Twelve (12) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; The New NG Processing Plant Will Almost Exceed Total NG Processing Capacity In All Of North Dakota in 2006 (One Year Before The North Dakota Bakken Boom Began)

The big news today: ONEOK announces a huge new natural gas processing to be built west of Watford City, southeast of Williston, North Dakota, again, in the heart of the Bakken. 
This will be a 200-million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing facility – which almost exceeds the total natural gas processing capacity in North Dakota in 2006. In 2006, the total natural gas processing capacity in North Dakota was 227 million cubic feet per day. 

Active rigs: 184

Twelve (12) new permits --

• Operators: CLR (6) EOG (3), Statoil (2), Whiting
• Fields: Northwest McGregor (Williams), Parshall (Mountrail), Ragged Butte (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail)
• Comments:

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

Wells coming off the confidential list Wednesday:

• 25224, 110, Whiting, BSMU 3007, Big Stick, a Madison well, t8/13; cum 6K 9/13;
• 25441, drl, QEP, Kummer 1-6-7BH, Grail,
• 25519, drl, SM Energy, Walla 13-19H, Poe,