Eighteen Permits Renewed; Nine Permits Canceled; Three New Oil & Gas Permits -- January 17, 2023

Earlier today, RBN Energy had an update on US "hydrogen projects. I mentioned that I had not seen North Dakota mentioned in the RBN Energy article. When I went back and read it again, more closely, North Dakota was mentioned. The two links below have been previously posted. Here and here.

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North Dakota  Hydrogen Hub

Two stories.  

From natural gas intelligence,  link here.

In June 2021, Mitsubishi Power Americas Inc. inked a deal with Bakken Energy to develop a regional hydrogen hub in North Dakota. Gov. Doug Burgum last October then said the state, as well as Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, would link arms with Mitsubishi and Bismarck, ND-based Bakken Energy to develop an H2Hub using funds designated to the U.S. Department of Energy under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. 

“For Bakken Energy, and our Heartland Hydrogen Hub, it is all about making clean hydrogen abundant and affordable,” said Bakken Energy CEO Mike Hopkins. 

Bakken Energy in 2022 signed a memorandum of understanding for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Akira Nation, which is the sovereign tribal nation of the Three Affiliated Tribes, to become the natural gas supplier for the Great Plains Hydrogen Hub

The hub, the nexus of which is expected to be Bakken Energy’s Great Plains Synfuels Plant, is expected to produce more than 380,000 metric tons/year of hydrogen. 

From Mitsubishi, press release:  link here.

Acquisition of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant in the Works

Bismarck, N.D. and Lake Mary, Fla. (June 2, 2021) – Bakken Energy, LLC, formerly Bakken Midstream Natural Gas, LLC, (Bakken Energy) and Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. (Mitsubishi Power) have signed a strategic partnership agreement to create a world-class clean hydrogen hub in North Dakota. This hub will be composed of facilities that produce, store, transport and consume clean hydrogen. It will be connected by pipeline to other clean hydrogen hubs being developed throughout North America.

Developing infrastructure for hydrogen enables decarbonization of sectors such as energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing that are targeting net zero carbon emissions. Hydrogen is a carbon-free energy carrier and a carbon-free fuel. The most common forms of clean hydrogen are green and blue. Green hydrogen is created from water using renewable energy and electrolysis. Blue hydrogen is derived from natural gas with the carbon dioxide emissions captured and sequestered. The hub in North Dakota will focus on blue hydrogen production.

The Bakken Energy partnership to create a clean hydrogen hub joins Mitsubishi Power’s portfolio of innovative partnerships and cross-sector teams accelerating hydrogen technology realization. Mitsubishi Power has been developing a hydrogen hub with Magnum Development in Utah to support the western U.S., and in May signed an agreement to develop hydrogen storage solutions with Texas Brine across the eastern U.S. The company also has numerous hydrogen projects and collaborations across North America.

Bakken Energy, supported by Mitsubishi Power, is currently working with Basin Electric Power Cooperative and its subsidiary Dakota Gasification Company on the potential acquisition and redevelopment of the Great Plains Synfuels Plant located near Beulah, North Dakota. The redevelopment would make the facility the largest producer of clean hydrogen in North America. The project is in due diligence, and specific details are confidential until that phase is complete.

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Back to the Bakken

Challenger Point Energy, LLC

• well search
• thirty-one permits in North Dakota
• most recent (2022)
• one as far back as 2011
• at "Operators” (link here):

Challenger Point Energy

• perhaps first mention at the blog at this post
• over at NDIC well search, April 3, 2018: five wells (file numbers); all active; two in Customs oil field; two in Flaxton oil field; and one in Stony Run oil field
• possibly this address: 2549 Main Street, Suite 202, Littleton, CO 80120

Active rigs: link here.

WTI: $80.92.

Natural gas: $3.631.

Four new permits: #39568 - #39571, inclusive:

• Operators: CLR; Prima Exploration, Challenger Point Energy (see above, #39570, #39571)
• Fields: Woburn (Burke County); Jim Creek (Dunn); Ft Buford (Williams)
• Comments:
• CLR has a permit for an Eclipse SWD in Jim Creek, Dunn County;
• Prima Exploration has a permit for an Elzy Lay well in NENE 27-153-104; 
• to be sited 775 FNL and 170 FEL;
• Challenger Point Energy has permits for two Jacobson wells in NWNE / NWNW 6-162-90, 
• to be sited 600 FNL with one 1420 FEL and the other 735 FWL

Eighteen permits renewed:

• CLR (16): nine Lundberg Federal permits in Rattlesnake Point, Dunn County; a Salem permit in Dollar Joe, Williams County; three Ravin permits in Dimmick Lake, McKenzie County; two Gibb permits in Beaver Lodge, Williams County; and a Cuskelly Federal permit in Dunn County;
• Whiting: a permit for a Green well in McKenzie County;
• Bowline Energy: a permit for a Novak well in McKenzie County;

Nine permits canceled:

• EOG (5): permits for three Austin wells; one Burke well; and, one Liberty LR well, all in Mountrail County;
• Whiting (4): single permits for an S-Bar Laurel; an S-Bar Brandon; and S-Bar Devon; and, an S-Bar Joanna well, all in Mountrail County.