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Strait: even if the strait were opened today, BofA says the strait would still need 10x more ships to stabilize oil markets.
Oil stocks today:
- CVX: up $8.35 today; up 4.5%; trading at $195.
- XOM: up $6.75 today; up 4.4%; trading at $160.
- PSX: up $11.61 today; up 5.7%; trading $216.
- COP: up $5.42 today; up 4.6%; trading at $123.
Others:
- BRK-B -- flight to safety: up $7.62 today; up 1.5%; trading at $529.
- AAPL -- taking profits; down $4.80; down 1.5%; trading at $308.
- SCCO: up $1.05; at one point, was up $5; up 0.5%; trading at $200. Today, it was a commodities play, not a tech play, because ...
- GLW: dow 4.8%; down $8; trading at $158.
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $82.13.
Active rigs in the Bakken 29.
Three new permits, #
- 43197, loc, Hunt Oil, Kaniyohi, Vanville, SESW 33-160-90; 1033 FSL 2281 FWL;
- 43198, loc, Hunt Oil, Kaniyohi, Vanville, SESW 33-160-90; 1033 FSL 2311 FWL;
- 43199, loc, Hunt Oil, Kaniyohi, Vanville, SESW 33-160-90; 1033 FSL 2341 FWL;
Permitted for recompletion:
- 3550, conf, Empire North Dakota, Waddle-Olson 1, Starbuck oil field, Bottineau County.
Six permits renewed:
- Hess, three BL-Odegaard wells, Beaver Lodge, Williams County;
- Summit Carbon Storage, two KJ Hintz storage well permits; wildcats, Oliver County;
- Stephens Williston, DBA SEG Williston, a Prattsville Federa permit, Stanley oil field, Mountrail County.
