Ten (10) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Three More "High-IP" Wells; Statoil Has Another 3,500+ IP Well; A Tangsrud Well Not All That Impressive (Yet)

Active rigs:

	1/13/2014	01/13/2013	01/13/2012	01/13/2011	01/13/2010
Active Rigs	193	182	199	163	78

Ten (10) new permits --

• Operators: EOG (4), XTO (3), KOG (2), Hess
• Fields: Parshall (Mountrail, Lost Bridge (Dunn), Pembroke (McKenzie), Heart Butte (Dunn), Big Stone (Williams)
• Comments:

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

Six (6) producing wells completed:

• 24934, 76 (no typo), CLR, Tangsrud 4-1H3, Hayland, t12/14; cum 1K 11/13;
• 25851, 1,501, XTO, Wallace 21X-2A, West Capa, t12/13; cum --
• 25149, 2,526, XTO, Wallace 21X-2F, West Capa, t12/13; cum --
• 24259, 2,966, BR, Glacier 14-9MBH, Clear Creek, t12/13; cum --
• 22818, 706, CLR, Harms 1-32H, Elm Tree, t12/13; cum --
• 24362, 3,509, Statoil, Knight 35-26 4H, Banks, t12/13; cum --

Wells coming off the confidential list Tuesday:

• 24446, drl, SM Energy, Lucille 1-27H, Siverston, no production data,
• 24564, 1,070, Fidelity, Frederick 3-34-33H, Sanish, t7/13; cum 50K 11/13;
• 25305, drl, QEP, Paul 2-26-35BH, Grail, no production data, but you know it's gonna be huge;
• 25551, drl, XTO, Marlene 42X-20H, Blue Buttes, no production data,
• 25719, 1,210, Whiting, Savannah TTT 41-26H, Sanish, t8/13; cum 52K 11/13;

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25719, see above, Whiting, Savannah TTT 41-26H, Sanish

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2013	10846	5869
10-2013	15147	6691
9-2013	16733	7744
8-2013	8397	5106

 24564, see above, Fidelity, Frederick 3-34-33H, Sanish:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2013	3365	1807
10-2013	12769	6708
9-2013	5715	670
8-2013	15754	915
7-2013	12086	188

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Just A Bit Catty 

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One has to chuckle at the irony. A reader sent me a link to a series of stories the Minneapolis Star Tribune did on the Bakken this past summer/autumn. The series included a number of photographs, many of which appeared in numerous other publications across the country. I particularly enjoyed the photograph with this caption: "Traffic related to servicing the oil boom has increased dramatically, taxing roads that were not designed to carry such a heavy load. These trucks were lined up along a road near Watford City. Photo: Jim Gehrz."

In fact, the roads were designed to carry heavy agricultural loads: wheat, sugar beats, and they've been drilling for oil in North Dakota since 1951. But this is the irony: I assume the photographer is based out of Minneapolis-St Paul, the home of one of the most incredible bridge failures in the nation. According to wiki:

The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

During the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, it suddenly collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The bridge was Minnesota's fifth busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. The NTSB cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse, and asserted that additional weight on the bridge at the time of the collapse contributed to the catastrophic failure.

I guess Minnesotans are a) trying to forget that tragedy; b) looking for a highway story that might be worse; and/or, c) just running out of stories in their own backyard, as folks flee "Minne-soak-the-rich."