No New Permits; Enerplus, XTO Each With A Nice Bakken Well -- March 23,2 016

Two wells coming off confidential list Thursday:

• 31353, SI/NC, Hess, BL-Davidson-155-96-0211H-7, Beaver Lodge, no production data,
• 31366, SI/NC, SM Energy, Beaver 1B-28HN, Ambrose, no production data,

Active rigs:

	3/23/2016	03/23/2015	03/23/2014	03/23/2013	03/23/2012
Active Rigs	32	104	198	187	206

No new permits.

Four (4) producing wells completed:

• 29972, 1,643, Enerplus, Quilt 149-93-04D-03H, Mandaree, t2/16; cum --
• 29974, 380, Enerplus, Thread 149-93-04D-03H, Mandaree, t2/16; cum --
• 30256, 1,617, XTO, Tobacco Garden 11X-17E, Tobacco Garden, t2/16; cum --

32377, 36 (no typo), Prairie Hills Oil and Gas, McCarroll 1H, Grover, a Madison well, t3/16; cum --

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Now They Know How TransCanada "Feels"

What's Good For Pipelines Is Good For Transmission Lines

From The New York Times:

Up and down the center of the country, winds rip across plains, ridges and plateaus, a belt of unharnessed energy capable of powering millions of customers, with enormous potential to help meet national goals to stem climate change.

And because the bulk of the demand is hundreds of miles away, companies are working to build a robust network of high-voltage transmission lines to get the power to the coasts.

If only it were that simple. In all, more than 3,100 miles of projects have yet to be built, in need of government approval.

One of the most ambitious projects, called the Grain Belt Express from a company called Clean Line Energy Partners, spent six years winning the go-ahead in three of the Midwestern states it would cross, only to hit a dead end in Missouri when state regulators voted 3 to 2 to stop the project. They were swayed by landowners like Jennifer Gatrel, who runs a midsize family cattle operation with her husband, Jeff, here in the northwestern part of the state.

She and other opponents made the usual arguments against trampling property rights through the use of eminent domain, obliterating their pastoral views and disrupting their way of life.

Two words fro Grain Belt Express: "go around." That is, "go around the state of Missouri.