Five (5) New Permits, BR Reports Four High-IP Wells -- North Dakota -- September 2, 2015

Active rigs:

	9/2/2015	09/02/2014	09/02/2013	09/02/2012	09/02/2011
Active Rigs	75	194	185	192	198

Four (4) wells coming off confidential list Thursday:

• 29208, 2,533, MRO, Lun USA 11-14H, Reunion Bay, t6/15; cum 46K 7/15 (45 days);
• 29611, SI/NC, Statoil, Cheryl 17-20 8TFH, Banks, no production data,
• 30469, SI/NC, EOG, Shell 22-2819H, Parshall, no production data,
• 30604, drl/NC, SM Energy, L. Johnson 4-30HS, no production data,

Five (5) producing wells completed:

• 29425, 1,608, BR, Kings Canyon 5-8-34UTFH, Camel Butte, 4 sections, t7/15; cum 12K 9 days;
• 29431, 1,848, BR, Kings Canyon 6-1-27MBH, Camel Butte, 4 sections, t7/15; cum 14K 9 days;
• 29433, 1,464, BR, Kings Canyon 4-1-27MTFH, Camel Butte, 4 sections, t7/15; cum 12K 9 days;
• 29466, 2,124, BR, Kings Canyon 7-8-34MBH, Camel Butte, 4 sections, t7/15; cum 14K 9 days;
• 30358, 85, Enduro Operating, MRPSU 19-33-H1, Mouse River Park, a Madison well, t8/15; cum --

Five (5) new permits --

• Operators: Statoil (4), Whiting
• Fields: Banks, Bell (Stark)
• Comments:

Whiting renews three permits: two Koppinger permits and one Cymbaluk permit, all in Stark County.

OXY USA temporarily abandons #16989, a Meyer well, in Cunn County.

EOG temporarily abandons four fairly recent wells in Parshall oil field (#27391, #28401, #28726, #28727, and @28728), Mountrail County.

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I Never Saw This Coming

Quick! Name the state with the highest poverty rate! California is #1, by far, using "alternative" Census Bureau statistics; #2 if one uses "traditional" methods to define poverty.

Traditional methods: New Mexico is #1 at 22%. California follows at 15%.
Alternative methods based on "realistic" parameters: California #1 at 23%. New Mexico at 16%.

I did not know this. Stumbled across it while reading about Monterey Shale on which Jerry Brown is basing California's economic future.

I bet if I ask my wife she will say Alabama or Mississippi, but certainly not California.