Twenty (20) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Several Wells Coming Off Confidential Status; 2/7 To DRL Status; Nothing Exciting; OXY USA With Another OXY USA Well

Active rigs: 186 (trending higher)

Twenty (20) new permits --

• Operators: QEP (8), XTO (4), Whiting (3), OXY USA (2), Corinthian, Hess, Hunt
• Fields: Sanish (Mountrail), DeMores (Billings), Northeast (Bottineau), Lone Tree Lake (Williams), Delhi (Golden Valley), Heart Butte (Dunn), Boxcar Butte (McKenzie), Crooked Creek (Dunn), Garden (McKenzie), Russian Creek (Dunn),
• Comments: It appears QEP's permits for 8 wells are all in the same section, 28-148-92, Heart Butte,

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

Section 28-148-92 reminds me of all the QEP wells in section 31-148-92.  There are, I believe, 17 wells sited in this one section.

Wells coming off the confidential list, Wednesday:

• 23506, drl, HRC, Fort Berthold 152-93-17D-08-6H, Four Bears, no production data,
• 23685, 225, OXY USA, Meduna Trust 1-7-6H-142-94, Murphy Creek, t3/13; cum 12K 7/13;
• 23742, 859, Fidelity, Hank 28-33H, Stanley, t3/13; cum 40K 7/13;
• 24689, 575, Hess, BW-Sharon 150-100-2536H-2, Timber Creek, t712; cum --;
• 24713, 637, Hess, EN-Hein S 156-94-1201H-5, Big Butte, t7/13; cum 14K 7/13;
• 24791, conf --> loc, KOG, Smokey 16-7-19-16H3M, Pembroke, no production data;
• 24946, drl, QEP, Lawlar 1-5-8BH, Grail, no production data;

With regard to #24791, I was told by folks elsewhere that permits did not go from "conf" to "loc" or back to "conf" once take off the list. I may have misunderstood. I misunderstand a lot of things. 

Disclaimer: I often make typographical errors; if alerted to mistakes I will correct them. Adjectives describing wells are my own adjectives and such adjectives are in the eye(s) of the beholder.

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A Note To The Granddaughters

In an earlier note, I mentioned that of all the places I've lived or visited, the place I still miss is San Antonio.  A reader sent me this video. This is SOOOOOOO San Antonio. My father-in-law, Flavio, Sr, was Hispanic. His father came across the river many decades ago and was returned to Mexico, but his family stayed on, first in Beeville, TX, and then some of the family to San Antonio. The individual in the linked video reminds me of all the wonderful memories I have of my father-in-law. He, too, made the military a career, including one tour in Korea, and two tours in Vietnam. He also caught the tail-end of WWII so he was one of the few veterans that had "four wars" on his US Army veteran's ball cap.