Sorry For The Interruption In Blogging -- I Had A Flat Tire -- While Biking -- April 18, 2016; Daily Report Summary Did Get Posted

Blogging will be back to normal later today / this evening.

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Later: see first comment below. Much appreciated. I honestly did not know there was that much difference among tires. I read your note after buying a new tire, and am now at the pool -- so I will have to check later to see what I got. But next time ...

Speaking of "Specialized": that was the brand bike I was on.

It was an overall great day.

I walked my bike to the bike shop where I buy all my bikes/accessories here in Grapevine. I have bought several bikes from them over the past three years -- for me, for my granddaughters, and for my son-in law.

I put another one on layaway this afternoon: the number of bikes one needs is "x + 1" where x = the current number of bikes one has. I buy low-end (price-wise) and when they are on sale.

I went back later, taking our 2-year-old granddaughter with me. For about nine months, since last summer, I've been waiting for the opportunity to buy her a Strider. These are so incredibly cool.

Long story short, she and I picked out an orange Strider.

And, yes, she picked out a blue helmet, 54 - 58 cm, I believe, adjustable.

Okay, enough of this. Back to the Bakken, but first this from Harold Hamm: forget Doha -- over-supply over by the end of the year.

Today's daily activity report follows. This is interesting: Sinclair, whom we haven't heard from much during the boom, is all of a sudden getting active with permits. Today, Sinclair has two more permits. Also, look at the number of permits renewed by various operators, and look at the few producing wells that are now completed ("post-DUCs" -- not to be confused with "post docs").

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Daily Activity Report

Active rigs:

	4/18/2016	04/18/2015	04/18/2014	04/18/2013	04/18/2012
Active Rigs	29	93	188	185	210

Four (4) producing wells completed: 

• 25859, 3,802, Statoil, Skarston 1-12 6TFH, Banks, t3/16; cum --
• 30639, 0, XTO, Evelyn 31X-3G, Lindahl, t3/16; cum --
• 30652, 752, Smouse 31X-28C, West Capa, t3/16; cum --
• 32050, 2,246, MRO, Martinez USA 24-8H, Wolf Bay, t1/16; cum 42K 2/16 over 43 days;

Two (2) new permits --
Operator: Sinclair
Field: Lone Butte (McKenzie)
Comment:

One operator transfer from Oasis to CLR (I bet there is an interesting back story):

• 20761, 2,196, Omlid 18-19HTF,  Elidah, t4/13; cum 157K 2/16;

Eighteen (18) permits renewed:

• QEP (6), six MHA permits in Dunn County
• HRC (6), six Fort Berthold permits in Dunn County
• Oasis (4), four State permits in Mountrail County
• Hess, one BW-Thelma permit in McKenzie County
• Resource Energy, one Castle State permit in Divide County

Wells coming off the confidential list Tuesday:

• 29129, SI/NC, Hess, BW-Johnson-149-99-1003H-5, Cherry Creek, no production data,
• 31568, 600, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Elgaard 4-32-31-165N-100W, Colgan, middle Bakken, t1/16; cum 20K over 46 days:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
2-2016	10689	3307
1-2016	8009	0