Six (6) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Whiting Will Convert A Nice Red River Well Into A Salt Water Disposal Well; Seven WPX Well Sites In Mountrail To Be Re-Surveyed

Active rigs: 189 (steady for several days now)

Six (6) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (3), HRC (2), Whiting
• Fields: Bonnie View (Golden Valley), Robinson Lake (Mountrail), Eagle Nest (Dunn)
• Comments: HRC is a subsidiary of Halcon, I believe

Results of wells coming off the confidential list have been posted; see sidebar at the right.

Temporarily abandoned:

• 16581, TA/108, Whiting, Curl 23-14NESW 14-149N-100W, Red River, 10/08 cum 41K 12/12;; I don't understand this one. This seemed to be a good Red River well producing about 1,800 to 2,500 bbls of oil/month during its short lifetime, 10/08/ to 7/10. In 29 days in July, 2010, it produced 1,785 bbls of oil; in August it was on-line for one day and then taken off-line through 5/13, except for short periods of time. One almost gets the feeling during some subsequent work on the well, they ran into a problem that could not be fixed, and they decided it was just better to abandon the well. The file report says the well will be turned over to a third party and converted to a salt water disposal well. This Red River well is right in the heart of the Bakken, but seems to be a pretty good Red River well. I've seen a lot of Red River wells that produced significantly less but remained on-line, so I don't understand this one. There was a spill at the site in 2009, but the well was back on line in 2009 and producing nicely.

Five (5) producing wells were completed:

• 25337, 1,053, Whiting, Sterling TTT 21-6H, Sanish, t7/13; cum --
• 25105, 843, Whiting, Rohde 13-6TFX, t6/13; Sanish, cum --
• 25181, no IP , Whiting, Doug Kinnoin 11-14H, Sanish, no production data
• 24390, 819, Hess, EN-Uran A 154-93-1522H-4, Robinson Lake, t6/13; cum --
• 23820, 50, Hess, HA-State 152-95-1621H-4, Hawkeye, t7/12; cum -- ; if frack data was reported, I missed it; I did not see that data at the well file

We'll see if the NDIC corrects #25101 in the next day or two. No frack data was available.