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.