The November, 2016, NDIC Hearing Dockets Agenda Has Been Posted -- October 21, 2016

The November, 2016, NDIC hearing dockets agenda is posted:

• Wednesday, November 16, 2016
• Thursday, November 17, 2016

Active rigs:

	10/21/2016	10/21/2015	10/21/2014	10/21/2013	10/21/2012
Active Rigs	34	68	191	182	186

Four new permits:

• Operators: CLR (3), St Croix Operating
• Fields: Elm Tree (McKenzie), North Haas (Bottineau)
• Comments: Previous posts mentioning St Croix Operating:
  

• update on their second permit, April 10, 2016
• this (#31816) is St Croix's second permit in North Dakota; their first well (#29075, 28-158-82) was dry; the permit issued today is for 29-157-81, 7 miles to the southeast; these are south of the Glenburn oil field, about 12 miles northeast of Minot; August 12, 2015
• St Croix has a wildcat in Renville; this is the first permit for this company in North Dakota, August 6, 2014
• new operator in the Bakken, August 5, 2014 

Operator Transfer:

• EOG transferred two older Bakken wells in Mountrail County to Hunt Oil Company
• Arsenal Energy transferred approximately 58 wells to Rampart Energy Company; most of them were older wells; most in Burke and Renville counties, though more recent ones in Williams and Mountrail counties.

No DUCs were reported as being completed.