Eleven (11) New Permits -- Some Nice Wells -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

First comment: I don't often notice typographical errors in NDIC's daily activity report, but today there were at least two: QUP for QEP; and Burlinton for Burlington.


Daily activity report, October 10, 2011 --

196 active drilling rigs, two more this afternoon than there were this morning; all-time record, 201.

New permits --
Operators: EOG (2), Chesapeake (2), Denbury Onshore (2), OXY USA (2), CLR, Liberty, Oasis

Fields: Pronghorn, Siverston, Bull Butte, Murphy Creek, and Spotted Horn.

CLR has a wildcat in Burke; CHK has two wildcats in Stark.

Denbury Onshore has permits for a 2-well pad; it appears OXY has permits for a 2-well pad; and, EOG has permits for a 2-well pad.

Three of four wells coming off confidential list were not completed; the one that was:

• 19449, 1,993, Whiting, State 12-32H, Mountrail, Bakken, Sanish (not unexpected -- nice well)

It's my impression (which I've been saying for some time), BEXP and Whiting seem to have their wells fracked by the end of the six-month confidential period.

Whiting, by the way, had two more wells that were said to be producing or plugged today (of course, you know they are producing); that represented half of all such wells; the other two -- one was MRO and one was EOG.

Other wells reporting included this one:

• 19997, 1,016, SM Energy, Johnsrud 1-1H, McKenzie, Siverston (turning out to be a great field)