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

Daily activity report, July 11, 2011 --

Operators: Chesapeake (2), BEXP, Hess, Newfield, and Oasis

Fields: Painted Woods, Beaver Lodge, East Fork, Mondak and two wildcats

Chesapeake has two wildcats in Stark County.

BEXP has the permit in Painted Woods, up by Williston, the heart of the Bakken.

Hess has another permit in Beaver Lodge, where Amerada (later Amerada-Hess) discovered the first oil well in North Dakota, in 1951.

In today's daily activity report, there were two nice wells reported:

• 19808, 2,461, Newfield, Malm 149-98-11-2-1H, McKenzie County
• 19497, 1,046, Newfield, Wilson 150-99-29-21-1H, McKenzie County
• 18785, 852, CLR, Daniel 1-33H, Divide County
• 19332, 1,105, XTO, Lonnie 31X3, Williams County
• 19584, 2,192, BEXP, Dave Arnson 8-5 1H, Williams County
• 19824, 1,683, BR, Ransom 44-31H, McKenzie County

Newfield has been having some great wells lately. Slawson (privately held) also has some great wells; and, of course, BEXP always reports stunning IPs.