Thirteen (13) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; QEP Has A Nice Well; Other Four Are Mediocre; A Madison Well And A Red River Well In The Mix

Active rigs: 186 (continues to slowly climb back up toward 190)

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

 Thirteen (13) new permits --
Operators: Whiting (5), MRO (3), HRC (3), Oasis (2)
Fields: Murphy Creek (Dunn), Bell (Stark), McGregory Buttes (Dunn), Pleasant Hill (McKenzie), Alger (Mountrail)
Comments:
There were 12 permit renewals; a fairly long list; seven of of them were Statoil permits.

Two Whiting permits were canceled:

• 25794, PNC, Whiting, Schilke 14-33-2H,
• 25795, PNC, Whiting, Schilke 14-33H,

Four producing wells were completed:

• 24449, 440, SM Energy, Legaard 2-25HNA, Colgan, t7/13; cum --
• 24552, 780, EOG, Van Hook 131-1415H, Parshall, t8/13; cum --
• 24626, 2,924, BR, Badlands 41-15MBH, Hawkeye, 1280-acre; t8/13; cum --
• 24658, 90, CLR, Farver 3-29H2, Hamlet, t8/13; cum --

Wells coming off confidential list Wednesday:

• 24366, 2,102, QEP, MHA 4-04-03H-149-91, Heart Butte, t7/13; no production data, 
• 24468, drl, Statoil, Viking 16-15 1H, Poe, no production data,
• 24587, 229, Murex, Keri Elizabeth 4-9H, Fortuna, t4/13; cum 11K 6/13;
• 24714, 1,029, Hess, EN-Hein S 156-94-1201H-4, Big Butte, t7/13; cum 10K 6/13;
• 24910, 45, Whiting, Meyers 31-19, Bonnie View, a Red River well; Golden Valley county;  (2-section field out in the middle of nowhere), t5/13; cum 1K 6/13;
• 24958, 40, Petro Harvester, Swenson 4H,  Columbus, a Madison well; t6/13; cum --