Sunday, March 26, 2017

Active rigs:

	3/26/2017	03/26/2016	03/26/2015	03/26/2014	03/26/2013
Active Rigs	49	32	99	198	186

Scott Adams: Trump and healthcare. This is so incredibly cool. I wrote my daily notes dated March 26, 2017, and March 27, 2017, well before I read Scott Adams' note. Very, very interesting.

Back to the Bakken: the Elidah oil field might be telling us something. I will spend some time on updating that field today. If I don't get interrupted. The production data has been updated, but my thoughts on the Elidah oil field are yet to come. Two wells of interest in the Elidah oil field: Nordeng; and, Sivertson Rush.

Random thought: if we don't see DAPL oil flowing this week, methinks there may be a) issues downstream (Iowa?); and/or b) continued domestic terrorism in the Dakotas.

Boomtown population, from The Williston Herald, data points:

• current: 34,337
• 65% higher than 2010
• 3% drop between 2015 and 2016
• Williams County: rose 53% between 2010 and 2016
• McKenzie County: almost doubled between 2010 and 2016 (up 98%)
• births, at Williston's St Alexius Health
• 2016: 843
• 2015: 883
• 2014: 804
• 2013: 750 
• 2012: 600 (estimate)
• 2011: 543
• 2010: 478
• Williston Public School District 1:
• 2009 - 2010: 2,275 students; forced to reopen McVay Elementary; previously closed due to low enrollment
• 2016: 3,780 students; new $70 million high school
• superintendent says a new elementary school will be needed
• 2016: New Public School District 8 added an additional 51 kindergarteners

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