Twelve (12) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; EOG Reports A Huge Well Thursday; Has Anyone Ever Thought Of Naming One Of The California Faults After George W. Bush?

Wells coming off confidential list Thursday:

• 25598, drl, HRC, Fort Berthold 147-94-2B-11-3H, McGregory Buttes, no production data,
• 25853, 1,203, EOG, Wayzetta 34-2829H, Parshall, t12/13; cum 147K 3/14;
• 26266, drl, Petro-Hunt, Van Hise Trust 153-95-28D-21-5H, Charlson, no production data,
• 26341, drl, HRC, Miller 157-101-12D-1-3H, Otter, no production data,
• 26437, 2,124, BR, CCU Corral Creek 11-28TFH, Corral Creek, t4/14; cum --
• 26457, drl, XTO, Broderson 31X-27D, Siverston, no production data,
• 26795, 493, CLR, Snider 1-21H1, Ukraina, t3/14; cum 2K 3/14;
• 26878, drl, XTO, FBIR Guyblackhawk 24X-27H, Heart Butte, no production data,

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25853, see above, EOG, Wayzetta 34-2829H, Parshall, 146K:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
3-2014	46210	22724
2-2014	46618	23141
1-2014	19987	0
12-2013	31239	0
11-2013	2007	0

 

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Active rigs:

	5/14/2014	05/14/2013	05/14/2012	05/14/2011	05/14/2010
Active Rigs	189	190	208	173	114

Twelve (12) new permits --

• Operators: KOG (4), XTO (3), Newfield (2), CRL (2), Armstrong Operating
• Fields: Truax (Williams), Siverston (McKenzie), Tobacco Garden (McKenzie), Juno (Divide)
• Comments: Armstrong has a permit for a wildcat well in Slope County; Armstrong has a history of targeting the Lodgepole, 12-135-101 is 2.6 miles NNE of the new Amidon court house

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

One (1) producing well completed:

• 26748, 552, OXY USA, Wittinger 4-8-5H-143-95, Murphy Creek, t4/13; cum --  

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"Pushy" Women At The New York Times Not Tolerated

This almost makes Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling look like a saint: the publisher of the NY Times fires the executive director because she asked for equal pay AND she was thought to be "too pushy." Of course, one can debate whether that was true: whether she asked for "equal pay" -- I certainly don't know if that's true, but that's what "they" say -- and no one would really know, except perhaps the publisher, if she was fired because she was "too pushy," but a very good Times reporter should be able to piece together the pay package the female executive editor was receiving and compare that to the pay package received by her male predecessor.

Something tells me the delta would be startling.

I can't wait to see the next NY Times editorial arguing for equal pay for equal work.

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Never Mind

Governor Moonbeam said that a 4-foot rise in ocean levels would inundate Los Angeles International Airport in 200 years. I don't know what he's worried about; by that time folks will be taking the bullet train from Los Angeles to just about everywhere....

A spokesman to the governor later said that the governor misspoke. The airport is some 200 feet above sea level.

Airport authorities went on to assure Californians that airport operations will be operating normally 200 years from now. When asked about this weekend, they could not guarantee that operations would be running smoothly.

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Maybe It's Time To Rename It The George W. Bush Fault

Maybe it's not fracking that is causing all those earthquakes. Talk about drivel. Let's just quit teaching plate tectonics and rename the San Andreas Fault the George W. Bush Fault so WHEN the big one actually does hit (again), we know what to blame: the George W. Bush Fault. LOL.