Thirteen (13) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

For newbies, thirteen new permits at the end of the week is huge. Normally I can count on about six to eight new permits on a given day. When one hits double digits, it's a pretty big day, but thirteen permits on a Thursday is huge.  If this trend were to continue, it would put us well over 2,000 new permits this calendar year. Right now, we are on track for 1,914 new permits for calendar year 2011. 

Daily activity report, November, 17, 2011 --
Operators: Enerplus (4), Legacy (2), Burlington Resources (2), Crescent Point Energy (2), OXY USA, Hess, and Petro Harvester

Fields: South Fork, Manning, Haystack Butte, Murphy Creek, South Coteau

Crescent Point has permits for two wildcats; Legacy has permits for two permits.

Not one well came off the confidential list and no wells on DRL status reported an IP.