Three (3) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, February 3, 2012 --

Operators: Hess (2), Denbury

Fields: Charlson, Ray, White Earth

Four (4) wells were released from the "confidential list"; only one was completed/fracked:

• 20342, 1,430, Petro-Hunt, USA 153-95-4B-9-1H, McKenzie,

It is not unusual to see permits renewed, but these two caught my eye:

• 18036, conf, Texakota, H Borstad 3-6, Williams County, issued February 19, 2009
• 18037, conf, Texakota, Hemsing 3, Williams County, issued February 19, 2009

Texakota has about 30 permits in the Williston Basin going back to 1957; most of them Madison wells in the West Tioga field. The company has re-entered some of their old Madison wells and drilled horizontal Bakken wells.