Eight (8) New Permits -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Producers: Burlington Resources (4), Whiting (3), G3

Fields: Elkhorn Ranch, North Fork, and Strandahl

The three Whiting wells are in different sections in Elkhorn Ranch, Billings County. They will all be Three Forks wells. Billings County is immediately west of Stark County where Whiting is setting up what I call "Whiting Bakken South."

The four BR wells will all be on the same pad in North Fork; two horizontals will target the middle Bakken and two horizontals will target the Three Forks.

There were also three very nice wells reported in the daily activity report today:

• 18576, 1,190, BR, Concord 24-10H, Dunn County
• 19389, 1,936, BEXP, M. Olson 20-29 1-H, Williams County
• 19438, 756, Anschutz, Fisher State 1-21-16H-142-97, Dunn County

In today's daily activity report, Oasis released the new names of 14 wells. All 14 wells, in Williams County and McKenzie County, were "Federal" wells; the "Federal" has been removed.

In addition, another 15 wells were released from confidential status. These have been reported elsewhere.