RimRock With Three New Permits; EOG, Winding Down Drilling/Fracking Operations In The Bakken, Cancels Three More Permits; MRO And Enerplus Together Renew Nine Permits -- WTI Recovers A Bit -- March 19, 2021

Pop quiz, three multiple choice questions:

1. On an annual base, how many facilities are dedicated worldwide to capturing carbon dioxide? Nearest number rounded:
___ 50
___ 100
___ 1000
___ 5000

2. On an annual basis, how much in carbon dioxide is being captured annually? Again, nearest number rounded:
___ 50 million tons
___ 100 million tons
___ 1000 million (1 billion) tons
___ 5000 million (5 billion) tons

3. On an annual basis, how much carbon is humankind emitting per year? Again, nearest number rounded:
___ 50 million tons
___ 100 million tons
___ 1000 million (1 billion) tons
___ 5000 million (5 billion) tons

Answers at this link if I forget to post the answers later. 

By the way, one billion tons = a gigaton, if you look for the answer over at wiki.

One thousand x one million = one billion.

For the archives:

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For the Bakken

Active rigs:

$61.42	3/19/2021	03/19/2020	03/19/2019	03/19/2018	03/19/2017
Active Rigs	16	52	66	58	47

Three new permits, #38214 - #38216, inconclusive:

• Operator: RimRock
• Field: Heart Butte (Dunn)
• Comments:
• RimRock has permits for three Two Shields Butte wells, in SWSW 21-149-92,
• the three wells will be sited between 869' and 961' FSL and 465' and 381' FWL
• it's hard to believe, these are the first Heart Butte permits this calendar year;

EOG, winding down drilling and fracking operations in North Dakota cancels three more permits:

• EOG: two Austin permits and one Clearwater permit, all in Mountrail County.

Nine permit renewals:

• MRO (5): one each, a Quam permit, a Basham permit, a Bergelie permit, a Sahaydek permit and an Anseth permits, all in section 22-145-96, Dunn County;
• Enerplus (4): one each, a Quartzite permit, a Phyllite permit, a Marble permit, and a Gneiss permit, all in section 17-147-93, in Dunn County;