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

Daily activity report, December 29, 2011 --

Operators: CLR (3), Whiting (2), Chesapeake (2), Hess

Fields: Banks, Sanish, Camp, Ellsworth --- all in the bull's eye of the Bakken.  All four of these are on my "top ten most interesting fields." Banks and Camp are east of Indian Hill; all three will be center of activity in 2012.

Chesapeake has two wildcats: one in Stark County; one in Hettinger County.

For newbies, Hettinger is seeing activity for the first time in the last couple of months.  This county is in the south of North Dakota, well east of historical activity.

Ten (1) wells released from "tight hole" status, including these:

• 19687, 1,919, Whiting, Clemens 34-9TFH, Billings
• 20928, 937, CLR, Stockton 1-28H, Williams 

Two of the ten were placed on DRL status waiting to be completed/fracked.

A well on DRL status reported:

• 20050, 1,226, MRO, Red Feather USA 31-17H, Mountrail

North Plains reports another "producing or plugging" well (which will be a KOG well)

• 19857, conf, North Plains Energy, Wood 5-15H, Williams