Five (5) New Permits -- December 31, 2015; Several Big Wells Reported; Seven (7) More DUCs

Active rigs:

	12/31/2015	12/31/2014	12/31/2013	12/31/2012	12/31/2011
Active Rigs	61	170	187	183	197

Five (5) new permits --

• Operators: BR (3), Petro Harvester (2)
• Fields: Corral Creek (Dunn), Flaxton (Burke)
  Comments: The BR permits were from yesterday, December 30, 2015; I didn't see them yesterday; either I missed them or they were posted later

MRO canceled one permit, for a Blue Butte USA well in McKenzie County.

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Wells coming off the confidential list over the long weekend --

Monday, January 4, 2016
29869, 2,064, Whiting, P Wood 154-98-13-22-16-4H, Truax, t7/15; cum 103K 11/15;
30739, 1,243, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-11H, Sand Creek, t10/15; cum 37K 11/15;
31166, SI/NC, Abraxas, Stenehjem 14H, North Fork, no production data,

Sunday, January 3, 2016
29222, 1,182, Whiting, P Jackman 156-100-2-18-19-15H, East Fork, t7/15; cum 74K 11/15;
29671, 754, CLR, Thronson Federal 6-21H2, Alkali Creek, t8/15; cum 78K 11/15;
30268, 954, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-17D-8-12H, Eagle Nest, t7/15; cum 73K 11/15;
30740, 1,019, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-4H, Sand Creek, t10/15; cum 39K 11/15;
30864, SI/NC, Enerplus, Screech 147-94-13B-24H, McGregory Buttes, no production data,
31305, 408, SM Energy, Burtman 14-23HN, Burg, t11/15; cum 9K 11/15;
31322, SI/NC, EOG, Wayzetta 400-3019H, Parshall, no production data,
31391, SI/NC, XTO, Sara 41X-13HXE, Grinnell, no production data,
 
Saturday, January 2, 2016
29221, 407, Whiting, P Jackman 156-100-2-18-19-15H3A, East Fork, t7/15; cum 32K 11/15;
30612, SI/NC, Sinclair, URan 5-15H, Sanish, no production data,
30741, 1,085, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-12H, Sand Creek, t10/15; cum 31K 11/15;
31167, SI/NC, Abraxas, Stenehjem 15H, North Fork, no production data,

Friday January 1, 2016
24117, 2,078, Whiting, Skunk Creek 4-18-17-8H, Heart Butte, t11/15; cum 25K 11/15;
30269, 1,716, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-17D-8-13H, Eagle Nest, 4 sections, t7/15; cum 112K 11/15;
30742, 1,736, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-5H, Sand Creek, t10/15; cum 34K 11/15;
30865, SI/NC, Enerplus, Snowy 147-94-13A-24H TF, McGregory Buttes, no production data,
31306, 388, SM Energy, Burtman 14-23HS, Burg,t11/15; cum 7K 11/15;

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31306, see above, SM Energy, Burtman 14-23HS, Burg:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
10-2015	407	0

 30742, see above, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-5H, Sand Creek:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	18156	34372
10-2015	14867	22720

30269, see above, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-17D-8-13H, Eagle Nest:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	11392	9414
10-2015	16916	15821
9-2015	23501	18514
8-2015	25074	21165
7-2015	34341	31591

24117, see above, Whiting, Skunk Creek 4-18-17-8H, Heart Butte:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	24145	0

30741, see above, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-12H, Sand Creek:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	15706	28307
10-2015	14779	25470

29221, see above, Whiting, P Jackman 156-100-2-18-19-15H3A, East Fork:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	1068	348
10-2015	5954	12143
9-2015	10064	5455
8-2015	11420	7127
7-2015	3215	1758

30740, see above, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-4H, Sand Creek:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	19990	37584
10-2015	18094	26364

30268, see above, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-17D-8-12H, Eagle Nest:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	8313	7063
10-2015	13274	7057
9-2015	11527	6260
8-2015	18699	17186
7-2015	20794	18149

29671, see above, CLR, Thronson Federal 6-21H2, Alkali Creek:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	22034	12166
10-2015	19430	28740
9-2015	19431	26534
8-2015	15509	21887
7-2015	1456	666

29222, see above, Whiting, P Jackman 156-100-2-18-19-15H, East Fork:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	2447	973
10-2015	28176	14309
9-2015	14581	8717
8-2015	11689	7042
7-2015	16423	9581

29869, see above, Whiting, P Wood 154-98-13-22-16-4H, Truax:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	12689	26266
10-2015	15888	26422
9-2015	22736	19746
8-2015	30243	19256
7-2015	21142	1899

 30739, see above, Newfield, Skaar Federal 153-96-28-21-11H, Sand Creek:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2015	17053	30614
10-2015	19416	27615

Paradigm Shift In Oil & Gas Industry -- The Shale Revolution -- December 31, 2015

Bloomberg is reporting:

Cheniere Energy Inc. began production at what will become the first terminal to export natural gas from America’s shale formations.

The company is receiving about 50 million cubic feet of the fuel a day, chilling it into liquefied natural gas at the Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana, and storing it in tanks before the first export.

Cheniere has previously said the inaugural cargo will leave the complex in January by tanker and that U.K.-based BG Group Plc is contracted to take the first shipment. Sabine Pass is “on schedule,” Ennis said. “You can’t dock a ship to offtake the LNG, until you have a full ship load of LNG in the tanks, which is planned to happen in January.”

The start at Sabine Pass paves the way for other planned liquefied natural gas terminals that are projected to turn the U.S. into one of the world’s largest suppliers. The country may be capable of exporting 7.76 billion cubic feet of gas a day by 2019.

While the U.S. has been sending gas abroad from Alaska for years, Cheniere’s cargo would mark the first to leave from the lower-48 states, a testament to surging shale supplies that have sent domestic stockpiles to record levels.

Cheniere’s export terminal underscores how dramatically the shale boom has reshaped the natural gas market. Before drillers started pulling the fuel out of tight-rock formations using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, Cheniere was building import terminals in anticipation of a domestic shortage.

Following the onslaught of shale gas, Cheniere started retrofitting terminals for exports.

The U.S. cargoes will mark “a paradigm shift for the industry,” Hadi Hallouche, head of liquefied natural gas trading at Trafigura Beheer BV, said by phone from Geneva.

The supply of natural gas scheduled to arrive at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass terminal from two pipelines for liquefaction has surged to 128,987 dekatherms as of Wednesday from just 6,720 a month ago. 

Much more at the link.

And there is more to come. This was posted back on October 4, 2015:

Which leads us to this article as reported in USA Today:

Now may not be the best time to unveil plans to export liquefied natural gas from the U.S. But don't tell Charles "Buddy" Roemer.

The former governor of Louisiana will formally announce Monday one of the largest LNG-export proposals in the U.S., at a time when faltering demand for gas in Asia, as well as low prices, threaten the viability of ventures much further along the way than his.

"There may be 40 ahead of us in the world already producing, but there are 30 behind us, and something is happening," said Roemer, chairman of a Baton Rouge-based G2 LNG. "This will be a powerful industry."

The company is assembling a project worth nearly $11 billion, which would make it one of the biggest energy undertakings ever in Louisiana. Over 30 years, G2 LNG would export 672 billion cubic feet of LNG annually to China, Europe, the Caribbean and India.

Note: in the October 4, 2015, the post suggested 672 billion cubic feet/year could be exported. In the article posted above today, the number has risen to almost 3,000 billion cubic feet / year by 2019 -- that's only three years from now, and by then we will have a new president.

Conversion:

• 1 billion cubic meters NG = 6.29 million barrels of oil equivalent
• 1,000 billion cubic feet/year = 6,290 million boe = 17 million boe/day 
• did I make a simple arithmetic error?

Flashback: Wells Permitted Back In July, 2008

Where are they now? These wells were permitted in July, 2008.

Date	Permit	IP	Operator	Name	County	Field	Pool	Test Date	CUM	Date	Comments
1 Jul 08	17432	156	CLR	Curtis 1-4H	McKenzie	North Fork/Wildcat	Bakken	3/09	154	11/15
1 Jul 08	17433	658	CLR	Ole 1-29H	McKenzie	North Fork/Wildcat	Bakken	5/10	188	11/15
1 Jul 08	17434	880	QEP/Questar	MHA 1-18H-150-90	McLean	Deep Water Creek/Wildcat	Bakken	1/09	172	10/15
1 Jul 08	17435		St Mary	Powell 16-24H	Burke	Wildcat	Bakken			4/1	PNC
1 Jul 08	17436		St Mary	Moody 4-18H	Burke	Wildcat	Bakken			4/09	PNC
2 Jul 08	17437	583	OXY USA/Anschutz	Scott 34-7H	Dunn	Murphy Creek	Bakken	8/09	159	11/15
2 Jul 08	17438	500	Murex	Chad Alan 25-36H	Mountrail	Stanley	Bakken	2/09	311	10/15
2 Jul 08	17439	376	XTO/Encore	McCoy 44-36H	McKenzie	Siverston/Wildcat	Bakken	11/08	152	10/15
2 Jul 08	17440	55	Rim Operating/Prima	Mesa 24-2H	Burke	Lakeside	Midale/Nesson	9/08	19	11/15
3 Jul 08	17441		St Mary	Tande 16-23H	Burke	Wildcat				4/1	PNC
3 Jul 08	17442	27	Samson Resources	Rindel 17-162-95H	Divide	Baukol Noonan	Bakken	5/09	21	11/15
3 Jul 08	17443	1663	Whiting	Fladeland 12-18H	Mountrail	Sanish	Bakken	2/09	438	11/15
3 Jul 08	17444	1175	Hunt	Erickson 1-7H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	10/08	286	10/15
7 Jul 08	17445	1155	Statoil/BEXP	Afseth 34-1H	Mountrail	Kittleson Slough/Wildcat	Bakken	4/11	181	10/15
7 Jul 08	17446	49	Zavanna	Leonard 1-23H	Williams	Stockyard Creek	Bakken	12/08	141	11/15
9 Jul 08	17447	308	Oasis	Laumb 11-22H	Burke	Gros Ventre/Wilcat	Bakken	1/09	85	11/15
10 Jul 08	17448	1084	OXY USA/Anschutz	Wittinger 31-5H	Dunn	Murphy Creek	Bakken	11/09	208	11/15
10 Jul 08	17449	128	MRO	Charchenko 14-21H	Dunn	Murphy Creek	Bakken	2/09	93	10/15
10 Jul 08	17450	230	Hess	AV-Wrigley-163-94-0607H	Burke	Forthun/Wildcat	Bakken	11/08	164	11/15
11 Jul 08	17451	275	CLR	Thorvald 1-6H	Dunn	Rattlesnake Point/Wildcat	Bakken	4/09	133	11/15
11 Jul 08	17452	576	CLR	Glasoe 1-18H	Divide	Dolphin	Bakken	11/08	184	11/15
14 Jul 08	17453	225	Zavanna	Puma 1-26H	Williams	Stony Creek/Wildcat	Bakken	2/09	108	11/15
14 Jul 08	17454	676	MRO	Stroh 14-11H	Dunn	Killdeer	Bakken	12/08	310	10/15	Still producing 5K/month
14 Jul 08	17455	368	Hess	RS-Stray-156-91-0405H-1	Mountrail	Ross	Bakken	11/08	140	11/15
15 Jul 08	17456	114	XTO/Encore	Cherry Creek State 44-36H	McKenzie	Siverston/Wildcat	Bakken	2/09	158	10/15
15 Jul 08	17457		Summit	Elkhorn Ranch Federal 3-24H	Billings	Elkhorn Ranch	Birdbear			7/1	EXP
15 Jul 08	17458		St Mary	Powell 4-30H	Burke	Wildcat	Bakken			5/1	EXP
16 Jul 08	17459	403	Slawson	Bandit 1-29H	Mountrail	Van Hook/Wildcat	Bakken	5/1	132	11/15
16 Jul 08	17460	107	CLR	Lowe 44-9SH	Bowman	Cedar Hills	N Red River B	10/08	144	11/15
16 Jul 08	17461	75	Summit	Bicentennial Federal 10-34H	McKenzie	Bicentennial	Bakken	12/10	26	11/15
16 Jul 08	17462	149	CLR	MPHU 24-19H	Bowman	Medicine Pole Hills	Red River	8/10	38	11/15
17 Jul 08	17463	825	EOG	Van Hook 3-25H	Mountrail	Van Hook/Wildcat	Bakken	7/09	361	11/15
17 Jul 08	17464		Encore	Helwig 11-10H	Mountrail	Wildcat	Bakken			8/1	PNC
17 Jul 08	17465		Encore	Rolfsness 41-19H	Bowman	Wildcat	Red River			2/10	PNC
18 Jul 08	17466	0	XTO/Encore	Shipton 44-21H	Ward	Wildcat	Bakken	2/12		2/12
18 Jul 08	17467	0	Eagle	E-M Flying H 5-9	Renville	Newporte	Cambro/Ordovician	8/08		8/1
18 Jul 08	17568	878	MRO	Hendricks 34-20H	Dunn	Murphy Creek	Bakken	7/11	140	10/15
18 Jul 08	17469	736	EOG	Shell 1-08H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	9/09	268	11/15
18 Jul 08	17470	1334	EOG	Austin 17-20H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	6/09	658	11/15
21 Jul 08	17471	793	CLR	Merton 1-3H	McKenzie	North Fork/Wildcat	Bakken	4/09	215	11/15
21 Jul 08	17472	593	Oasis/Zenergy	Mildred Nelson 4-25H	McKenzie	Elidah/Wildcat	Bakken	6/09	98	9/15
21 Jul 08	17473	299	CLR	Fagerland 1-1H	Divide	Upland/Wildcat	Bakken	2/11	123	11/15
21 Jul 08	17474		Slawson	Sorcerer 1-14H	Mountrail	Kittleson Slough/Wildcat	Bakken			5/11	PNC
21 Jul 08	17475	732	EOG	Austin 11-10H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	7/09	423	11/15
21 Jul 08	17476	80	Oasis	Olson 11-20H	Burke	Leaf Mountain/Wildcat	Bakken	2/09	59	11/15
22 Jul 08	17477	200	Oasis	Mell 44-21H	Mountrail	Alger	Bakken	12/08	90	11/15
22 Jul 08	17478	238	EOG	Wayzetta 20-17H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	9/09	425	11/15	Two IPs
22 Jul 08	17479	217	Slawson	Raven 1-13H	Mountrail	Kittleson Slough/Wildcat	Bakken	2/12	50	11/15
22 Jul 08	17480		Forest Oil	Conley 1-28H	McKenize	Dimmick Lake	Bakken			7/1	PNC
23 Jul 08	17481	802	Statoil/BEXP	Adix 25 1H	Mountrail	Alger	Bakken	10/08	199	10/15
23 Jul 08	17482	216	CLR	JDT 24-10NH	Bowman	Cedar Hills	N Red River B	11/08	387	11/15	Still producing 4K/month
24 Jul 08	17483	217	CLR/Summit	Boxcar Butte South Federal 1-26H	McKenzie	South Boxcar/Wildcat	Bakken	1/11	29	11/15
25 Jul 08	17484	246	Hess	RS-F Armour-156-92-1213H-1	Mountrail	Ross	Bakken	2/09	162	11/15
25 Jul 08	17485	749	EOG	Burke 19-28H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	7/09	254	11/15
25 Jul 08	17486	765	EOG	Burke 18-27H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	8/09	198	11/15
25 Jul 08	17487	977	EOG	Burke 16-22H	Mountrail	Stanley/Wildcat	Bakken	6/09	158	11/15
28 Jul 08	17488	42	Evertson	Viall 30-1	Williams	Ray	Red River	5/10	0.7	7/11	PA
28 Jul 08	17489	1205	Murex	George Robert 24-13H	Mountrail	Stanley	Bakken	11/08	321	10/15
28 Jul 08	17490	822	EOG	Burke 7-03H	Mountrail	Ross/Wildcat	Bakken	7/09	130	11/15
28 Jul 08	17491	702	XTO	Sakakawea Federal 13X-35R	McKenzie	Charlson	Bakken	2/09	315	10/15
28 Jul 08	17492		Tracker	Dolezal 5-1H	Dunn	Wildcat	Bakken			10/1	PNC
28 Jul 08	17493	104	MRO	David Beck - USA 34-7H	Dunn	Bailey	Bakken	8/09	170	10/15
28 Jul 08	17494	365	Oasis	Van Berkom 44-26H	Mountrail	Sorkness/Wildcat	Bakken	4/09	131	11/15
28 Jul 08	17495		KOG	tall Bear 13-22-21H	Dunn	Wildcat	Bakken			7/09	EXP
28 Jul 08	17496		Oasis	Loki Johnson 11-35H	Mountrail	Alger	Bakken			7/09	EXP
28 Jul 08	17497	194	Hess	RS-Brady-157-91-2223H-1	Mountrail	Ross	Bakken	11/08	110	11/15
29 Jul 08	17498	498	MRO	Chimney Butte 34-11H/Bill Trotter 34-11H	Dunn	Bailey	Bakken	11/08	162	10/15
29 Jul 08	17499	486	MRO	Norton 24-12H	Dunn	Killdeer	Bakken	3/09	182	10/15
29 Jul 08	17500	2162	EOG	Austin 19-30H	Mountrail	Parshall	Bakken	11/08	849	11/15
29 Jul 08	17501	464	MRO	Connie Connolly 21-26H	Dunn	Bailey	Bakken	5/09	154	10/15
30 Jul 08	17502	637	MRO	Mark Sandstrom 14-32H	Mountrail	Reunion Bay/Wildcat	Bakken	12/08	406	10/15
30 Jul 08	17503	5	Petro Harvester/Sagebrush	Lodoen 1	Bottineau	Kuroki	Madison	10/08	0.7	9/09
30 Jul 08	17504	825	Windsor	Holst 1-33H	Mountrail	Van Hook/Wildcat	Bakken	1/09	172	8/14	AB
31 Jul 08	17505	309	Slawson/Windsor	Wolf 1-4H	Mountrail	Van Hook/Wildcat	Bakken	7/09	161	11/15
31 Jul 08	17506	233	Murex	Kayden Cole 9-4H	Williams	West Tioga	Bakken	3/09	159	11/15
31 Jul 08	17507		Hess	ST-Hendrickson-150-89-2920H-1	McLean	Wildcat	Bakken			3/15	TA
31 Jul 08	17508	95	Legacy Reserves/Summit	Boxcar Butte South Federal 11-22H	McKenzie	South Boxcar/Wildcat	Bakken	12/08	19	7/15