No New Permits; Whiting, Halcon, CLR Each Report A Nice Well Tuesday; Four More Bakken DUCs -- February 22, 2016

Wells coming off the confidential list:

• 28717, 3,638, Whiting, P Johnson 153-98-1-6-7-16HA, Truax, t8/15; cum 172K 12/15; see separate post here;
• 29572, 1,145, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-04-33D-28-7H, McGregory Buttes, t8/15; cum 60K 12/15, and off-line for the past two months;
• 29748, 881, CLR, Helena 5-7H1, Brooklyn, t9/15; cum 42K 12/15;
• 30326, SI/NC, BR, Old Hickory 41-32TFH, Sand Creek, no production data,
• 30797, SI/NC, XTO, Big Gulch Federal 41X-16A, Haystack Butte, no production data,
• 30958, SI/NC, EOG, Van Hook 66-3606H, Parshall, no production data,
• 31583, SI/NC, Newfield, Larsen 152-96-16-21-5HLW, Westberg, no production data,

No new permits.

Petro-Hunt cancels three permits: two Carlson permits and one Setterlund permit, all in Burke County.

Three (3) producing wells completed:

• 28099, 174, Hess, EN-Dobrovolny A-155-94-2413H-7, Manitou, t1/16 cum --
• 29768, 1,037, Hess, EN-L Cvancara-155-93-2627H-10,  Robinson Lake, t2/16; cum --
• 30456, 1,558, Statoil, Panzer 22-23 8H, Alger, t1/16; cum --

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 29748, see below, CLR, Helena 5-7H1, Brooklyn:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
12-2015	11695	14317
11-2015	11079	11746
10-2015	7450	9241
9-2015	10772	8510
8-2015	484	0

29572, see below, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-04-33D-28-7H, McGregory Buttes:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2015	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2015	6	4871	4975	3337	3546	3033	471
BAKKEN	10-2015	24	15263	15489	19672	16524	13773	2583
BAKKEN	9-2015	30	31621	30845	45238	31264	21841	9213
BAKKEN	8-2015	29	8175	8124	12609	8992	5432	3357

28717, see above, Whiting, P Johnson 153-98-1-6-7-16HA, Truax:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
12-2015	27919	21773
11-2015	36212	30947
10-2015	42168	12274
9-2015	40949	540
8-2015	24313	0

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Active rigs:

	2/22/2016	02/22/2015	02/22/2014	02/22/2013	02/22/2012
Active Rigs	39	127	187	183	203

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The Medical Page 

Sad story on so many levels. CBSLocal is reporting that a city in the state that won't allow fracking wants to have tax-payer funded heroin-delivery centers. Whatever. I was unaware of the heroin epidemic in Ithaca, NY. I'm surprised this wasn't part of ObamaCare. It appears we've lost the war on drugs.

Meanwhile in Canada, the headline: colonoscopy should not be used to screen adults for colon cancer. Incredibly, the story did not say that at all. Here's the linked story:

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health care recommends that colonoscopy should not be used to screen adults for colon cancer. Instead, they suggest testing for microscopic amounts of blood in the stool.

Colon cancer screening programs aim to identify and remove polyps that can sometimes become cancerous. Currently, all Canadian programs recommend screening using stool tests, with so-called guaiac fecal occult blood testing (gFOBT) or fecal immunochemical testing (FIT).

Today in the journal CMAJ, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, an independent panel of clinicians and methodologists, presents its updated recommendations for screening for colon cancer in adults aged 50 years and older who have no symptoms and who are not at a high risk for colon cancer.

Opposition to colonoscopy as a primary screening test for colon cancer stems from the lack of evidence showing it to be any better than other screening methods, the Task Force says.

The task force makes a strong recommendation for screening adults aged 60 to 74 with FOBT or FIT every 2 years or flexible sigmoidoscopy every 10 years, and they make a weak recommendation for using a similar approach in adults aged 50 to 59.

The task force recommends against screening adults aged 75 years and older because existing studies do not demonstrate an improvement in colon cancer mortality from such screening. 

One could almost argue that after age 75 screening for almost any disease in low risk patients is unwarranted or in patients without signs or symptoms of underlying disease. 

That's a whole lot different that saying Canadian Task Fork does not recommend using colonoscopy to screen adults for colon cancer.

The Canadian recommendations are about the same (one can argue, "even stronger" than) the US American Cancer Society recommendations. I'm disappointed with the way Reuters Health wrote the Canadian article.