This Is A Rarity: A Page Full of Permits and No New Wells Reporting -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

tiThis is very, very unusual -- a page full of new permits and not one bit of other news: something tells me NDIC got behind a bit and will be playing catch up during the week. In addition, permits for two 4-well pads.

Daily activity report -- September 12, 2011 --

Operators: Burlington Resources (4), CLR (4), Hess (3)

Fields: Murphy Creek, Elm Tree and Ray

BR has permits for a 4-well pad in Murphy Creek; CLR has permits for a 4-well pad in Elm Tree.

Hess has two permits in Ray oil field, and one in Murphy Creek.

There was absolutely nothing else in today's daily activity report.