Active Rigs In North Dakota Back Down To 31; BLM Fracking Rule Will Probably Be Decided By Early 2017 -- August 15, 2016

Active rigs:

	8/15/2016	08/15/2015	08/15/2014	08/15/2013	08/15/2012
Active Rigs	31	74	194	185	203

One well comes off confidential list Tuesday:

• 32172, SI/NC, Petro-Hunt, Dolezal 146-97-31D-30-3H, Little Knife, no production data,

Five new permits:

• Operators: BR (4), Whiting
• Fields (Counties): Sand Creek (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail)
• Comments:

Five permits renewed:

• EOG (2): two Austin permits in Mountrail County
• Whiting (2): a Solbert permit and a Dietz permit, both in Stark County
• Crescent Point: a CPEUSC Fairholm permit in Divide County

Whiting canceled two Tayor permits and one Wright permit, all in McKenzie County.

No producing wells completed.

No wells came off the confidential list over the last three days. 

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BLM Fracking Rule

Oil industry won first round. Environmentalists appealed. Will probably be decided by early 2017. Story here.