Eight (8) New Permits; Newfield Reports Two Nice Bakken Wells -- North Dakota, September 21, 2015

Active rigs:

	9/21/2015	09/21/2014	09/21/2013	09/21/2012	09/21/2011
Active Rigs	68	196	185	184	194

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (5), Oasis (3)
• Fields: Capa (Williams), Siverston (McKenzie)
• Comments: I haven't paid much attention to Capa; I might have to do a page on the Capa oil field; it's south of Beaver Lodge (the area where oil was first discovered in North Dakota back in 1951) and well east of Stockyard Creek, on the north side of the river.

Two (2) producing wells completed --

• 28960, 1,289, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-29-3H, Sand Creek, t5/15; cum 31K 7/15;
• 28961, 807, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-29-10H, Sand Creek, t5/15; cum 21K 7/15;

Whiting temporarily abandons a well in Golden Valley: a Wirtzfeld well, Camel Hump oil field. This Red River formation well was called an oil well but in the first month of production it produced 13 bbls of oil and 15,000 bbls of water. Temporarily abandoned? Stick a fork in it and call it done.

Four (4) wells coming off confidential list Tuesday --

• 26122, 3,793, Whiting, Skunk Creek 1-8-17-16H, South Fork, background gas of 3,899 units with a high of 5,826; flare averaged 5; nothing else said; spud March 22; landed the curve on March 28; started the horizontal on March 30; TD on April 3; t8/15; cum --
• 29509, SI/NC, Zavanna, Shepherd 3-11 3H, Stony Creek, no production data,
• 30374, conf, Statoil, East Fork 32-29 8THF, East Fork, no production data,
• 30859, drl/NC, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16F, Midway, no production data,