and decision-making with KODA through full field lifecycle.
Waiver granted for three-day waiting period prior to construction/operations (form of waiver affidavit filed 15 December 2025); KODA holds majority WI and can self-authorize expedited commencement
📄 Affidavit - Request for Waiver to Three-Day Waiting Period dated 15 December 2025 · 📅 2025-12-15
Once approved, waiver allows immediate site mobilization and drilling commencement without standard regulatory cooling-off period. Operational timeline acceleration persists as a standing authorization unless revoked.
Pad development planning for four-well infrastructure: Hazy 3309-1BHN, Hazy 3310-2BHN, Hazy 3316-3BH, Hazy 3315-4BH; shared surface facilities, access road, and production infrastructure documented in pad layout and RIG layout plans
📄 Pad layout, typical RIG layout, and access road diagrams dated October–November 2025; surface disturbance acreage: 12.647 acres · 📅 Unknown | Relative: 2025-10-16 to 2025-11-24
Shared pad infrastructure creates operational and environmental interdependencies across four DSUs. Long-term reclamation, containment, and access obligations apply across the entire pad development footprint and affect drilling order, production facilities, and ultimate site restoration.
🔧 Operator Pattern
KODA Resources operates as majority interest holder on multi-well pads with coordinated directional drilling and shared infrastructure in the Bakken/Three Forks play. Demonstrates operational consolidation, technical capability in horizontal completions, and regulatory compliance posture (surface agreements executed, anti-collision analysis submitted, waiver requests filed proactively).
Four-well pad development with WI ranging 56.41%–96.12%; execution of surface use agreements prior to permit approval; timely submission of anticollision reports and directional planning documents; proactive waiver requests for Order 31973 and three-day waiting period; no historical violations or contingent orders in file.
Confidence: Medium
Well file contains comprehensive pre-permit technical documentation, directional planning, anti-collision analysis, and regulatory correspondence. Stipulations and field order references clearly cite Commission Order No. 34629 and pool definitions. However, the actual permit issuance document with approval date, regulator sign-off, and explicit approval rationale is absent from the file. Dirt work date (09/01/2026) appears to be future-dated relative to file content (November–December 2025), suggesting the permit may be under review or approval is imminent but not yet finalized. Contemporaneous permit-cycle analysis is constrained by missing approval documentation and anchor date.