Trends Noted In The NDIC Hearing Dockets, December 2013

Updates

December 14, 2013: Petroleum News has an update on this issue.
 

Original Post

I've been posting an abbreviated summary of the dockets since 2009 and I don't think I've ever seen so many cases requesting permission/waivers for unlimited flaring as in the December, 2013, hearings.

This only means one thing to me.

Other things noted:

• Emerald is getting very, very active
• CLR has a huge number of requests for 14 wells on 1280-acre units, as does XTO
• WPX and XTO have a lot of risk penalty cases (locations are interesting)
• KOG's pilot project 2.0 must be successful; KOG has requests for two more such projects
• a lot more salt-water disposal wells

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