as of 2026-10-08

White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC — McKenzie County Bakken Operator with 9 Pending Spacing Cases and 60 Requested Wells Heading to October 21 Hearing

161

Producing now

344

Total wells

Pending cases

Wells requested

67%

Win rate

2026-10-21

Next hearing

Producing now161 / 344

Active (status A/AC)210 / 344

Plugged / abandoned74 / 344

White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC is an active McKenzie County Bakken operator with a portfolio of 344 total wells, 210 active and 161 currently producing. The company has 9 pending spacing-unit cases — all in McKenzie County, all scheduled for the October 21, 2026 hearing — requesting authorization for 60 wells across a range of Bakken pools including Rough Rider, Pierre Creek, Cinnamon Creek, Flat Top Butte, Devils Pass, Buckhorn, and Trailside. A related entity, White Rock Resources Holdings, LLC, carries a separate continued case (33084) covering Pierre Creek, Cinnamon Creek, and Flat Top Butte-Bakken that has been heard once and is pending a decision. The operator's historical win rate is 67%, and the average progression probability across the pending docket sits at 37.3%, signaling meaningful but far-from-certain near-term regulatory advancement.

What stands out

Every one of the 8 pending cases requests an identical 2,560-acre unit — a template-uniform approach that is operationally efficient but presents a concentrated regulatory risk: if the commission takes issue with the unit design on one case, the objection could ripple across the entire October 21 docket.
Case 33230 — requesting 28 of the 60 total requested wells — carries a 46.4% progression probability, notably higher than the 36.2% shared by all seven other pending cases, suggesting the model sees meaningfully better odds for this multi-pool Rough Rider/Flat Top Butte/Devils Pass unit, which also has the deepest prior-well footprint at 38 prior wells.
The related-entity case (33084, White Rock Resources Holdings, LLC) has already been continued once and carries a 97.1% progression probability — the highest in the docket by a wide margin — meaning a signed order there is the most likely near-term regulatory event for the White Rock family of operators, even though it is not White Rock Oil & Gas's own application.
With 74 plugged wells against 210 active and 161 producing, the operator is managing a meaningful tail of inactive inventory; the gap between active (210) and producing (161) wells also points to a non-trivial number of wells that are active but not yet on production — context worth tracking as the pending spacing cases move toward potential orders.

Docket & Locations

All 9 pending cases are spacing-unit applications in McKenzie County, set for the October 21, 2026 hearing. Eight are listed under White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC as applicant (cases 33223, 33224, 33226, 33227, 33228, 33229, 33230, 33231); one (case 33084) is listed under White Rock Resources Holdings, LLC and is in a continued-pending status after its September 23, 2026 hearing — it had its first hearing on August 26, 2026, giving it one continuance so far. The pools span a broad swath of McKenzie County Bakken play: Rough Rider, Flat Top Butte, Devils Pass, Pierre Creek, Cinnamon Creek, Buckhorn, and Trailside. Geographically, the cases cluster in T.145N.–T.147N., R.100W.–R.102W. Every pending case proposes a 2,560-acre standup unit. The October 21 docket alone requests 60 wells across the 8 White Rock Oil & Gas cases, with case 33230 alone requesting 28 of those wells.

sources: mom-pending, mom-wells_auth, mom-next_hearing, mom-counties, hr-33230, hr-33226, hr-33229, hr-33224, hr-33231, hr-33228, hr-33227, hr-33223, dev_locations-33084, case-33226, case-33229, case-33224, case-33231, case-33228, case-33227, case-33223, case-33230

Portfolio

White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC holds 344 total wells in its ND portfolio: 210 active, 161 currently producing, and 74 plugged. None of the 9 pending cases have any wells spudded or permitted yet — all proposed development is pre-spud. Prior-well counts in the pending case footprints range from 2 (case 33227, Cinnamon Creek/Buckhorn) to 38 (case 33230, Rough Rider/Flat Top Butte/Devils Pass), confirming these are infill or extension plays on established acreage, not greenfield entries. Work-type exposure spans drilling rigs, frac crews, frac sand, new-pad dirt and construction, and water logistics and trucking.

sources: port-total, port-active, port-plugged, port-producing_now, dev_locations-33230, dev_locations-33231, dev_locations-33229, dev_locations-33227, dev_locations-33224, dev_locations-33223, dev_locations-33228

Recent Orders & Case Probabilities

Six orders have been signed for White Rock Oil & Gas, LLC since late July 2026. The most recent is Order 35097 (Spacing and Field Rules, Grassy Butte-Tyler Pool, McKenzie County, signed September 24, 2026). Earlier orders include a Salt Water Disposal Authorization (Order 35791, August 28), a Spacing Modification and Well Authorization for Ranch Creek/Butte/West Butte-Bakken (Order 35271, July 27), a Field Extension and Spacing Modification for Beicegel Creek-Bakken (Order 35772, July 27), a Hearing Dismissal for Beicegel Creek-Bakken (Order 35145, July 27), and a Spacing Order/Pool Redefinition for Ranch Creek (Order 35146, July 27). The operator's historical win rate is 67%. On the pending docket, case 33230 carries the highest progression probability at 46.4%; the seven remaining White Rock Oil & Gas cases each sit at 36.2%. The continued case 33084 (White Rock Resources Holdings) carries a 97.1% progression probability. The portfolio-wide momentum ramp is 31.4, and average probability across pending cases is 37.3%.

sources: ord-35097, ord-35791, ord-35271, ord-35772, ord-35145, ord-35146, mom-win_rate, mom-avg_prob, mom-ramp, dev_locations-33230, dev_locations-33231, dev_locations-33229, dev_locations-33227, dev_locations-33224, dev_locations-33223, dev_locations-33228, dev_locations-33084

Hearing locations

Case	County	Pool	Precision	Map
33230	McKenzie	Rough Rider, Flat Top Butte, Devils Pass-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33226	McKenzie	Cinnamon Creek-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33229	McKenzie	Rough Rider-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33224	McKenzie	Pierre Creek-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33231	McKenzie	Trailside, Rough Rider-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33228	McKenzie	Rough Rider-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33227	McKenzie	Cinnamon Creek, Buckhorn-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33223	McKenzie	Pierre Creek-Bakken	legal	📍 map
33225	McKenzie	Pierre Creek, Cinnamon Creek-Bakken	legal	📍 map