Fifteen (15) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, November 30, 2011 --

Operators: CLR (6), Whiting (3), Chesapeake (3), SM, Fidelity, Hunt

Fields: Camp, Parshall, New Hradec, Croff, Sanish.

Chesapeake has permits for three wildcats, all in Stark County.

It appears CLR has permits for six wells on one pad.

And not any surprise, Whiting has three permits for wells in their cash cow, the Sanish. It looks like these three wells will be filling in sections 8/18 in 154-91, but hard to say for sure. In this immediate area are the following five long horizontal wells:

• 18082, 858, Whiting, Carkuff 11-12H, s6/09; t8/09; 130K 10/11
• 18085, 1,370, Whiting, Jones 11-8H, s8/09; t10/09; 164K 10/11
• 19069, 2,320, Whiting, Strobeck 12-12H, s7/10; t10/10; 161K 10/11
• 19259, 2,746, Whiting, Jones 12-8H, s8/10; t10/10; 139K 10/11
• 19355, 3,159, Whiting, Sikes State 43-16H, s9/10; t1/11; 127K 10/11

Reported elsewhere, three wells came off the confidential list; two were completed. Fidelity reported a nice well:

• 20514, 1,145, Fidelity, Clifford 14-24H-5, Bakken, Mountrail County

Of five (5) wells on DRL status, all were Bakken and none were exciting. In fact the IPs were worrisome, but there may be explanations. The IPs were 353, 19, 60, 44, and 50 -- not good using just that single data point. But there may be more to follow. Respectively they were OXY USA, OXY USA, OXY USA, Prima Exploration, and OXY USA wells, all in Burke and Dunn counties.