as of 2026-08-27

Silver Hill Energy Operating: 8 pooling cases at one hearing, 100% win rate, Burke County build-out in full swing

160

Producing now

238

Total wells

Pending cases

Wells authorized

100%

Win rate

2026-08-27

Next hearing

Producing now160 / 238

Active (status A/AC)151 / 238

Plugged / abandoned4 / 238

Silver Hill Energy Operating, LLC is a Bakken-focused operator with 238 total wells, 151 active, and 160 producing as of August 2026. The company is in an unmistakable land-locking phase: all 8 pending regulatory cases are pooling applications, every one scheduled for the same August 27, 2026 hearing, and every one rated high commercial relevance. Six of the eight sit in Burke County — including three separate Leaf Mountain-Bakken filings — with the remaining two split between Williams and Mountrail counties. Two spacing orders were signed just weeks earlier (August 7, 2026) covering Leaf Mountain-, Black Slough-, and Foothills-Bakken pools in Burke, signaling that the regulatory groundwork for a drilling campaign is actively being laid. The operator carries a 100% historical win rate and an average progression probability of 99.4% across the pending docket.

What stands out

All 8 pending cases land on a single hearing date — a deliberate batch strategy that compresses the regulatory timeline and signals coordinated pad-development planning rather than opportunistic one-off filings.
Two spacing orders were signed August 7, 2026 — just 20 days before the next hearing wave — covering the exact same Burke County pools (Leaf Mountain-, Black Slough-, Foothills-Bakken) that dominate the pending docket. Spacing orders typically precede permitted wells; service vendors should treat this as a near-term drilling trigger.
Case 33128 (Cottonwood-Bakken, Burke/Mountrail) sits on top of 32 prior wells — the deepest established footprint of any pending case — yet Silver Hill is still pooling new sections there, suggesting infill or step-out density drilling rather than greenfield exploration.
Case 33125 (Leaf Mountain-Bakken, T.161N. R.93W.) is the only greenfield location in the batch — zero prior wells — sitting adjacent to sections where Silver Hill already has 5 prior wells (Case 33127, same township/range). A greenfield pooling filing immediately next to proven acreage is a classic boundary-extension move.

Docket & Locations

Silver Hill has 8 pending cases, all pooling, all set for the August 27, 2026 Industrial Commission hearing. The geographic spread covers Burke (6 cases), Mountrail (2 cases, one shared with Burke), and Williams (1 case). Burke County pools targeted: Leaf Mountain-Bakken (Cases 33125, 33126, 33127 — three separate section clusters within T.161N. R.93W.), Gros Ventre-Bakken (Case 33123, T.159N. R.93W.), North Tioga-Bakken (Case 33130, T.159N. R.93W.), and Cottonwood-Bakken (Case 33128, straddling Burke and Mountrail). Mountrail-only: East Tioga-Bakken (Case 33124, T.158N. R.94W.). Williams: Ray-Bakken (Case 33129, T.156N. R.97W.). Every case is rated high relevance; none has been continued. The operator is both applicant and operator on all 8 filings.

sources: mom-pending, mom-next_hearing, mom-counties, case-33129, case-33126, case-33124, case-33125, case-33127, case-33130, case-33123, case-33128, hr-33129, hr-33130, hr-33126, hr-33125, hr-33127, hr-33123, hr-33128, hr-33124

Portfolio

The total well count stands at 238, of which 151 are active and 160 are producing now. Only 4 wells have been plugged — a very low retirement figure relative to the active base, consistent with a portfolio still in growth mode. Work types on file span the full development cycle: drilling rigs, frac crews, frac sand, new-pad dirt & construction, and water logistics & trucking.

sources: port-total, port-active, port-plugged, port-producing_now

Recent Orders & Cases

Order 35006 (signed August 7, 2026) amended field rules and created a spacing unit covering the Leaf Mountain-Bakken Pool and Larson-Bakken Pool in Burke County. Order 35007 (same date) issued a field rules amendment and spacing order across Leaf Mountain-, Black Slough-, and Foothills-Bakken pools, also in Burke County. Both orders precede the August 27 hearing by 20 days and directly overlap with the pools named in the pending pooling cases, establishing the spacing framework into which new pooled interests will slot. Progression probabilities on the 8 pending cases range from 95.2% (Case 33124, East Tioga-Bakken, Mountrail) to 100% (Cases 33129 and 33130), with 6 of the 8 at 99.9%. The operator's historical win rate is 100% and the momentum ramp score is 8.0.

sources: ord-35006, ord-35007, hr-33124, hr-33129, hr-33130, hr-33126, hr-33125, hr-33127, hr-33123, hr-33128, mom-win_rate, mom-avg_prob, mom-ramp

Hearing locations

Case	County	Pool	Precision	Map
33129	Williams	Ray-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33130	Burke	North Tioga-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33127	Burke	Leaf Mountain-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33126	Burke	Leaf Mountain-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33123	Burke	Gros Ventre-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33125	Burke	Leaf Mountain-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33128	Burke, Mountrail	Cottonwood-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33124	Mountrail	East Tioga-Bakken	legal	📍 map