Active Rigs Remain Steady At 51 -- April 18, 2017

Active rigs:

	4/18/2017	04/18/2016	04/18/2015	04/18/2014	04/18/2013
Active Rigs	51	29	93	188	185

Four new permits:

• Operator: Marathon
• Field: Antelope (McKenzie)
• Comments: 

Nine permits renewed:

• Sinclair (7): five Forest USA and two Horovitz permits renewed; all in McKenzie County
• Hess (2): two BW permits; one, a Spring Creek permit and one, a Thelma permit, both in McKenzie County

Two permits canceled:

• Whiting: two Hoffman permits in Stark County 

Wells coming off the confidential list:

Thursday, April 20, 2017:

• 9762, active-re-entry; no new data, North Range Resources, Sheep Creek Storm 2-1, Grassy Butte; first produced January, 1983; last production, April, 1986; now confidential again; no sundry forms since July 16, 1960; North Range has ten (10) permits/wells as of April, 2017; the two Sheep Creek Storm wells are on confidential status; five Placed wells have been discussed to some degree previously (one PNC; two on drl status; two confidential; all five in Rough Rider; all five vertical wells; #9762, a Madison well; cum 34K 4/86;
• 31766, SI/NC, Hess, HA-State-152-95-1621H-5, Hawkeye, no production data,

Friday, April 20, 2017:
22497, conf, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Aldag 2-35-36-164-100W, West Ambrose, small amount of production;
25874, conf, Slawson, Pike Federal 4-3-2TFH, Big Bend, no production dat,