Two (2) New Permits; Several Great Producing Wells Completed/Reported -- January 7, 2016

Best non-Bakken story of the day: missing Hellfire missile found in Cuba. US has been trying since 2014 to have the Cubans return the Hellfire missile to the US. One would think this is a story printed in some tabloid, e.g., The Enquirer, but it's being reported by The Wall Street Journal. Why does this surprise anyone? BusinessInsider is reporting: Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides 'dangerously naive'. Something tells me these dots will eventually connect. But as Hillary would say, "What does it matter?" But how in the world does a US Hellfire missile end up in Cuba of all places?

Breaking news: Apple's new iPhone 7 is rumored to be thinner. 

Active rigs:

	1/7/2016	01/07/2015	01/07/2014	01/07/2013	01/07/2012
Active Rigs	55	166	189	180	200

Wells coming off the confidential list Friday:

• 20468, SI/NC, BR, Lovaas 7-1-1UTFH, Blue Buttes, no production data,
• 27650, SI/NC, Petro-Hunt, Klatt 145-97-19C-18-3H, Little Knife, no production data,
• 31371, SI/NC, XTO, Sara 41X-13G, Grinnell, no production data,

Two (2) new permits --

• Operator: QEP --  more information at the bottom of this post; scroll down
• Field: Grail (McKenzie)
• Comments:

Producing wells completed:

• 29853, 1,397, WPX, Beaks 36-35HZ, Mandaree, t12/15; cum --
• 29851, 1,121, WPX, Beaks 36-35HD, Mandaree, t12/15; cum --
• 29852, 1,205, WPX, Beaks 36-35HC, Mandaree, t12/15; cum -
• 30697, 2,044,  Mikkelsen 11-14H, Reunion Bay, t12/15; cum --

Whiting abandoned three producing wells:

• 11270, 140, Whiting, Jacobson 41, Rawson,  Madison, t3/85; cum 236K 8/14;
• 21307, SI/NC, Whiting/Koala 15-31-30-3H3, Poe, -- I'm not sure why this is called a "producing well"; it was never fracked;
• 20068, 929, Whiting, Flatland 9-9H, Banks, t9/11; cum 100K 4/15; 

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The Two New QEP Permits in The Grail (see "New Permits" above)

This is what that section looks like now, with the annotation that it appears the two new permits will be for wells that will be on a 7-well pad. I did not look at the two other pads in that section, the one to the east and the one to the west:

The names of the wells on the proposed 7-well pad, taken from the file report of the well in bold below:

• 32436, loc, Moberg 4-18T2HD,
• 26235, 2,270, QEP, Moberg 3-18BH, t1113; cum 224K 11/15;
• 26234, 2,524, QEP, Moberg 2-18TH, t11/13; cum 178K 11/15;
• 32435, loc, Moberg 8-18BHDR (the "R" means this permit is "revised" -- it's a new permit, replacing a permit in almost the same spot that was PNC'd
• 32054, loc, Moberg 2-18T3HD,
• 32056, loc, Moberg 3-18T2HD,
• 32057, loc, Moberg 7-18BHD,