Nine (9) New Permits -- OXY USA With Two Nice Wells in Burke County -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, October 24, 2011 --

6 of 13 wells reporting today actually reported an IP. 

Operators: BEXP (4), Whiting (2), Eternal Energy, Oasis, SM

Fields: Sanish, Alger, and Ash Coulee

Eternal Energy has a permit for another wildcat (is this #3 in the past few days?).

BEXP has permits for four wells on one pad, Alger field.

Some great wells were reported today:

• 20208, 960, CLR, Hawkinson 2-27H, Dunn
• 20288, 1,377, MRO, Fisher USA 41-5H, Mountrail
• 20196, 1,592, OXY USA, Sorlie 160-98-18-P-1H, Burke
• 20317, 1,462, OXY USA, Swenson 160-91-11-P[1H, Burke
• 20403, 1,391, Slawson, Jaguar 2-32H, Mountrail

Only 6 of 13 wells that reported today were completed/fracked. That's less than half.