Bruin Reports A Huge Bakken Well -- January 14, 2019

See first comment with regard to the size of these wells.

Bruin reports a huge well (again):

• 31775, 3,193, Bruin, Fort Berthold 151-94-26B-35-15H, Three Forks, API: 33-053-07184, 12 million gallons of water; 87% water by mass, 55 stages; 14.6 million lbs, t8/18; cum 156K 11/18; Antelope-Sanish. For background, see this post.

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
SANISH	11-2018	30	44405	44422	66530	67002	43193	23464
SANISH	10-2018	31	40293	40105	78884	62116	40721	21200
SANISH	9-2018	2	2345	2240	3612	2968	1603	1352
SANISH	8-2018	30	62854	63370	83442	50095	39587	10338
SANISH	7-2018	6	5721	5205	20304	3340	609	2715

Right now, these are the three exciting operators in the Bakken:

• MRO re-fracks, particularly in Bailey oil field
• Bruin's huge six-month IPs, the Fort Berthold wells in Antelope-Sanish
• NOG as a proxy for the Bakken

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The Literary Page

Wow, what a treasure! It's not (yet) behind a paywall. An essay on The Great Gatsby by Christopher Hitchens in the May, 2000, issue of Vanity Fair. Link here. The final paragraph:

Fitzgerald’s work captures the evaporating memory of the American Eden while connecting it to the advent of the New World of smartness and thuggery and corruption. It was his rite of passage; it is our bridge to the time before “dreams” were slogans. He wanted to call it Among the Ashheaps and Millionaires—thank heaven that his editor, Maxwell Perkins, talked him out of it. It was nearly entitled just plain Gatsby. It remains “the great” because it confronts the defeat of youth and beauty and idealism, and finds the defeat unbearable, and then turns to face the defeat unflinchingly. With The Great Gatsby, American letters grew up.

It's too bad Christopher Hitchens is no longer with us. It's worse that journalists can't connect these great works of literature with current events.

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