Ten (10) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

 Note: several very interesting items in today's daily activity report; will expand upon them in stand-alone posts, and updates in other posts where appropriate

Daily activity report, May 2, 2012 --

Operators: BEXP (4), Whiting (2), XTO (2), Hess, KOG

Fields: Sanish (Mountrail), Sand Creek (McKenzie), Epping (Williams), Todd (Williams), Dollar Joe (Williams)

The four permits by BEXP are for Todd oil field in/around the town of Williston.

Permit re-entry:

• 11502, conf, Encore, Wegman 2-30, Bowman; Red River B (not a Bakken); Horse Creek; originally spud in 1985; produced around 5,000 bbls the first year and that was about all;

Converted to water injection:

• 16986, 1,347, EOG, Parshall 20-03H, Bakken, Parshall field; t5/08; cum 221K 3/12; averaging about 2,200 bbls/month;

Only one well released from "tight hole" status:

• 20603, 416, WPX, Plenty Sweet Grass 18-19HC, 

Six producing wells completed:

• 20375, 1,011, Zavanna, Niels 32-29 1, Stockyard Creek, t4/12; no production data reported yet;
• 20930, 2,700, BR, Colton 21-30H, Haystack Butte, t12/11; cum 20K 3/12;
• 21168, conf, Oasis, Hillstead 5603 13-29H, Bull Butte; about 6K/month;
• 21245, 4,368, BEXP, Heinz 18-19 1H, wildcat, Bakken; t4/12; no production data yet;
• 21298, 1,803, BR, Elizabeth Stroh 34-7MBH, Cabernet, t3/12; cum 3K 3/12;
• 21378, 663, EOG, Wayzetta 124-3334H, Parshall; t3/12; cum 5K 3/12;

Thirteen wells reported as plugged or producing.