Wow, After A Long Week -- Nothing But Linda Ronstadt Tonight -- October 4, 2019

So much to post, but if I do post anything, it will simply be some incredible wells in the Bakken.

Have a great weekend.

Belated happy birthday to this Cedar Creek / Ordovician well:

• 2949, 260, Denbury Onshore, Cedar Creek Unit 8B 14X-2A-8, Cedar Creek, unitized, t8/61; cum 480K 2/20; producing for 60 years;

From an earlier post:

Recently, the oldest actively producing well, #35, was put on the AB list.

• 35, 503, Hess, Beaver Lodge-Devonian unit H-310, Beaver Lodge, t4/52; cum 216K 7/17;
• 35, 263, Hess, Beaver Lodge-Devonian Unit H-310, Beaver Ldoge, t3/160; cum 2.091755 million bbls;  

I had to go through a lot of permits to find the current oldest actively producing wells. These appear to be the five oldest actively producing wells. They are vertical wells with a depth of around 9,000 - 12,000 feet. They are Madison wells, and the oldest will turn 65 years old this year.

These Madison wells have each taken 50+ years to produce 500,000 bbls.

The wells:

• 498, 292, Hess, Tioga-Madison Unit L-132 HR, Tioga, t7/54; cum 534K 8/19; still active, but barley;
  
• 554, 408, Hess, Tioga-Madison Unit L-128 HR, Tioga, t8/54; cum 282K 8/19;
• 629, 159, Hess, Tioga-Madison Unit O-151 HR, Tioga, t9/54, cum 786K 2/20;
• 637, 350, Rim Operating, Hofflund 18HR, Hofflund, t12/54; cum 403K 8/19;
• 774, 156, Petro-Hunt, CMSU D0216, Charlson, t6/55; cum 475K 8/19;

It looks like #1987, Mr Woodrow Star "A" 1 in the Antelope-Sanish is finished, though it did produce 58 bbls over 4 days in 6/19; now "IA";

Then this one:

• 3983, 234, Enduro Operating, North Dakota C A 3, a Devonian well, vertical, 320-acre spacing, t1/66, cum 1.40 million bbls; 8/19; celebrated its 53rd anniversary January, 2019; 

From an old, old post, but such a good post:

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Notes To The Granddaughters

I tell the oldest granddaughter to never complain about or be fearful of work. Work and play hard; work and play til you get exhausted. Go to bed exhausted. Never worry about not being able to sleep. You will sleep when you have to. Never pass up an opportunity to try something new. Don't assume you will never see a certain person again. It is amazing how often paths cross and even more interesting how often one thinks of people you've met throughout life. Treasure each one of your classmates, elementary, middle, high school, college. Never quit reading. Always count your blessings. When things get tough/bad, just tell yourself, "this, too, will end."

I remember years ago running into a childhood friend who was several years younger than I. Perhaps I was in middle school when he was in elementary school. He says the one thing he remembers most about me: I was always saying, "this, too, will end." He says that mantra (?) more than any other, got him through some tough times in life. [It's funny; he grew up to be much more successful than I.]

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Summer of '42, Michel Legrand
This song becomes even more poignant when one recalls world events in 1942, and especially while reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, c. 1986.

Two comments from the YouTube link regarding this song:

You should read the book, it is hilarious, from chapter 8 on. OMG, laugh-out-load funny.

Hermie was a real character, and this was his biography, all the things said and done were all real. He said the book started out as a tribute to his mother and his best friend, Oscy, aka Oscar, who was killed during the Korean war as a medic on Hermie's 24th birthday, after that he never celebrated his own birthday again.

The book and movie evolved from a tribute to Oscar and their friendship to a love story and coming of age.

Hermie originally sold the screenplay as a screenplay, then after they filmed the movie, the producers asked him if he could write a book.

Hermie finished the book in two weeks, and the book became an instant best seller. Also, the producers of the movie weren't sure if it would be a hit, and offered Hermie a percentage instead of a salary. Hermie accepted and the movie became the sleeper hit of 1973. He said the movie and book made him so much money he never had to work again just from the residuals.

Jennifer O'Neil when she acted in this film this was the exact age of Dorothy character was in real life when Hermie met her. Dorothy was a 20-21 newlywed bride. Jennifer O'Neil bought the rights to the book, in hopes of making a sequel but obviously that never happened as Mrs. O'Neil is in her seventies now.

When the movie came out in 1973, about twelve women wrote to Hermie claiming to be Dorothy. One of them was the real Dorothy, Hermie could tell because of the hand writing and the contents of the letter. This was in 1973, and the movie took place in 1942, so the real Dorothy who was then 20, would have been in her 50's. The letter suggested they let things lie, because Dorothy remarried and was happy and was a Grandmother. So neither of them revisited the past. The whole movie was real, the only thing made up was the Packet Island, which was supposed to be Nantucket Island off of Massachusetts. But the movie was filmed in California up north of San Francisco, off of Mendocino. It's funny because it was filmed on the west coast they had to film the sunset as a sunrise where Dorothy says to Hermie as she's finishing writing her letter to her husband. "What a beautiful morning!" was actually a sunset.

The second comment, I could have written:

My favorite movie theme.   I could easily identify because when I saw the film, I was in my teens, one year older than central character Hermie.  That was 43 years ago.  Forty-three years have come and gone, and no movie or theme ever affected me so poignantly.   Today this song still  brings me to tears.

Summer of '42 is one of my "top ten" movies. I have only seen it once. I cannot watch it a second time. Anyone who has had their own "summer of '42" would understand. I have had more than my share of such "summers."