Monday, March 30, 2020

What I'm Watching -- March 30, 2020

Will Canadian dollar hit ten-year low this week? Link here.

Gas Buddy, Oklahoma City: still retailing at 99 cents/gallon.

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MacRumor Lives Up To Its Namesake?

We'll see.

This is pretty exciting. We are expecting Apple Inc to launch a new low-cost iPhone sometime this year.

A new case designed for the new low-cost iPhone has been spotted in the wild. In Best Buy to be exact.

Link here.

Best Buy employees, apparently, have been told not to merchandise these cases until Sunday, April 5.

At the link:
We don't know what Apple is going to call its new phone, but in rumors, it's been referred to as the "iPhone 9," a missing ‌iPhone‌ number, or the "iPhone SE 2" due to its rumored $399 price tag.
The new ‌‌iPhone‌‌ is said to be identical to the iPhone 8 but with an A13 chip inside, featuring a 4.7-inch display, a single-lens rear camera, thick top and bottom bezels, and a Touch ID Home button. It is expected to come in space gray, silver, and red color options, and we're expecting 64 and 128GB storage capacities.

A CLR Morris Well That Just Reached 500K Bbls Cumulative Crude Oil -- March 30, 2020

This is not unexpected. The Carson Peak / Morris wells have been highlighted on numerous occasions and are followed here. This is the most recent of the Carson Peak / Morris wells that have gone over 500,000 bbls cumulative crude oil:
  • 18858, 715, CLR, Morris 3-26H, Oakdale, Bakken, t5/11; cum 500K 2/20; off-line 8/19; back onl ine as of 3/19;

Closer Look At Slawson Well That Recently Went Over 500K Cumulative Crude Oil -- March 30, 2020

The well, see this post for additional information:
  • 19255, 718, Slawson, Muskrat Federal 1-28-33H, 40 stages; 3.7 million lbs; Van Hook, F, t1/11; cum 550K 2/20
Note: this well is still flowing without a pump. At least according to the NDIC file report.

The graphic:


Maybe this would be a good time to start talking about the meme: " ... running out of good locations to drill in the Bakken."

Whiting: New Permit In Bully Oil Field -- March 30, 2020

Contango: the note in the screenshot below is not news. RBN Energy talked about contango back on March 19, 2020.


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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$20.093/30/202003/30/201903/30/201803/30/201703/30/2016
Active Rigs4366604931

One new permit, #37478:
  • Operator: Whiting
  • Field: Bully (McKenzie)
  • Comments:
    • Whiting has a permit for another well on the Sorenson pad in lot 3 section 6-148-99, Bully oil field; see graphics below;
Five permits renewed (these were posted on the daily activity report dated April 1, 2020):
Rimrock Oil (4): four Skunk Creek permits, Dunn County
NP Resources: one Roosevelt permit in Billings County

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Whiting's New Sorenson Permit In Bully Oil Field

The graphics for Whiting's new perit in Bully oil field:



Laying Down Rigs -- March 30, 2020

Currently:


3/30/202003/30/201903/30/201803/30/201703/30/2016
Active Rigs4466604931

Nationwide, weekly report:


From Focus on Fracking, link here:
Continental Resources and Whiting Petroleum Corporation are among the latest operators with Bakken assets announcing sharp drops to capital expenditures in the wake of an ongoing price war between Russia and OPEC.
Continental said it will reduce its 2020 capital expenditures by 55 percent, dropping its 2020 capex to $1.2 billion.
Whiting will cut capex by 30 percent, or $185 million, dropping its total capital budget to between $400 to $435 million.
For Continental, this translates to a reduction of six rigs in the Bakken, dropping it from nine to three for 2020. Continental will also cut rigs in Oklahoma, going from 10.5 to about four rigs there.
Whiting, which had already made some cuts last year, said it will drop another rig and another completion crew within the next month.
Continental expects the revision to its capex to have slight impact on production statistics. It is projecting the drop in crude oil production will be less than 5 percent.
Whiting said its cuts will have “moderate impact” on 2020 crude oil production, but deferred specifics to more formal guidance that it will release during its first quarter earnings call.
Continental’s Chief Executive Officer Bill Berry said the company is also looking at cost-saving initiatives across its operations to remain free cash flow positive, and expects to remain cash flow neutral even under $30 per barrel WTI. 
Norway's Equinor is halting activity at its US shale assets as part of measures to slash spending in response to the oil price collapse, the company said Wednesday, March 25, 2020.
All drilling and well completion activities at Equinor's gas-focused US shale assets are being suspended to cut spending and "produce the volumes at a later period", the company said.
The majority of Equinor's US shale production comes from the eastern Marcellus gas play which is targeted at consumers in New York State.
The move, which followed an announcement to suspend share buybacks, is part of a wider 20% cut in organic capex for 2020 to around $8.5 billion from $10 billion-$11 billion , Equinor said. The company also said it will reduce planned exploration spending this year to $1 billion from around $1.4 billion and cut operating costs by around $700 million compared with original guidance.
Much, much more at the link.

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Before WWI

This is simply impossible to fathom. From Edmund de Waal's The Hare With The Amber Eyes, c. 2010:
"[In 1914] Victor (the author's great-grandfather) had become a subject of his Majesty Franz Josef, the eighty-four-year-old Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Lombardy-Venetia, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, King of Jerusalem, and Duke of Auschwitz.
One can see traces of the Holy Roman Empire in this list of holdings.

I did not recognize Lodomeria and was wrong about Illyria.
  • Illyria: much of the Balkan peninsula, think Macedonia in the south and then extending north;
  • Lodomeria: the area currently straddling the borders of modern-day Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.
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The Movie Page

I watched "Citizen Kane" from beginning to end for the first time ever last night, on TCM. Superb. For its time. Fascinating and engaging.

Most disappointing: I did not feel any emotional attachment to any of the characters, save perhaps Joseph Cotten's Jedediah. I was particularly unimpressed  with Dorothy Comingore, but I am in the minority. From IMDB:
Dorothy Comingore earned a place in motion picture history for her role as the second Mrs. Kane (the Marion Davies to Orson Welles's William Randolph Hearst) in Citizen Kane (1941). It was an extraordinary performance, justifiably praised by critics and public alike. She was apparently slated to be on the short list for an Academy Award. However, there was to be no stardom in films for this talented actress.
I may have to re-watch the movie just to watch her more closely. But I can't imagine re-watching the movie any time soon. One wonders if the movie's biggest problem is this: the trailers / marketing stills are unable to "captur"e the movie. 

On another note, it is truly amazing that Ted Turner acquired this movie as part of the library he bought when establishing TCM. What an incredible bit of luck.

On the other hand, earlier in the day I watched The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter was superb, and I could easily imagine watching this movie several times a year. It won't quite make my top ten movie list but would probably be among the top twenty.

A Closer Look At An EOG Well Coming Off Confidential List This Week -- March 30, 2020

See also this post for the sister well

The well:
  • 33433, 1,933, EOG, Liberty LR 42-1109H, 33-061-04029, Parshall, t10/19; cum 114K 1/20; 38K month; 
Production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN1-202031202502015736857660562431
BAKKEN12-201931222722234746135789775806
BAKKEN11-20193031351314226825012625110571218
BAKKEN10-20193137895375439264123573216951512
BAKKEN9-201912059202620274594250

FracFocus:
  • fracked, 7/5/19 - 8/6/19 -- again, one month frack;
  • 14.8 million gallons of water; large (typical EOG) frack; 85.8% water by mass;
  • only seven frack ingredients listed in addition to water/sand
  • friction reducer: 0. 03711
From the file report:
  • still confidential; file not yet scanned in;
  • TD: 23,636 feet
  • permit: 1920-acre drilling unit; middle Bakken; sections 9/10/11-151-91;

North Dakota Rig Count At 45 -- Will Drop More -- March 30, 2020

First things first: focus on fracking -- blog -- every Sunday night -- released -- scroll through quickly to find items of interest -- some observations --
  • several long updates on the DAPL ruling 
  • Whiting, CLR cost-cutting measures
  • Equinor halts US shale activity -- much there of which I was unaware
  • excellent discussion of US crude oil in storage
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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$20.343/30/202003/30/201903/30/201803/30/201703/30/2016
Active Rigs4566604931


Reminder: wells coming off the confidential list during Bakken 4.0 and don't report an IP are tracked here.

Wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend, Monday -- Monday, March 30, 2020: 83 for the month; 254 for the quarter, 254 for the year:
  • 36969, A, Slawson, Whirlwind 7-31TFH, Big Bend, t--; cum 2K over 6 days, then shut in;
  • 36933, drl, Petro Harvester Operating, WOB1 33-28 163-90 C, Woburn, t--; cum 13K 1/20;
  • 36667, A, Slawson, Hunter 9-17-8H, Big Bend, t--; cum 9K over 13 days;
  • 36128, 591, Lime Rock Resources, State 7-25-36H-144-97L, Cabernet, see this post; t101/19; cum 82K 1/20; a 23K month;
  • 33433, 1,933, EOG, Liberty LR 42-1109H, Parshall, t10/19; cum 114K 1/20; 38K month;
Sunday, March 29, 2020: 78 for the month; 249 for the quarter, 249 for the year:
  • 36502, drl, WPX, Skunk Creek 1-12HW, South Fork, t--; cum 8K over 23 days;
  • 35934, 583, Lime Rock Resources, Shuck 7-33-28H-144-97, Little Knife, t10/19; cum 46K 1/20;
Saturday, March 28, 2020: 76 for the month; 247 for the quarter, 247 for the year:
  • 36932, drl, Petro Harvester, WOB1 04-09 162-90 C, Woburn, t--; cum 872 bbls over two montsh;
  • 36503, drl, WPX, Skunk Creek 1-12HA, South Fork; see this post; t--; cum 10K over 22 days;
  • 35965, 1,028, Lime Rock Resources, Karyk 7-24-13H-144-97L, Cabernet, see this post; t10/19; cum 71K 1/20;
  • 34600, drl, MRO, Verne USA 24-21TFH, Reunion Bay,
RBN Energy: outlook for oil/gas/NGL supply, demand and prices -- completely blown away. I think I will simply archive this one. It's a keeper.