WPX With Three New Permits; Seven Permits Renewed; Four Permits Canceled -- October 7, 2021

Baseball and football tonight: what a great country.

Gold:

• gold has lost its luster; gold bugs out
• gold bugs have probably gone to Bitcoin

The golden state:

• has lost its luster;
• Tesla HQ to move to Austin, TX

Covid-19: I said the other day that vaccinations would now snowball --

• United Airlines is already there;
• Los Angeles passes most stringent "passport' requirement;
• IBM will mandate vaccines
• now, today, breaking: American Airlines says all workers must be fully vaxxed;

Fancy Like, Walker Hayes featuring Kesha, think AppleBees -- the commercial -- one billion views (so far) and viral on TikTok -- what a great country:

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs, from the NDIC's daily activity report:

$78.85	10/7/2021	10/07/2020	10/07/2019	10/07/2018	10/07/2017
Active Rigs	26	13	57	64	59

Three new permits, #38602 - #38604, inclusive:

• Operator: WPX (Devon)
• Field: Mandaree (Dunn County)
• Comments:
• WPX has three Packineau permits, to be sited in NWNW 17-149-93;
• between 1083 FNL and 1054 FNL and between 1236 FWL and 1241 FWL

Seven permits renewed:

• Petro-Hunt (3):
• BR (2):
• Iron Oil Operating:
• NP Resources:

Four permits canceled:

• EOG (3): three Liberty LR wells, in Mountrail County, SESE section 11-151-91;
• Rimrock: 33205, Rimrock Oil, Moccasin Creek, 16-10-34-1HU, Dunn County;