Eight (8) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, December 9, 2011 --

Operators: BEXP (4), Oasis (2), Slawson, Hess

Fields: Alger, Cottonwood, Bull Butte Kittleson Slough. Long Creek

The Bakken will continue to excite: BEXP has permits for a 4-well pad in Alger, a very good oil field.

But fracking backlog continues: only one of the four wells that came off the confidential list was completed/fracked, but it was a good one:

• 19913, 2,825, Oasis, Sparrow Federal 5201 42-11H, Camp, Bakken, cased hole; 4.6 lbs lbs proppant; 2 lbs sand; 2.7 lbs ceramics