This is in Sunday's Marshall News Messenger.

Total of 60 drills approved in Harrison County

A total of 60 drills were approved in Harrison County between May 31 and Aug. 8. One recompletion drill was approved on May 31 for BP America Production Company, one mile northeast of Woodlawn. Seven recompletion vertical drills were approved on Aug. 18 for BP, 4.6 miles southwest of Woodlawn.

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Sorry Kathy, you are correct.  This is a good example of media with limited knowledge of a subject taking factual data and writing a misleading article or, in this case, using a misleading title.  Of the 60 permits, 32 are "re-completions" that generally require no "drilling".  Most re-completions involve re-stimulating (fracking) an existing producing formation or moving up hole (more shallow) and stimulating a different formation.

I was thinking about that too.  Maybe they didn't list everything?

jack

Somebody sent a greenhorn to check drilling permits on RRC. Setting those dates in 2017... I get nine total permits approved including 1 amendment. Using those dates but setting the May 31 one for 2016 (15 months) I get a total of 45 permits approved including 4 amendments. Out of those 45 permits approved... 22 were new drills, of which 14 were horizontal permits:

Brooks Petroleum: 1 horz. in Pettit

CCI E. Tx. Upstream: 1 horz. in HA

Covey Park: 6 horz. in HA

E. Tx. Exp: 1 horz. in TP

Valence: 5 horz. in CV

Everything else was vertical new drills or recompletions

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