Nine (9) New Permits; Twelve (12) Wells Released From "Tight Hole" Status; Eight Producing Wells Completed -- A Big Day In The Bakken (As Far As Reports Go) -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, April 30, 2012 --

Operators: Whiting (3), KOG (3), Fidelity (2), CLR

Fields: Banks (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail), Medicine Pole Hills (Bowman)

The Banks oil field is in the bull's eye of the Bakken. These are nice permits for KOG.

The Sanish is Whiting's cash cow.

How interesting: just the other day one or both of these permits were reported as expired; today these two permits were renewed:

• 20764, XTO, Cross Federal 32X-20, McKenzie
• 20767, XTO, Arlene Federal 44X-11, McKenzie

Twelve (12) wells were released from "tight hole" status (Bakken unless o/w specified):

• 20428, 1,381, Whiting, Schilke 34-32H,
• 20548, CLR, Candee 2-9H,
• 20819, 1,026, Whiting, Uran 12-19TFH,
• 20861, 599, Hunt Oil, Halliday 2-24-36H,
• 20957, 299, Hunt Oil, Stocke 1-19-20H 1,
• 21068, CLR, Irgens Rexall 156-99-19-18-1H,
• 21181, KOG, Smokey Karen 16-20-17-2H,
• 21347, Wesco, Gruman 31-18, Stark County, Lodgepole
• 21403, Hess, BB-Belquist 150-95-1011H-1,
• 21467, 801, CLR, Dover 1-30AH,
• 21513, 23 (no typo) KOG, Smokey 3-6-7-14H, 
• 21550, 378, G3 Operating, Seven 1-4-9H, 

In addition, eight (8) producing wells were completed, all with IPs ranging from a low of 421 to a high of 845. Six of them were Hess wells.

Two wells with name changes which might suggest formation target changes:

• 22577, BEXP, Gunderson 15-22 4TFH (was Gun....4H)
• 22578, BEXP, Gunderson 15-22 3H (was Gun...4TFH)