For Newbies: What The Bakken Is All About -- March 20, 2019

For newbies: this is what the Bakken is all about --

• drill, complete
• a pump at about 6 months
• work-overs as needed
• mini-re-fracks
• neighboring fracks
• major re-fracks
• repeat

For the archives.

All four Paul wells on this pad were re-fracked in 2/18:

• 25306, 2,460, QEP, Paul 1-26-35BH, Grail, t12/13; cum 441K 1/19; huge jump in production 3/18; 
• 25305, 2,243, QEP, Paul 2-26-35BH, Grail, t12/13; cum 393K 1/19; huge jump in 2/18; 
• 23278, 2,143, QEP, Paul 1-26/35H, Grail, Three Forks, t1/14; cum 281K 1/19; huge jump in 3/18; re-fracked 2/18; 30 stages; about 9 million lbs; 
• 25304, 2,257, QEP, Paul 2-26-35TH, Grail, t12/13; cum 338K 1/19;

Production profile for two of these wells for the past year or so.

#25305:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	1-2019	30	6828	6823	3886	18435	12728	5556
BAKKEN	12-2018	23	4879	4868	4828	12250	9343	2781
BAKKEN	11-2018	28	5642	5663	2803	18752	13881	4671
BAKKEN	10-2018	30	8977	9063	5271	27504	24894	2396
BAKKEN	9-2018	30	10704	10561	6113	26891	19742	7099
BAKKEN	8-2018	24	8807	8980	4734	24680	16614	8066
BAKKEN	7-2018	31	14002	14053	7431	35997	33115	2882
BAKKEN	6-2018	30	17023	17060	9770	39183	34129	5054
BAKKEN	5-2018	31	22665	22615	13847	48496	43636	4860
BAKKEN	4-2018	30	31451	31286	23611	55051	49663	5388
BAKKEN	3-2018	18	16359	16348	24549	24435	21866	2569
BAKKEN	2-2018	1	2	0	931	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2018	3	336	283	126	815	789	0
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	2702	2933	908	6163	6013	0

#25304:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	1-2019	27	7983	7895	8877	21345	14737	6433
BAKKEN	12-2018	16	3591	3708	3093	10380	7917	2356
BAKKEN	11-2018	29	8096	8022	6987	24569	18187	6120
BAKKEN	10-2018	31	8169	8235	7616	24014	21735	2092
BAKKEN	9-2018	30	9293	9154	8672	21663	15904	5719
BAKKEN	8-2018	22	6718	6862	5992	14983	10086	4897
BAKKEN	7-2018	31	11247	11250	9727	24556	22590	1966
BAKKEN	6-2018	30	11859	11896	11064	25900	22559	3341
BAKKEN	5-2018	31	16438	16377	15863	31570	28406	3164
BAKKEN	4-2018	29	20602	20657	22491	34540	31160	3380
BAKKEN	3-2018	30	24956	24779	43316	37711	33746	3965
BAKKEN	2-2018	1	1	0	829	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2018	3	209	182	112	615	596	0
BAKKEN	12-2017	31	1813	1979	753	4072	3973	0
BAKKEN	11-2017	30	1909	1809	784	3068	2999	9

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Midnight Fugue 

I could watch this all night. I watch this one with the audio on MUTE.  If you want to see the entire clip, at YouTube , search: soldier surprise son taekwondo:


I had never heard this song (below) until this evening. Don't ask me how I came across it. The video is pretty cheesy, and the song is just as cheesy , but if one is in the right mindset, this will bring tears to your eyes. It did for me. Our son-in-law served fifteen years in the US Navy, a submariner.

Sailor, Petula Clark
Interestingly, I would prefer listening to this than Petula Clark's Downtown.

Midnight fugue, here.

After midnight I start with a random song on YouTube.com which leads me to another and then another. Later, sometimes hours later, I end up somewhere not knowing how I got there. Often I am in a fugue state. I am sure I am not alone.

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Copeland's Famous New Orleans Restaurant, Southlake, TX

I cannot say enough about the hospitality shown by this restaurant today. The food was incredible.

But what made it memorable: our hostess, Amber, and our server, Brad.

The tip: slightly less than 50% of the fare.

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The Book Page

Following comments received regarding the "military-themed" videos above, I posted the following from the book I was reading at the time, The Comanche Code Talkers Of World War II, William C. Meadows, c. 2002. I forget the specifics, but I believe Meadows (the author) says he spoke to each and everyone of the Comanche code talker except one who had passed away.

In pre-reservation times, the Comanches are better viewed as a number of linguistically and culturally related tribes [generally described as divisions], as they never comprised a single political or geographically centralized entity until after their  entrance onto a reservation.

After more than 150 years of warfare, competition with numerous other tribes and Anglo nations, and disease, the last remaining autonomous bands of Comanches were forced onto the collective Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation in Southwestern Oklahoma in 1875.

What followed were decades of status as governmental wards, forced reduction of their lands, inadequate food, mandatory boarding schools, denial of citizenship and civil rights, continual broken treaties and legal agreements, forced allotment of their remaining lands, and a Anglo-based assimilationist war against their culture, religion, and language.

Sixty-five years later the United States Army came seeking the aid of the Comanches and their language in preparation for World War II. The Comanches had numerous reasons to resent the Taiboo' [Anglos]. But in spite of all the past experiences and the often paternalist treatment of the Comanches by the government, when the call of duty came, they, like other Native American populations patriotically joined  in the defense of America.
Prior to their recruitment, the Comanches had no idea of the ultimately unique role that they and their language would play in the outcome of the war, There was no way they could have known that they would be selected to carry out highly specialized communications service that would be unique in the European campaign. The Comanches represent a population whose loyalty to their people and the American country was unswerving in its devotion, and they were unhesitant in their decision to make the necessary sacrifices called for in the Second World War. -- p. xii.

One needs to be reminded that not all Americans thought we needed to be involved in a European war (Lindbergh comes to mind; he was pro-Nazi Germany and against the US going to war with Germany). And with regard to the Pacific theater, there were Americans against going to war.