Thirteen (13) New Permits -- Another Incredible Report -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, April 4, 2012.

Several good wells reported today.

New permits:

Operators: BEXP (5), Petro-Hunt (4), Liberty Resources, Fidelity, Samson Resources, SM Energy

Fields: Antelope (McKenzie); Glass Bluff (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail), Alger (Mountrail), Squires (Williams), Foothills (Burke), and Colgan (Divide)

The four (4) Petro-Hunt wells will be on the same pad; it appears two of them will middle Bakken wells; two will be Three Forks wells.

The BEXP permits: 2 2-well pads and a singleton (5 altogether in today's report)

Eight (8) wells were released from "tight hole" status; five were completed/fracked, including:

• 21031, 1,969, Whiting, Carl Kannianen 21-4H, Bakken
• 21224, 2,303, KOG, Skunk Creek 2-8-17-14H3, Bakken
• 21359, 2,462, BEXP, Clifford Bakke 26-35 3H, Bakken

No wells on DRL status reported any results.