Twelve (12) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

GMXR has a nice well; Eternal Energy cancels all its North Dakota permits; a Lodgepole reef well in the Dickinson area comes up DRY; BEXP temporarily abandons a Mercer County well; 0/7 wells completed on "tight hole list"; 19 wells on DRL status report an IP

Daily activity report, February 10, 2012 --

Operators: Hess (6), Oasis (2), Denbury Onshore, Zenergy, CLR, and Liberty Resources

Fields: Siverston, Battleview, Elk, Manitou, Camp, Cottonwood, Cow Creek

It looks like Hess has permits for a 6-well pad in Manitou field (Mountrail County). See first comment below. The six permits will be three wells each on two different pads; to me it appears three horizontals will run north, and three horizontals will run south. Four will probably be middle Bakken and two will probably be Three Forks:

• #22393 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA N-155-94- 211609H-3, 
• #22394 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA N-155-94- 211609H-2, 
• #22395 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA N-155-94- 211609H-1,
  #22396 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA S-155-94- 211609H-4,
• #22397 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA S-155-94- 211609H-5, 
• #22398 - HESS, EN-DAKOTA S-155-94- 211609H-6,

Seven (7) wells were released from "tight hole" status; amazingly, not one of them was completed/fracked (0/7).

• However, amazingly, nineteen (19) wells on DRL status reported an IP, including:
• 19481, 1,094, Hess, Barney 18-1H, Williams, Bakken, 
• 19737, 1,341, Hess, BB-Budahn A-150-95-0403H-1, McKenzie, Bakken,
• 19900, 1,037, Hess, EN-Cvancara A-155-93-3231H-3, Mountrail, Bakken,
• 20086, 1,266, Petro-Hunt, Fort Berthold 150-94-3B-10-1H, McKenzie, Bakken,
• 20772, 1,181, Hess, EN-Enger-156-94-1423H-1, Mountrail, Bakken,
• 20901, 1,232, EN-Weyrauch B-154-93-3031H-1, Mountrail, Bakken,
• 21540, 1,512, GMXR, Evoniuk 21-2-1H, Billings, Bakken,

Three Eternal Energy permits were cancelled; Eternal Energy now has zero (0) permits in North Dakota.

BEXP has temporarily abandoned:

• 17623, TA, BEXP, Wanner 25 1, Mercer County (Scout Ticket, NDIC, shows it still on the confidential list)

Zenergy transferred one well to Triangle USA Petroleum:

• 19738, conf, Triangle Petroleum, Frederick James 3-10H, wildcat,

And, rounding out this fairly lengthy report, Armstrong reports a DRY hole:

• 19975, DRY, Armstrong Operating, Zastoupil 1-7, Stark County; this well was targeting a Lodgepole reef in the Dickinson area; the elusive Lodgepole reef