Thirteen (13) New Permits -- Hess With Several Nice Wells -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, October 3, 2011 --

 Operators: BEXP (4), CLR (2), MRO (2), Whiting (2), Petro Harvester, Triangle, Hess

 Fields: Alger, Kuroki, Dutch Henry Butte, Oliver, Bull Butte, Sanish, Reunion Bay, Ellswroth, Little Knife and a wildcat.

 MRO has two permits for two wells on one pad; BEXP, with three on one pad; CLR has the wildcat in Burke County, and Whiting, as usual, has a permit in its cash cow, the Sanish, and a permit in Stark County (Dutch Henry Butte).

Although 6 of 9 wells coming off the confidential list today were placed on DRL status, some completed wells had some nice IPs:

• 19076, 1,325, Hess, EN-Frandson-154-93-2116H-3, Mountrail
• 19078, 941, Hess, EN-Trinity-154-93-28-22H-2, Mountrail
• 19500, 1,006, Hess, Knudson 15-20H, Williams
• 19887, 714, Hess, AN-Dinwoodie-153-94-2833H-1, McKenzie -- Three Forks Sanish well
• 20366, 853, Hess, GO-Foss Trust-156-97-3526H-1, Williams