As of October 8, 2026, Murex Petroleum Corp. is a mid-sized North Dakota Bakken operator carrying 352 total wells — 220 active, 200 producing — concentrated in Divide County with a secondary footprint in McKenzie County. The company has no pending docket cases at this moment, but its recent regulatory activity tells a busy story: a Musta-Bakken spacing order was signed October 5, 2026 (case 33087), capping a cluster of eight orders issued since July 2026, six of them pooling orders in the Writing Rock-Bakken pool. Two additional spacing-unit applications (Alexandria-Bakken, case 33162; Glass Bluff-Bakken, case 33088) heard in August–September 2026 are awaiting orders. The operator's historical progression rate of 84% and the near-certain model scores on those two cases suggest the order pipeline is not yet closed.
Murex's active docket spans two counties. In Divide County, case 33087 (Musta-Bakken, Sections 5, 8, 17, T.161N., R.99W.) received a signed spacing order on October 5, 2026 — 5 wells authorized across 1,920 acres, with 4 prior wells already in place. Case 33162 (Alexandria-Bakken, Sections 19, 30, 31, T.161N., R.100W.) was heard September 23, 2026; it requests 5 wells on 1,920 acres and carries a progression probability of 100% (win rate 88%). In McKenzie County, case 33088 (Glass Bluff-Bakken, eight sections in T.151N., R.103W.) was heard August 26, 2026; it requests 10 wells on 2,560 acres and carries a progression probability of 98% (win rate 88%). Neither of the two pending cases has a signed order as of the as-of date, and neither has been continued previously.
Murex holds 352 total wells in North Dakota: 220 active, 75 plugged, and 200 currently producing. The producing count relative to the active count indicates a largely operational fleet with limited idle inventory. No spudded or permitted wells are recorded against the three docket cases, meaning the regulatory work is running ahead of the drill bit.
Eight orders have been signed since July 21, 2026. The most recent is spacing Order 36097 (Musta-Bakken, Divide County, October 5, 2026). Before that, Order 36120 authorized a salt-water disposal well conversion in the Fortuna field, Divide County (September 21, 2026). The July 21 cluster comprises six pooling orders — 34914, 34916, 35065, 35066, 35067, and 35068 — all in the Writing Rock-Bakken pool, Divide County. The Writing Rock pooling sweep is the single largest burst of order activity in the recent record and likely reflects forced-pooling of non-participating mineral owners ahead of or concurrent with active drilling.
Murex's Divide County activity is converging across three pools — Musta-Bakken (order just signed), Alexandria-Bakken (order pending), and Writing Rock-Bakken (pooling complete) — all within T.161N., suggesting a systematic township-level development program. The Glass Bluff-Bakken case in McKenzie County is the outlier: larger unit, more requested wells, and a different county, but anchored by 11 prior wells. The operator's 84% historical progression rate and the high model scores on both pending cases make order issuance the base case, but the cases can be continued again; no order should be assumed until signed. The SWD conversion in Fortuna adds an infrastructure dimension worth tracking alongside the spacing activity.