Thirteen (13) New Permits -- Very Much a "Manufacturing" Report -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Posting now.

Daily activity report, January 18, 2012 --

Operators: Marathon (3), Dakota-3 (3), OXY USA (2), Crescent Point, Hess, Hunt, CLR, BEXP

Fields: Murphy Creek, Dimond, Big Butte, Parshall, Alger, Brooklyn Eagle Nest, Willmen.

Crescent Point has a wildcat in Williams -- interesting.

Sixteen (16) wells were reported as "plugged or producing."

Twelve (12) producing wells (on DRL status) reported IPs, including:

• 20164, 920, Hess, EN-Johnson-155-94-2017H-2, Mountrail
• 20738, 1,496, Hess, HA-Morgan-152-95-0805H-2, McKenzie
• 20902, 970, Hess, EN-Weyrauch B-154-93-3031H-2, Mountrail

No wells came off the confidential list.

Two wells were transferred from Marathon to Resolute Natural Resources Company, LLC:

• 16161, Carmona 31-1H, McKenzie County
• 16317, Dolezal 24-24H, McKenzie County