Eight New Permits; Fourteen Permits Renewed -- August 21, 2018

API weekly crude oil inventories: down 5.170 million gallons.

Active rigs:

$66.09→	8/21/2018	08/21/2017	08/21/2016	08/21/2015	08/21/2014
Active Rigs	61	52	32	76	193

Eight new permits:

• Operators: Hunt (3); XTO (3), Cobra Oil & Gas (2)
• Fields: Werner (Dunn); Hofflund (Williams); North Elkhorn Ranch (Billings)
• Comments: Cobra is an "old" operator in North Dakota but limited to the North Elkhorn Ranch field; Hunt has permits for a 3-well Halliday pad in SWSE 19-146-92; XTO has permits for a 3-well Lonnie Federal pad in NWNe 3-154-95.

Fourteen permits renewed:

• BR (7): five Lincoln Hill permits in Dunn County; one Renegade permit and one Chuckwagon permit, both in McKenzie County
• Slawson (4): four mole permits in Mountrail County
• Whiting (2): one Sikes State permit in Mountrail County; one Iver & Minnie permit in Stark County
• Bruin E&P Operating: one Christine Joe permit in Williams County

Five producing wells completed:

• 33266, n/d, Whiting, Wold 44-7-8H, Banks, 4 sections, t--; cum --
• 33252, 750, Whiting, Wold Federal 44-7-1TFH, Banks, t7/18; cum --
• 34475, 389, Lime Rock, Laura Sadowsky 4-1-36H-142-96, Manning, t7/18; cum 2K in 6 days;
• 33932, 208, BR, Three Rivers 1B MBH, Charlson, t7/18; cum --
• 33931, n/d, Three Sons 1A TFH-ULW, Charlson, 2 sections, t7/18; cum --

One re-entry permit:

• 31525, loc, Resonance Exploration, Resonance R. E. Ballantyne Development, Westhope,