Eleven (11) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Five Producing Wells Completed; KOG With Two Nice Smokey Wells

Active rigs: 189 (up one)

Eleven (11) new permits --

• Operators: KOG (4), XTO (3), American Eagle (2), Whiting (2)
• Fields: Truax (Williams), Colgan (Divide), Haystack Butte (Dunn), Ellsworth (McKenzie)
• Comments:

The one well coming off the confidential list today went to drill status; see sidebar at the right.

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 23493, 568, CLR, Simmental Federal 4-16H, Elm Tree, 4-sections; t6/13; cum --
• 23856, 463, CLR, Salo 7-35H, Hamlet, 4-sections; t6/13; cum --
• 23797, 1,294, KOG, Smokey 3-30-18-3H3, Pembroke, t6/13; cum --
• 23796, 1,159, KOG, Smokey 3-30-31-15H3, Pembroke, t6/13; cum --
• 24617, 284, Whiting, Mischel 34-8PH, Dickinson, t7/13; cum --

There were two completions in Montana:

• Pondera County, Longshot Oil, LLC, New Miami 21-20H, Madison Formation, IP of 60 barrels of oil per ay (BOPD)
• Richland County, Continental Resources Inc. , Buckley 1-9H, Bakken, long lateral. The Buckley reported an IP of 259 barrels of oil per day (BOPD)

Note at the link above, OnShore Oil, LLC, drilling in Montana, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Statoil. The company is currently targeting the Heath/Tyler formation in Musselshell County.

Also from that Montana link:

• Also, CLR has completed a re-entry well with two laterals, but no IP reported yet:
• Continental Resources Inc. filed a completion of a new lateral or extension on the JoAnn 1-32HR; the JoAnn has two laterals, one producing from the Three Forks Formation and one producing from the Bakken Formation.