Ten New Permits; Slawson Reports Twelve DUCs Completed; Thirteen Permits Renewed; Six Permits Canceled -- January 22, 2018 -- January 22, 2019

Minor notes, tag: hope_springs_eternal, from oilprice:

The National Energy Board of Canada has approved preliminary, land-clearing work for TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline, CBC reports, noting that the approval came following a request by the company to be allowed to clear some trees and foliage around parts of the route of the controversial pipeline in anticipation of further developments around the project.

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Active rigs:

$52.83	1/22/2019	01/22/2018	01/22/2017	01/22/2016	01/22/2015
Active Rigs	65	58	38	47	159

Eleven new permits, January 18, 2019, and January 22, 2019

• Operators: Newfield (3); Nine Point Energy (3); Sinclair (2); Bruin (2), Slawson
• Fields: South Tobacco Garden (McKenzie); Williston (Williams); Sanish (Mountrail); Lone Tree Lake (Williams), Ellisville (Williams); Big Bend (Mountrail)
• Comments: beginning where we left off last Friday, Newfield has permits for three more Sturgeon permits in lot 1, section 18-150-99; Nine Point Energy has permits for a 3-well Little Muddy permit in section 6-154-100; Sinclair has permits for a two-well Uran pad in the Sanish, section 15-153-92; Bruin has permits for a two-well Johnson pad in lot 4, section 3-157-99; and Slawson has a permit in 21-151-92;

Thirteen permits renewed:

• CLR (4): two Alpha and two Florida permits, all in McKenzie County
• XTO (4): four Hartel permits in McKenzie County
• EOG (2): two Austin permits in Mountrail County
• Nine Point Energy: a Little Muddy permit in Williams County 
• Murex: a Barrett Leigh permit in Williams County
• Whiting: a Roggenbuck permit in Mountrail County

Six permits canceled:

• XTO (5): three Maddy Federal permits and two Cherry Creek State permits, all in McKenzie County
• Nine Point Energy: a Little Muddy permit Williams County

Twelve producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed: tbe Slawson Torpedo Federal wells are tracked here;

• 31278, 4,862, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 10H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31277, 825, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 9H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31276, 2,942, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 8H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31275, 3,632, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 7H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31274, 3,205, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 6H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31273, 2,254, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 5H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31272, 1,090, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 4H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31271, 1,109, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 3H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31270, 1,523, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 2H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31269, 1,857, Slawson, Torpedo Federal 1H, t12/18; cum --;
• 31289, 1,794, Slawson, Bandit Federal 1 SLH, t12/18; cum --;
• 31279, 3,794, Slawson, Rebel Federal 1SLH, t12/18; cum --;