Nine (9) New Permits -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Producers: BR (3), BEXP (2), CLR, XTO, EOG, and Hunt

Fields: Heart Butte, Parshall, Ross, Charlson, Camp, and East Fork.

The three BR permits will be on the same pad in Charlson. Charlson is a very good field.

The two BEXP permits will be on the same pad in East Fork, Williams County. I have no experience with the East Fork.

The daily activity report was otherwise unremarkable; no new IPs were reported. Ten wells on the confidential list were reported as "plugged or producing," which usually means they were producing. We'll have to wait and see what their IPs are.

East Fork oil field is northeast of Williston, east of Epping, on the way to Ray. It is just west of a string of wells that, I believe, are in acreage once owned by American Oil and Gas (AEZ) before being bought out by Hess. However, many of these wells are Newfield, so I may be mistaken. More later, perhaps.