Week 47: November 16, 2014 - November 22, 2014

Operations
List of wells transferred from Baytex to SM Energy
EOG Austin well: almost 400,000 bbls in first year
Several good Halcon wells still in confidential status
Whiting well in Twin Valley: 150,000 bbls in less than four months
Reservation accounts for one-third of North Dakota's oil output

Pipelines
Update on the PSX Sacajawea Pipeline

CBR
Update on the PSX Palermo CBR terminal

Fracking
Musings on current state of affairs re: fracking in the North Dakota Bakken 

Natural Gas
Zavanna to build 45-million cfd natural gas processing plant northeast of Williston

Miscellaneous
No evidence of ground water contamination despite 75 years of drilling
Halliburton to buy Baker Hughes?
On track for 3,034 oil and gas permits calendar year 2014

Warning -- November 21, 2014

A reminder. All my posts are done quickly and often include typographical errors. There is always the possibility of factual errors.

If the issue is important to you, go to the source.

All of today's posts were done quickly and with little time for review. Additional caution is recommended for items that were posted today.

I will eventually go back through them and correct typographical errors. There is never any intent to intentionally post factual errors. Opinions and factual items, however, are sometimes difficult to separate out in this blog, as is true in most other blogs.

This blog is intended for my use only but it is posted if others want to read it. See disclaimer.

Friday's Daily Activity Report -- November 21, 2014

Active rigs:

	11/21/2014	11/21/2013	11/21/2012	11/21/2011	11/21/2010
Active Rigs	191	184	181	202	159

For those who follow the daily activity report on a daily basis, this is quite incredible. Generally, a daily activity report is two pages; occasionally three; rarely more than three. Today's report is eight pages long, mostly due to transfer of wells from one operator another operator, but in addition, almost a page of permit cancellations.

Wells coming off the confidential list today were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Seventeen (17) new permits --

• Operators: BR (6), Statoil (5), SM Energy (4), Denbury Onshore, Slawson,
• Fields: Banks (McKenzie), West Ambrose (Divide), Cabernet (Dunn), Cedar Hills (Bowman), Big Bend (Mountrail)
• Comments: I normally associate OXY USA in the Cabernet; it's interesting to see 6 BR permits in the Cabernet

Six (6) producing wells completed:

• 26103, 547, Slawson, Goldenban 2-2-1MLH, Sanish, t3/14; cum 72K 9/14;
• 26526, 784, CLR, Jerry 3-8H, Poe, t10/14; cum --
• 27531, 269, Oasis, Delta 6093 14-15 10T, Gros Ventre, t9/14; cum --
• 27575, 2,474, Statoil, Barstad 23-14 8H, Alger, t10/14; cum --
• 27760, 772, Oasis, White 5198 12-6 1T2, Siverston, t10/14; cum --
• 28121, 634, Emerald, Mary Samsonite 1-16-21H, St Demetrius, t10/14; cum --

Operator Transfer:

• Baytex Energy USA, LLC, to Baytex ND, LCC: about two full pages of wells from the current boom
• Baytex Energy ND, LLC, to SM Energy Company: about two full pages of wells from the current boom
• I did not check each and every well, but it appears all the wells were "ultimately" transferred from Baytex Energy USA, LLC, to SM Energy.
• See post of July 29, 2014

Sixteen (16) O&G permits were canceled; one disposal permit canceled. Most of the permits were old permits but some were more recent including two Hunt permits in Mountrail County. Operators with little activity that canceled permits: Upton Resources (2), Anschutz (3), PDC (1), Ward-Williston (1), Sagebrush Resources (1), Petro Harvester (1), Open Range (2), Vecta (1).

Link is here.

December, 2014, Hearing Dockets Are Out

As usual, this is my summary, my shorthand. There may be errors; if this information is important to you, go to the source. Here's the link.

The complete list is at this post.

Cases that caught my eye:

23369, Whiting, Sanish-Bakken; 22 overlapping 2560-acre units; 3 wells each, Mountrail, McKenzie
23372, OXY USA, Manning-Bakken, 5 overlapping 2560-acre units; 1+ wells in each, Dunn
23387, KOG, Tyrone-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 4 1280-acre units; Williams
23388, KOG, East Fork-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 7 1280-acre units; Williams
23389, KOG, Epping-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 2 1280-acre units; Williams
23390, KOG, Poe-Bakken, 10 wells on each of 6 1280-acre units; McKenzie
23391, SM Energy, Indian Hill, Hardscrabble, and/or Elk-Bakken, 11 wells on 3 1280-acre units; McKenzie, Williams

23428, WPX, Squaw Creek-Bakken, 5 wells on an existing 640-acre unit, McKenzie
23446, Corinthian, Northeast Landa-Spearfish/Madison, 4 wells on each of 4 160-acre units, Bottineau
23461, Triangle, Sandrocks-Bakken, 12 wells on an existing 1280-acre unit, McKenzie
23462, Triangle, Pronghorn-Bakken, 12 wells on each of 6 1280-acre units; McKenzie
23463, Slawson, Big Bend-Bakken, 13 wells on an existing unit, Mountrail

XTO has a lot of cases.

And that's just a start.

A random look at the 2560-acre unit in which CLR wants to place 28 wells.

Poll: Will We See An Announcement Of "Even" One New Natural Gas Processing Plant On Fort Berthold Indian Reservation In 2015?

The subject line says it all.

Regular readers know the issues.

Not in the mood to write any more about the reason for the poll at this time. Maybe later if the spirit moves me.

And regular readers know what is coming next:

Spirit In The Sky, Norman Greenbaum
And I'm outta here. Good luck to all.