As of September 24, 2026, Hunt Oil Co. is a mature, high-volume Bakken operator carrying 1,890 total wells — 983 active and 991 currently producing — across a footprint anchored in Burke, Divide, and Mountrail counties. The company has 8 pending docket cases requesting 12 wells, with a momentum ramp of 18.7% and a historical win rate of 98%. Its near-term regulatory calendar is concentrated on two hearing dates (September 24 and October 22, 2026), with coordinated spacing-unit and pooling applications in the Frazier-Bakken, Smoky Butte-Bakken, and Dimond-Bakken pools. Recent signed orders cover commingling authorizations in Burke, Divide, and Mountrail, plus a new salt water disposal authorization in Billings County, signaling active production infrastructure management across a wide geography.
Hunt has 8 pending cases spread across Burke, Divide, and Mountrail counties, with hearings on September 24 and October 22, 2026. Five of the eight cases — including all four Divide County matters — are calendared for September 24, concentrating a significant portion of the operator's regulatory workload on a single docket day. In Divide County, Hunt is the applicant on four cases across two pools. In the Smoky Butte-Bakken Pool, a spacing unit (case 33196, Sections 21, 28, 33, T.160N., R.100W.) requesting 2 wells across 1,920 acres carries a 100% progression probability, paired with a pooling application (case 33209) at 98.5% probability — both new filings at their first hearing. In the Frazier-Bakken Pool, a spacing unit (case 32870, Sections 13, 14, 15, T.161N., R.97W.) requesting 4 wells across 1,920 acres sits at 90.4% probability after 4 continuances, while its companion pooling case (32888, same sections) has been continued 4 times and carries only a 26.3% progression probability. In Burke County, Hunt is the applicant on a new spacing unit (case 33256, Sections 24, 25, 36, T.160N., R.90W.) requesting 4 wells across 1,920 acres at 100% probability, paired with a pooling application (case 33279, same sections) at 96.3% — both set for October 22. In Mountrail County, two well authorization cases (33257 and 33258, both Parshall-Bakken Pool) are set for October 22, each requesting 1 well at 99.4% probability. A separate spacing unit case (33030) in the Writing Rock-Bakken Pool, Divide County, lists the applicant as Hunt Oil Co. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. — a joint entity — and was heard July 30, 2026; no progression probability is available for that case.
Hunt's total well count stands at 1,890, of which 983 are active and 991 are currently producing. The plugged count is 297. The operator has 12 wells requested across its 8 pending cases, with an average progression probability of 88.8% across the docket and 7 of 8 cases classified as high-probability. The momentum ramp is 18.7%, and the historical win rate is 98%. Work types on record span the full development cycle: drilling rigs, frac crews, frac sand, new-pad dirt and construction, rentals and workforce, and water logistics and trucking — indicating Hunt manages or contracts across all major field service categories.
Eight orders have been signed since late July 2026. The most recent is a Salt Water Disposal Authorization (Order 36119, September 21, 2026) in Billings County, Little Knife Field — outside the three-county core. In Burke County, two Pooling Orders (35564 and 35565, August 17, 2026) were signed for the Vanville-Bakken Pool, and a Commingling Authorization (35816, August 7, 2026) covers the Dimond Field and Thompson Lake Field. In Divide County, a Commingling Authorization (35817, July 28, 2026) covers the Smoky Butte Field, encompassing the Alexandria-Bakken, Sioux Trail-Bakken, and Smoky Butte-Bakken pools. In Mountrail County, two Commingling Authorizations (35815 and 35736, both July 28, 2026) cover the Ross and Ross-Bakken Pool fields. A Pooling Application Hearing order (35813, July 17, 2026) was signed for the Frazier-Bakken Pool in Divide County. No named individuals (landmen, attorneys, or company contacts) appear in the bundle.
The geographic overlap between recent signed orders and pending cases is tight and deliberate. The Smoky Butte-Bakken commingling order (35817) covers the same pool where Hunt is now requesting a spacing unit and pooling order (cases 33196 and 33209). The Dimond Field commingling order (35816) covers Burke County infrastructure directly adjacent to the Dimond-Bakken spacing and pooling cases (33256 and 33279) set for October 22. The Frazier-Bakken pooling hearing order (35813) preceded the still-pending Frazier spacing and pooling cases (32870 and 32888) that have now been continued four times. Taken together, the pattern suggests Hunt is sequencing infrastructure authorization ahead of — or in parallel with — its acreage consolidation filings, a disciplined approach to ensuring production readiness if and when spacing orders are signed.