Maybe The Bakken Really Is Shut Down -- Daily Report From Yesterday Still Not Posted -- November 20, 2019

NDIC still reporting 55 active rigs in the Bakken, so apparently someone is working.

$55.73	11/20/2019	11/20/2018	11/20/2017	11/20/2016	11/20/2015
Active Rigs	55	62	56	39	65

RBN Energy: rising baseload demand for natural gas means more price spikes, volatility.

U.S. natural gas prices are increasingly susceptible to periodic spikes and volatility as baseload demand for gas — or the minimum level of demand that must be met on a daily basis — specifically from power generators and liquefaction plants, has rapidly climbed in recent years, and is still rising. The power sector has upped the ante on its gas consumption, with gas replacing coal as the most cost-effective go-to fuel for meeting baseload electricity demand. On top of that, feedgas deliveries to LNG export terminals have added 7 Bcf/d of demand to the gas market in the past three years, much of which is flowing at high, baseload-like rates, and that demand is set to increase further as more liquefaction projects are completed. These two market components together — LNG exports and gas-fired power generation — will take a bigger slice of domestic gas supplies, making the gas market ever more sensitive to weather, maintenance and other factors that disrupt that baseload level of demand or the supplies that serve it. We’ve already begun to see the effects of this phenomenon on Henry Hub and other regional gas prices. Today, we delve into this fundamental shift and what it could mean for the gas market.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019: 67 for the month; 162 for the quarter:

• 35577, 2,017, CLR, Carus 9-28H, Cedar Coulee, t8/19; cum 113K 9/19;
• 35550, 1,063, CLR, Carus 4-28H1, Cedar Coulee, t10/19; cum 5K after 7 days;
• 34772, SI/NC, XTO, Lonnie Federal 31X-3G2, Hofflunc, no production data,
• 31967, SI/NC, Petro-Hunt, Klevmoen Trust 153-95-17D-7-3H, Charlson, no production data,