Locator: 50803B.
WTI: $101.00
Active rigs: 26.
Three new permits, #42935 - #42937, inclusive:
- Operators: XTO (2); BR
- Fields: Bear Den (Dunn County); Haystack Butte (McKenzie County.
- Comments:
- BR has a permit for an HBU Sandstone well, SESE 15-148-98,
- to be sited 795 FSL and 126 FEL;
- XTO Energy has permits for two Ghostrider Federal wells, SWSE 6-148-96,
- to be sited 835 FSL and 2504 / 2534 FEL.
Six permits canceled:
- Zavanna (4): four Jersey permits, Williams County;
- Devon Energy (2):
- one Darlene Federal permit, McKenzie County; and,
- one Skaar permit, also McKenzie County;
One producing well (a DUC) reported completed:
- 40965, no ip, HBU Sakakawea Federal 13X-35F, McKenzie County;
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Nullification
Current issue, Claremot Review of Books, Spring, 2026, page 33:
"John Quincy Adams and the Fourth of July," essay by Christopher Flannery.
John Quincy Adams had served one term as president, having won the presidential election of 1824 by the smallest vote possible in the US House of Representatives. At a much young age, he had served his father, John Adams, as the elder's personal secretary.
After losing that re-election campaign, his constituency "demanded" he return to represent them, and thus he began his storied second career in 1830 -- nine terms as a US representative for the state of Massachusetts.
At some point during his presidency, "nullification" was in the air. Long story short, this debate / thinking ultimately let to the US Civil War -- as far back as 1830 -- and even then it could be traced further back, to the 1790s when the doctrine of nullification was alleged to have been inserted in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. The doctrine simply stated that states had the right(s) to ignore any federal law they felt was unconstitutional.
John Adams argued against "nullification"; it was his own VP John C. Calhoun who argues for "nullification."
Wiki.
The 1830s crisis was resolved but it set the stage for future secession debates.
This article really crossed my desk at the right time: I'm currently reading the annotated Memoirs of US Grant.
