Nine (9) New Permits -- the Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Active rigs: 187 (steady)

Nine (9) new permits --

• Operators: XTO (4), Sequel (2), EOG, MRO, Fidelity
• Fields: Parshall (Mountrail), Bull Moose (McKenzie), New Hradec (Stark), Pierre Creek (McKenzie), Tobacco Garden (McKenzie), Murphy Creek (Dunn)
• Comments: Again, as noted before, XTO is getting very, very active; nothing to suggest they are holding spacing units by production and not drilling

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

The daily activity report was very long today, because the report contained results of wells coming off two days of the confidential list.