Eleven (11) New Permits; QEP Continues To Infill In Heart Butte; Newfield Cancels Two Permits;

Bakken Operations

Active rigs: 190 (hmmmm, surprise, surprise, back up to the "190s")

Eleven (11) new permits

• Operators: QEP (4), BEXP (3), CLR (2), Liberty Resources, Fidelity
• Fields: Lone Tree Lake (Williams), Stanley (Mountrail), Glass Bluff (McKenzie), Ragged Butte (McKenzie), Heart Butte (Dunn)

Comments: No OXY USA, no Newfield permit; however, Newfield has canceled two permits:

• 20943, PNC,  Newfield, Jarrett 156-99-35-26-2H, East Fork,
• 20945, PNC, Newfield, Sami 156-99-35-26-1H, East Fork,

Concentration of wells: to see how concentrated the wells are getting in the Heart Butte field where the four new QEP wells will be, click here

Wells coming off confidential list were reported earlier; see sidebar at the right

Producing well completed:

• 22521, 888, XTO, Gravgaard 13-24-1H, Midway, t10/12; cum --

About twenty wells, operator was transferred from Upton Resources to Williston Exploration; permits numbers between 12078 (the oldest) to 16526) the most recent; all were in Billings County except for four in Stark County;

Petro-Hunt renewed four permits; one in Dunn County; three in Burke County