Fourteen (14) New Permits -- North Dakota

Active rigs:

	1/16/2015	01/16/2014	01/16/2013	01/16/2012	01/16/2011
Active Rigs	157	187	185	200	163

Fourteen (14) new permits --

• Operators: CLR (7), Hess (4),  EOG (3),
• Fields: Sanish (Mountrail), Parshall (Mountrail), Big Gulch (Dunn)
• Comments:

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

Thirteen (13) producing wells completed:

• 26199, 380, Zavanna, Beagle 32-29 2TFH, Springbrook, t12/14; cum --
• 26200, 772, Zavanna, Beagle 32-29 3H, Springbrook, t12/14; cum --
• 26254, 673, SM Energy, Oakland Federal 1-1H, Cartwright, t12/14; cum --
• 27262, 1,421, Emerald Oil, Talon 5-9-4H, Charbonneau, t12/14; cum --
• 27300, 852, Zavanna, Husky 33-28 8TFH, Williston, t1/15; cum --
• 27355, 1,241, XTO, Thompson 41X-17MB3, Charlson, t12/14; cum --
• 27362, 661, Emerald, Slugger 6-16-21H, Charbonneau, t12/14; cum --
• 27363, 844, Emerald, Talon 6-9-4H, Charbonneau, t1/15; cum --
• 27428, 839, WPX, Roggenbuck 4-9HX, Van Hook, t12/14; cum --
• 28051, 1,412, Oasis, Shepherd Andre 5501 14-5 4B, Missouri Ridge, four sections, t12/14; cum --
• 28082, 739, CLR, Franklin 3-29H, Stoneview, t1/15; cum --
• 28342, 951, Oasis, Chalmers 5301 44-24 2TR, Baker, t12/14; cum --
• 28450, 715, Slawson, Blade Federal 1-18MLH, Big Bend, t10/14; cum 20K 11/14;

Charbonneau oil field is a small oil field in far west McKenzie County, near the river. I would not have considered this as particularly great spot. The heat map suggests this may be a very small circumscribed "hot spot."

Emerald Oil renewed four permits, all in McKenzie County ( #27483 - #27486, Joel Goodsen (2), and Dudley Dawson Federal (2).

Oasis will be changing target on two wells: #28701, from TF to MB; and, #30169, from T2 to T1. 

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It's Not Ice Age Now: It's A Polar Plunge

The Washington Post is reporting:

As of Thursday, ice covered 34.1 percent of the Great Lakes, up from just 5.6 percent on Jan. 1, and 10.8 percent on Jan. 5 — the first day of a polar plunge that gripped most of the eastern U.S. for days to come.

“Last year, the Great Lakes were 21.2 percent ice-covered on Jan. 14, making this year’s ice cover 13 percent higher to date. If you recall, below-average temperatures were persistent from mid-January onward in the winter of 2014, leading to the second highest ice coverage on record at 92.2 percent on March 6, 2014.”

If I recall from my days growing up in North Dakota, there was a polar plunge every year about this time. We called it "winter" back then, but apparently for the warmists cold weather is out of the ordinary, and thus, a "polar plunge" is how it is described.

For the warmists, there will be but one season: warm to hot, with an occasional polar plunge.

For the rest of us: spring, summer, autumn, winter.