Samson Oil & Gas Provides Operations Update For Its North Stockyard Project

From a press release, Samson Oil & Gas provides operations update for its North Stockyard Project in North Dakota:

Little Creature 1-15-14H (SSN WI 27.7%)
The Little Creature middle Bakken infill has been drilled to a total depth of 19,430 feet, and a 4-1/2" liner was run and cemented to that depth. The Frontier Rig 24 was released on 9 November 2013. Preparations are underway to move the rig to Blackdog 3-13-14H.

Blackdog 3-13-14H (SSN WI 25.03%)
The Tofte 1 pad has been prepared to receive the Frontier Rig 24 for drilling operations on Blackdog 3-13-14H. The rig move and rig up on location is expected to be completed this week. This well will be a middle Bakken lateral and is expected to follow the previously planned Swan trajectory, that is, the infill location between the Rodney 1-14H well (SSN WI 27.18%) and the Sail and Anchor 1-13-14HBK well (SSN WI 25.03%).

Frac operations Tofte 2 pad
Following mobilization of the rig to Blackdog 3-13-14H, the Tofte 2 pad will be turned over to fracture stimulation operations associated with the three drilled and completed wells on that pad. This will include Coopers (SSN WI 27.7%), Tooheys (SSN WI 27.7%), and Little Creature (SSN WI 27.7%). Fracking operations are currently expected to commence on or about November 18th and should be completed by early December.

Bluff #1-11 (SSN WI 66%)
Construction of the access road to the Bluff #1-11 well site has commenced. A concrete slab has been constructed across an existing pipeline to allow for access to the drill site. After the concrete pad has cured, the balance of the road and drill pad will be built. Drilling operations are currently expected to commence towards the end of November.

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Note To The Granddaughters

I have to admit, whenever I read the Samson Oil & Gas updates, I wish I could be back in the Bakken watching all the activity. But I just hate leaving the granddaughters.

For several days I had been waiting for the opportunity to see if our older granddaughter (fifth grader) could figure out the definition of "renascence" based on context and other clues. I had stumbled across the word while reading Freeman Dyson's Disturbing The Universe. I don't recall ever seeing that word before, and I do a lot of reading.

So, last night, there was a break in the action and I had five minutes. I took out the book, provided a bit of background, and then read out loud the paragraph that included the word "renascence." I asked her what the word meant, expecting there would be a pause and some hemming and hawing, and then some attempt at defining the word.

But I had barely finished reading the paragraph, asking her what the word meant, when she immediately replied "rebirth."

I asked her how she knew so quickly. She said last year, in fourth grade, her class in Boston studied the Harlem renaissance. She said her teacher, Ms Beauchamp, had taught her the word, which was obviously practically the same as the "renascence" and used in the same context.

By the way, she knew the women of the Harlem Renaissance. I mentioned when looking at a picture of one of the women that it was hard to tell that she was African-American, at least in that photograph. My granddaughter, said, yes, that was one of the reasons she was allowed to sing at the Cotton Club. Whether or not that is accurate, the fact she knew about the Cotton Club and the Harlem Renaissance was quite striking.

While I'm digressing, last night we saw two planets, well away from the half moon. Certainly one was Venus, but the other one didn't seem to have the red tinge that would identify it as Mars. A google search suggests that Jupiter is the brightest "morning star" this month. I mentioned to our granddaughter if the "star" was not Mars it had to be Jupiter. She immediately said, "oh, because it's so big, even though it's farther away." And then as an aside, she said, the redness of Mars is due to all the iron in the rocks. Okay.

She knows more about sharks than the evening sky, and her current favorite book (series) is The Hunger Games. No television.

Last night at the dinner table, the four of us, their grandmother, the fifth grader, the second grader, and I were talking about creative writing. The older granddaughter says she has trouble coming up with an idea but if given a "prompt," she can write forever and ever. At one point, I thought I might have misunderstood what we were talking about, "writing" or the "act of writing." The second grader said we were talking about "expressing ideas."

And that's why I hate leaving them.