Fifteen (15) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

2nd day in a row with 15 new permits -- daily activity report, May 31, 2012--

• Operators: BEXP (4), Whiting (3), Petro-Hunt (3), OXY USA (2), Newfield, BR, Hunt
• Fields: Westberg (McKenzie), Nameless (McKenzie), Parshall (Mountrail), Fayette (Dunn), Park (Billings), Haystack Butte (McKenzie), North Creek (Stark), East Fork (Williams)

I was not familiar with Nameless oil field: it's a six-section oil field two miles directly west of Alexander.

Whiting has permits for a 2-well pad in North Creek, Stark County. North Creek is an 8-section oil field between New Hradec and Bell fields, smack dab in the heart of Whiting's Pronghorn Prospect. For such a small field, it is a fairly active field and has a string of Whiting wells which I've talked about before (in more than one posting). The names of both permits has the "P" designation meaning they are targeting the Pronghorn Sand. The third Whiting permit in this daily active report is in Park field, also in the Pronghorn Prospect and also has the "P" designation.

BEXP's permits for a 4-well pad is in East Fork, a field at the 13-mile corner north of Williston; it is east of US Highway 2/85, on both sides of the highway where it turns east at the corner. By the way, someone commented there is a sign at the 13-mile corner suggesting another industrial park will be built here.