Sunday, February 5, 2017

Hess To Report A Huge Blue Buttes Eide Well Monday -- February 5, 2017

Monday, February 6, 2017
  • 30505, 1,052, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-4, Blue Buttes, 50 stages, 3.5 million lbs, t1/17; cum 14K over 10 days;
  • 30506, 893, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-5, Three Forks, 50 stages, 3.5 million lbs, Blue Buttes, t1/17; cum 7K over 5 days;
  • 31964, SI/NC, XTO, George Federal 21X19E, Lost Bridge, no production data,
Sunday, February 5, 2017
  • 30504, 1,136, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-3, Blue Buttes, Three Forks, 50 stages, 3.5 million lbs, t12/16; cum 23K over 16 days;
  • 31965, SI/NC, XTO, George Federal 21X-19A, Lost Bridge, no production data,
Saturday, February 4, 2017
  • None.
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30504, see above, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-3, Blue Buttes:

DateOil RunsMCF Sold
12-2016230690

30506, see above, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-5, Blue Buttes:

DateOil RunsMCF Sold
12-201667020

30505, see above, Hess, BB-Eide-151-95-3328H-4, Blue Buttes:

DateOil RunsMCF Sold
12-2016141630

Minor Notes -- Nothing About The Bakken -- February 5, 2017

Why I love to blog: another great blog discovered -- sent to me by a reader. Thank you.

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The Sports Page

A couple of weeks ago, her parents asked if Sophia could be moved from the 18-month-old to 3-year-old soccer training group to the "4-year-old" group. Sophia is 2 years and 7 months old. After the first week it was noted that what Sophia lacked in skill was made up in her ability to listen and take instruction.

Today, her third week, of the ten players in her group, she probably ranks #1 for enthusiasm and paying attention to the coach. She probably ranks #4 in skills and "understanding" of the game. A third girl was added to the group today -- a 3 1/2 year old. There is a 4-year-old boy who is clearly the best of the group, and then after that, I think the three girls are better than or equal to any of the other boys. There is one 3 1/2 year-old boy that is less impressive, but even so, I was amazed how quickly this group understood scrimmaging.

Today, for the first time, four players plus a goalie on each team, in their purple and orange pinnies, scrimmaged. They actually knew which goal to go to.

My wife happened to have her smart phone; from a distance it's a bit fuzzy, but you get the idea.

The Global Warming Scam -- Starting To Hit Mainstream Media -- The [London] Daily Mail; Like Mark Twain And Polar Bears, The Death Of Coral Reefs Greatly Exaggerated -- February 5, 2017

Finally, the global warming scam is getting the attention it deserves. From The [London] Daily Mail: exposed -- how world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data. It may not quite be "mainstream media" but the story is moving in that direction.
  • The Mail on Sunday can reveal a landmark paper exaggerated global warming
  • it was rushed through and timed to influence the Paris agreement on climate change
  • America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) broke its own rules
  • the report claimed the pause in global warming never existed, but it was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data
From the article:
The scandal has disturbing echoes of the ‘Climategate’ affair which broke shortly before the UN climate summit in 2009, when the leak of thousands of emails between climate scientists suggested they had manipulated and hidden data. Some were British experts at the influential Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

NOAA’s 2015 ‘Pausebuster’ paper was based on two new temperature sets of data – one containing measurements of temperatures at the planet’s surface on land, the other at the surface of the seas.

Both datasets were flawed. This newspaper has learnt that NOAA has now decided that the sea dataset will have to be replaced and substantially revised just 18 months after it was issued, because it used unreliable methods which overstated the speed of warming. The revised data will show both lower temperatures and a slower rate in the recent warming trend.
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The End Of Germany's Energy Transition To Green Energy 
Energiewende: Energy Transition


  • bottom line, Germany ended nuclear energy; is now 50 gigawatts short
  • 50 gigawatts short, despite "an enormously expanded [and expensive} network of wind turbines and solar systems
  • wind turbines generally in the range of 2 - 3MW
  • fifty to 150 wind turbines on a "farm" that feeds into a network
  • 150 x 3 = 450 MW
  • 450 MW =  0.45 gigawatts
  • 50 gigawatts / 0.45 gigawatts = 110 more wind farms of "max size" needed in Germany to offset loss of nuclear power
  • in Germany, because wind is not dispatchable, for every 10 MW of wind energy added to the grid, at least 8 MW of back-up power (coal, natural gas) must be dedicated to back-up wind energy
The fact that Germany is/will be 50 MW short of energy is an incredibly "bullish" data point for America's cheap energy and all the industry it will attract. It turns out that Germany's "miracle economy" to great extent was built on a cheap Deutsche Mark (now called a Euro) due to currency issues in Greece, Italy, and the Balkans that are part of the Eurozone. The US has caught on to this "inconvenient truth."

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The Coral Reef Page

From joannenova.com.au, yes Australia:
2016 was a good year for coral surprizes. Until recently no one even knew that corals could grow just out from the  river-mouth of the Amazon. Then 9,300 square kilometers of reef was found living in a region no one thought corals could grow.
Volunteers found very nice reefs in Morton Bay, not far from the ferry route, but entirely “unexpected” and “better than tourist sites”.  Researchers also found another 4.000 square kilometers of reef off Queensland, hidden under 20m of water. 
In every media article the corals were immediately called into action against mining, farming, stuff like that. Journalists talk to scientists and head straight over to Greenpeace. 
The poor corals are politicized before they’d even been put on a tourist map.
Somehow scientists that are wrong are always described as surprised, excited or astonished. Other professions dream that their errors would be recounted this way. (Think –tax accountants, pilots, politicians…). 
In terms of hard questions from the media, the only group that gets it easier than Hillary Clinton are scientists. Not that I’m saying they should have known, but the same profession that talks about 97% certainty can’t also get a free run every time their assumptions are 100% wrong. The corals discovered near the Amazon might be quite important. The journalists describe the zone as having a”unique pH”, which is a funny way to say that it was almost certainly a lower pH (because rivers are naturally low). Why hide that –  it might show that corals aren’t under as much threat from “acidification” as some people want you to think.
I guess like Mark Twain and polar bears, the death of coral reefs was "greatly exaggerated."

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The History Page
Or
The "High Life" Page

The link to the Foreign Affairs article below was through an op-ed over at The New York Times: "the peculiar populism of Donald Trump." Nothing peculiar about it at all. What amazes me is that billionaires who had no political ambition at all had finally had enough. With their billions, like professional hedge fund founders and professional athletes they could have remained on the sidelines, living the "High Life," but they chose to stop the insanity.


From Foreign Affairs, "The Jacksonian Revolt: American Populism and the Liberal Order," Walter Russell Mead, January 20, 2017.

Recommended by a reader; much appreciated. Most of the following, even without quotes, is taken from the original. Much, more more at the linked article. A very, very good article.

Author begins: "For the first time in 70 years, the American people have elected a president who disparages the policies, ideas, and institutions at the heart of postwar US foreign policy:

70 years ago: 1948 election / 1949 inauguration of Harry S Truman (defeated Thomas E Dewey and Strom Thurmond)

Wilsonians: creation of a global liberal order a vital US interest; conceived it in terms of values rather than economics; in the later stages of the Cold War, one branch of this camp, liberal institutionalists, focused on the promotion of international institutions and ever-closer global integration, while another branch, neoconservatives, believed that a liberal agenda could best be advanced thorugh Washington's unilateral efforts (or in voluntary conjunction with like-minded partners).

Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools of thought, prominent before WWII but out of favor during the heyday of the liberal order, have come back with a vengeance.

Jeffersonians: includes toay's so-called realists, argue that reducing the United States' global profile would reduce the costs and risks of foreign policy; they seek to define US interests narrowly and advance them in the safest and most economical ways

Libertarians take the proposition to its limits and find allies among many on the left who oppose interventionism, want to cut military spending, and favor redeploying the govt's resources and efforts at home (think senators Paul Rand [KY] and Ted Cruz [TX]) -- the latter both thought they could surf the rising tide of Jeffersonian thinking during the Republican presidential primary

Trump: sensed something different that his political rivals failed to grasp -- that the truly surging force in American politics wasn't Jeffersonian minimalism, it was Jacksonian populist nationalism

Jacksonians: the role of the US govt is to fulfill the country's destinty by looking after the physical security and economic well-being of the American people in their national home --and to do that while interfering as little as possible with the individual freedom that make the country unique

Jacksonians: only intermittently concerned with foreign policy; only intermittently engaged with politics more generally

Jacksonians:
  • galvanized by external attacks on the US; attacks internal enemies (elite cabals or immigrants from different backgrounds)
  • not particularly obsessed with corruption, seeing it as an ineradicable part of politics
  • but deeply obsessed with "perversion" -- when politicians try to use the government to oppress the people rather than protect them
  • patriotism: defined as an instinctive loyalty to the well-being and values of Jacksonian America
  • distrust of elite patriotism has been increased by the country's selective embrace of identity politics in recent decades
The writer discusses:
  • the Black Lives Matter movement
  • Jacksonian support for the police, military
  • gun control -- may be the "biggest" issue for Jacksonians
  • immigration -- it's much more than just a walleb/pocketbook issue
Note: the right to bear arms plays a unique and hallowed role in Jacksonian political culture, and many Jacksonians consider the Second Amendment to be the most important in the Constitution 

International trade: it's all about trusting their national leader; to paraphrase neoconservative intellectual Irving Kristol writing about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1952, there is one thing that Jacksonians know about Trump -- that he is unequivocally on their side

The new world order: identity politics can no longer be denied.

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Hillary, Please Don't Make Up Attacks

Reuters Notes Decreased Gasoline Demand In US -- Sunday, February 5, 2017

Active rigs:


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Gasoline demand: after talking about this for the past few weeks, the story is finally getting national press. I have noted the drop in gasoline demand on several occasions; this might be the most recent and one of the better posts. From the first tweet from Reuters that I saw this morning: US refiners face weakening demand at pump for first time in five years.
U.S. refiners are facing the prospects of weakening gasoline demand for the first time in five years, stoking fears that earnings this year may be even worse than the dismal performances seen in 2016.
The sign of weakening U.S. gasoline demand comes as U.S. refiners are in the midst of reporting their worst year of earnings since the U.S. shale boom started in 2011. The oil boom turned to bust in 2014, and U.S. independent refiners reaped the profits as plunging pump prices and a growing economy helped fuel a surge in demand. 
U.S. refiners amassed large inventories that punished margins last year, but record gasoline demand and robust exports helped provided a firewall against further slippage. Now the industry faces the prospects of higher crude prices following global production cuts and fresh federal data that suggests their gasoline demand safety net may be eroding.
Other data points from the article:
  • gasoline use has grown every year since 2012
    MPC, PSX, and VLO execs all acknowledged weaker-than-expected seasonal volume in earnings calls this past week; all anticipated strong demand to return
    crude runs, meanwhile, are at historic levels, up roughly 300,000 bpd over last year
    refiners must sell off winter-grade gasoline; thus, inventories are not likely to linger
So, we have acknowledgement that gasoline demand is down, but no explanation why.

This is what I posted  February 2, 2017, (linked above):

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Gasoline Demand -- A Most Under-Reported Story

Comments later; two graphics:



Another reader is also stymied, noting:
I first looked at it last night, and couldn't decide what it meant, and have no further conclusions this morning.

Only 4 years of the last 18 years have a 3 week period where it's been so low: 2000, 2007, 2012, and 2014.
Meanwhile, from John Kemp via Twitter, gasoline stocks rising faster than ever:

Random Notes On Two Wells In The Williston Basin; Happy Birthday To Kate Hopkins #1 -- 60 Years Old; 53 Years Since It Was Initially Fracked -- February 5, 2017

A reader alerted me to this well, for various reasons:
  • 25093, 745, EOG, Wayzetta 150-1509H, Parshall, 52 stages, 14.3 million lbs, t8/13; cum 662K 12/16; just an incredible well, still producing about 6,000 bbls of oil per month, along with 12,000 MCF natural gas / month (2,000 boe). Who wudda guessed that a non-descript middle Bakken well would have produced over 600,000 bbls in just 3.5 years? And as as early as 2013, EOG was using 14 million lbs of sand, and 50+ stages. Truly amazing. 
That's a "baby well," only three or four years old. 

Now an oldie, a "senior well," celebrating its 60th year; fracked 53 years ago:
  • 1509, 248, CLR, Kate Hopkins 1, Antelope field, target, the Sanish oil pool; t12/57; cum 594K 12/16; this well was drilled in 1957. Then in 1964, a sundry form reported the operator planned to "fracture this well using 10,000 gallons of gelled water and 3,000 pounds of glass beads." (The original intent was to use 3,000 pounds of glass beads; but the work report said that 10,000 pounds of glass beads were used.)
So, there you have it, they've been "fracking the Bakken" since at least 1964.

I've been following this well almost from the beginning of the blog. A few years ago I noted (and blogged) that production was dropping  more and more every month, down to less than 20 bbls/month.

Now all of a sudden, a noticeable increase; no sundry form in the file report to suggest why.

Recent production profile:
Monthly Production Data:

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
SANISH12-201622200003100228
SANISH11-20163031038604570328
SANISH10-20163128920903990285
SANISH9-20163000909
SANISH8-2016141300119054
SANISH7-201610170077012
SANISH6-2016301500129199
SANISH5-201631200231093
SANISH4-2016380035011
SANISH3-2016517004109
SANISH2-2016731005600
SANISH1-201651921903200
SANISH12-2015622005608
SANISH11-2015380027011


This well was shut in from December, 1997, to March, 2000 (over two years). 

What did the production profile look like back in June, 1964, when they fracked the well with 10,000 lbs of water and a similar amount of glass beads?

Fracked on/about June 22, 1964:
SANISH11-196423289900263500
SANISH10-196429367700487500
SANISH9-196430400100529600
SANISH8-196429435300529600
SANISH7-196424399400469900
SANISH6-196430276700399800
SANISH5-196423191500285000
SANISH4-196426203800283000
SANISH3-196431235000252600
SANISH2-196429217500248800
SANISH1-196431251400323600
SANISH12-196330249900315400
SANISH11-196324217400270600
SANISH10-196329246300337200
SANISH9-196330247100344600
SANISH8-196331263600402400
SANISH7-196329273300284800
SANISH6-196314152900195000
SANISH5-196327262600316400
SANISH4-196330275800323600
SANISH3-196325251300298200

It's hard to say that fracking made that much of a difference. Perhaps flattened out the decline rate.

This is what the first few months of this well looked liked:
SANISH8-195826467200000
SANISH7-195826468100000
SANISH6-195826455500000
SANISH5-195817298600000
SANISH4-195825383000000
SANISH3-195820341700000
SANISH2-195823429400000
SANISH1-195824475500000
SANISH12-195716253800000