Seven (7) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, November 1, 2011 --

Operators: Triangle USA (4), North Plains, Marathon, QEP

Fields: Truax, Deep Water Creek Bay, Bailey, and Rawson.

Triangle with permits for a 4-well pad in the Rawson -- Rawson is in a great location: just east of Alexander. The Triangle USA Gullickson Trust well will be about six miles southeast of Alexander and/or almost exactly four miles south of Rawson, ND. According to Wikipedia, the population of Rawson is ... six.

Demographics of Rawson, according to Wikipedia:

As of the census of 2000, there were 6 people, 2 households, and 2 families residing in the city. The population density was 24.5 people per square mile (9.3/km²). There were 7 housing units at an average density of 28.5 per square mile (10.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% white.

There were 2 households out of which 50.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, and 100.0% were married couples living together. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.00.

What does this tell me? Either a writer has too much time on his/her hands, or a computer (most likely an android) is generating this information from databanks. No one in his/her right mind would note the percentages of a sample size of six. One would simply state the raw data. 

"There were 2 households out of which 50.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, and 100.0% were married couples living together. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.00."  From this one can gather that the grandparents (with no children) live in town with their son or daughter (unlikely both) and their two grandchildren.

It gets better. I was telling this story to an individual who happened to be in the location that I am -- purely random. She said that her grandfather grew up in Ransom. "Isn't that by Alexander?" she asked. Incredible. I cannot make this stuff up. She said the town was once bigger. Her grandfather / grandmother had twelve children, and her grandmother was one of eleven children in her family. Yes, I would say that Ransom, at one time, was bigger.

Okay, back to the work at hand. Two wells came off the "tight hole" status as NDIC now refers to it:

• 20205, 859, CLR, Rennerfeldt 1-30H, Williams County (previously reported by the company)
• 20270, 732, Petro-Hunt, Skevsvold 150-101-4B-9-1H, McKenzie County

A producing well reported:

• 19440, 453, OXY USA, Sunshine 31-16H, Burke County, Bakken

 Three wells were released from "tight hole" status because their permits expired.