Wells Coming Off Confidential List This Past Weekend; Miscellaneous Links

LA Times, paid subscription required, so a different link: US Marines in southern California provide a 5-acre haven to protect the desert tortoise. This story is full of irony. For decades, faux-environmentalists have had issues with US Marine sites in California. But faux-environmentalists support destroying the habitat of the desert tortoise with single-use solar farms -- and it is the US Marines that are providing a haven for these endangered species. 

LA Times: it looks like the LA Times finally got a reporter out to Chippewa County, WI, repoting an old story -- with a fancy headline -- mining sand for fracking causing friction in Wisconsin. NIMBY.

Sand formations sought by the oil and gas industry run under western Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois. Wisconsin was built on mining, mainly lead and iron, but sand mines were usually small and supplied local construction. Now, the sand mining boom has attracted oil and gas companies like EOG and Chesapeake Energy, local large landowners and entrepreneurs and hedge funds like Wexford Capital of Greenwich, Conn.

RBN Energy: update on the Houston to Houma pipeline reversal and the challenges it will present. 

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Wells coming off confidential list this past weekend and today, Monday:

Look at that first well (I think it came off confidential list over the weekend; it was the one permit I might have mistyped). Be that as it may, look at how fast this one came in: it was spud May 17, 2012 (I checked the well file and that's what it says: spud May 17, 2017). Completed and tested August 20, 2012, and already reporting an IP. I'm sure there are many, many other examples but for some reason this caught my attention. 

In addition, note that only ONE well was put on DRL status after the 6-month confidential period. Last year it was not unusual to see up to 50% of wells going on to DRL status. This is very, very encouraging. 

In general, very, very good wells, over all. 

11/17
20048, 1,283, BR, Carlsbad 21-17H, Banks, t8/12; cum 7K 9/12;
21935, 812, Whiting, Satterthwaite 14-7TFX, Sanish, Mountrail, t5/12; cum 24K 9/12;
22066, 1,329, Whiting, Mork Trust 21-17H, Pleasant Hill, McKenzie, t5/12; cum 46K 9/12;
22224, 971, Fidelity, Kuntz 25-36H, Green River, Stark, t5/12; cum 46K 9/12;
22439, 925, Petro-Hunt, Wisness 152-96-28A-33-2H, Clear Creek, McKenzie, t10/12; cum --
22442, 685, Hess, MC-Sickler-144-95-1423H-1, Murphy Creek, Dunn, t8/12; cum 32K 9/12;
22494, 1,298, Newfield, Bernice 150-99-20-17-3H, South Tobacco Garden, McKenzie, t9/12; cum 15K 9/12;
22517, 784, Hess, BW-Sharon-150-100-2536H-1, Timber Creek, McKenzie, t9/12; cum 35K 9/12;
22658, 1,324, Marathon, Lee Christensen 34-33H, Bailey, Dunn, t9/12; cum 24K 9/12;
22717, 401, SM Energy, Carter 9-8HW, Colgan, Divide, t8/12; cum 13K 9/12;
22856, 40, CLR, WMPHU 11-9H, Medicine Pole Hills, Bowman, a Red River well; t8/12; cum 1K 9/12;

11/18
20222, 873, Hess/Tracker, 3WX 3-1H, Banks, McKenzie, t9/12; cum 27K 9/12;
22429, 743, Fidelity, Reynold 14-11H, Sanish, Mountrail, t6/12; cum 54K 9/12;
22488, 1,320, BR, Big Bend 31-2TFH, Camel Butte, McKenzie, t8/12; cum 3K 9/12;
22530, 712, ERF, Bradfield 31-14H, Eagle Nest, McKenzie, t10/12; cum 7K 9/12;
22612, 481, Hess, SC-Bingeman-154-98-0904H-1, Truax, Williams, t9/12; cum 8K 9/12;
22908, 235, WPX, Mason 2-11HWR, Van Hook, Mountrail, t8/12; cum 9K 9/12;

11/19
20419, 1,454, XTO, FBIR Grinnell 34X-33C, Heart Butte, Dunn, t8/12; cum 22K 9/12;
22869, drl, XTO, Flatland 11X-2A, Sand Creek, McKenzie, s5/12;