Six (6) New Permits -- North Dakota; July 29, 2014; Oasis, Whiting With "High-IP" Wells; Ford To Switch To Apple; 5 Of 8 Wells To DRL Status; Only 2 Of 8 Report IPs

Big news of the day: Ford is switching to iPhone; Ford corporate enterprise will switch to Apple. Link here. This is a huge story on so many levels; remember the recent handshake between IBM and Apple. Ford is the first of many dominoes to fall. I believe the military "sort of" switched to Apple some years ago. 

The market: before the market pulled back this afternoon, these companies traded at new highs -- AAPL, ABAX, CTL, FTR, REX, T, WIN, XOM.

Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment decisions based on anything you read at this site, or think you may have read at this site. The telecoms had a great day. XOM trading at a new high, I think, surprised everyone.

Wells coming off the confidential list Wednesday:

• 24913, 2,424, Whiting, Roen 24-10-3H, Elk, t5/14; cum 15K 5/14;
• 26658, drl, SM Energy, Hank 13-7H, Poe, no production data,
• 26799, drl, Hess, SC-Tom-153-98-1514H-4, Truax, no production data,
• 26864, drl, XTO, Ruby State Federal 34X-36E, Grinnell, no production data,
• 27033, drl, CLR, McCoy 6-18H1, Northwest McGregor, no production data,
• 27057, 268, Hunt, Sioux Trail 160-101-36-25H-1, Sioux Trail, t4/14; cum 6K 5/14;
• 27077, drl, MRO, Vollmer 24-24TFH, Chimney Butte, Three Forks B-1, no production data,
• 27238, drl, Slawson, Waterbond 6-27-34TFH, Van Hook, no production data,

Active rigs:

	7/29/2014	07/29/2013	07/29/2013	07/29/2013	07/29/2012
Active Rigs	192	179	179	179	207

Six (6) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (3), CLR (2), Legacy
• Fields: Ray (Williams), Camel Butte (McKenzie), North Souris (Bottineau)
• Comments:

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

Four (4) producing wells completed:

• 23544, 1,221, Statoil, Albert B. 27 34-4TFH, Nameless, t6/14; no production data;
• 26888, 2,443, Oasis, Brier 520044-22 5T, Camp, t6/14; no production data, spacing ICO
• 27135, 1,680, BR, Norman 21-4MBH, Johnson Corner 4 sections, t7/14; cum --
• 27231, 365, Whiting, Waldock Federal 14-4-3XH, Sanish, t7/14; cum -- , spacing ICO; total depth reached in 14 days from spud; gas units as high as 1,733; no problems while drilling; IP?