Permit Projections -- August 23, 2014; Another EOG "400-Series" Well

North Dakota data. 

Permits issued as of this date, August 22:

• 2014: 1,879
• 2013: 1,567
• 2012: 1,431

Projection on this date for total permits issued by end of calendar year:

• 2014: 2,931
• 2013: 2,444
• 2012: 2,232

My numbers may differ from those of the NDIC or others. These are only oil and gas permits; no salt water disposal well permits.

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EOG has another "400-series" permit:

• 29190, SI/NC-->TATD --> conf (noted 9/16) --> 622, EOG, Parshall 406-34H, Parshall. I talked about the EOG "400-series" wells earlier; short lateral; Bakken NOS; middle Bakken target; drilling fluid: salt water in the lateral; spud date, October 14, 2014; FTD date, October 21, 2014; target, Middle Bakken (in zone: 100%); 5,263' lateral; 640-acre spacing; tracked here; 21 stages; cum 5.1 million lbs; t10/16; cum 47K 5/17;

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Global Warming

Some weeks ago I mentioned that I had a perception that it really was cooler this summer than past summers. Now the data is starting to come in. Watts Up With That is reporting:

It's been a "cold summer": US daily record minimums outnumbered record maximums 3 to 1 in the last 30 days. Plus, there have been new snowfall records, almost unheard of in summer. 

But WUWT is reporting some "strange things happening over at government-sponsored weather sites."

Weather Underground is reporting winter in August in Wyoming and Montana, and I assume this weather will track east, giving relief to hot summer weather in the east.