Week 20: May 13 - May 19, 2012

Dimock, PA, well water safe to drink -- EPA

900 vs 300

North Dakota jumps to #2 in oil production; one year earlier than anticipated

Game changer or a tease: Slawson and the Upper Bakken

Request for readers' help: any update on the "Baker 300"
 
Five Bakken E & P companies raising CAPEX for 2012

Samson Resources reports a nice TFS along Canadian border

Enbridge announces additional expansion going east

Elkhorn Ranch, SM Energy: example of low IP, nice production, Madison well

Stockyard Creek -- one of my favorite fields - has been updated

Whiting's prospects and the NDIC oil fields

Whiting's Red River drilling program

Far southwest corner of North Dakota -- multiple Red River zones; Update of Red River wells in Cedar Hills; 

Whiting's Mastel well; 120K in four months

Whiting's Marsh; another nice TFS well 

Several nice Oasis wells reported

Newfield's sweet spot in the Bakken

KOG reports two nice wells from its Polar Prospect

Legacy-Bowood strategic alignment announced

Pricing and the Bakken

Chesapeake's Grenz pad; Chesapeake's Decker; Chesapeake's Schoch dry; Chesapeake's Zent producing at 3 bbls/day;

North Dakota's summary of crude-by-rail

Fracking sand; Fracking sand in Minnesota, Wisconsin;

Dunn County ends moratorium on crew camp; Crew camps: to grow or not to grow; huge crew camp passes first test for Dickinson;

7,000 more houses needed in Williston now; 10-building, 270-unit apartment complex almost complete in Williston; 2,400 more apartment units in Watford City;  groundbreaking for Sand Creek Town Center AND Chandler Field Housing for Williston; Quick look at Williston's first quarter permits; more Williston housing stories;

Colorado company selects Billings, MT, as site for modular housing plant