Four (4) New Permits-- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, July 6, 2011 --

• Operators: Hess (3), and Marathon
• Fields: Baskin and Big Bend

Hess will be putting three wells on one pad in the Baskin oil field.

Wells reported today:

• 19761, 1,074, Zenergy, Martell 36-25H, McKenzie County; t6/12; cum 98K 3/14;
• 19333, 1,193, Whiting, Miller 44-11H, Williams; t1/11; cum 68K 3/14;

In addition, ten (10) wells on the confidential list reported as producing or plugged, which is a pretty good number of wells; only two were CLR; Whiting and EOG both had two, also.

The Baskin oil field is one of the smallest fields in the Williston Basin: it is all of six sections, squeezed in between the Alger and the Big Butte oil fields.

There is an "old" Hess well there, spudded 1/6/2006, and now inactive. It produced very little oil. Hess has another well in that field, almost complete, and in DRL status. It must be a good well for Hess to plan to put three wells on one pad in this small field.

This is the Hess well:

• 20148, 925, Hess, EN-Chamley-156-93-0508H-1, t8/11; cum 172K 3/14;