Request for Help: Recommendation of North Dakota Attorney Specializing in Oil and/or Mineral Rights Titles

"Jerry" sent me a comment asking if anyone could recommend a North Dakota attorney specializing in oil and/or mineral rights titles.

If you can help, he left his e-mail address in the first comment over at the Charlson field update.

Week 5: January 29 -- February 4, 2011

What's Going On With Zastoupil and "Oil for America" -- I've Got a Secret?

Breakdown of the 1,180 Wells on the Confidential List in North Dakota

Breakdown of the 168 Active Rigs in North Dakota

Denbury Doubles Reserves in 2010

Kinder Morgan To Go Public

Four Hess Wells Come Off Confidential List (91, 345, 511, and 584)

More Data That North Dakota Will Surpass Alaska in Oil Production if Trend Continues

Some Selected Data Points in North Dakota: Oil Permits / Wells

Another Bulk Storage Plant and Loading Terminal in Western North Dakota -- Epping, ND

Enbridge and First Solar Strengthen Relationship

Warren Buffett: Buy What You Know. Thoughts On Enbridge, ONEOK, and Kinder Morgan

Breakdown of KOG's 70,000 Acres in the Bakken

Legacy To Extend Its Spearfish Play Into North Dakota

Siverston Field Update (Note all field updates are in the sidebar at the right)

Surprising Madison Well in North Dakota: Paid For Itself in Three Months?

China, Chesapeake, Eagle Ford and Now Niobrara

Hess Plans to Double Bakken Production by Year-End (2011)

USEG Announces a New Partnership and A Great Well

Breakdown of World Energy Consumption, by Fuel

Syrian-Lebanese in North Dakota

February, 2011, NDIC Hearing Dockets

Common Sense on Energy: the Swedish Experience

Week 4: January 22 -- January 28, 2011

XOM Sets Extended Reach Record -- In Asia -- Not a Bakken Story -- Lateral Reaches 8 Miles

Brent vs NYMEX Spread: Likely To Get Worse

Seven Great WLL Wells

Eight Great WLL Wells

GMX Resources Enters The Bakken, Update

BEXP Announces Record Year-End 2010 Proved Reserves; Four New High Production Wells

Five Great BEXP Wells

FlexRigs

Social Security Now Running a Deficit -- Not A Bakken Story

Hess 4Q10 Update

Zavanna Renews Four Permits

Super-Long Laterals in the Bakken -- BHI

Analysts: Bakken Should Hit 1.2 Million Bbls in 2015

A New Multi-Rail Terminal in Western North Dakota -- Trenton, North Dakota

SM Will Raise $250 Million Through Senior Notes

Oil Industry Impact on ND Economy: $3 Million / Each New Well

Compilation of Studies: How Much Oil Is There in the Bakken?

Throwing in the Towel on the Spearfish?

TransCanada's Keystone XL: Problems and Updates

Oasis to Raise $300 Million Through Senior Notes; Oasis Triples Reserves in 2010

Oasis Reports a Nice Wildcat (2,707)

HAL's Profits Double 4Q10

Eight Rigs-on-Site in the Dickinson, North Dakota, Area

Update on ONEOK's $500 Million Pipeline Project (Sidney, Montana); Another $1.5 Billion in the Bakken

Earnings Season 4Q10

Two Items of Interest -- Wells Coming Off the Confidential List Today -- North Dakota, USA

There were two items of interest with regard to the wells that came off the confidential list today.

The first item of interest was another nice KOG well:

• 18988, 1,835, KOG, Two Shields Butte 14-21-33-15H, Heart Butte, Bakken

The second item is very curious:

• 19258, DRL, Oil for America, Zastoupil 22-1, Wildcat, Lodgepole

I have a fairly long post on Oil for America and this well. It is my understanding that this is a vertical well that will  not be fracked. I have been waiting for the results of this well. So, to say the least, to have no information on this well today is very disappointing. This well is a vertical well, no fracking. It reached total depth, 9,511 feet, on August 24 (it was spud on/about August 4, 2010, just 20 days earlier). I understand there are tanks on the pad and tanker trucks have been moving on and off the pad. This is what I have heard; I cannot verify it. But I do know it was spud six months ago, and all we get today for status is "DRL.""I've Got a Secret," Lucille Ball and Johnny Carson

You Thought the Bakken Was Good? Look at Coal -- Not a Bakken Story

I posted this on my "coal" page, as it were, on January 31, 2011: I did not realize this, but according to Jim Cramer, CNBC, coal is the fastest-growing fuel in the world.

Profits for coal companies are going to be huge.