Three New Permits; Nine Permits Expire; WPX Renews Five Permits; New Posts At Million Dollar Way May Decrease In Frequency -- September 9, 2016

Annual vacation being contemplated. Plans change from day-to-day.

Having said that, let's continue.

Active rigs, I see we still have 37 / 73 rigs (37 being the 12th prime, and 73 being the 21st prime, and so much more):

	9/9/2016	09/09/2015	09/09/2014	09/09/2013	09/09/2012
Active Rigs	37	73	198	185	191

Three new permits:

• Operator: Crescent Point Energy
• Field: Ellisville (Williams)
• Comments:

Eleven wells came off the confidential list today; two were reported earlier (an Oasis Andersmadson well and an XTO TAT State Federal). The other nine, today, were all permits that had expired, something I seldom see. The follow operators all let permits expire:

• Cornerstone: 1
• MRO: 2
• Slawson: 2
• Mountain Divide: 1
• Newfield: 3

On the other hand, five permits were renewed, all by WPX:

• WPX (5): five Rachel Wolf wells in McKenzie County

One producing well completed:

• 25199, 2,928, BR, Merton 21-15MBH, North Fork, t8/16; cum --