Ten (10) New Permits -- BEXP Reports A Number of Nice Wells -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, May 8, 2012 --

• Operators: BEXP (4), CLR (4), WPX, BR
• Fields: Banks (McKenzie), Murphy Creek (Dunn), Glass Bluff (McKenzie), Dollar Joe (Williams), Van Hook (Mountrail), and St Demetrius (Billings)

BEXP has permits for four wells on one pad, Banks oil field, right in the bull's eye of the Bakken. There are currently seven (7) rigs in this field, or right on the boundaries of the field.

Four (4) wells were released from "tight hole" status:

• 19778, 414, EOG, Mont 10-3601H, 
• 21089, 75 (no typo), OXY, Staael 160-90-33-D-1H,
• 21234, 507, Slawson, Barnstormer Federal 1-3-10H,
• 21603, 1,129, MRO, Paulson 34-9H, 

Fifteen producing wells completed, including:

• 21033, 3,473, BEXP, Lloyd 34-3 2H, Sandrocks,
• 21034, 3,499, BEXP, Bugs 27-22 1H, Poe,
• 21105, 1,966, BEXP, L & E 9-4 1H, Ragged Butte,
• 21106, 2,289, BEXP, Helling 16-21 1H, Ragged Butte,
• 21240, 1,156, BEXP, Harvey 15-22 1H, Squires,
• 21288, 1,903, Hess, EN-Thompson Trust-154-94-1930H-1,
• 21509, 3,571, BEXP, Forest 26-35 1H, Camp,

These are nice IPs for BEXP. The consistency is most notable. An IP is only a single data point for any given well, but ....

The IP for the EN-Thompson Trust well is a very nice IP for Hess. A companion well on the same pad:

• 21287, DRL, Hess, EN-Thronson-154-94-2029H-1.

These wells (the Thompson Trust/Thronson) are in the bull's eye of the Bakken. 

In addition, nine wells reported as plugged or producing.

The following well was transferred from Helis to WPX:

• 21217, conf, WPX, Linseth 13-13/12H,