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

Daily activity report, March 30, 2012 --

Operators: Hess (6), EOG (2)

Fields: Alkali Creek, Cottonwood, Parshall

Eight (8) wells released from "tight hole" status; only one (1) was completed/fracked (incredible; still a backlog).

The one well that was completed was Petro-Hunt's Pankake well sited just inside Dublin oil field, but a wildcat, so probably running north of Dublin oil field.

Whiting had four more wells approved for "tight hole" status.