Eight (8) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Several Nice QEP Wells; Great Graphic For Newbies

Locator: 30010B.

Active rigs: 189 (trending up; nice)

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: Whiting (6), Fidelity, Triangle 
• Fields: Sanish (Mountrail), Dickinson (Stark), Timber Creek (McKenzie)
• Comments: Coincidental -- the one Triangle permit is in Timber Creek, the same field where Whiting has 3 permits in today's report

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

Six (6) producing wells completed:

• 25046, 338, Oasis, Sequoia 6093 42-34H, Gros Ventre, t5/13; cum 163K 8/23;
• 21561, 1,731, QEP, MHA 1-31-25H-150-92; Heart Butte, t5/13; cum 304K 8/23;
• 21557, 2,140, QEP, MHA 1-31-36H-150-92, Heart Butte, t5/13; cum 277K 8/23;
• 21558, 2,359, QEP, MHA 3-31-36H-150-92, Heart Butte, t5/13; cum 356K 8/23;
• 21559, 2,032, QEP, MHA 5-31-25H-150-92, Heart Butte, t5/13; cum 280K 8/23; off line;
• 21560, 673, QEP, MHA 7-31-25H-150-92, Heart Butte, t5/13; cum 352K 8/23; off line;

This is how those QEP wells look, under the Missouri River. All wells are on 4-section (2560-acre) spacing. These roughnecks and engineers can lay a horizontal almost anywhere the boss wants it:

Zooming in on the ten wells on the two 5-well pads in the southeast corner of the above four-section spacing unit:

For newbies:

• solid black dots: actively producing wells
• green circles: "DRL" status; have been drilled; waiting to be fracked, tested, and reported