New Operator In The Bakken: Bruin E&P Partners -- January 23, 2017

Active rigs:

	1/23/2017	01/23/2016	01/23/2015	01/23/2014	01/23/2013
Active Rigs	38	47	157	189	190

Wells coming off confidential list Tuesday:

• 32678, SI/NC, WPX, Caribou 33-34HG, Reunion Bay, no production data,
• 32751, drl, Enerplus, Denali 148-95-12D-01H-TF, Eagle Nest, no production data,

Two new permits:

• Operator: Liberty Resources
• Field: Ray (Williams)
• Comments:

Eight permits renewed:

• Marathon (3): a Juliet permit, a Torrison permit, and a Brush permit, all in Dunn County
• Lime Rock Resources (2): two Schneider permits in Dunn County
• Whiting (2): two Roggenbuck permits, Mountrail County
• BR: one Merton permit, McKenzie County

Two producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 31589, 593, Statoil, Ruth 28-33 6TFH, East Fork, t12/16; cum --
• 32392, 598, Statoil, Jack 21-16 5TFH-R, East Fork, t12/16; cum --

Operator transfer: 60 wells from Lime Rock Resources, to Bruin E&P Operating

• file number, oldest: 16178
• file number, most recent:
• all in Dunn County
• in/near T141N-R96W; T142N-R97W, T142N-R95W,

Bruin E&P Partners

• this is the first time I've heard of them in the Williston Basin
• over at the NDIC home page, well search, they are listed, but it appears to be the 60 new wells they just acquired from Lime Rock Resources
• webpage
• private equity commitment  ArcLight Capital
• primarily interested in assets valued at $50 - $250 million 
• office address: 602 Sawyer Street, Suite 710, Houston, TX
• operating locations onshore across the US: 
• Piceance Basin of Colorado
• Gulf Coast Texas
• Permian Basin Texas, New Mexico
• Arkoma Basin, Arkansas
• Williston Basin, ND and MT
• most recently, managed Ursa Resources Group (has been at Bakken operators site for some time)
• video: time lapse (1:46) of drilling, fracking a well in Eagle Ford