Continental Resources - Shut In Wells

We have been receiving nice checks from Continental for several years and last year they were pushing to get us to lease additional areas.

All of a sudden they have stopped production even with oil prices so high and no one seems to know why. These are the wells I am referring to.

BRYANT 1-6-7XHW, BRYANT 2-6-7XHM, and COLUMBUS 1-36-25XHW: shut in since 02/03/2026, with the exception of a handful of days

- CHELSEA 1-12-1XHW: shut in since 01/18/2026, with the exception of a handful of days

- GAPSTOW 8-25-23XHM: shut in since 01/29/2026

Anyone know what is going on?

Thanks,

Be patient for a bit. Those wells are just on the edge of a very extensive drilling program that Continental is working through in 1S-3W and 2S-3W. They were probably shut in to protect them during the frac work on the many wells to the west.

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Thanks Martha, always a good source of information!

Tarev

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They want the royalties from those wells as badly as you do! So they will turn them back on whenever it is safe to do so.

What west wells? Any near sec 8 blk 19 Pecos County?

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You do realize that Pecos county Texas is about 13000 sq miles and a section is usually about 640 acres or 1sq mile?

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Please start a new topic in the correct State and county if you have a new question, This topic was about Carter County in OK. It keeps the forum from getting confused about the area of interest.

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I did not see that.Sorry about that. I will ask the question in the right county & state.

But do they really? Im in 3 of the 4 named wells and exchanged numerous emails and calls with Continental. Would you be patient knowing you have good producing wells that suddenly generate 0 income for months while oil prices are over $100 a bbl and knowing you missed out on the gravy train? Then when they turn the wells back on, do they come back producing the same and how long until the next check arrives, a year? So the original poster and100’s of others like myself are out what a year of payments when oil prices are high, so the operators can shut in the wells to drill other wells that wont be paid out for a year, they dont sweat getting paid on wells like us mineral owners do.