Eight Permits -- January 24, 2019

North Dakota: it took awhile but the weather channel is finally airing video footage with the crawler -- "Breaking news: cold in the Dakotas."  Undated photograph from twitter but probably taken last August:

Mexico: completes purchase of 670 fuel trucks as fuel shortages occur across several states. Data points:

• can move up to 144,000 bbls of refined products
• total cost: $92 million or about $135,000 / truck
• it will take a few months to take full delivery
• Pemex has 1,400 fuel trucks with total capacity of 176,000 bbls
• Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city: only 15% of the city's 500 retail states were open

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$53.16	1/24/2019	01/24/2018	01/24/2017	01/24/2016	01/24/2015
Active Rigs	64	56	38	47	157

Eight new permits:

• Operators: Hess (6); Whiting (2)
• Field:  Sanish-Antelope (Mountrail); Glass Bluff (McKenzie)
• Comments: Hess has permits for a 6-well AN-Mogen Trust pad in the Sanish-Antelope, one of the best fields right now, in section 29-153-94; Whiting has permits for a 2-well Martell pad in 36-151-103

Five producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 34737, n/d, Whiting, Renbarger Federal 24-33-2H, Banks, t-- ; cum --;
• 34736, 2,068, Whiting, Renbarger Federl 24-33-1TFH, Banks, t1/19; cum --;
• 34734, 2,433, Whiting, Renbarger 24-33TFH, Banks, t12/18; cum -- ;
• 34232, 480, Cresent Point Energy, CPEUSC Lloyd 3-27-34-157N-100W, Marmon, t1/19; cum -- ;
• 34648, 2,498, WPX, Lead Woman 23-14HQ, Spotted Woman, t12/18; cum 15K 11/18;

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