Enerplus Resources USA Corporation is a substantial Bakken operator with 1,328 total wells in North Dakota, of which 958 are active and 993 are producing as of September 2026. The operator has been running a consistent regulatory program across Williams, Dunn, and McKenzie counties, filing spacing unit applications across multiple Bakken pools — Climax, Strandahl, Otter, Little Muddy, Good Luck, South Fork, and Lone Butte — and converting them to signed orders at a 92% historical win rate. Four orders dropped in September 2026 alone, all in the Murphy Creek-Bakken pool in Dunn County, with a fifth covering the Lone Butte-Bakken pool spanning McKenzie and Dunn counties. One pending case (Case 33234, Lone Butte-Bakken, McKenzie/Dunn) is scheduled for hearing on 2026-10-21, requesting 1 well across 2,560 acres.
Enerplus currently has 1 pending case on the docket. Case 33234 is a spacing unit application for the Lone Butte-Bakken pool, straddling McKenzie and Dunn counties (Sections 13 and 24, T.147N., R.98W., McKenzie County; Sections 18 and 19, T.147N., R.97W., Dunn County). It requests 1 well across 2,560 acres and is scheduled for first hearing on 2026-10-21. Progression probability is 100% against a 92% operator win rate. The broader pipeline of dev_locations spans Williams, Dunn, and McKenzie counties, with pools including Otter-Bakken, Little Muddy-Bakken, Good Luck-Bakken, Climax-Bakken, Strandahl-Bakken, South Fork-Bakken, and Lone Butte-Bakken.
Enerplus carries 1,328 total wells in North Dakota. Of those, 958 are active and 993 are producing now; 68 have been plugged. The scale of the producing base — spread across multiple Bakken pools in at least three counties — reflects a mature, multi-year development program rather than an early-stage entrant.
Eight orders were signed between 2026-08-06 and 2026-09-17. The most concentrated activity was on 2026-09-17, when four orders covering the Murphy Creek-Bakken pool in Dunn County were signed simultaneously: a Spacing Order Amendment (Order 35661), two Spacing and Pooling Orders (Orders 35767 and 35765), and a Spacing Order (Order 35766). Earlier in September, Order 35415 (2026-09-02) addressed a Spacing Unit Application in the Lone Butte-Bakken pool across McKenzie and Dunn counties. August activity included a Commingling Authorization for Little Knife in Dunn County (Order 35976, 2026-08-31), a Spacing Unit Modification and Field Redefinition for the Church-Bakken/Marmon-Bakken pools in Williams County (Order 35238, 2026-08-17), and a Spacing Unit Modification and Field Redefinition for the Strandahl-Bakken pool in Williams County (Order 35769, 2026-08-06). On the pending side, the six dev_location cases (Cases 33001, 33002, 33003, 33004, 33166, 33234) are all spacing unit applications filed by Enerplus Resources (USA) Corp. as applicant. Cases 33001, 33002, 33003, and 33004 had first hearings on 2026-07-29; Case 33166 had its first hearing on 2026-09-23; Case 33234 is scheduled for 2026-10-21. All carry progression probabilities at or above 99.7%. The largest single request is Case 33003 (Climax-Bakken and Strandahl-Bakken, Williams County), which requests 15 wells across 2,560 acres. Case 33166 (Otter-Bakken, Williams County) enters a section cluster with 13 prior wells already in place.
Enerplus's active work types span the full development cycle: drilling rigs, frac crews, frac sand, new-pad dirt and construction, and water logistics and trucking. This breadth is consistent with an operator running simultaneous pad construction and completion operations across multiple active areas.