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

Daily activity report, February 9, 2012 --

Operators: Whiting (3), Hess, BEXP, CLR, Crescent Point, Zargon

Fields: Truro, St Demetrius, Williston, Divide, Westberg, Ellsworth

Four wells were released from "tight status," and not one of them was completed/fracked.

One well on DRL status reported an IP;

• 20485, 762, SM Energy, Barnes 2-2H, McKenzie, Indian Hill, south of Williston, south of the river, a bit west of the Bakken bull's eye

I'm not real familiar with Zargon. Their last well was also a Truro field well, a Madison well, that is actually a pretty good well, producing a consistent 1,500 to 2,000 bbls of oil per month. The Truro field is about 25 miles north of Minot.  Zargon has about 100 permits in the Williston Basin going back back to to the late 1950's, including this one as just one example (this well is still listed as being active, but it hasn't produced since 2009, producing about 150 bbls/month at that time):

• 2330, 30, Zargon Oil (ND), Inc., Edwin Engstrom 1, North Haas, Madison, s5/59; t6/59; cum 135K 6/09; the North Haas field is about three miles south of the Canadian border, almost directly north of Minot