Fifteen (15) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Permits For Four (4) "Real" Wildcats Far Outside The Bakken Activiity; CLR Reports A Great Well For The Brooklyn Oil Field

Active rigs: 191

Fifteen (15) new permits --

• Operators: Slawson (5), Strata-X (4), Oasis (2), Triangle (2), Whiting, Denbury
• Fields: Rawson (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail), Van Hook (Mountrail), Cow Creek (Williams), Cedar Hills (Bowman)
• Comments: The Strata-X permits are for wildcats well east of the Bakken activity; the Slawson permits are for a 5-well pad in Van Hook

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

Wells coming off confidenetial list Thursday:

• 23876, 901, CLR, Juneau 3-11H,  Brooklyn, t10/13; cum 00
• 25464, drl, Hess, EN-Freda 154-94-2635H-2, Alkali Creek, no production data,
• 25581, drl, KOG, P Evitt 154-98-15-12-19-16H, Truax, no production data,
• 25607, drl, Abraxas, Lillibridg3 20-17-6H, Pershing, no production data,
• 25695, 278, Flatirons, Stoa 41-1 2H, Lake Darling, producing, Lake Darling is about 20 miles northwest of Minot; a Madison well; t8/13; cum 24K 10/13;