Eight (8) New Permits -- Another Nice New Helis Well -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, April 23, 2012 --

Operators: CLR (4), BR (2), SM, Zavanna

Fields: Epping (Williams), Springbook (Williams), Corral Creek (Dunn), Ft Buford (Williams), Elm Tree (McKenzie)

Continental Resources has a permit for a wildcat in Billings county.

Of the five wells approved for confidential status, four were Whiting's, and Whiting reports a "plugged or producing" well:

• 21474, conf, Whiting, Kjelstrup 44-24TFH, Golden Valley

Twelve (12) came off the confidential list; six were completed, including:

• 19280, 1,454, XTO, Rolfsrud State 14X-36, McKenzie
• 20092, 155 (no typo), OXY USA, Gordon Pavlicek 1-17-20H-141-95, Dunn
• 21054, 1,601, Helis, Veeder 1-27/34H, McKenzie
• 21351, 1,774, MRO, Ostlund 11-14H, Mountrail

Comments:

• OXY USA continues to impress. 
• I'll check later, but if these are not the first BR permits in Corral Creek under the new scheme announced December 21, 2011, they are some of the first. [I just checked: yes, these are the first permits for this field in 2012.]
• That's another nice Helis well; it looks like they've cracked the code in the Bakken.