Ten (10) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, December 21, 2011 --

Operators: Petro-Hunt (3), MRO (2), Dakota-3 (2), CLR, Denbury Onshore, Whiting

Fields: Wildrose, Van hook, North Tioga, Siverston, and Ellsworth

Reported elsewhere are the four wells that came off the confidential list; only one was completed; the other three are waiting to be fracked.

Some interesting trivia about:

18212, re-entry, Red Willow Great Plains, MHA 1-11H-148-90-SESW, McLean County. Red Willow, back in May, 2011, requested that Red Willow take over the well operations from Stetson Oil & Gas, and abandon the Bakken horizontal and "test" the Dakota formation. The only think I know about the Dakota formation is to use it for salt water disposal (maybe I'm wrong).

The NDIC did not give permission to abandon the horizontal and test the Dakota formation. So, that appears to still be in flux. If you check the well file, note that the first page of the well file has a sundry form from a different well (the Vanvig #1 will in Billings County, a wildcat targeting the Tyler, #18216). 

Of more interest are the three wells previously on DRL status have have now been completed, including:

• 20251, 313, Samson Resources, Blue Jay 32-29-16-95H, Divide County
• 20630, 3,179, BEXP, Banks State 16-21 1H, McKenzie, previously reported
• 20632, 1,933, Enderud 9-4 2H, McKenzie

This is interesting, the list of BTA wells that will be transferred to KOG; all are in Williams County, T154N-R99W and T155N-99W, current production, bopd:

• 11975, 20711 Paulson 9-42 SWD
• 18758, 20711Paulson 49 1H, 7K/month; off-line; pump?, Stockyard Creek
• 18890, 20711Springbrook 58 1H, 13K/month, Stockyard Creek
• 19220, 20711Saccaro 310 1H, 10K/month, Stockyard Creek
• 19329, 20711 Bibler 67 1H, 10K/month, Stockyard Creek
• 19576, 20711 Erickson 3130 1H, 10K/month, Epping
• 19906, 20711 Kreidle 3229 1H, 10K/month, Stockyard Creek
• 20507, 20711Swanson 3328 1H, 14K/first month, Epping
• 20515, 20711 Alice 3427 1H, conf, Epping
• 20563, 20711 Peterson 1522 1H, conf, Epping
• 20730, 20711 Long 112 1H, conf, Stockyard Creek
• 20838, 20711 Lind 211 1H, DRL, Stockyard Creek
• 21041, 20711State 1621 1H, conf, Epping
• 21042, 20711Mildred 94 1H, conf, Epping
• 21078, 20711Alexander 112 1H, East Fork
• 21081, 20711 Gafkjen 103 1H, East Fork