Eleven (11) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Abraxas Has A Nice Well; KOG Has A High-IP Well

Active rigs: 185 (trending up)

Eleven (11) new permits --

• Operators: CLR (4), Triangle (3), QEP (2), Petro-Hunt, SM Energy
• Fields: Ambrose (Divide), Rawson (McKenzie), North Tioga (Burke), Grail (McKenzie), Dollar Joe (Williams)
• Comments:

Wells coming off the confidential list included a monster well; they were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Seven (7) producing wells completed:

• 22662, 1,369, Sinclair, Harris Federal 1-29H, Lone Butte, t6/13; cum 2K 6/13;
• 23281, 411, CLR, Krehlik 1-11H, Billings, Barta, t7/13; cum --
• 23625, 1,275, Abraxas, Lillibridge 20-17-4H, Pershing, t8/13; cum --
• 24005, 634, CLR, Columbia 4-5H, Dollar Joe, t9/13; cum --
• 24606, 2,118, KOG, P Wood 154-98-4-27-34-13HA, Truax, t7/13; cum --
• 24762, 567, True, True Federal 21-3-3-10H, Bowline, t8/13; cum --
• 25255, 1,926, Liberty Resources, Cavalli State 156-100-9-4-11TFH, East Fork, t7/13; cum --

The Barta oil field is located northwest of Dickinson; it's near Whiting's Pronghorn Prospect.

In addition, sixteen (16) more wells were reported as plugged or producing. We will see those results soon.