Thirteen (13) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Whiting With Two Gusher

When you look at the Whiting wells in Westberg oil field, note that Westberg is 15 miles northeast of Watford City, right in the bull's eye of the Bakken. The narrative places the Skaar wells in Westberg oil field, but the GIS map server shows them clearly in Twin Valley, one mile to the west. There are three wells on the Skaar Federal pad. These wells are one mile west of the incredible Tarpon Federal well. Two of the Tarpon Federal wells are mediocre at best; 10-stage fracks; the third Tarpon Federal is a record-setter, 30 stages. 

Active rigs: 186 (steady)

Thirteen (13) new permits --

• Operators: BR (5), Statoil (4), CLR, Petro-Hunt, Fram Operating, American Eagle
• Fields: East Tioga (Burke), Westberg (McKenzie), West Greene (Renville), Colgan (Divide), Williston (Williams), Noonan (Divide), Charlson (McKenzie)
• Comments:

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

Four (4) producing wells completed:

• 22101, 1,041, Petro-Hunt, Thorson 159-94-7A-18-3H, North Tioga, t7/13; cum --
• 22388, 4,956, Whiting, Skaar Federal 41-3-3H, Westberg, middle Bakken; Pioneer 74 Flex rig; gas averaged 276 through the lateral but spiked to 3,895 units and above; did not see completion data;  t6/13; cum --
• 22386, 4,456, Whiting, Skaar Federal 41-3-1H, Westberg, middle Bakken; Pioneer 74 Flex rig; gas averaged 484 throughout the lateral, but spikes of 7,000 units and above were noted; did not see completion data; t6/13; cum --
• 23222, 413, Fidelity, Pavel 14-23H, Zenith, t6/13; cum --