Wells Coming Off The Confidential List This Past Weekend, Monday; Four (4) Wells Make The High IP List; Many Outstanding Wells Being Reported

Monday, August 12, 2013

• 22698, 1,320, XTO, Star 21X-14B, Grinnell, t7/13; cum --
• 23182, conf --> loc, Hess, SC-Tom 153-98-1514H-3, Truax, no data, 
• 23435, 1,267, Whiting, Marsh 44-9PH, Dutch Henry Butte, t2/13; cum 35K 6/13;
• 23576, 2,061, Whiting, Havelka 11-15PH, Dickinson, t2/13; cum 28K 6/13;
• 23577, 1,192, Whiting, Havelka 21-15PH, Dickinson, t2/13; cum 59K 6/13;
• 23708, 937, KOG, P Thomas 153-98-5-10-11-8H, Truax, t6/13; cum 10K 6/13;
• 23863, 487, Hunt, Frazier 1-3-10H, Frazier, t6/13; cum 7K 6/13;
• 23894, 146, Corinthian Exploration, Corinthian Backman 12-34 1H, North Souris, another very nice Spearfish well, t2/13; cum 16K 6/13; 19 stages, 163K lbs proppant; 3,000 feet deep vertically; < 6,000 feet total depth; five days to drill; 320-acre spacing;
• 23895, 133, Corinthian Exploration, Corinthian Backman 4-34 1H, North Souris, a very nice Spearfish well; t3/13; cum 18K 6/13; 20 stages; 180K lbs proppant; 3,000 feet deep vertically; < 6,000 feet total depth; 4 days and 1 hour to drill to total depth

Sunday, August 11, 2013 

• 23285, drl, Statoil, Charlie Sorenson 17-8 3TFH, Alger, no data,
• 23383, 2,343 HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-36C-25-3H, McGregory, t5/13; cum 44K 6/13
• 23436, 597, Whiting, Marsh 41-16PH, Dutch Henry Butte, t6/13; cum 6K 6/13;
• 23579, 1,897, Whiting, Havelka 14-10PH, Dutch Henry Butte, t2/13; cum 47K 6/13;
• 23845, 488, OXY USA, Ridl 1-24-25H-142-96, Russian Creek, t2/13; cum 26K 6/13;
• 23978, drl, Statoil, Rose 12-13 6H, Avoca, no data, 
• 24660, 511, CLR, Salo 4-26H, Hamlet, t5/13; cum 14K 6/13;
• 24827, conf, QEP, Hemi 2-27-34BH, Grail, see this post; t6/13; cum 53K 6/13;

More wells below the video. 

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Wow, we're "sailing" now; there are going to be some very nice wells reported tomorrow.

Sailing, Rod Stewart

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

• 21466, 2,448, MRO, William USA 31-2H, Reunion Bay, t7/13; cum --
• 23646, 2,325, BR, Copper Draw 24-22TFH 2SH, Johnson Corner, 4 sections, t7/13; cum --
• 24448, 709, SM Energy, Legaard 2-25HNB, Colgan, t7/13; cum --
• 24606, drl, KOG, P Wood 154-98-4-27-34-13HA, Truax, no data,
• 24826, 1,936, QEP, Hemi 1-27-34BH, Grail, see this post; t6/13; cum 48K 6/13;
• 24858, drl, XTO, Star 21X-14F, Grinnell,

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A Note to the Granddaughters

For the archives, for my granddaughters. I never knew where the terms long ton, short ton, etc., came from.

From The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide, Bryan Bunch, c. 2000, p. 113 - 114:

In the Proto-Indo-European ancestor language of English, the original word for 12, similar to that of 11, meant "two over." This meaning is carried into German as well as English, although replaced with "two [more than] ten" in Romance languages. In Germanic tradition, 12 is the basic unit of measurement, as in 12 pence to the shilling, 12 troy ounces in a pound of gold, and 12 inches in a foot. This was true in early times, as can be observed in Old Norse, which even uses "12 and 3" in some instances to mean 15. The primacy of 12 was firmly established in much of Europe by Charlemagne in the eighth century.

The Germanic "great hundred" is 120, which is 100 what 12 is to 10, and the "great thousand" is the remnant of this old Germanic unit in English is the long ton, which is 2,240 pounds instead of the 2,000 pounds of the ordinary ton (another name for the "great hundred" in English is the" long hundred"). Note that a long ton is 2 measures of a thousand pounds plus 2 measures of a great hundred pounds.

I am sharing this book with my older granddaughter; it is filled with odds and ends like the above, as well as some neat tricks for multiplication and division. For example, I'm sure everyone else knows this, but I never thought about it before. If multiplying 36 x 25, just add two zeros to the "36" to get 3600, and then divide by 4 to get 900.

If multiplying 36 x 26, just add 36 to 900 to get 936.

Of course, calculators are now used and permitted to be used everywhere but these little tricks might impress some geeky nerd at some little middle school social event. Laugh out loud. The 10-year-old granddaughter doesn't show much interest, but the 7-year-old does. She asked me if she can take my books to college when I die. Seriously. I can't make this stuff up.