Twenty-six Active Oil And Gas Rigs; Four New Permits; Eleven Permits Renewed -- September 2, 2021

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Note: a reader pointed out that NDIC has not added any wells starting with permit #38430, July 16, 2021.

So permits, #38430 - #38533, inclusive, including the four most recent permits issued today, #38530- #38533, have not been added to the GIS map, and no scout tickets initiated.

NDIC's last "accurate" report was July 14, 2021. 

The scuttlebutt is that due to Covid-19, folks are working from home and transition from old database to new database is encountering major problems. 

Comment: I have not idea whether this is accurate or not, but I do know that permit data for  #38430 - #38533, inclusive, has not been updated at the NDIC website (GIS map or scout tickets). 

If this doesn't matter to the NDIC, it certainly doesn't matter to me. It's one way of keeping information confidential.

Active rigs:

$69.83	9/2/2021	09/02/2020	09/02/2019	09/02/2018	09/02/2017
Active Rigs	23	10	64	63	56

*Daily activity report, 28 active rigs:

• two SWD rigs
• twenty-six oil and gas rigs
• CLR: nine rigs

Four new permits, #38530 - #38533, inclusive:

• Operators: CLR (2), Whiting (2)
• Fields: Oakdale (Dunn County); Sanish (Mountrail County)
• Comments:
• CLR has permits for two Whitman FIU wells to be sited in NENE 34-147-96;
• Oakdale oil field, 280 FNL and between 860 FEL and 905 FEL
• Whiting has permits for two Kannianen wells in NESE 31-154-91;
• Sanish oil field; to be sited between 2497 FSL and 2530 FSL and between 333 FEL amd 345 FEL;

Eleven permits renewed:

• Enerplus (10): Dunn County:
• the ten permits;
• the Fox pad;
  
• Crescent Point Energy: a permit for a CPEUSC Austin well in Williams County