Better Late Than Never, I Suppose -- Only Four (4) New Permits -- Friday's Daily Activity Report -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, December 2, 2011 --

Operators: Chesapeake (2), BEXP, and Hess

Fields: East Fork and Siverston

Chesapeake's two permits are for wildcats; one in Hettinger County; one in Stark County.

Hettinger County has been getting some press lately. From what I can tell there has never been a productive well reported in Hettinger County.

Hettinger County is located directly south of Stark County and northeast of Bowman County, the county in the southwest corner of the state. The wells in Hettinger County, have targeted the Madison and the Red River formations and have all been dry.

As noted elsewhere , seven wells came off the confidential list; six of those wells were Oasis wells and very, very good wells.