Nine New Permits; Active Rigs Hold Steady At 71 -- October 22, 2018

Active rigs:

$69.52→	10/22/2018	10/22/2017	10/22/2016	10/22/2015	10/22/2014
Active Rigs	71	54	34	69	192

Nine new permits:

• Operators: Oasis (7); Whiting (2)
• Fields: Banks (McKenzie), Sanish (Mountrail)
• Comments: Whiting has two more Fladeland permits in SESE 9-154-92; and Oasis has permits for a 7-well A. Johnson / Nikloai Federal pad in SWSE 33-153-97;

Four permits canceled:

• XTO (2): two Rough Federal permits, in McKenzie County
• EOG (2): two Hawkey permits, in McKenzie County

Sixteen permits renewed:

• EOG (10) five Hawkeye permits in McKenzie County; four Burke permits in Mountrail County; one Ross permit in Mountrail County
• Zavanna (4): four Galloway permits in Williams County
• Enerplus (2): one Giraffe permit and one Walleye permit, both in Dunn County

One dry hole:

• 34057, dry, BR, Rink 8-1-5MBH; 

Four producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed (all four of these from the same pad; watch the following when they come back on line:27092, 27093, 17539):

• 31043, 1,197, EOG Austin 92-1807H, Parshall, t9/18; cum --
• 30901, 1,256, EOG, Austin 84-1807H, Parshall, t9/18; cum --
• 30902, 1,162, EOG, Austin 73-1807H, Parshall, t9/18; cum --
• 30903, 614, EOG, Austin 72-1807H, Parshall, t9/18; cum --

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The Answer

A huge "thank you" to Don for sending me the link to the map. We had a lot of fun with this.

The map below came from this site with honey bee farms in North Dakota. At the site, it is interactive. Drag your arrow over each blue circle to see its location:

From worldatlas, data from 2014:

It's interesting to note where there are absolutely no blue circles in North Dakota. 

My little bottle of honey here in our little hovel: