Five (5) New Permits; New Operator In North Dakota -- December 9, 2015

Active rigs:

	12/9/2015	12/09/2014	12/09/2013	12/09/2012	12/09/2011
Active Rigs	65	190	193	181	200

Five (5) new permits --

• Operators: XTO (3), SM Energy, Prairie Hills
• Fields: Bear Creek, Smoky Butte, Grover (a Madison well)
• Comments: this is the first ND permit for Prairie Hills Oil & Gas (see below): #32377, Prairie Hills, McCarroll 1H, Grover oil field; Renville;

Wells coming off confidential list Thursday:

• 30981, SI/NC, EOG, Van Hook 75-1514H, Parshall, no production data,
• 31147, SI/NC, XTO, Ryan 14X-9F2, Siverston, no production data,

Hess renewed five permits, all BB-Federal A wells in section 5-151-95.

Producing wells completed:
28078, 849, Oasis, Helling Trust Federal 5494 42-22 9T,
29482, 3,371, Statoil, Sorenson 17-8 4H,

Prairie Hills Oil & Gas was first mentioned at the blog on October 6, 2105:

An operator I had not heard of before was noted in case #24528 of the October, 2015, NDIC hearing dockets:

• 24528, Prairie Hills Oil, Grover-Madison, amend, establish a 320-acre unit; a horizontal well, Renville County

Link here:
Prairie Hills LLC
200 East 1st St North # 210
Wichita, KS 67202
 
A privately held company in Wichita, KS.