Active Rigs In North Dakota Jump To 36; A Graphic Is Worth 1,000 Bbls Of Oil -- September 7, 2016

A graphic is worth a 1,000 bbls of oil. This is the graphic if you don't want to get the backstory at the link:

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Today's Daily Activity Report

Active rigs:

	9/7/2016	09/07/2015	09/07/2014	09/07/2013	09/07/2012
Active Rigs	36	75	196	184	191

Five new permits:

• Operator: BR
• Field: Sand Creek (McKenzie)
• Comments: four Outlaw Gap permits and one Outlaw Wagon, all in section 23-153-97; it looks like the Outlaw Gap wells will be standard 1280-acre spacing; the Outlaw Wagon well will be along the section line.

Eight permits renewed:

• Slawson (7): two Phatkat Federal permits; two Vixen Federal permits; and, two Submariner Federal permits, all in Mountrail County
• Newfield: one Jorgenson Federal well in Dunn County

Five permits canceled:

• Hess canceled three BL-Blanchard permits in Williams County; and one HA-State-LW permit in McKenzie County
• Oasis canceled one Rolfson well in McKenzie County

WPX reports a dry hole:

• 22269, dry, WPX Energy Williston, LLC, Fettig 6-7HB, Eagle Nest, Dunn County: the file report is actually quite colorful for a file report; problems with drilling; obviously there is oil there but it was drilling issues and then financial decisions on whether to continue. 

No producing wells completed:

No wells coming off confidential list Thursday.