Five New Permits; Rimrock Reports A Nice DUC Completed; WTI Drops Below $80 -- November 3, 2021

Active rigs: it looks like 32 active oil and gas rigs; a couple of errors on the NDIC spreadsheet, and one of the rigs is for a SWD well. See first comment.

$79.81	11/3/2021	11/03/2020	11/03/2019	11/03/2018	11/03/2017
Active Rigs	32	14	57	66	55

Five new permits, #38634 - #38638, inclusive:

• Operators: Grayson Mill Operating (4) and Whiting
• Fields: Poe (McKenzie); Sanish (Mountrail)
• Comments:
• Whiting has a permit for a Braaflat well in NWNW 11-153-91; sited 680 FNL and 501 FWL;
• Grayson Mill (Equinor) has permits for four Viking wells in SWSW 16-151-100; sited between 918 FSL and 828 FSL and 350 FWL

One permit renewed:

• 19881, Enerplus, Hall 23-21H, Squaw Creek,
  

Two permits canceled:

• Crescent Point Energy: a CPEUSC Austin permit and a CPEUSC Narcisse permit, both in Williams County;

One producing well completed:

• 36929, 3,019, Rimrock Oil & Gas, FBIR Guyblackhawk, first production, 7/21; t--; cum 77K 9/21;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
9-2021	26236	16286
8-2021	51217	26835
7-2021	1533	554

The NDIC posted this notice today:

CURRENT ACTIVE DRILLING RIG LIST *Data published at dmr.nd.gov/oilgas under the Active Drilling Rigs, Confidential Well List, Well Search, GIS Map Server, and Basic/Premium Services are being impacted by a data migration. This has caused the data to remain temporarily stagnant. Data is accurate up to July 14, 2021. When an estimated date of repair is available, we will update this service notice. 

"Temporarily stagnant": this means that data at the listed sites has not been updated since July 14, 2021. 

Note: this "stagnant data" includes the map which means that the GIS Map Server has not been updated since July 14, 2021. At least that's how I understand that.

Note: no new scout tickets have been added since July 14, 2021. Scout tickets posted prior to that date have not been updated, but I believe production data is being entered (manually?).  At least that's how I understand that.

Note: there is estimated date when this will be rectified. Going on four months now.

Active rigs per the NDIC today: 35; note that two rigs are listed for the same well, file #37014. See screenshot below.

Yesterday, here were 34 rigs listed yesterday. Today, 35. Koda had one rig yesterday, two rigs today:

• 37796, Koda, Stout 3409-1BH, SWSW 34-160-102; Hanks, to the southwest,
• 37798, Koda, Stout 3427-3BH, SWSW 34-160-102; Fertile Valley, to the north,

But that's a  mistake. See first comment. It's the same rig. The rig is being moved from one well to another.

There is a third location on that three-well pad:

• 37797, Koda, Stout 3410-2BH, Bar Butte, to the southeast.

In addition, in the same quadrant, a salt water disposal well:

• 38288, Koda, Stout 34-1 SWD, Fertile Valley, 

Bottom line: today a new rig was added to the list, but it was a SWD well rig, so no increase in oil and gas active wells, and Koda did not add a rig.

Now, back to this note;

• Active rigs per the NDIC today: 35; note that two rigs are listed for the same well, file #37014. See screenshot below. Also one rig named for two different wells. So, we should be at 33 active rigs in North Dakota.
  

See screenshot: