ND 2020 Permits -- Where We Stand -- April 6, 2020

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As of April 6, 2020:

• 201 oil and gas permits for calendar year 2020
• 97 days in 2020 as of April 6
• on track for 758 permits for calendar year 2020

Past years, total number of oil and gas permits:

• 2019, 1,397
• 2018: 1,466
• 2017: 1,189
• 2016: 818
• 2015: 2,055
• 2014: 3,012
• 2013: 2,671
• 2012: 2,522
• 2011:1,916 

Fields, number of permits so far this year:

• Alger: 3
• Alkali Creek: 2
• Antelope: 2
• Bailey: 1
• Bar Butte :1
• Beaver Lodge: 10
• Big Bend: 8
• Big Gulch: 2
• Bully: 2
• Cedar Coulee: 21
• Dollar Joe: 5
• Eagle Nest: 6
• East Fork: 6
• East Tioga: 18
• Elidah: 5
• Enget Lake: 2
• Hofflund: 1
• Jim Creek: 4
• Killdeer: 3
• Little Knife: 7
• Lone Butte: 4
• Lone Tree Lake: 2
• Long Creek: 2
• Mandaree: 6
• Manitou: 4
• Moccasin Creek: 1
• Murphy Creek: 5
• North Branch: 1
• North Folk: 5
• Northwest McGregor: 1
• Oliver: 9
• Phelps Bay: 7
• Pronghorn: 2
• Reunion Bay: 3
• Sand Creek: 5
• Sanish: 12
• Siverston: 2
• Spotted Horn: 5
• Squaw Creek: 3
• Stockyard Creek: 5
• Stoneview: 3
• Strandahl: 1
• Tioga: 2
• Wildcat: 1

Operator, number of permits so far this year:

• BR: 5
• Bruin: 1
• CLR: 38
• Enerplus: 2
• EOG: 1
• Hess: 19
• KODA: 2
• Kraken: 18
• Liberty Resources: 3
• MinnKota Power Coop:1
• MRO: 12
• Oasis: 5
• Petro-Hunt: 30
• Sinclair: 7
• Slawson: 8
• True Oil: 1
• Whiting: 14
• WPX: 20
• XTO: 8
• Zavanna: 6

Link here for the following two graphics:

Producing wells:

• total number of producing wells in North Dakota at end of 1/20: 15,602 producing wells.
• total number of producing Bakken wells in North Dakota at end of 1/20: 13,480 producing Bakken wells.

Number of wells off-line for operational reasons, the end of 1/20, link here:

• DUCs: 1,024 (up 66 from the 958 in December)
• inactive well count: 2,608 (up 687 from 1,920 in December -- a huge increase)
• totals, wells off line for operational reasons: 3,631 -- up significantly month-over-month -- an increase of 753 or up an astounding 26% from the previous month;
• this sets a new record of the the number of wells off line for operational reasons; the previous record was September, 2019, (3,020)