3D Well Viewer

Published basin overview · derived from NDIC data, not an official record

How to move around

Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom, right-drag or two-finger drag to pan. Click a wellbore to inspect it. The timeline at the bottom plays the basin through time: space plays or pauses, ← → step a year, Esc clears the selection. The chips at the top right switch layers on and off from anywhere.

1Wellscolour, filter, find

Every Bakken-system lateral with a survey, in true subsea depth from the Dakota down to the toe.

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Wellbores Hole above kickoff

Target zone

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Find a well

2Geologysurfaces, volumes, shading

Gridded tops from the auto-picked Bakken shales and NDIC Dakota picks. Raise the vertical exaggeration to see structure.

Surfaces

Upper Bakken top Lower Bakken top Inyan Kara (Dakota) top Inyan Kara base (Swift top)

Volumes (isopach solids)

Bakken volume Dakota volume

Shade surfaces by

Surface opacity

Vertical exaggeration

3Through timedisposal

These layers follow the timeline at the bottom of the screen. Wells appear in the year they were spudded.

Disposal: injection plane in the Dakota

Disposal wells (ring size = disposal volume class)

4Projected wellsroom to drill, Nov 2026

Candidate laterals that still fit in each NDIC Bakken spacing unit at the density its neighbourhood has reached: the larger of the 75th percentile of mature units within 10 miles and the median of units drilled in the last three years, less what is already drilled, land counted once across overlapping units. Placed in the widest gaps along the unit's azimuth with 250 ft end and 500 ft side setbacks (250 ft where units overlap), never closer than 330 ft or 0.6 of the natural spacing. November 2026 method, geometry only: no economics, no benches. Where, not when. Method and tables: bakkensubsurface.com/room-to-drill.

Show candidate laterals

5Selected wellclick a wellbore

Tap or click a wellbore to see its card.

6Mapreference layers

Ground grid Town labels

About the data

Public edition (public-level-2, November 2026). Free public sources: North Dakota Industrial Commission, Oil and Gas Division well index, directional surveys and spacing units from the public GIS; FracFocus completions (March 2026); USGS 3DEP ground elevation. Derived by this project from NDIC subscription records, under its data-rights tiers: gridded formation surfaces, organic richness, thickness, temperature and GOR maps, the modelled Dakota pressure rise, five disposal volume classes, and disposed volume only in six-mile blocks with at least three disposal wells. Derived from NDIC data; not an official record. No logs, log tops, well files, or per-well production or injection volumes are published here, and per-well engineering calls (pressure gradients, cement and casing) are kept off the site; the official records are at dmr.nd.gov/oilgas. Per-well production returns once rebuilt from the free monthly reports. The projected wells are the room-to-drill candidate set of November 2026, computed from the public spacing units and surveys alone (no economics); their depth is taken from the surveyed laterals around them for display. Not engineering, investment or legal advice; see the terms of use.

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