Call It A Wrap -- January, 2014, Is History

FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 2014 (JUST THIS ONE MONTH)

Active rigs: Averaged about 190 active rigs, many of them drilling saltwater disposal wells.

Permits by operator (Hess has raised the bar; ramped up; XTO runner-up):

• American Eagle: 6
• BR: 11
• CLR: 21
• Emerald Oil: 8
• EOG: 10
• ERF: 5
• Fidelity: 8
• Hess: 24
• HRC: 15
• KOG: 16
• MRO: 9
• Murex: 2
• Newfield: 9
• Oasis: 14
• OXY USA: 10
• Petro-Hunt: 14
• Slawson: 5
• Statoil: 3
• Triangle: 5
• Whiting: 19
• WPX: 7
• XTO: 23

Permits by county (I knew McKenzie was going to be huge, but even so, surprising; I was surprised by the few new permits in Williams County):

• Divide: 11
• Dunn: 50
• McKenzie: 101
• Mountrail: 44
• Williams: 15

Permits by field, selected:

• Alger: 12
• Banks: 8
• Bear Den: 5
• Big Bend: 5
• Blue Buttes: 5
• Chimney Butte: 13
• Eagle Nest: 15
• Elidah: 10
• Grail: 0
• Little Knife: 6
• Parshall: 10
• Poe: 6
• Sanish: 2
• Siverston: 6

Permits for wildcat wells: 3

Permits: 254 -- on track for 2,990 permits for calendar year, which would be a record.