Areas of Operation

Wyoming

Ballard’s most active operating area is the Tree Draw project in southern Campbell County including K-Bar field.  While the Company began operations in this area in 2001, it has been a focus of continual horizontal development since 2012.  Five producing horizons are now under development including the Turner, Parkman, and Shannon sandstone reservoirs and the Niobrara and Mowry shale reservoirs.

In Gaither Draw, Ballard produces from both the Parkman and Sussex horizons.  Ballard continues to be an innovative leader in the basin through the implementation and expansion of the Gaither Draw Unit Parkman waterflood.

North Dakota

Ballard has maintained an effort to explore for conventional reserves on the east flank of the Williston Basin in an area not overlapped by Bakken development.  Ballard currently operates one field in the basin.  Discovered in March of 2014 in southern Bottineau County, Chatfield field produces from the Mississippian Mission Canyon Formation at an average depth of 4,500 feet.  Ballard began waterflooding Chatfield in 2020.