Six (6) New Permits -- Daily Activity Report -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Drillers: EOG (3), Whiting, BR, and Newfield

Fields: Clarks Creek, Bell, Zenith, and Siverston

Another nice Sinclair well reported today:

• 19520, 1,038, Sinclair, Hovden Federal 1-20H (reported earlier)

This is quite incredible. Yesterday, EOG was issued three permits for Clarks Creek; today EOG got another three permits for the same field. These three will be on the same pad in section 7; two going north and one going south. Yesterday's three-permit-same-pad was in section 18; two of them going south; one going north.

Clarks Creek is a very narrow oil field, about 2 sections wide by 6 sections long, sitting almost completely inside the reservation on the far west side, just west of the Antelope oil field.

Whiting has another permit in the very exciting Bell oil field, where the highest prices have been paid for mineral acres.

Added after original posting, see comment below: I forgot to mention BR's permit in Zenith oil field. Of all the fields in North Dakota, the Bell oil field and the Zenith oil field are, for me, two of the most exciting, if not the two most exciting. If you haven't clicked on Zenith oil field link, highly recommend you do so now. And then look at the GIS map server.