Another "Beat" On The Jobless Claims Report -- Notes From All Over, Part 2 -- February 13, 2020

Mood: great mood today. I've never watched so much cable network news -- MSNBC is particularly fascinating. Laura Ingraham on Fox News late last night, particularly "fun." We all can't wait for AG Barr to testify.

Jobless report, link here:

• prior: 202K
• revised: 203K
• consensus: 211K
• actual: 205K  

Coronavirus: lots of jobs coming back to the US.

Coronavirus: Japan says it won't affect summer Olympics. Two minutes later -- report that first coronavirus-associated death in Japan reported. That headline about the summer Olympics? Never mind.

Reminder: dividend announcements here.

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Back to the Bakken

Thursday, February 13, 2020: 37 for the month; 144 for the quarter, 144 for the year:

• 36680, drl, XTO, Mariner 13X-36POW-H, Bear Creek; see this note; 

From the file report:

• Nabors B12
• vertical: 10,261 feet
• vertical depth: 10,311 feet
• horizontal: do the math
• TD: 15,797 feet designed; actual: 15,688' MD
• the well
• 20 miles north of Killdeer in Dunn County
• designed to drill southeast at a heading of 106.49° from SWSW section 36-148-96
• the third of three laterals completed on this pad
• will be one of two production observation wells on this pad
• drilling:
• the 1,221'-sidetrack and curve was drilled in 33 hours with a single BHA
• landed approx 17' below the upper Bakken shale
• the lateral drilled using a single BHA
• lithology described:
• the Spearfish formation
• the Broom Creek formation (Permian): 7,736' MD; + for hydrocarbons; sandstone;
• the Amsden formation (Pennsylvanian): 8,033' MD; siltstone and dolomite; low gas units;
• the Mission Canyon formation (Mississippian); 9,608' MD; 
• the Bakken: 
• the upper Bakken shale member (Mississippian): 11,032' MD;
• the middle Bakken shale member (Mississippian-Devonian): 11,049' MD;
• the lower Bakken shale member (Devonian): 11,089' MD
• the Three Forks formation
• first bench (Devonian): 11,113' MD;
• second bench (Devonian): 11,150' MD;
• third bench (Devonian) 11,209' MD;
• Duperow formation: 11,435' MD;
• lateral: 
• drilled in 4 days;
• exposed 4,358' of uncased hole, entirely with the Mississippian-Devonian middle Bakken member;
• gas shows, 226 - 2,007 units;
• target interval: 17' thick; beginning 10' below the upper Bakken shale; base: 10' above the lower Bakken shale;
• 11079-11059 = the target was a 20' seam
• the later is being equipped with a special fiber optic liner to monitor fracking communication with the Mariner wells

No animals were harmed during this operation, to the best of my knowledge.

Elon Musk's "Boring Company" was not consulted to the best of my knowledge during this operation.