Sunday, March 30, 2014

Permits -- February, 2014

FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 2014 (ONE MONTH) 
Note: this was late getting posted; note this is for February, not March.

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

Permits by operator (selected):
  • American Eagle: 0
  • BR: 14 (up 3 from previous month)
  • CLR: 7 (down from 21 last month)
  • Emerald Oil: 1 (down from 8 last month)
  • EOG: 13 (10 last month)
  • ERF: 0
  • Fidelity: 1 (down from 8 last month)
  • Hess: 18 (down from 24 last month)
  • HRC: 1 (down from 15 last month)
  • KOG: 0 (down from 16)
  • MRO: 1 (down from 9)
  • Murex: 1
  • Newfield: 3 (down from 9)
  • Oasis: 30 (huge increase from 14 last month)
  • OXY USA: 2 (down from 10)
  • Petro-Hunt: 9 (down from 14)
  • QEP: 12
  • Slawson: 5
  • SM Energy: 10
  • Statoil: 4
  • Triangle: 0
  • Whiting: 12 (down from 19)
  • WPX: 2 (down from 7)
  • XTO: 19 (down from 23 last month)
Permits by county (Williams was the big mover in February):
  • Divide: 8 (down from 11)
  • Dunn: 22 (down from 50)
  • McKenzie: 47 (down from 101)
  • Mountrail: 36 (down from 44)
  • Williams: 48 (up from 15)
Permits by field, selected:
  • Alger: 0
  • Banks:0
  • Bear Den: 0
  • Big Bend: 3
  • Blue Buttes: 0
  • Chimney Butte: 0
  • Eagle Nest: 1
  • Elidah:  12
  • Grail:  12
  • Little Knife: 4
  • Parshall: 13
  • Poe:  0
  • Sanish:  6
  • Siverston: 4
Permits for wildcat wells:  2

Permits: 434 -- on track for 2,684 permits for calendar year, which would be a record, but down significantly from projection of 2,990 at end of January.

Disclaimer: summary totals from my personal database; not from NDIC (original source was the NDIC). There may be errors in the data and there may be typographical errors. 

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