Eighteen (18) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Active rigs: 184 (steady)

Eighteen (18) new permits --

• Operators: Continental (8), OXY USA (3), XTO (2), Emerald Oil (2), Oasis (2), Whiting
• Fields: Boxcar Butte (McKenzie), Cottonwood (Mountrail), Robinson Lake (Mountrail), Murphy Creek (Dunn), Willow (Williams), Hayland (Divide), Siverston (McKenzie), Saxon (Dunn)
• Comments: This brings Emerald's total number of permits to three

Wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend and today were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Producing wells completed:

• 15167, 106, Petro Uno Resources Ltd, Beta Race Federal 22-6, t4/02; cum 71K from the Red River which is now PNA; re-entered the Duperow in early 2010; now flowing, producing about 50 - 100 bbls/month;
• 21519, 726, CLR, Omar 5-12H, North Tioga, t1/13; cum --

Transfer of operator:

Remember the XOM - Denbury Onshore deal of a few months ago? In today's daily activity report, the names of the wells that were transferred from DNR to XTO were named. There were about 104 wells transferred; almost all of them were in McKenzie County.