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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Nine (9) New Permits -- North Dakota, USA

Producers: Burlington (2), Whiting, Enerplus, Zavanna, EOG, Anschutz, Hess, and Newfield.

Fields: Murphy Creek, Sanish, McGregory Buttes, Stockyard Creek, Clear Water, Willmen, Big Butte and one wildcat.

It appears the two BR wells in Murphy Creek will be on one pad; if not, the two wells are still very, very close to each other.

Newfield's wildcat is north of Williston, just a mile southeast of Grenora. It is in section 18-159-102. One section over are two wells in section 17-159-102. One of those sites has a rig on site:
  • 19635, rig on site, Newfield, Christensen 159-102-17-20-1H, wildcat
  • 19977, confidential, Newfield, Christensen 159-102-8-5-1H, wildcat
And, yet another Whiting permit in its cash cow, the Sanish.

For a little field, Stockyard Creek, east of Williston, sure is active. Zavanna has the new Stockyard Creek permit: 20439, Thelma 1-21H.

I have not been impressed with the Clear Water wells but EOG keeps drilling there and keeps adding permits.

North Dakota is on track to issue 1,853 permits this calendar year.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    Newfield is drilling a multi-well off of one pad at 150-99-21 (H&P 286) but it is not on the active drilling list. Makes you wonder how many drilling rigs are really active in North Dakota.

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  2. Bruce OksolFebruary 8, 2011 at 9:33 PM

    Isn't that interesting. Thank you for sharing.

    (It's possible the Pony Express riders have not been able to reach Bismarck with the news about that Newfield rig.)

    When I look at the number of rigs some drillers have had, and what they show now, I think right now there could be as many as 175 active rigs, about 10 more than are showing now.

    I assume "H&P 286" stands for Helmerich and Payne who manufacture the FlexRigs (whether or not this is a FlexRig is another story):

    http://milliondollarway.blogspot.com/2011/01/flexrigs.html.

    Very, very interesting. Thank you.

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