McKenzie County #1 In Entire US; Seven (7) New Permits -- North Dakota -- July 8, 2015

Active rigs:

	7/8/2015	07/08/2014	07/08/2013	07/08/2012	07/08/2011
Active Rigs	75	191	186	213	170

Seven (7) new permits --

Operators: CLR (4), Slawson (3)
Fields: Brooklyn (Williams), Big Bend (Mountrail)
Comments: the CLR permits are for a 4-well pad in 22-155-98 in Brooklyn oil field

Three (3) wells coming off confidential list Thursday:
29903, 98, XTO, Johnson 34X-36BXC, Morgan Draw TF1, ; a 15-foot target zone, t5/15; cum --
29979, SI/NC, BR, CCU Dakotan 2-7-17MBH, Corral Creek, no production data,
30183, SI/NC, Petro-Hunt, Sherven Trust 153-95-27A-7HS, Charlson, no production data,

From the #29903 file report: in-zone totals --

• MD 7589'; 85.47% -- drilled in 15' TVD target
• MD 3789'; 42.67% -- above center of target (in zone)
• MD 3800': 42.80% -- below center of target (in zone)
• MD 1290': 14.53% -- out of target zone
• 8879' -- total lateral

I did not see completion data for #29902 at time of original post.

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McKenzie Is #1 In The Entire US

Williams #7, Dunn #10

This is pretty cool. Texas has some huge oil fields, but it looks like North Dakota has the number one oil producing county in the entire US! In fact three North Dakota counties are in the op ten.  DrillingInfo is reporting:  

Memo to self: send a note to Jane Nielson.

Memo to self: send a huge "thank you" to a reader for sending this to me. I had missed it.

And then look at this. If one thinks about it for a minute, this is really quite phenomenal:

Memo to self: send another note to Jane Nielson.

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I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You, Susy Bogguss