Silver Hill Energy Operating, LLC is a mid-scale Bakken operator with 250 total wells, 165 active, and 167 producing as of October 2026, concentrated in Burke and Mountrail counties. The company just closed a dense wave of pooling orders on 2026-09-29 across six pools — Gros Ventre, East Tioga, Ray, Leaf Mountain (×2), North Tioga, and Cottonwood-Bakken — and immediately filed five new cases for the October 22 hearing, all targeting the Cottonwood-Bakken Pool. One of those cases (33268) is a spacing-unit application requesting 5 wells across 3,840 acres straddling Burke and Mountrail; the other four are pooling cases. The operator carries a 100% historical win rate and a 99.8% average progression probability across its pending docket, signaling a highly systematic, low-friction regulatory cadence.
All 5 pending cases are set for the October 22, 2026 hearing and span Burke and Mountrail counties. Case 33268 is a spacing-unit application requesting 5 wells on a 3,840-acre unit in the Cottonwood-Bakken Pool across both counties (progression probability: 99.9%). Cases 33275 and 33276 are Mountrail-only Cottonwood-Bakken pooling cases (both at 100% progression probability). Cases 33277 and 33278 cover Burke and Mountrail jointly in the same pool (each at 99.5%). None of the pooling cases specify well counts or acreage. The operator is listed as applicant on all five cases.
Silver Hill carries 250 total wells, of which 165 are active and 167 are currently producing. Only 6 wells have been plugged. The operator's work-type footprint spans drilling rigs, frac crews, frac sand, new-pad dirt and construction, and water logistics and trucking — a full-cycle operational profile consistent with ongoing pad development rather than maintenance mode.
On 2026-09-29, the NDIC signed seven pooling orders for Silver Hill covering the Gros Ventre-Bakken Pool in Burke County (Order 36133), East Tioga-Bakken Pool in Mountrail County (Order 36134), Leaf Mountain-Bakken Pool in Burke County (Orders 36135 and 36136), Cottonwood-Bakken Pool in Burke and Mountrail (Order 36138), Ray-Bakken Pool in Williams County (Order 36139), and North Tioga-Bakken Pool in Burke County (Order 36140). An earlier order dated 2026-08-07 (Order 35007) amended field rules with a spacing-unit creation covering the Leaf Mountain-Bakken, Black Slough-Bakken, and Foothills-Bakken pools in Burke County. The underlying dev-location cases (33123–33130) all carried progression probabilities between 99.5% and 100%, consistent with the operator's 100% historical win rate. Case 33123 (Gros Ventre-Bakken, Burke) is the most advanced post-order location, with 4 wells spudded and the latest spud dated 2026-09-24.
Silver Hill's momentum score reflects a ramp factor of 10.0 with 5 pending cases, all rated high-probability (average 99.8%), and 5 wells requested in the upcoming docket. The 100% historical win rate across all tracked cases leaves no meaningful regulatory risk flag. The Cottonwood-Bakken Pool is the clear focal point: it appears in the most recent signed order (36138), in four of the five pending pooling cases, and in the sole spacing-unit case requesting wells. The Burke–Mountrail county boundary runs through this pool, and Silver Hill is filing on both sides simultaneously — a pattern that points to a multi-pad, cross-county development program rather than isolated lease-by-lease activity.