Eight (8) New Permits; Active Rigs In North Dakota Continue To Fall; Credible Source Suggests It's Due To Spring Road Restrictions; If So, It Will Take Care Of Itself; Not To Be Concerned

Later: a reader sent this link to "road restrictions," a PDF; the reader says the restrictions appear to be pretty "tight" right now. 
https://www.dot.nd.gov/travel-info-v2/downloads/loadrestrict-current-printable.pdf

Active rigs:

	4/25/2014	04/25/2013	04/25/2012	04/25/2011	04/25/2010
Active Rigs	182	186	209	176	110

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: OXY USA (4), MRO (2), CLR, Petro-Hunt
• Fields: Murphy Creek (Dunn), Chimney Butte (Dunn), Noonan (Divide), Little Knife (Dunn)
• Comments:

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

Quiet daily activity report coming off a very, very busy week for the NDIC. 

Good luck to all; have a great weekend. This is a great way to end the week which I did not see earlier. Reuters is reporting:

U.S. consumer sentiment rose in April to a nine-month high as views on current and near-term conditions surged, a survey released on Friday showed.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final April reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 84.1, beating an expectation of 83.0 in a Reuters survey and up from 80.0 the month before. The preliminary April reading was 82.6.

The headline number was the highest reading since July 2013.