New Poll Concerning The Report that Hess Has Reported A Well With an IP of 8,683 BOPD

After five days of the NDIC website being down, I made the decision to take the blog down. I didn't see a lot of value of a "Bakken blog" if basic data was unavailable. Within hours -- I think maybe it was less than two hours -- of taking the blog off-line, the NDIC site came back up. There are still pieces of the NDIC website not completely back up (see poll below).

I had planned to keep the blog off-line until I got caught up with all the data posted at the NDIC website over the past five days, but I figured that would be irritating and frustrating to a lot of readers. So, the blog is back up, but capability to post comments at the blog will be turned off for an undefined period of time. 

By the way, folks should notice a slight editorial change with regard to the MillionDollarWay. During the five days the NDIC was down and while the blog was off-line, I was able to negotiate a change in the contract regarding the blog.

So, back to blogging, and with that, we start with a new poll. 

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First, the results of the current poll. Would you prefer to see more videos of scantily clad women surfing off the Big Island, or more videos of trucks hauling Bakken oil?

• more trucks: 50%
• more women: 50%

I can't make that up. It was split exactly 50/50.

Now, the new poll: did you all see this:

• 23374, 8,683, Hess, EN-Ortloff 156-94-2635H-2,  Big Butte, t2/13; cum 17K 1/13?

The NDIC is reporting a Hess well with an IP of 8,683. If that holds, it will beat the current record of about 5,000 bopd as the initial production. Unfortunately the well file is not linked to the scout ticket at the NDIC site, so at the moment we don't know what Hess reported. So, the question: Do you believe that Hess has reported a Bakken well with an IP of 8,683 bopd?