Twelve (12) New Permits -- February 6, 2015

Active rigs:

	2/6/2015	02/06/2014	02/06/2013	02/06/2012	02/06/2011
Active Rigs	137	191	182	201	165

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

Twelve (12) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (6), Statoil (3), XTO (2), CLR 
• Fields: Beaver Lodge (Williams), Robinson Lake (Mountrail), Alger (Mountrail), Midway (Williams), Chimney Butte (Butte)
• Comments:

Three (3) permits canceled including two older Windsor Energy (1) and XTO Energy (1) permits, and one newer Samson Resources salt water disposal well permit.

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 27585, 1,443, BR, Haymaker 11-15TFH, Elidah, t1/15; cum --
• 28327, 1,442, Hess, EN-Freda154-94-2635H-6, Alkali Creek, t1/15; cum --
• 28524, 315, EOG, Parshall 151-1608H, Parshall, t2/15; cum --
• 28826, 2,316, Whiting, Skedsvold 21-4H, Pronghorn, t1/15; cum --
• 29073, 2,373, Whiting, Skedsvold 21-4-5H, Pronghorn, t1/15; cum --

One dry hole: 

• 29367, dry, CLR, Rader 3-24H1, Avoca -- nothing in well file yet with more background

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President Obama Was Disinvited -- Just a Hunch

Dis-invited or told to stay away is my hunch. Reuters is reporting substantial progress in four-way talks among Putin, Merkel, Hollande, and  Poor Ol' Shenko:

The leaders of France and Germany had "substantial and constructive" talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine crisis on Friday, a French presidential source said.

My hunch is Merkel knew that Putin and Obama detest each other so much it was best to keep the US President on this side of the Atlantic, where he could give a speech on how awful Christians are. 

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Netanyahu Won't Address US Congress -- Another Hunch

Last week or the week before, either on the blog or in a personal e-mail, I wrote that Israel's Netanyahu will, in the end, NOT address the US Congress. Here is the first story in which the Israelis will walk back the "invitation." Reuters is reporting:

A senior Israeli official suggested on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been misled into thinking an invitation to address the U.S. Congress on Iran next month was fully supported by the Democrats.

President Obama will again make Mr Boehner look like a fool. Which apparently seems not hard to do.