Four (4) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Oasis Has A Gusher; Bakken Hunter Has A Nice Well For Its First Time Out

Active rigs: 187

Four (4) new permits --

• Operators: EOG (2), Liberty Resources, MRO
  Fields: Parshall (Mountrail), East Fork (Williams), Murphy Creek (Dunn)
• Comments: Hmmmm.....pretty quiet, considering no permits Monday due to the server being down

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

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 22560, 846, Petro-Hunt, Fort Berthold 148-94-21A-20-1H, Eagle Nest, t2/13; cum --
• 23403, 2,148, XTO, FBIR Smith 11X-10A, Heart Butte, t1/13; cum 5K 1/13;
• 23462, 3,054, Oasis, Elery H 5200 14-20T, Camp, a trip gas of 6,474 units was measured; no completion report yet;  t2/13; cum --
• 23475, 554, Oasis, RJ Titus 6093 42-20H, Gros Ventre, t2/13; cum --
• 24732, 376, Bakken Hunter, BH HZ 35-26-164-97 3S, Crosby, t3/13; cum --; taking steps to minimize flaring;

By the way, look at some of these Oasis wells in the Camp oil field:

• 23462, 3,054, Oasis, Elery H 5200 14-20T, Camp, trip gas of 6,474 units; t2/13; cum --
• 22428, 4,341, Oasis, Casey 5200 13-30B, Camp, t7/12; cum 91K 11/12;
• 22399, 3,330, Oasis, Lefty 5200 13-30H, Camp, t7/12; cum 86K 11/12;
• 22306, 2,180, Oasis, J O Anderson 5200 31-28T, Camp, t5/12; cum 43K 11/12;

So, where does permitting stand compared to last year at this time? With 563 permits so far this year, "we" are on track for 2,537 permits for the calendar year 2013.  Last year, on this date, 438 permits had been issue, projecting 1,974 permits for the year. In the end, 2,521 permits were issued in 2012, with 30 or so ultimately canceled.