Daily Activity Report For Tuesday, October 29, 2013 -- Late Posting; Twenty-Six New Permits -- If Not A Record, Nearly A Record -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Due to my traveling, I completely forgot about posting the daily activity report for yesterday, Tuesday, October 29, 2013. And what a day to miss: 26 new permits, five producing wells completed, and two of those made the "high IP" list.

This is really quite remarkable: 26 new permits. That certainly is a record, or nearly a record, for number of new permits in one day.

Twenty-six (26) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (5), XTO (11), HRC (4), CLR (6)
• Fields: Heart Butte (Dunn), North Tioga (Williams), Lindahl (Williams), Robinson Lake (Mountrail), Grinnell (McKenzie), McGregory Buttes (Dunn)
• Comments:

Wells coming off the confidential lists for the last several days are posted; see sidebar at the right.

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 24469, 2,521, Statoil, Viking 16-15 2TFH, Poe, t9/13; cum --
• 24865, 803, True Oil, Nelson 41-24-24-23H MB1, Red Wing Creek, t9/13; cum 2K 8/13;
• 25685, 92, Corinthian Exploration, Corinthian Brandjord 9-4 1H, North Souris, t9/13; cum --
• 23096, 825, QEP, MHA 1-06-05H-149-92, Heart Butte, t9/13; cum --
• 23094, 2,512, QEP, MHA 2-06-05H-149-92, Heart Butte, t9/13; cum --

One well name change suggesting Slawson is targeting the middle Bakken with this well:

• 24796, conf, Slawson, Blackdog 3-13-14H, Stockyard Creek,