Twelve (12) New Permits; Whiting With a Huge Well; BEXP With a Nice Well (Again); SM Energy With a Very Nice Well (All Based On IPs)

Bakken Operations

Active rigs: 186 (steady)

Twelve (12) new permits (on track for 2,600 permits*):

• Operators: Hess (4), KOG (3), CLR (2), BEXP (2), MRO
• Fields: Robinson Lake (Mountrail), Banks (McKenzie), Truax (Williams), Brooklyn (Williams), Wolf Bay (Dunn)
• Comments: Nary a Newfield nor an OXY USA permit; but another two CLR Brooklyn field wells (wow); the Robinson Lake wells will be running north to south; two others in this area are running south to north; elsewhere I've talked about heel-to-toe/toe-to-heel for fracking purposes; by the way the wells in this immediate area in Robinson Lake have or will blow through 100,000 bbls by the end of first full year of production;

Encore is still operating in North Dakota; a very old producing well (#06992) was operator-transferred from Denbury Onshore to Encore Energy

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

Producing wells completed:

• 19707, 288, Slawson, Ambush 1-31-30H, wildcat, t10/12; cum 1K 912;
• 21953, 2,790, BEXP, Cvancara 20-17 2TFH, Alger, t9/12; cum 14K 9/12;
• 22180, 545, True Oil, Slash Federal  44-33-4-9H, Bowline, t10/12; cum 3K 9/12;
• 22700, 1,171, SM Energy, Norby 9X-20HA, Charlson, t8/12; cum 39K 9/12;
• 23251, 2,370, Whiting, Rohde 41-1H, Sanish, t9/12; cum 6K 9/12;

Also, sixteen (16) wells were reported to be "plugged or producing."

*A few permits have been canceled this year, but won't have significant effect on final number of permits issued.