Enerplus With Six New "Heavy Metal" Permits In Moccasin Creek, Dunn County -- October 8, 2020

Jobless claims, link here:

• prior revised: up to 849K from 837K
• forecast: 819K
• actual: 840K

OPEC basket: $40.45

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Active rigs:

$41.18	10/8/2020	10/08/2019	10/08/2018	10/08/2017	10/08/2016
Active Rigs	13	56	64	59	33

Six new permits, #37890 - #37895, inclusive:

• Operator: Enerplus
• Field: Moccasin Creek (Dunn)
• Comments:
• Enerplus has another "heavy metal" pad with six wells sited in SWSE 08-147-93; located from 1267' FSL to 1200' FLS and 2210' FEL to 2048' FEL: Bismuth, Cadmium, Brass, Tin, Osmium and Gallium;

Seventeen permits renewed:

• EOG (6): s three Liberty LR permits, Mountrail County; two Austin permits, Mountrail County, and a Hardscrabble permit in Williams County
• Equinor (3): three Tufto permits in Williams County;
• Whiting (3): two Lapica permits and one Cvancara permit in Mountrail County;
• Kraken (2): an Anna permit and a Wilder permit, both in Williams County;;;;
• BR: a Mancord permit in Dunn County;
• XTO: an Edwards Trust Federal permit in McKenzie County
• Enerplus: a Brugh Bear permit in McKenzie County

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 36697, drl/A, WPX, Pronghorn 22-15HA, Spotted Horn, t--; cum --; 
• spud March 20, 2020
• TD: May 11, 2020
• middle Bakken
• curve began on March 23, 2020; completed March 25, 2020
• lateral began on May 8, 2020; TD reached May 11, 2020
• so again, the vertical in a day or two; the curve in a couple of days (though now common to see the curve completed in less than 12 hours); and the lateral drilled in three days; so, again, we're talking drilling days about seven;