Six (6) New Permits -- Is Northeast of Minot Going to Start Getting Active? -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Updates

February 15, 2012: Ballard has a rig on site:

• 22051, ROS, Ballard Petroleum Backes 23-4, wildcat, just west of the Glenburn oil field, north of Minot, North Dakota;

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Daily activity report, January 6, 2012:

Operators: Zenergy, CLR, BR, Ballard Petroleum Holdings, Denbury Onshore, and GMX Resources

Fields: Siverston, Rattlesnake Point, Little Knife

Ballard Petroleum Holdings has a wildcat near the Glenburn oil field north east of Minot; probably targeting the Madison formation

GMX Resources has a wildcat in Billings County.

There are two interesting operator transfers reported today:

• one involving some Madison wells being transferred from Citation to Oxy Little Knife LLC
• and second, two North Plains Energy wells being transferred to Newfield (as you may remember, KOG bought most of North Plains Energy assets)

Two wells were released from "tight hole" status; both were completed, including this one:

• 19967, 809, Whiting, Talkington 21-30TFH, Stark County

Under the "very strange" category, six producing wells were completed (three EOG wells; three WLL wells) and not one of them reported an IP. Very strange.