Saturday, May 16, 2020

A QEP Moberg Well To Reach 500K This Summer -- May 16, 2020

The well:
  • 22194, 1,248, QEP/Helis, Moberg 13-17/16H, Grail, t2/13; cum 497K 3/20;

An Old MRO Well With A Nice Jump In Production -- May 16, 2020

The well:
  • 18253, 344, MRO, State Ralph Howard 31-16H, Bailey, t1/10; cum 367K 3/20;
Production: this well was drilled back in 2010. Look at the jump in production in 2015, five years later. There is no neighboring activity that would obviously affect this well. Hubbert's peak oil theory says this is not supposed to happen. Production period of interest:
BAKKEN5-20163149024941294631468081630
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MRO Well In Bailey Oil Field With Huge IP -- Chapman 31-15H -- Old Well With 55-Fold Jump In Production -- May 16, 2020

The well:
  • 33325, 5,022, MRO, Chapman 31-15H, Bailey, t10/17; cum 362K 3/10;
Wanna see the neighboring well? Wow. This well was drilled back in 2008 -- look at the jump in production in 2017 -- Hubbert's peak oil theory says this is not supposed to happen. 28,683 bbls over 22 days extrapolates to 39,113 bbls over 30 days. 39,113 bbls / 700 bbls = a 55-fold jump in production. Production period of interest:
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Two BR Mathistad Wells; 22B And 22A -- #33144 And #33146 -- Each Goes Over 500K Cumulative -- May 16, 2020

The BR Mathistad wells have been featured on the blog often.

Again. This Mathistad wells goes over 500K cumulative.

The well:
  • 33144, 318, BR, Mathistad 22A MBH, Croff, t10/17; cum 532K 3/20;
Completed back in 2017, look at recent production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN3-202031146241459949483149830777366
BAKKEN2-202029110151094654452987228802654
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Another new Mathistad well, has also gone over 500K cumulative:
  • 33146, 273, BR, Mathistad 22B UTHF, Cross, t10/17; cum 532K 3/20;

The Bakken Never Ceases To Surprise Me -- May 16, 2020

The well:
  • 25776, 3,043, Equinor, Bugs 27-22 7H, Poe, t7/14; cum 289K 3/20;
Full production here.

Production period of interest:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN3-20203145224577842755715338109
BAKKEN2-202029560963301718275827300166
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Natural Gas -- Futures -- May 16, 2020

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More Evidence That Saudi Is In Deep Trouble -- Along With Kuwait, Shutting Down A Field That Might Supply 0.5 Percent Of World's Entire Oil Supply -- May 16, 2020

Updates

Minutes later, 4:39 p.m. CT; -- exactly what I said an hour ago -- there's a bigger story here --


Minutes later, 4:32 p.m. CT -- this story is getting a lot of re-tweets over at twitter.
Most interesting: "analysts" are missing the big story here. They're focusing on the 100,000 bopd production. That's not the story. The question not (yet) being pursued -- why this particular field at this particular time? A hundred thousand bopd is the proverbial drop in the bucket for Kuwait/SA combined production. Fifteen million bopd. Hundred-K / 15,000-K = 0.7%.
Minutes later, 4:14 p.m. CT -- it's now being reported in Reuters --
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have agreed to halt oil production from the joint Al-Khafji field for one month, starting from June 1, Kuwait’s Al Rai newspaper reported on Saturday. 
of the OPEC+ group of oil producers to cut output in a bid to reduce a glut in global supplies. Both Gulf states have also said they would make additional cuts beyond the agreed curbs.  
Someone is in serious, serious trouble. Or someone is tired of giving away their lifeblood to China, the same folks who released Wuhan flu and screwed everything up for Saudi Arabia.

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Disclaimer: I was quite distracted while writing this note. There may be content and typographical errors. If this is important to you, go to the source. 

Hello, possums, to steal a word from Dame Edna, if you have been following the Khafji oil field, owned and operated jointly by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, this is quite a story.

A huge story.

To bring you up-to-date, from oilandgas360, just a few months ago, February 2, 2020:
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have started preparation work to resume crude oil production from the Al-Khafji oil field jointly operated by the two countries, with initial output expected around the end of February (2020), two industry sources said. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), agreed last year to end a five-year dispute over the area known as the Neutral Zone, allowing production to resume at two jointly run fields that can pump up to 0.5 percent of the world’s oil supply.
More at the link, but one assumes a lot of time and effort went into bringing this field into joint production after five years of dispute. Can you believe it, this field was discovered in 1960?

So, this field was discovered in 1960, closed five years ago for "environmental reasons," under dispute since then, and finally, after billions of riyals invested, I assume, some fifty years later, with great fanfare, pomp and circumstance, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia make a huge announcement just a couple of months ago: "Hey, we're going to re-open this huge field under joint operation!"

Inshallah.

Now, this .... drum roll .... from Twitter, less than an hour ago:


More from the oilandgas360 link:
Output is expected to reach 175,000 bpd from Al-Khafji and 145,000 bpd from Wafra after a year of restarting the fields, the official said. 
Kuwait newspaper Al-Rai reported on Sunday that production at Al-Khafji will start by the end of February and that testing of oil and gas pipelines and facilities has already begun. 
Al-Khafji is operated by Al-Khafji Joint Operations Co., a joint venture between Kuwait Gulf Oil Company and AGOC, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. It had been producing between 280,000 bpd and 300,000 bpd of Arabian Heavy crude before its closure in 2014 for environmental reasons.
"Environmental reasons" .... in the Mideast? LOL.

Halting oil production just three months after all the hoopla? Apparently Allah wasn't willing.

One wonders if there might be a whole lot more to the back story -- why it was decided to (apparently) completely shut down production. Certainly there were other options. I think there is much, much more to the story.

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Updating Sweden -- The Meme Exposed -- May 16, 2020

Reminder: St Greta is the new authority on how to contain Wuhan flu. This should be a hoot.

First things first: we called this a couple of week ago. See this post.  Re-posting:
Yesterday I posted this:
Sweden and Wuhan flu: Sweden is getting a lot of positive press about how that country handled the coronavirus. When one actually sees the data, one gets another impression. If one has time to read only one article on Wuhan flu today, this would be the article
This is the meme: Sweden won the argument.
Now, today, from Breitbart (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/16/poland-labels-swedens-coronavirus-policy-darwinian/): Poland labels Sweden's coronavirus policy 'Darwinian.'

For those unfamiliar with the metonym, "Darwinian" in this case refers to "survival of the fittest." Poland is suggesting that Sweden simply let things go with regard to Wuhan flu to cull out the herd; establish "herd immunity" quickly; and, get past "this" as quickly as possible. Whether the country's goal was to have "better" statistics than the rest of the world, I don't know. I doubt this was some kind of international, Olympic-style competition. Whatever.

But the mainstream media picked up on this and the meme became Sweden "won the contest."

In fact, Sweden did not, by criteria set by the mainstream press:


The Oasis Aagvik Wells In Banks Oil Field Have Been Updated -- May 16, 2020

The Aagvik wells are tracked here.

Look at the jump in production in one of those wells.

The well:
  • 17986, 501, Oasis, Aagvik 5298 1-35H, Banks, t12/09; cum 237K 3/20;
Production (note: 3,680 bbls over 7 days extrapolates to 15,771 bbls over 30 days):
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