Thursday, August 21, 2025

Five New Permits; Two Permits Renewed; Four Permits Canceled; And MDU Wins The Lottery -- August 21, 2025

Locator: 48922B.

Another win: US Supreme Court rules in favor of President Trump; allows administration to cut funds for DEI initiatives at NIH. Link here. Every win emboldens the president.

Generation Z: favors Trump by a wide margin. Source. When Geiger tweets, I listen:

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Back to the Bakken

MDU wins the lottery: link here. Pipelines are tracked here.

WTI: $63.47. Tea leaves: no rate cut this year; and, Trump won't meet again with Putin.

Active rigs: 29.

Five new permits, #42240 - #42244, inclusive:

  • Operators: Silver Hill Energy Operating (3); CLR (2);
  • Fields: Ray oil field (Williams); Brooklyn (Williams);
  • Comments
    • Silver Hill Energy has permits for three Solberg wells, SESW 35-157-97, 
      • to be sited 540 FSL and 1887 / 1972 FWL
      • Solberg Hall was the name of my first dormitory in college;
    • CLR has permits for a Charleston well and an Addyson well, NENE 15-155-98,
      • to be sited 330 / 362 FL ad 625 FEL.
      • Brooklyn field is my favorite field in the Bakken

Two permits renewed:

  • MRO: #41026 and #41027, Batson and Eslinger, Lake Ilo and Bailey, both in Dunn County;

Four permits canceled:

  • Whiting: one Larson permit (#35004) and three Link permits (#37651, #37652, and #37653), the Link permits in McKenzie County; the Larson permit in Williams County;