I would expect the different drill heads were taken in different directions out many miles from each other and many miles deep. When all well heads gushed (if truely reported), this would give credence to an ‘ocean of oil’.
Plus, the six wells reached 22,000 ft depth.
Understand what you're claiming here. First, six wellheads on one pad is an unusually large pad. But feasible. Six rigs working on one pad at the same time is, more than likely, something that has never happened. Fact is, here in the Barnett, I don't believe I've ever seen two rigs on the same multi-well pad at the same time.
Second, they're drilling over two miles below the producing horizons, into the basement rock -- unlikely to contain any reservoirs of oil.
Third, since all six were said to be drilling horizontally away from their surface location, the wellheads are not sitting on "an OCEAN of oil" -- instead, they are sitting on "an ISLAND". In the precise center of a perfectly DRY island, so to speak -- located in the midst of your "OCEAN of oil".
In which case, how (and why) did the geologists manage to locate the drilling pad where they did?
A very curious operation your associate discovered...
It may have been misunderstood or I miswrote but the report was that it was a six-pad setup, I imagine close in together but not sure.
All of the drilling reports were not directly observed so all of it can be garbled. The person my business partner talked to about the drilling and gushing and what not is a well-known respected person in the region and has been there since 1993. I learned this because I asked who this person was. I have his name and know he runs or owns a radio broadcasting service in the region.
I think the only thing safe to say is that something big appears to have happened in the Bakken the other day (a few days ago) and a large non-military but militarized convoy was witnessed yesterday on I-94 going towards Bismarck. Could be related but maybe not.
The questions I asked are can federal agents take control of a well or lands where active drilling is ongoing? Some posters have responded with useful comments. Others seem intent on creating a ruckus.