13 More Permits Today

Thirteen new permits today, thirteen different drillers and thirteen different fields or wildcats:

• Enerplus, McGregory Buttes
• Encore, Charlson
• Marathon, Bailey
• Continental, Haystack Butte
• Oasis, Cotonwood
• Brigham, Todd
• QEP, Deep Water Creek Bay
• Cornerstone, Wildcat
• G3, Wildcat
• Baytex, Ambrose
• Sagebrush, Wildcat
• Newfield, Wildcat
• Hunt, Parshall

Quite a story still going on in the Bakken. On track for 1,437 new permits in calendar year 2010.

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And this is interesting: Ward-Williston re-entered a dry hole that was drilled back in 1965 with a file number of #3988,  Anderson 1 in Bottineau County. It was permanently abandoned in 1984. It was re-spud and completed August, 2010, but was dry. The original well produced slightly less than 28,000 bbls over its lifetime.