Five (5) New Permits -- Another Great BEXP Well -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, August 8, 2011 --

Operators: Hess (2), XTO, Burlington Resources, and Whiting

Fields: Alkali Creek, Grinnell, Bell, and a wildcat.

Hess has a two-well pad permit.

BR has the wildcat in McKenzie County.

Take a look at that Bell field permit; remember, back in April, 2011, I posted a story about acreage in Bell oil field going for $9,000/acre.

As usual, when other operators are waiting to get their wells fracked, BEXP is getting them fracked and reporting great IPs:

• #19930, 2,670, BEXP, Russell 10-3 1-H, Painted Woods, Bakken