Ten More Permits Today (Bakken, ND, USA)

Ten more permits today, continuing a trend of double-digit number of permits being issued daily. On track for 1,525 new permits this calendar year.

Today's list included  8 producers: Fram Operating (new to me), 3 permits; and one each for CLR, Oil for America, Hunt, Baytex, BEXP, Petro-Hunt, and EOG.

Fram Operating will put two wells on one pad in Renville County.

The permits are for the following fields: Norma (2), Sauk, Alger, Antelope. Five (5) were designated wildcats.

No dry holes. Wells released from confidential status were unremarkable.

Whiting picked up three very old wells from South Heart Company (file numbers: 7230, 5330, and 5560). These are near the town of South Heart, an area recently featured on this blog. All of these wells are still active, but two of them are salt water disposal. However, #7230, with a status date of 1979 is still listed as active as an oil producing well.

Speaking of South Heart, the above mentioned Oil for America permit, file number 19785, Froelich 27-2, is in the same area as the Fidelity permits around South Heart. On the map at that link, the Froelich well is just one section south of where the map ends. Oil for America is almost unique among producers in the Bakken not placing an "H" designation after their well names. Perhaps they are not horizontal wells, but that would surprise me. Oil for America has four permits issued in 2010; they are all in the same general area around South Heart.  Sort of reminds me of Samson O & G in Stockyard Creek; all their wells in just one small area.