Ever So Slowly, The Active Rig Count Is Creeping Up; Eight (8) New Permits -- October 22, 2015

Active rigs:

	10/22/2015	10/22/2014	10/22/2013	10/22/2012	10/22/2011
Active Rigs	69	192	182	185	195

Wells coming off confidential list Friday:

• 28529, 1,106, Hess, LK-Trotter-146-97-3625H-3, Little Knife, drilling rig, June 19; TD, June 29; a 10' window 19' feet into the middle Bakken; gas as high as 9,272 units; lateral drilled in 5 days, two bits; 35 stages, 2.4 million lbs, t9/15; cum 2K 1 day;
• 30856, SI/NC, EOG, Shell 29-2820H, Parshall, no production data,

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: CLR (4), HRC (3), XTO
• Fields: Elm Tree (McKenzie), Antelope (McKenzie), Siverston (McKenzie)
• Comments: of course, permits for multi-well pads

Several permit renewals:

• Zavanna, 4 Galloway permits, all in Williams County
• Enerplus, 2 permits, a Cheetah and a Hyena permit, both in Dunn County
• XTO, with one renewal, a Nygaard Federal in Dunn County

Normally, I wouldn't comment on this, but in the context of recent posts:

• 29622, conf plugged or producing, Berengy, Borstad 30-3, Chatfield, Bottineau County

And again, for those keeping score at home, zero, nada, zilch, none, no producing wells reported as completed (in other words, no DUCs reported as completed today).