Hess Is Getting Very, Very Active In The Bakken -- August 15, 2014

Active rigs:

	8/15/2014	08/15/2013	08/15/2012	08/15/2011	08/15/2010
Active Rigs	194	185	203	191	142

Ten (10) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (8), Corinthian, Newfield
• Fields: Blue Buttes (McKenzie), Truax (Williams), North Souris (Bottineau), Clear Creek (McKenzie)
  Comments:

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

Three (3) producing wells completed:

• 27081, 1,080, Arsenal, Craig Allen 10-3H, Stanley, t7/14; cum 16K 6/14;
• 27843, 600, Whiting, Fladeland 42-9TFH, Sanish, t7/14; cum --
• 24919, 660, Slawson, Jeriyote 7-5-32TFH, Big Bend, t7/14; cum --

Hess is getting very active in the Bakken (also, look at recent random "look" at Hess):

• on 11 August: 10 new permits; of those, 6 to Hess (all in Robinson Lake)
• on 13 August: 18 new permits; of those, 10 to Hess (6 in Cherry Creek; 4 in Ellsworth)
• on 15 August: 10 new permits; of those, 8 to Hess (5 in Blue Buttes; 3 in Truax)

Name changes:

• OXY USA is changing three well names (#19710, #28163, #28164) from the Alina Tormaschy wells to "Federal Bud" wells, in 32-143-96 and 20-143-96, Dunn County.