Whiting With Two More Bakken Permits -- February 28, 2017

Active rigs:

	2/28/2017	02/28/2016	02/28/2015	02/28/2014	02/28/2013
Active Rigs	40	38	119	192	183

Two new permits:

• Operator: Whiting
• Field: East Fork (Williams)
• Comments: the last consecutive sixteen permits have all been Whiting permits; all permits from February 21st through today have been Whiting permits; of the 125 permits issued by NDIC to date, this calendar year, fifty (50) have been Whiting permits

Three producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 28991, 2,120, CLR, Radermecher 2-22H1, Camel Butte, t2/17; cum --
• 28998, 1,880, CLR, Radermecher 4-22H2, Camel Butte, t2/17; cum --
• 31639, 2,640, BR, Old Hickory 43-32 MBH-R, Sand Creek, 4 sections, t2/17; cum -- 

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All Of The Above

Meanwhile, Stark County has approved a very, very contentious wind farm. Bismarck Tribune:

• Brady Wind Energy Center I
• northern Stark County near Dickinson
• $250 million project; 150 MW ($1.7 million / MW; I don't know if that includes the transmission line)
• NextEra Energy Resources
• PSC voted unanimously to approve it
• includes a 19-mile transmission line
• longest wind farm hearing in state history; 15 hours of testimony, March 31, 2016
• sounds like most area residents were against it except for the landowners that gain financially; I could be wrong; that was my impression