North Dakota Active Rigs Back Up To 56; Three New Permits, Including A New Bakken Operator -- February 11, 2020

Updates

Later, 4:04 p.m. CT: from a reader, see comments --

The Minnkota Power Coop permit is a geologic test well for the Project Tundra Carbon capture project that is progressing. Its part of the front end engineering design portion of the project that is currently under way in order to decide whether or not the project is ultimately built or not.

The tag: "ProjectTundra."

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The Daily Activity Report

Active rigs:

$50.08	2/11/2020	02/11/2019	02/11/2018	02/11/2017	02/11/2016
Active Rigs	56	63	58	36	41

Note: the February 11, 2020, daily activity report is being reported as the "February 22, 2020" report, which falls on a Saturday a couple of weeks from now. Obviously this will be corrected. The report also shows three corrections regarding earlier daily activity reports.

Three new permits, #37379 - #37381, inclusive (from earlier report, apparently):

• Operators: CLR, Minnkota Power Coop, Oasis
• Fields: Cedar Coulee (Dunn County); Wildcat; Sand Creek
• Comments: 
• CLR has another Rodney permit in Cedar Coulee, NENW section 32-147-96;
• Minnkota Power Coop has a permit for a wildcat well in SWNE section 27-142-84; Oliver County, far to the east of the Bakken; this is Minnkota's first permit in North Dakota;
• Oasis has another Wold permit in SWSE section 34-153-97, Sand Creek oil field

From today's report, apparently, three permits, #37381 - #37384, inclusive --

• Operators: Petro-Hunt (2); Oasis
• Fields: East Tioga (Mountrail); Sand Creek (McKenzie)
• Comments:
• Petro-Hunt has permits for two Jorgenson wells, East Tioga oil field, NWNW section 13-158-94;
• Oasis has a permit for a Wold well in SWSE sectio 34-153-97, Sand Creek

Six permits renewed:

• Hess: six SC-JW Hamilton permits in Williams County;

One permit canceled:

• EOG: a Wayzetta permit in Mountrail County

No producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed.