Annual Permit Summary -- 2020

Permits, #37296 - #38059

• 14 of them were salt water disposal wells
• three carbon capture and storage
• 746 gas and oil permits

Counties:

• Dunn: 148
• McKenzie: 272
• Mountrail: 150
• Williams: 134
  

Field (top ten):

• Alkali Creek: 14
• Antelope: 56
• Bailey: 18
• Beaver Lodge: 10
• Big Bend: 29
• Cedar Coulee: 23
• Dimmick Lake: 16
• East Fork: 10
• East Tioga: 21
• Elidah: 17
• Elm Tree: 27
• Hofflund: 21
• Little Knife: 17
• Mandaree: 18
• Moccasin Creek: 19
• North Fork: 23
• Oliver: 16
• Pershing: 28
• Reunion Bay: 39
• Sanish: 39
• Stony Creek: 15
• Westberg: 14

Not on the list above:

• Grail 
• Haystack Butte
• Hawkeye
  
• Oakdale
  
• Parshall
• Truax
• Van Hook
  

Operators: number of permits:

• CLR: 125
• BR: 110
• MRO: 99
• Hess: 50
• Whiting: 50
• XTO: 46
• Enerplus: 45
• Petro-Hunt: 38
• Slawson: 29
• WPX: 28 
• Kraken: 24
• Zavanna: 20
• Crescent Point: 17
• Petroshale: 15
• Oasis: 13
• Sinclair: 9
• KODA Resources: 8
• Lime Rock: 6
• Equinor: 5
• Iron Oil: 4 
• Nine Point Energy: 3
• Liberty Resources: 3
• Bruin: 1
• EOG: 1
• Red Tail Energy: 1
• SHD: 1
• True Oil: 1
• Rimrock: 1
  

Note: in a long note like this, there will be content and typographical errors. If this information is important to you, go to the source. 

Number of new permits by year:

2008: 944 permits

• first permit: 17002
• last permit: 17945

2009: 625 permits

• first permit: 17946
• last permit: 18570

2010: 1,676 permits

• first permit: 18571
• last permit: 20246

2011: 1,924 permits;

• first permit: 20247
• last permit: 22170

2012: 2,522 permits

• first permit: 22171
• last permit: 24692

2013: 2,667 permits

• first permit: 24693
• last permit: 27359

2014: 3,010 permits

• first permit: 27360
• last permit: 30369

2015: 2,055 permits

• first permit: 30370
• last permit: 32424

2016: 818 permits

• first permit: 32425
• last permit: 33242

2017: 1,189 permits

• first permit: 33243
• last permit: 34431

2018: 1,466 permits

• first permit: 34432
• last permit: 35898

2019: 1,397 permits

• first permit: 35899
• last permit: 37295

2020:  751 gas and oil permits

• permits, #37296 - #38059 (first year in which permit numbers included O&G; CCS; SWD)
• nine of them were salt water disposal wells
• three carbon capture and storage
• 751 gas and oil permits