One Day Later -- Five Wells Coming Off The Confidential List Today -- August 16, 2019

The net worth of every 2020 presidential candidate, Forbes, link here.  First of all, quick look, seems bogus:

• Pete Buttigieg, net worth, $100,000. Must live in a huge house with a huge mortgage 
• Andrew Yang, net worth, $1 million. No wonder he wants a thousand-dollar check from the government every month.
• Bernie Sanders, net worth, $2.5 million. Three houses?
• Beto, net worth, $4 million -- and exactly how?
• Kamala Harris, net worth, $6 million, first one on the list that is believable.
• Joe Biden, net worth, $9 million -- worked for the government his whole life, but compound interest on savings bonds for someone in his 70's
• Tom Steyer, new worth, only $1.6 billion -- and begging for $1 donations

World E&P leaders ranked by production growth, link here. Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron make the list; COP and ExxonMobil do not.

New loading option at Houston: story here. I think I posted something along this line yesterday bur not sure. Whatever. It's here now.

GE: nearing insolvency? Link here from Bloomberg. I assume this is the top story over at CNBC this morning.

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Back to the Bakken 

Most interesting story of the day (so far): for a site that wastes no time and spares no effort warning us the Bakken is dead, oilprice has not yet reported that the Bakken set all-time crude oil and natural gas production records in latest production report (data for June, 2019)

By the way, the all-time North Dakota production record:

• was not trivial; a significant jump month-over-month;
• occurred despite Baker Hughes reporting only 47 active rigs (or thereabouts) -- down from 200 rigs during the boom when production was much, much less
• was predicted by Lynn Helms about six months ago

Memo to self: need to send notes to Art Berman and Jane Nielson.

Wells coming off confidential list today -- Friday, August 16, 2019: 33 for the month; 80 for the quarter:

• 35350, SI/NC, Hess, RS-State D-155-92-0203H-4, Alger, no production data,
• 34765, SI/NC, MRO, Kinney 24-36TFH, 
• 32466, SI/NC, BR, CCU Audubon 8-8-22MBH, 
• 32399, SI/NC, Slawson, Atlantis Federal 2 SLH, 
• 26639, SI/NC, XTO, Badlands Federal 21X-13E, 

Active rigs:

$54.75	8/16/2019	08/16/2018	08/16/2017	08/16/2016	08/16/2015
Active Rigs	60	58	55	32	74

RBN Energy: owners commit to Capline reversal, Diamond expansion/extension.

Well, it’s finally going to happen!

Without major fanfare, Plains All American and Marathon Petroleum announced earlier this month that they have sanctioned the reversal of the 40-inch-diameter Capline crude oil pipeline, a move that will enable light crude to flow south on that pipe from the Memphis area to St. James, LA, starting late next year and light and heavy crude to do the same from Patoka, IL, by early 2022.

Also, Plains said it has committed to expanding the existing Diamond Pipeline between Cushing, OK, and Memphis, and extending that eastbound crude pipe from Memphis to a new interconnection with Capline. Light-crude service on the expanded, extended Diamond will commence in late 2020.

Today, we review the newly sanctioned projects and their significance to U.S. and Canadian producers, Louisiana refiners and Gulf Coast exporters.