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

Daily activity report, August 18, 2011 --

Operators: Hess (3), Denbury Onshore (2), Murex, MRO, CLR

Fields: Arnegard, Big Butte, Alkali Creek, McGregor, Murphy Creek and a wildcat.

CLR has the wildcat in Williams County.

Denbury Onshore has a 2-well pad permit in Arnegard oil field; Hess has a 2-well pad permit in Big Butte.

Slawson had two permits canceled (16818 and 17535); probably a typo, but NDIC reported both with the same name: Panther 1-29H, and both located at the identical location: NWNE 29-158N-91W.

This is a long list: Whiting requested and was approved "tight hole" status for seven wells; Oasis "ditto" for four wells. With one exception all of Whiting's wells were in Mountrail County (probably Sanish oil field, its cash cow); with one exception, all of Oasis' wells were in Williams County.