Nine (9) New Permits -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, August 5, 2011:

Operators: BEXP (2), MRO (2), Hess, Petro Harvester, Fidelity, CLR, Cirque

Fields: Manning, Kuroki, Sanish, Patent Gate, Rattlesnake Point, Deep Water Creek Bay, Murphy Creek, and one wildcat.

Cirque, which we haven't heard from in quite some time, has the wildcat in Mercer County.  That should be interesting.

Fidelity has the permit in Sanish this time, not Whiting.

The rest of the report was unremarkable, except perhaps for this:

• 19248, 234, Whiting, Schneider 11-6TFH, in Billings County