XTO With Six New Permits; Eight Permits Renewed -- Friday, April 11, 2025

Locator: 48464B.

Louisiana judge rules New York student be deported: Trump administration is playing chess; adversaries playing checkers. Link here. Unfortunately, another court in Newark, NJ, still has the case before them. But ...

Trump's first one hundred days will end on April 30, 2025: so we still have a little more than two weeks to go. 

CO2 emissions drop significantly with switch from coal to natural gas: link here. This will spur natural gas acceptance around the world, except perhaps in Germany.

According to peer-reviewed research, greenhouse gas emissions dropped 7.5% annually as companies swapped coal for natural gas via fracking. Carbon dioxide alone fell by an even more impressive 10.5% a year. That’s not marginal—it's the kind of statistic you could put on a T-shirt. Or, ideally, a policy brief.

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $61.50.

Active rigs: 34.

Six new permits, #41799 - #41804, inclusive:

• Operator: XTO
• Field: Grinnell (Williams County)
• Comments:
• XTO has permits for six Athena wells, lot 2, section 3-154-96, 
• to be sited 1109 FNL and 2240 / 2390 FEL.

Eight permits renewed:

• SOGC (5): five Dry Creek Federal wells, Lone Butte oil field, McKenzie County;
• Koda Resources (2): two Amber permits, Fertile Valley; Divide County
• Foundation Energy: one McDonald permits, Roosevelt oil field, Billings County;