Production By Association -- A Kermit Well -- November 25, 2018

Lots of fracking activity taking place in this area recently.

Let's take a look at this well:

• 16792, 689, BR, Kermit 1-32H, Pershing, t5/08; cum 166K 9/18; recent production -- that 5,060 bbls in 17 days extrapolates to 9,000 bbls over 30 days --

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	9-2018	17	5060	5262	4608	2019	1977	0
BAKKEN	8-2018	2	136	0	2	28	27	0
BAKKEN	7-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	6-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2018	26	789	674	127	458	393	0
BAKKEN	4-2018	30	1098	1403	154	716	588	54
BAKKEN	3-2018	23	912	704	332	709	652	0
BAKKEN	2-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2017	10	171	0	4	446	421	0
BAKKEN	11-2017	30	727	966	103	1657	1583	0
BAKKEN	10-2017	31	793	704	126	1582	1414	91
BAKKEN	9-2017	30	688	685	163	1464	1338	52
BAKKEN	8-2017	31	606	658	110	1746	1669	0
BAKKEN	7-2017	31	935	912	130	1853	1776	0

This well was drilled back in 2008. By today's standards it was not a good well. But we talked about that at the time. Regardless of whether it was a good well or not, it was not a dry hole and it held the lease by production.

Now, we are getting great wells in the area, and because of "production by association," this well will likely turn into a great well.

It was my understanding that once a well reached "peak production" it would show steady decline after that.

These Bakken wells are going to produce for 30 years and they will go through the Bakken life-cycle of frack, re-work; neighboring fracks; mini re-fracks; re-work; major re-fracks over those 30 years. This well is already ten years old and has had no major work done on it -- based on NDIC sundry forms -- during all that time. Biggest associated expense, I support, disposing of produced water.

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The Literature Page

Somehow I missed this in all my years of "formal" education, but by reading for pleasure I came upon the concept of "originality" in literature, a common theme for Harold Bloom. After reading Harold Bloom years ago, I enjoy looking for examples of "originality."

Today, another great example in Karen Armstrong's Biography of the Bible, c. 2007.

Page 26:

In P's (the Priestly school in Babylonian exile that revised J and E's writings, added Leviticus and Numbers to the torah), the exile was the latest in a sequence of migrations: Adam and Even had been expelled from Eden; Cain condemned to a life of homeless vagrancy after murdering Abel; the human race had been scattered at the Tower of Babel; Abraham had left Ur; the tribes had emigrated to Egypt, and eventually lived as nomads in the desert. In their latest dispersal, the exiles must build a community to which the presence (of the Lord) could return.

In a startling innovation, P suggested that the entire people observe the purity laws of the temple personnel. Everybody must live as though he were serving the divine presence. Israel must be "holy" (qaddosh) and "separate" like Yahweh, so P crafted a way of life based on the principle of separation.

The exiles must live apart from their Babylonian neighbours, observing distinctive rules of diet and cleanliness. Then -- and only then -- Yahweh would live among them.

"I will place my tabernacle in your midst," God told them, "and I will walk about among you."

Babylonia could become another Eden, where God had walked with Adam int he cool of the evening.

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