Twenty-Three (23) More Permits

Bakken Operations

Active rigs: 192, steady, down from yesterday, but up overall from recent low

Twenty-three (23) permits:

• Operators: Whiting (4), XTO (4), Hess (3), BEXP (3), North Plains (2), Oasis (2), Petro-Hunt (2), BR, Strike Oil, Legacy Oil
• Fields: Smoky Butte (Divide), Heart Butte (Dunn), Little Knife (Dunn), Blue Buttes (McKenzie), Gros Ventre (Burke), Park (Billings), Ragged Butte (McKenzie), Lost Bridge (Dunn), Willow Creek (Williams), Red Rock (Bottineau), McGregory Buttes (Dunn)

Comments: No OXY USA or Newfield permit; Strike Oil has a permit for a wildcat in Renville County; Whiting has a permit for a wildcat in McKenzie County;

New wells coming off confidential list were reported earlier; see sidebar at the right.