Active Rigs In North Dakota Continue To Increase In Number; Nine (9) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Active rigs:

	2/10/2014	02/10/2013	02/10/2012	02/10/2011	02/10/2010
Active Rigs	196	185	203	165	91

Nine (9) new permits --

• Operators: Petro-Hunt (6), Whiting, QEP, Statoil
• Fields: Little Knife (Dunn), Clear Creek (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail), Grail (McKenzie), Buford (Williams)
• Comments:

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

There were two (2) well name changes:

• 19954, the BR CCU Olympian 21-2TFH will now target the Three Forks instead of the middle Bakken
• 27646, the HRC Fort Berthold 148-95-26A-35A-14H was incorrectly "placed" in T148N-R94W

Wells coming off the confidential list Tuesday:

• 25908, drl, BR, CCU Columbian 43-1MBH, Corral Creek, no production data,
• 25962, drl, BR, Archer 34-25TFH, Charlson, no production data,