Five (5) New Permits; Zenergy Reports A Nice Well, Second Bench of the Three Forks? Denbury With A Dry Wildcat East Side of the Basin

Bakken Operations

See comment: when did one bopd match North Dakota's per capita? August 14.  Which, by the way, is my birthday: August 14. Here's the data:

With regard to one bbl of oil/day per capita:

Let's say the daily oil production of oil was 684,000 bbls of oil on August 14, 2012 (see Director's cut dated October 19, 2012).

See wiki population for North Dakota: 683,932.

So, the one bbl of oil/day per capita: August 14, 2012. Another bit of cocktail party trivia.

Active rigs: 184 (steady, but up nicely)

Five (5) new permits -

• Operators: MRO (3), Oasis, Whiting
• Fields: Lonesome (McKenzie), Reunion Bay (McKenzie), Camp (McKenzie)
• Comments: None

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

Producing wells completed: 

• 22215, 504, WPX Energy Williston, George Evans 11-2HZ, Van Hook, t10/12; cum 13K 10/12;
• 20689, 1,202, Zenergy, Patsy 5-8H, Siverston, t11/12; cum --

Dry hole:

• 17466, dry at 12, 305 feet, Denbury Onshore, Shipton 44-21HSES 21-158N-87W, Wildcat, Ward County, Bakken; this was a wildcat seen mostly as exploratory; spud back in February, 2009; no sundry forms showing fracking; most likely not fracked; gas units maxed out at 250; geologist happy to see what they saw, but not particularly promising to begin with; northwest corner of Ward County (northwest of Minot); far outside the Bakken