Ten (10) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Whiting Has Another Huge Skaar Well in Westberg

Active rigs: 186

Ten (10) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (6), CLR (2), Petro-Hunt (2)
• Fields: Little Knife (Dunn), Alkali Creek (Mountrail), East Fork (Williams)
• Comments:

Wells coming off the confidential list have been posted; see sidebar at the right.

Two producing wells completed:

• 24130, 977, XTO, FBIR Walterpackswolf 31X-12G, Heart Butte, t6/13; cum --
• 22387, 4,460, Whiting, Skaar Federal 41-3-2H, Westberg, t6/13; cum --

Two producers abandoned:

• 15751, PNA, Roughrider, Clifford 43-35-RNESE 35-162N-82W, Sherman oil field, a Madison well; t10/05; cum 107 bbls;
• 22379, PNA, Whiting, Eide 41-13HNENE 13-150N-100W, Timber Creek, s4/12; cum 2,301 bbls; 

Something must have gone wrong at the completion stage for Whiting's Eide well south of Arnegard; only four frack stages. Whiting has two more locations almost exactly where this well is now permanently abandoned. Something tells me things will work out just fine for the Eide will mineral owners.