MRO: Damn The Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead! Five More Permits In The Prolific Bailey -- September 29, 2021

NFL

• ratings: link here.
• huge ratings: the best start for the league since 2016, which analysts attribute in part to the easing of the pandemic and other factors.
• Brady: he really, really made the right decision to come back "one more" season
  
• Brady's statistics: insane; link here;
• Brady to return to "his" arena; this Sunday; can't-miss TV; link here;

Enbridge: to start new Line 3 over the weekend. Link to Charles Kennedy.

Gasoline demand, link here. In the US, continues to fall.

Market: I'm not watching CNBC very much this week; not watching the market in the big scheme of things. Having said that, some ticker symbols today;

• ENB: up a penny; $39.82; had been as high as $40.16 today; pays 6.7%;
• DVN: up 1.76%; up 62 cents; closed at $35.75; as high as $36.04 intra-day; pays 1.23%;
• EPD: up 0.46%; up 10 cents; closed at its high, $21.88; pays 8.23%;
• MNRL: in the red; closed down 8 cents; closed at $19.52; pays 2.87%;

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$74.83	9/29/2021	09/29/2020	09/29/2019	09/29/2018	09/29/2017
Active Rigs	25	11	57	67	58

Six new permits, #38589 - #38594, inclusive:

• Operators: MRO (5); Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC
• Fields: Bailey (Dunn); Wildcat (Mercer County)
• Comments:
• first time I've seen Summit Carbon Solutions; Milton Flemmer 1, NWNE 35-141-88;
• MRO with permits for five more wells in the prolific Bailey oil field; NENE 18-146-93; 563 FNL and between 336 FEL and 496 FEL; Amos, Cheryl, Stone, Killion, Weekes,
• existing wells in that drilling unit:
• 16923, 279, MRO, Appledoorn 14-19H, Bailey, t5/08; cum 360K 7/21;
  
• 19408, 813, MRO, Trinka 41-18H, Bailey, t3/11; cum 194K 7/21;
• 24219, 1,327, MRO, Appledoorn 34-19H, Bailey, t6/13; cum 252K 7/21;

Seven permits renewed:

• EOG (3): three Austin permits in Mountrail County
• QEP (2): two MHA permits in Dunn County
• BR (2): two permits in Dunn County; a Manchester permit and a Concord permit;

One permit canceled:

• EOG: #34118, Burke 94-1821H, Mountrail County
  

Name changes of interest:

• CLR changes the name of three "LCU Ralph Federal" wells to LCU Ralph wells, dropping the "Federal."