Monday, August 19, 2019

Eleven Wells Coming Off Confidential List This Weekend, Today -- Monday, August 19, 2019

Not on my radar scope: if one just read the mainstream media, one would never know -- this caught me by surprise -- US petroleum demand strongest since 2007. Just the other day, the US SecEnergy said the oil and gas industry kept the US out of a recession ... don't know if the sector will delay the next "recession that is right around the corner," but if delayed, it will be because of the US oil and gas sector. Even on twitter, the so-called experts are mostly talking gloom-and-doom. It gets tedious. From Rigzone staff, data points:
  • year-to-day, July, 2019: total US petroleum demand average its strongest level since 2007
  • total petroleum demand: 20.8 million bopd
  • 0.9 percent year-on-year increase
  • highest demand for the month of July since 2005
  • July, 2007: 20.4 million bopd
  • US oil supply and NGLs remained near record levels in July at 12 million bopd and 4 million bpd, respectively
  • US oil production: 12.2 million bpd
  • US crude oil exports: a new all-time high of 3.3 million bpd
Canada: needs more export outlets. From Rigzone, data points:
  • Canada, 4th largest oil producer in the world: 5.2 million bopd in 2018
  • represents a 65% gain over the last decade (Hubbert peak oil theory?)
  • Alberta: 80%
  • Saskatchewan: 10%
  • for first time since 2010, oil sands (crude bitumen) exceeded conventional supply
  • oil sands accounts for 65% of Canadian production
  • exports 80% of the oil it produces, most of it goes to the US
  • and again, a reminder how Obama killing the Keystone changed everything: 
Over the past decade, U.S. oil imports from Canada have risen almost 75 percent. In fact, Canadian oil is critical for the U.S. because the country’s refining system is configured to process these heavier grades. In 2018, for instance, Canada accounted for half of total U.S. crude oil imports and nearly a quarter of U.S. refinery crude oil intake.
Water: remember that pop quiz some time ago, in which we asked which "uses" more water -- conventional vertical wells or tight, horizontal, fracked wells. Here it is again, from oilprice: conventional wells use 10-times the amount of water that fracked wells use. Again, those stories about all the water fracked wells needed turned out to be fake stories meant to destroy the US shale revolution. Readers were never duped by these stories; they knew that US golf courses used much more water than the fracking industry. and in the Bakken, the amount of water taken from Lake Sakakawea was inconsequential. In fact, during much of the Bakken boom, the Missouri River often flooded the oil fields. Whatever.

Pop quiz: by the way, I never did answer the rock-and-roll pop quiz of a few days ago. I'll do that later today.
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Back to the Bakken

Wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend, today -- Monday, August 19, 2019: 44 for the month; 91 for the quarter:
  • 34156, 1,995, Oasis, Aagvik 5298 14-26 14TX, Banks, t3/19; cum 115K 6/19;
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN6-201930323363232024683948427512019422
BAKKEN5-20193131059310112528889829884961023
BAKKEN4-20193023898237622561167781646152866
BAKKEN3-20193127921277853184476744732663478
BAKKEN2-2019000021581776252

Sunday, August 18, 2019: 43 for the month; 90 for the quarter:
  • 3593, SI/NC,XTO, Badlands Federal 21X-13C, North Fork, no production data;
  • 35602, SI/NC,XTO, Cole Federal 44X-32D, Siverston, no production data,
  • 35538, 1,833, CLR, McClintock 8-1H1, Pleasant Valley, t2/19; cum 117K 4/19:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN6-2019302224522340230084192241228290
BAKKEN5-20193127757273722960742155398651874
BAKKEN4-201930376743773940642552702521329669
BAKKEN3-201919188691882725922268581000716610
BAKKEN2-2019910618102461564714223408910134
  • 35349, SI/NC, Hess, RS-State D-155-92-0203H-5, Alger, no production data, 
  • 34791, SI/NC, WPX, Sweet Grass Woman 22-15H, Spotted Horn, no production data,  
  • 34764, SI/NC, MRO, Jocelyn 14-36TFH, Killdeer, no production data,  
  • 32400, SI/NC, Slawson, Atlantis Federal 2-34-35H, Big Bend, no production data,  
Saturday, August 17, 2019: 36 for the month; 83 for the quarter:
  • 34790, SI/NC, WPX, Sweet Grass Woman 22-15HZ, Spotted Horn, no production data,  
  • 32467, SI/NC, BR, CCU Boxcar 8-8-22MBH, Corral Creek, no production data,  
  • 26804 (no typo -- it's really that old), SI/NC, XTO, Cole Federal 44X-32H, Siverston, no production data,  
Active rigs:

$55.158/19/201908/19/201808/19/201708/19/201608/19/2015
Active Rigs6159533274

RBN Energy: unit trains now delivering US propane to Mexico. Archived.
In May 2019, Twin Eagle Liquids Marketing shipped a 100-car train filled with propane from North Dakota to Mexico, marking the first-ever single-commodity train — i.e. “unit train” — between the Bakken and the U.S.’s southern neighbor. As it turns out, it was also the first of what appears to be a regularly scheduled run to Mexico.
Since May, three more unit trains have made the journey south from the Bakken’s first unit train terminal for propane.
Rail shipments of propane to Mexico as part of mixed-goods trains aren’t new, but figuring out how to economically ship large quantities of propane via unit trains has long evaded NGL marketers and producers — that is, until now. What are the economics and other factors that finally made it possible, and what are the prospects and challenges ahead for unit-train exports to Mexico? Today, we look at how the first all-propane train to Mexico came to pass and what the outlook might be for these shipments to continue.
Note, tag, LPG_By_Rail
Propane is LPG but not all LPG (LP) is propane. ... Propane is classified as LPG (LP), along with butane, isobutane and mixtures of these gases. LPG comes from natural gas processing and oil refining. LPG is frequently used for fuel in heating, cooking, hot water and vehicles.
California LPG: reposting. From March 30, 2017 --
California's production of propane and butane continues to decrease; the decrease in production is offset by an increase in rail shipments. This is an interesting story for the archives with regard to many, many story lines. EIA data points:

  • many, many story lines including CBR; the state's fossil fuel regulatory environment
  • total US production of propane and butanes (liquified petroleum gases - LPG) increases to over 2 million bopd
  • increased in all regions of the country except for the West Coast
  • unlike other regions, West Coast LPG production has been decreasing since 2010, driven by declining refinery production
  • production in the region totaled 80,000 bopd in 2016, 10,000 less than in 2010
  • as a result, rail shipments have become a growing means of transporting LPG to the region
  • the amount of LPG production in the US has surged (except along the West Coast)
  • West Coast import/export data: the increased ability to transport LPG by rail has allowed Western Canadian producers, who can no longer ship LPG by pipeline to the Midwest following the repurposing and reversal of a key pipeline, to ship more LPG to the West Coast, where it can then be exported to overseas markets
  • the West Coast has only one major LPG export terminal; it accounts for nearly all overseas LPG exports
  • as LPG exports continue to increase, two other terminals on the West Coast have been proposed, but the permitting phase of development is not finished yet

2 comments:

  1. 1. You didn't link to the oilprice.com story. Here it is: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Scientists-Conventional-Oil-Impacts-Groundwater-More-Than-Fracking.html

    2. The article is really more about produced water, than fracking water. (I.e. the demands on disposal for produced water.) It's not 100% clear, but definitely slanted in that direction. This is a different but related topic to the demands for frack water itself. E.g. you could have a well that never had any frack water, but that produced lots of water along with the oil. The issue with produced water is proper disposal. The issue with frack water supply (much exaggerated) is competition with other users and the trucking to get it there, sometimes. In general, the farmers actually like the fracking since they sell the water to them!

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    1. Thank you for catching that. I've added the link, thank you.

      And, yes, you are 100% correct regarding the water issue. There are several types of "produced" water (and that doesn't include the issue of fresh water for fracking). Many, many issues involved regarding water.

      What surprised me was how much I didn't know about this whole topic when I started blogging. I have a much better feeling for this now.

      At the end of the day, I find the whole issue of water -- any aspect of it -- a "problem" / issue for the oil industry and they will always be working it. I don't find the "water issue" a reason to ban fracking.

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