Eight (8) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Statoil May Have A New IP Record; Oasis Drills A Dry Bakken Well (Cottonwood Oil Field)

Active rigs: 189

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: Zenergy (5), Whiting (2), Cornerstone
• Fields: Clayton (Burke), Zenith (Stark), Eightmile (McKenzie)
• Comments:

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

Twelve (12) producing wells completed:

• 22336, 752, CLR, Columbia 2-5H, Dollar Joe, t6/13; cum --
• 22337, 349, CLR, Columbia 3-5H, Dollar Joe, t6/13; cum --
• 22887, 374, Hess, LK-Wing 146-97-2215H-5,  Little Knife, t6/13; cum --
• 23387, 5,387, Statoil, Beaux 18-19 4H, Banks, t6/13; cum --
• 23983, 2,542, Statoil, Topaz 20-17 2TFH, Banks, t6/13; cum --
• 24097, 681, Liberty Resources, Dobias 152-103-32-29-1H, Glass Bluff, t7/13; cum --
• 24131, 1,536, XTO, FBIR Walterpackswolf 31X-12H, Heart Butte, t7/13; cum --
• 24132, 1,385, XTO, FBIR Walterpackswolf 31X-12H, Heart Butte, t7/13; cum --
• 24409, 1,339, Hess, BB-Budahn A 150-95-0403H-4, Blue Buttes, t6/13; ;cum --
• 24736, 267, Whiting, Meiers 34-25TFH, Robinson Lake, t7/13; cum --
• 25198, 2,691, Whiting, Littlefield 21-31H, Sanish, t6/13; cum --
• 25218, 932, Hansen 21-20TFH, Sanish, t 7/13; cum --

Statoil's Beaux well may be a new record. I track record IPs at "FAQs," question #9.

Oasis drilled a dry well; the well file does not have any drilling data yet:

• 25307, DRY, Oasis, Cottle 5892 21-30X, Cottonwood;

The Cottonwood is not a particularly good field, and the northern half appears to be very poor, compared to the southern half of the Cottonwood.