Sunday, April 29, 2018

Cleaning Out The In-Box -- April 29, 2018

Chevron vs Exxon: I've talked about this several times on the blog -- from Bloomberg, Exxon and Chevron battle for "American first."
Legacy has a lot to do with this. While both majors are born-again shale enthusiasts these days, Exxon has largely bought its way in, while Chevron is exploiting long-held acreage. The latter is the lower-cost option.
And Exxon's acquisitions included 2010's badly-timed XTO Energy Inc. deal, which has left it with a much bigger proportion of low-value natural gas in the mix. While Chevron's overall U.S. production is lower, its oil output is higher than Exxon's and increased 12.5 percent in the first quarter, year over year, versus just 2 percent for Exxon.
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Germany And Renewable Energy

This is a most incredible news story. One you will not find in the mainstream media. From JoNova:
Climate Worriers have the most terrible luck.
All the runes were lined up for Solar power — it is nearly free, pours from heaven, and millions of people seem to need energy “pretty often”.  Plus universities and governments have gifted twenty years of free advertising about its Glorious Wonderfulness.  Solar power is also used by the Celebrity Saints of Gaia thus filling fashionable, spiritual, and tribal needs. On a good day, it fills some megawatt needs too.
Despite all this, without forced payments from unwilling and unwitting non-users of solar power, investors are fleeing and the solar industry in Germany is collapsing. How can that be?!
After the German government decided to reduce subsidies to the solar industry in 2012, the industry nose-dived. By this year, virtually every major German solar producer had gone under as new capacity declined by 90 per cent and new investment by 92 per cent. Some 80,000 workers — 70 per cent of the solar workforce — lost their jobs. Solar power’s market share is shrinking and solar panels, having outlived their usefulness, are being retired without being replaced.

Wind power faces a similar fate. Germany has some 29,000 wind turbines, almost all of which have been benefitting (sic) from a 20-year subsidy program that began in 2000.

Starting in 2020, when subsidies run out for some 5,700 wind turbines, thousands of them each year will lose government support, making the continued operation of most of them uneconomic based on current market prices.

To make matters worse, with many of the turbines failing and becoming uneconomic to maintain, they represent an environmental liability and pose the possibility of abandonment.

No funds have been set aside to dispose of the blades, which are unrecyclable, or to remove the turbines’ 3,000-tonne reinforced concrete bases, which reach depths of 20 metres, making them a hazard to the aquifers they pierce.

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Road Song

Radar Love, Golden Earring

Coming Up On Twelve Years In The Bakken, And Federal Regulators Still Trying To Get A Handle On The Flaring Problem On The Reservation -- April 29, 2018

Flaring. Federal regulators meet with industry, tribe to discuss flaring issues -- The Bismarck Tribune.
Representatives from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Land Management met with oil operators, state officials and leaders from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation to discuss solutions.
North Dakota flared about 256 million cubic feet per day of natural gas in February due to inadequate pipelines and other infrastructure to capture the gas. The highest flaring rates typically occur on Fort Berthold, where wells produce a lot of gas and federal permitting processes take longer.
Miss Dalrymple forgot one adjective: "a lot."

That last sentence should read:
The highest flaring rates typically occur on Fort Berthold, where wells produce a lot of gas and federal permitting processes take a lot longer.
From twitter:
 
There is a solution.

$5 million donation. ETP makes largest donation ever to University of Mary's capital campaign -- The Bismarck Tribune.

From twitter:


A Rimrock Charging Eagle Well Has Produced In Excess Of 160K Bbls Crude Oil In First Four Months -- April 29, 2018

The Charging Eagle wells in Twin Buttes:
  • 32537, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 21-25-2TFH,
  • 32536, A, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 21-25-2TFH, t--; cum 162K 2/18;
  • 32535, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 21-25H,
  • 32534, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 21-25TFH,
  • 30879, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-19-18-2H3,
  • 30878, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-19-18-2H,
  • 30877, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-19-18-3H3,
  • 30876, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-19-18-4H3,
  • 30696, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-21A-16-4H, see below;
  • 30695, conf, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-21A-16-4H3,
  • 30694, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-21A-16-3H,
  • 30602, loc, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 9-19-18-1H3A,
  • 30601, PNC, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 9-19-18-1H,
  • 30600, 1,247, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 9-19-18-1H3, t1/16; cum 115K 2/18;
  • 30521, 1,588, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 9-19-18-2H3, t5/15; cum 146K 2/18;
  • 30390, 653, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 10-14-11-3H3, t6/15; cum 132K 2/18;
  • 30273, 1,642, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 10-14-11-3H, t6/15; cum 123K 2/18
  • 25293, 1,909, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 10-14-11-2H3, t6/15; cum 127K 2/18;
  • 25292, 2,079, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 10-14-11-2H, t6/15; cum 153K 2/18;
  • 25289, 1,710, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 14-14-10-3H3, t12/13; cum 191K 2/18;
  • 25288, 
  • 25287, 2,109, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 14-14-10-2H3, t12/13; cum 237K 2/18;
  • 23953, 2,022, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 16-21-16-1HA, t8/13; cum 218K 2/18;
  • 23952, 2,010, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 16-21-16-1H3, Twin Buttes, t8/13; cum 178
    K 2/18;
  • 23951, 2,246, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 16-21-16-1H, Twin Buttes, t9/13; cum 242K 2/18; 
  • 23950, 2,411, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-21-16-2, t7/13; cum 315
    K 2/18;
  • 23949, 2,298, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-21-16-2H, t7/13; cum 239
    K 2/18;
  • 23948, 2,454, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-21-16-3HE, t7/13; cum 297
    K 2/18;
  • 21069, 553, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-22-15-3H3, t11/11; cum 270K 2/18;
  • 19925, 609, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-22-15-4H, t11/11; cum 300
    K 2/18;
  • 19506, 1,595, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-14-24-16H, t3/13; cum 227
    K 2/18;
  • 19505, 2,252, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 15-14-11-4H, t3/13; cum 349
    K 2/18;
  • 17764, 769, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 1-22-23H, t10/09; cum 168
    K 2/18;
  • 17600, 1,187, Rimrock Oil & Gas/KOG, Charging Eagle 1-22-10H, t10/09; cum 259
    K 2/18;
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The well:
  • 30696, 3,218, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-21A-16-4H, Twin Buttes, a huge well, 44 stages; 12 million lbs, mesh/large; t11/17; cum 166K 2/18; 
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN2-20182823553239872085515765015199
BAKKEN1-20183132738328762837925015024388
BAKKEN12-20173145901455564181327739027739
BAKKEN11-20173063792633767230834146034146
BAKKEN10-201712603729000




Two CLR Oakdale Wells Will Come Off The Confidential List This Week -- April 29, 2018

This page will not be updated. 

I track the CLR Oakdale wells in Jim Creek oil field here. Two more Oakdale wells will be coming off the confidential list this week:
  • 32803, conf, CLR, Oakdale 7-13H, Jim Creek, a huge well; 
  • 32802, conf, CLR, Oakdale 6-13H1, Jim Creek,  huge well; 
Early production data has been released for these two wells.

32803:
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
2-20183337834526
1-20184284243516
12-20171656213603
11-201790
10-20179670


32802:
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
2-20181198611249
1-20183893737478
12-20171385811116
11-201710440
10-20179050

Wells That Will Be Coming Off The Confidential List This Next Week -- April 29, 2018

Friday, May 4, 2018:
None.

Thursday, May 3, 2018:
34104, SI/NC, MRO, Hammerberg USA 14-14H, Reunion Bay, no production data, 
33760, drl, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Njos 2-26-35-157N-100W MBH, Marmon, no production data,

Wednesday,
May 2, 2018:
34103, SI/NC, MRO, Dye USA 14-14TFH-2B, Reunion Bay, no production data, 
29276, 274, Drummond 55-1 42-21 6T, Missouri Ridge, Three Forks, 50 stages; 4 million lbs; mesh/resin coated medium/medium/large, t11/17; cum 53K 3/18;
29274, 603, Oasis, Drummond 5501 42-21 4T, Missouri Ridge, Three Forks, 43 stages; 3.4 million lbs; mesh/resin coated medium/medium/large, t11/17; cum 66K 3/18;
24049, SI/NC, Petro-Hunt, State 154-94-31C-32-4H, Charlson, no production data,

Tuesday, May 1, 2018:
34102, SI/NC, MRO, Julia Jones USA 13-14TFH, Reunion Bay, no production data, 
34101, drl, MRO, Briek USA 13-14H, Reunion Bay, no production data, 
33796, drl, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Berner 8-19-18-157N-99W TFH, Lone Tree Lake, no production data, 
33795, drl, Crescent Point Energy, CPEUSC Nelson 8-30-31-157N-99W TFH, Lone Tree Lake, no production data, 
33369, 252, Statoil, Abe 3031 5H, Painted Woods, t11/17, 8.8 million lbs; typo on form regarding number of stages; cum 14K 2/18; constrained production;
32803, 1,360, CLR, Oakdale 7-13H, Jim Creek, 4 sections; 65 stages; 14.6 million lbs, a huge well; t1/18; cum 94K 2/18;
32802, 2,230, CLR, Oakdale 6-13H1, Jim Creek, Three Forks, 4 sections; 65 stages; 14.7 million lbs; huge well; t1/18; cum 67K 2/18;  constrained production;
30696, 3,218, Rimrock Oil & Gas, Charging Eagle 15-21A-16-4H, Twin Buttes, a huge well, 44 stages; 12 million lbs, mesh/large; t11/17; cum 166K 2/18; the Charging Eagle wells are tracked here; in 11/17 -- 63,792 bo plus 34,146 MCF natural gas = 69,482 boe in one month;

Monday, April, 30, 2018:
34100, SI/NC, MRO, Nora Jones 12-14TFH-2B, Reunion Bay, no production data,
31426, 2,325, CLR, Hayes 7-6H, Crazy Man Creek, 4 sections; 59 stages; 9.8 million lbs, t12/17; cum 68K 2/18;

Sunday, April 29, 2018:
33591, SI/NC, BR, Anderson Ranch 2C TFH, Camel Butte, no production data,

Saturday, April 28, 2018:
33590, SI/NC, BR, Anderson Ranch 2B MBH, Camel Butte, no production data,
29720, 43, Foundation Energy, Rojic 22-9, wildcat; a Red River well; t1/18; cum 1,000 bbls over two months;