Three New Permits; Eight Permits Renewed; And Grayson Mill Reports Two Dry Holes -- April 16, 2024

Locator: 47016B.

Mideast: talk was rampant on Tuesday that an Israeli attack on Iran was imminent; some news outlets openly forecast a military response to occur tonight, Tuesday night. 

In fact, late in the day, "the Israeli war cabinet puts off third meeting on Iran's attack to Wednesday." Meanwhile, Iran has shut down its nuclear facilities in anticipation of a military strike.

Analysis: meanwhile, over at Politico:

From the linked article:

Like many Americans, Richard Haass is still trying to understand why Iran decided to attack Israel directly over the weekend with a barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones, most of which were shot down.

The attack was a retaliation for an airstrike by Israel earlier this month that killed a top general with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Damascus.

But Haass believes Tehran has miscalculated and will come to regret its decision to shift from its longtime strategy of using proxy forces in places like Syria and Iraq into launching a direct attack on civilian areas in Israel, which has only rekindled sympathy for Israelis.

“The Iranians have lost control of the narrative,” Haass says.

The interview / article is much more nuanced than what the lede might suggest. 

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $85.36.

Active rigs: 37.

Three new permits, #40676 - #40678, inclusive:

• Operators: WPX, Slawson, Grayson Mill
• Fields: Heart Butte (Dunn); Big Bend (Mountrail); and, Siverston (McKenzie)
• Comments:
• WPX has a permit for an FBIR MHA well, NENW 18-149-91, 
• to be sited 1251 FNL and 1890 FWL;
• Slawson has a permit for a Shad Rap Federal well, NENE 11-151-91, 
• to be sited 949 FNL and 1152 FEL,
• Grayson Mill has a permit for a Scott well, NWNE 13-150-99, 
• to be sited 290 FNL and 2315 FEL;

Eight permits renewed:

• SOGC (Sinclair): six Forest USA permits, and two Diamond permits, all in Lone Butte, McKenzie County; SESE 3-147-98

Two dry holes:

• Grayson Mill, two Scott wells (#40424 and #40425), McKenzie County;