Five New Permits (Hess); CLR Renews Nineteen Permits; Five Permits Canceled; One DUC Reported As Completed -- December 29, 2022

Paid no federal taxes in 2020:

• 60% of American households, paid no taxes in 2020;
• neither President Trump nor his wife Melania paid any taxes in 2020
• in 2020: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros -- among the 25 richest Americans that as a whole, paid a "true tax rate of only 3.4% -- but again, that's more than what the Trumps paid -- link.
  
• I don't even want to think how much I paid in 2020, how much in 2021 and how much I'll pay in 2022.
• The Bidens in 2020:  The President and the First Lady filed their income tax return jointly and reported federal adjusted gross income of $607,336. The Bidens paid $157,414 in federal income tax and their 2020 effective federal income tax rate is 25.9 percent. Link here.
  

Keystone Pipeline: the system is now operational to all delivery points -- source.

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Active rigs: 46.

WTI: $78.63.

Natural gas: $4.566.

Five new permits, #39534  - #39538, inclusive:

• Operator: Hess
• Field: Manitou (Mountrail)
• Comments:
• Hess has permits for five EN-Enger wells in NENE 15-156-94; to be sited 588 FNL and between 434 FEEL and 566 FEL

Twenty permit renewals:

• Slawson: one Ripper Federal permit (Mountrail)
  
• CLR (19):
• two Schroeder permits (Williams)
• two Marleene permits (Williams)
• four Lancaster permits (McKenzie)
• one Chicago permit (McKenzie)
• two Charlotte permits (McKenzie)
• two Sacramento permits (Williams)
• one Akron permit (McKenzie)
• two Thronson permits (Mountrail)
• one Sorenson permit (Mountrail)
• two Sodbuster permits (Williams)

Five permits canceled:

• Petroshale: five Tahu permits canceled

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 36185, 1,118, Olaf 42X-11EXF, Williams