Marathon's Second Tyler Well (The Powell) Comes Off Confidential List Wednesday; Huge Jump In Active Rigs In North Dakota -- Back To The Future At 194 Active Rigs; Halcon With A "High-IP" Well; June 24, 2014

Pipeline story: this information was posted / linked earlier today, but it's a big, big story -- it's now being posted over at Seeking Alpha:

• North Dakota's governor wants to double the state's pipeline capacity over the next two years as part of a plan to curb wasteful gas flaring and reduce the reliance of Bakken producers on rail and trucks to get their oil to market.
• Oil production in North Dakota has more than tripled in the past decade to 1M boe/day, but the state's pipeline capacity is only ~780K boe/day; Gov. Dalrymple says the state should boost capacity to 1.4M boe/day by 2016.
• The governor's overtures were timed with Enterprise Products Partners' plans to build a first-of-its-kind 1,200-mile pipeline from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Cushing, OK. [My estimate of cost: $400K/mile x 1,200 miles = $480 million = a cool half-billion dollars?]
• ONEOK, Enbridge, MDU Resources and other pipeline operators have been working to build natural gas networks in the state, but they have been constrained by cold weather and right-of-way issues.
• While environmental groups worry about flaring, many residents see traffic as a reason to build pipe; a local officials says citizens "are less worried about global warming then they are about the 1,100 trucks that go by their mailbox every day."

Wells coming off the confidential list Wednesday:

• 25366, 382, OXY USA, State Jaeger B 5-27-34H-144-97, Cabernet, t12/13; cum 14K 4/14;
• 26096, 70, OXY USA, State Jaeger b 7-27-34H-144-97, Cabernet, t12/13; cum 904 bbls;
• 26335, drl, MRO, Powell 31-27TH, Wildcat, no production data, the second Tyler well "everyone" is waiting for;
• 26366, 143, OXY USA, Keary Kadrmas 2-32-29H-142-96, Russian Creek, t12/13; cum 11K 4/14;
• 26423, drl, KOG, P Manning 154-99-2-2-11-15H3, Stockyard Creek, no production data,
• 26962, drl, BR, Norman 11-4TFH ULW, Fancy Buttes, no production data,
• 27021, drl, Hess, HA-Nelson A-152-95-3427H-6, Hawkeye, no production data,
• 27312, drl, Slawson, Nighmaker 4-8-17TFH, Big Bend, producing,

Active rigs in North Dakota:

	6/24/2014	06/24/2013	06/24/2012	06/24/2011	06/24/2010
Active Rigs	194	185	210	170	122

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: BR (3), WPX (2), MRO, Cornerstone, American Eagle
• Fields: Blue Buttes (McKenzie), Mandaree (Dunn), Bailey (Dunn), Skjermo (Divide)
• Comments: Cornerstone has a permit for a wildcat in Burke County; see "R" designation for three of the BR permits

Three of the new permits:

• 28709, conf, BR, Harley 11-21TFH-R, Blue Buttes, 
• 28710, conf, BR, Harley 11-2MBH-R, Blue Buttes, 
• 28711, conf, BR, Harley 21-2TFH-R, Blue Buttes, 

Note the "R" -- revised or re-entry? Revised. I only read one file report, but I assume all thee are the same. Apparently the original siting was farther from the pipeline that was already there (or something to that effect); the operator respectfully asked that the original permit be canceled; they revised the permit request and here they are. Not a big deal.

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

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 25207, 2,219, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-95-27B-34-4H, Eagle Nest, t5/14; cum --
• 25698, 1,056, Hess, AN-Evenson 152-95-0310H-5, Antelope, a Sanish well, t6/14; cum --
• 25981, 1,461, XTO, Inga Federal 41X-29C, Haystack Butte, t5/14; cum --
• 26174, 1,324, Hess, SC-5WX-152-99-0310H-1, Banks, t6/14; cum --
• 27026, 1,034, Whiting, Bartleson 44-1-2TFH, Sanish, a single section, t5/14; cum --

OXY USA has cancelled four wells in Dunn County:

• 26642, PNC, OXY USA, Raphael Stroh 3-24-13H-143-97, Fayette,
• 26643, PNC, OXY USA, Raphael Stroh 4-24-13H-143-97, Fayette,
• 26648, PNC, OXY USA, State 2-25-36H-143-97, Fayette,
• 26649, PNC, OXY USA, State 3-25-36H-143-97, Fayette,