Five New Permits; Two Permits Canceled; Eight DUCs Reported As Completed -- October 3, 2023

Locator: 45637B.  

McCarthy out. If they can't even run a millionaires' club, how can we expect the GOP to run the country?

BP: looking to sell US pipeline(s) to save dividend. How did that “beyond petroleum” with high-cost, low-margin green energy work out? 

Chinese sub: sinks in Taiwan Strait (?). Estimates of 55 to 70 sailors perish as oxygen system fails. On / about August 21, 2023.

United Airlines: huge order of Boeing, Airbus planes to expand fleet: 110 planes altogether. Recession, stagflation? Whatever.

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Back to the Bakken

Empire North Dakota LLC has been more active lately. From the "Operators Page":

Empire North Dakota, LLC:

• first mention on the blog (?): April 29, 2022
• along North Dakota - Montana state line
• in Bottineeau County, Spearfish wells

Active rigs: 34.

WTI:

Five new permits, #40233 - #40237, inclusive:

• Operators: Empire North Dakota (3); Iron Oil Operating; WPX
• Fields: Starbuck (Bottineau County); Bully (McKenzie County); and, Reunion Bay (Mountrail County)
• Comments:
• Empire North Dakota has permits for three wells -- a Bufflehead, a Bobwhite, and, a Chinook, NWSE 29-161-78, 
• to be sited between 2530 FSL and 760 FSL and with one at 2300 FEL: one at 2300 FEL; and one at 2450 FWL;
• the Iron Oil Stocke well, SESW 36-149-100; 
• to be sited 400 FSL and 2336 FWL; and
• the WPX Missouri River well, SWNE 24-150-93; 
• to be sited 2614 FNL and 2079 FEL

Two permits renewed:

• Zavana, Shepher 1-3 SWD, Williams County;
• Enerplus, Queen 152-94-29-32-LL, Antelope oil field, McKenzie County;

Eight producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 27880, 1,451, CLR, Jersey Federal 18-6H,
• 27882, 737, CLR, Jersey Federal 20-6H2,
• 39240, 923, CLR, Skachenko FIU 6-31H,
• 39242, 1,274, CLR, Meadowlark FIU 5-6H1,
• 39243, 1,008, CLR, Meadowlark FIU 6-6H1,
• 39244, 678, CLR, Meadowlark FIU 7-6H,
• 39245, 1,016, CLR, Skachenko FIU 7-31H,
• 39300, 635, CLR, Skachenko FIU 8-31H1,