OXY USA Has A Huge Bakken Well; EOG Well With 122K In Less Than Four Months; Eight (8) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Active rigs:

	2/6/2014	02/06/2013	02/06/2012	02/06/2011	02/06/2010
Active Rigs	192	182	201	165	90

Eight (8) new permits --

• Operators: Oasis (2), Slawson (2), Hess, Fidelity, Emerald, CLR
• Fields: Stockyard Creek (Williams), Little Knife (Dunn), Heart River (Stark), Temple (Williams), Boxcar Butte (McKenzie), Tyrone (Williams)
• Comments: Stockyard Creek continues to amaze me; all the operators; and how they keep squeezing more wells into that relatively small field east of Williston

Wells coming off the confidential list were reported earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Wells coming off the confidential list Friday:

• 22893, 813, OXY USA, Leiss 2-23-26H-143-96, Fayette, t8/13; cum 56K 12/13;
• 24536, 711, HRC, Poeckes 1-15-22H, Climax, t9/13; cum 16K 12/13;
• 25374, 1,414, EOG, Austin 39-3204H, Parshall, t9/13; cum 123K 12/13;
• 25627, 274, CLR, Kidd 1-19H1,  Bluffton, t10/13; cum 9K 12/13;

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22893, see above, OXY USA, Leiss 2-23-26H-143-96, Fayette:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
12-2013	9779	309
11-2013	11320	3327
10-2013	10659	3059
9-2013	7104	1941
8-2013	16514	4421

25374, see above, EOG, Austin 39-3204H, Parshall (122K in less than 4 months):

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
12-2013	28115	0
11-2013	37194	0
10-2013	42959	0
9-2013	13778	0

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Video/Book

I apologize at the outset. Regular readers are probably tired of this by now, but I can't help myself. I am still enjoying The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  I am reading the novel slowly, perhaps one, maybe two chapters per day, during the day. In the evening, I watch and re-watch the video of the movie as well as the bonus features, such as the director's commentary. It is absolutely captivating.

I have mentioned this on several occasions: my carbon footprint is very, very small. I have access to automobiles, here in Texas and in California, but I try not to drive them. [Exceptions, of course, are the cross-country trips which I really, really enjoy.] My (our?) apartment in Grapevine, Texas, measures 651 square feet, according to the website. It is the perfect size, though I have to agree with my wife, that a second bedroom, or a slightly different one-bedroom floor plan with 787 feet would be "more perfect."

I had not thought about that for quite some time until reading Dragon Tattoo. In that novel the protagonist, Daniel Craig in the movie, lives in a luxury apartment with 700 square feet and absolutely loved it.

Years ago, in my Air Force retirement program -- one of the better programs I had ever seen, by the way -- I had printed this from a Graham Greene novel, The Heart of the Matter, as quoted in Norman Sherry's biography of Graham Greene:

The main room -- thirty by twelve -- to a stranger it would have appeared a bare uncomfortable room but to Scobie it was home. Other men slowly build up the sense of home by accumulation -- Scobie built his home by a process of reduction.

Today, my wife contacted a long lost friend with whom we shared time with during our many years in the US Air Force. She and her husband had separated; he had moved into a sparsely-furnished 700 square-foot apartment and just loved it.

There is obviously a subset of old men, like me, who, like Scobie and Mikael Blomqvist, enjoy building up a home by a process of reduction. A smaller carbon footprint is just fine ... for some, but not for everyone.

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The 2014 Iditarod

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

Two sled dog mushers with ties to North Dakota are among the 71 listed in this year’s Iditarod sled dog race.

Kelly Maixner, a 38-y/o pediatric dentist, who was raised in Golva, will run his fourth Iditarod. His best time came last year when he finished in 10 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes and 36 seconds.

Ellen Halverson, 53, is a psychiatrist who was born and raised in eastern North Dakota.
Halverson is running her fifth Iditarod.