Ten (10) New Permits -- North Dakota, USA

Producers: Tracker (3), Zenergy (3), Whiting, Marathon, Newfield, and Petro-Hunt.

Fields: Sanish, Murphy Creek, Deep Water Creek Bay, South Tobacco Garden, Little Knife, Four Bears, North Tobacco Garden, and a wildcat.

Zenergy has a 2-well pad in North Tobacco Garden. I'm not sure if this is a first for Zenergy; a multi-well pad. I will try to remember to check when I get home.

Tracker has the wildcat, 14-T149N-R101W. The wildcat is in a 2-section field called Antelope field about 8 miles southeast of Alexander (south of Williston; west of Watford City). Nothing remarkable except in a relatively inactive area. It extends a huge number of string of short-lateral wells, running northwest to southeast, west of Alexander. That group of wells have file numbers of "15XXX" so were drilled back in 2006 or so.

Tracker had a nice well, #19188, 1,460, Scanlan 17-1TH, Truax oil field. Truax oil field is east of Stockyard Creek, east of Williston, on the north side of the river, driving out east of Williston on 1804 . A Three Forks well in Williams County. 

North Dakota is on track to issue 1,923 new permits this calendar year.