Resonance Reports A Madison Well 35 Miles NNE Of Minot -- January 15, 2019

This well came off the confidential list today:

• 35069, 16, Resonance Exploration, Resonance Issendorf 16-10H, Russel oil field; target: Spearfish/Madison, t8/18; cum 3K 11/18;

Russell oil field, Bottineau County, is about 35 miles NNE of Minot -- a long way from the Bakken.  From the NDIC file report:

• a horizontal well targeting the Berentson porosity zone below the Mississippian Unconformity
• depth of IP test: 3,397 feet
• stimulated with acid, but not fracked
• Neset
• spud: July 15, 2018
• drilling the curve began July 18, 2018; took about 36 hours to build the curve
• lateral drilling began July 21, 2018
• cease drilling: July 24, 2018
• TVD: 3,407.64 feet
• directional: 5,380.44 feet
• permit: a Madison well; spacing unit, 640 acres
• of the four active Madison wells in that field, only one is somewhat remarkable, having been drilled in 1963 with a cumulative production of 293K bbls

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The Book Page

A History of the Arab Peoples: Albert Hourani, c. 1991

Some terms, some still used, some not:

• Maghrib: northwest Africa
• Mashriq: Middle East
• Andalus: the Muslim parts of the Iberian peninsula
• Syria: a modern day country, but also a larger physical, social region with common historical experiences
• caliphate = empire; caliph: successor

From the prologue to give an example of the unity and extension of the Arab peoples:

Mamluk sultanate: Cairo was the capital; one of the greatest Muslim states of the time 

Historians have traditionally broken the era of Mamlūk rule into two periods—one covering 1250–1382, the other, 1382–1517. Western historians call the former the "Baḥrī" period and the latter the "Burjī" due to the political dominance of the regimes known by these names during the respective eras. Contemporary Muslim historians refer to the same divisions as the "Turkish" and "Circassian" periods in order to stress the change in the ethnic origins of the majority of Mamlūks.

Timur (Tamerlane), 1336 – 1405: one of the great Asian conquerors;

created an empire which stretched from northern India to Syria and Anatolia; "islamized and iranized" his empire; born in Uzbekistan; Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base, he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, and the declining Delhi Sultanate.[7] From these conquests, he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death. 

Part I: The Making of a World, 7th to 10th Century

The notes will be continued elsewhere.