Thursday, December 31, 2020

Annual Permit Summary -- 2020

Permits, #37296 - #38059

  • 14 of them were salt water disposal wells
  • three carbon capture and storage
  • 746 gas and oil permits

Counties:

  • Dunn: 148
  • McKenzie: 272
  • Mountrail: 150
  • Williams: 134

Field (top ten):

  • Alkali Creek: 14
  • Antelope: 56
  • Bailey: 18
  • Beaver Lodge: 10
  • Big Bend: 29
  • Cedar Coulee: 23
  • Dimmick Lake: 16
  • East Fork: 10
  • East Tioga: 21
  • Elidah: 17
  • Elm Tree: 27
  • Hofflund: 21
  • Little Knife: 17
  • Mandaree: 18
  • Moccasin Creek: 19
  • North Fork: 23
  • Oliver: 16
  • Pershing: 28
  • Reunion Bay: 39
  • Sanish: 39
  • Stony Creek: 15
  • Westberg: 14

Not on the list above:

  • Grail 
  • Haystack Butte
  • Hawkeye
  • Oakdale
  • Parshall
  • Truax
  • Van Hook

Operators: number of permits:

  • CLR: 125
  • BR: 110
  • MRO: 99
  • Hess: 50
  • Whiting: 50
  • XTO: 46
  • Enerplus: 45
  • Petro-Hunt: 38
  • Slawson: 29
  • WPX: 28 
  • Kraken: 24
  • Zavanna: 20
  • Crescent Point: 17
  • Petroshale: 15
  • Oasis: 13
  • Sinclair: 9
  • KODA Resources: 8
  • Lime Rock: 6
  • Equinor: 5
  • Iron Oil: 4 
  • Nine Point Energy: 3
  • Liberty Resources: 3
  • Bruin: 1
  • EOG: 1
  • Red Tail Energy: 1
  • SHD: 1
  • True Oil: 1
  • Rimrock: 1

Note: in a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors. If this information is important to you, go to the source. 

Number of new permits by year:

2008: 944 permits

  • first permit: 17002
  • last permit: 17945
2009: 625 permits
  • first permit: 17946
  • last permit: 18570
2010: 1,676 permits
  • first permit: 18571
  • last permit: 20246
2011: 1,924 permits;
  • first permit: 20247
  • last permit: 22170
2012: 2,522 permits
  • first permit: 22171
  • last permit: 24692
2013: 2,667 permits
  • first permit: 24693
  • last permit: 27359
2014: 3,010 permits
  • first permit: 27360
  • last permit: 30369
2015: 2,055 permits
  • first permit: 30370
  • last permit: 32424
2016: 818 permits
  • first permit: 32425
  • last permit: 33242
2017: 1,189 permits
  • first permit: 33243
  • last permit: 34431
2018: 1,466 permits
  • first permit: 34432
  • last permit: 35898

2019: 1,397 permits

  • first permit: 35899
  • last permit: 37295

2020751 gas and oil permits

  • permits, #37296 - #38059 (first year in which permit numbers included O&G; CCS; SWD)
  • nine of them were salt water disposal wells
  • three carbon capture and storage
  • 751 gas and oil permits

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