The Book Page: The New York Review Of Books -- December 5, 2020

Wow, wow, wow! The current issue of The New York Review of Books, December 3, 2020, has not less than seven essays that look really, really interesting/promising:

• "Suffering, Unfaltering Manet," Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years, art exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 384 pp, $65. I assume it's one of those coffee-table art catalogues.
• "Cartographers of Stone and Air," Listening to the Wind: The Connemara Trilogy: Part One; and, Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, Lyall Watson, each about 400 pages long; each paper back; each about $19.
• "In The Soup," The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth, Michael Marshall, 360 pp, $26.
• "The Power Brokers," Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power, Pekka Hämäläinen, 530 pp, paperback; $22.
• "The Devil Had Nothing To Do With It," several books on Robert Johnson reviewed.
• "Life, Death, and the Levys," Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, 317 pp, paperback, $28.
• "Dudes Without Heirs," Beowulf, translated from the Old English by Maria Dahvana Headley, 138 pp, softcover, $15.00 Yes, yet another translation of Beowulf. One wonders how many of these translations started out as / were theses for PhD candidates? Essay by Irina Dumitrescu, professor English Medieval Studiss at the University of Bonn.
  

I was most curious about Pekka Hämäläinen. His abbreviated wiki bio:

Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen is a Finnish professor of history. His prize-winning book, The Comanche Empire, was published in 2008. Since 2012, he has been the Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. He was formerly in the History Department at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Notes On The Above After Reading The Essays

"In The Soup." It appears there is nothing new in the book that I have not read in the books in my library on the origin of life. It appears the only new advancement is the movement from alkaline vents in the depths of oceans to pools on land that moved back and forth between wetting and drying. It was not mentioned in the article, but this would take us to tidal pools dependent on the moon but more likely researchers are talking about pools that become much drier than tidal pools become. This is important because many scientists argue that life on earth would not have been possible without the earth's moon. I won't be buying this book simply because it seems that 90% of the book is a re-hash of what has gone before.

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Amazon Announces New Fulfillment Center: OKC

Link here, press release. Data points:

• Oklahoma City, OK
• anticipated to launch in 2021
• will create 500 new full-time jobs

Notes From All Over -- Saturday Night, December 5, 2020

Science: In my thirty-four years in medicine, I can count the number of really big disappointments on one hand:

• Type 1 diabetes and the failure of researchers to solve this problem;
• a cure for sickle cell disease; and,
• "a cure for cancer."

Of the three, the first two seemed solvable but so far, not much advancement. But now, in The WSJ, reports that there my be "real" cures for sickle cell disease. I'm going to have to go back and review Crisper gene editing. 

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Ornithology

Birds: I can hardly wait. I ordered a brand new copy of a 2013 biography of Alexander Wilson, the father of American ornithology. It should arrive Monday. I treasure my hardcover of an earlier biography of Alexander Wilson but looked forward to a new study.

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A Christmas Story

Sophia: Perhaps my favorite Christmas movie -- no surprise -- is A Christmas Story. Somehow Sophia found it on cable television on "her" iPad tonight. I have no idea how she found it and I can't find it on the big 27-inch iMac. So, I'm watching The Maltese Falcon on TCM followed by The Thin Man. Wow, what a great country. 

By the way, if you have cable television, and good wi-fi, you absolutely have to have the largest, newest Apple iPad available. It's impossible to articulate how incredible the experience is.

On another note, if I've said it once, I've said it a dozen times: Spectrum cable television is very expensive and I've tried ways to cut the cord and/or cut the cost, but it's impossible. But, if one takes advantage of what Spectrum has to offer, it's really worth the monthly subscription.

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More Proof That The Pandemic Will Widen The Gap
Between The Haves and the Have-Nots

Link here.

In August, I reported here on how Montgomery County, Maryland, was seeking to shut down private schools as part of their Covid-19 strategy of abolishing all risk by abolishing all freedom. 

As more individuals have recently tested positive for Covid, the county government is responding with a new array of iron-fisted decrees. Some of the latest edicts make little or no sense, confirming the county’s nickname of LoCo Moco.

Gov. Larry Hogan blocked the county government’s effort to criminalize private teaching; Catholic, Jewish, and other schools have operated safely with no significant Covid outbreaks. But county schools remain shut down in large part due to the clout of the teachers union, a bulwark of political support for County Executive Marc Elrich. 

Since the county padlocked public schools earlier this year and shifted to unreliable “distance learning,” there has been a 500%+ increase in the number of black junior high students failing mathematics and a 600%+ increase in Hispanic students failing. 

The percentage of black elementary school students failing English increased more than 350% and the percentage of Hispanic students failing increased more than 500%. 

These numbers were revealed during a County Board of Education meeting on December 3; a local activist captured screenshots of the disastrous test results. Some of the data was also reported in yesterday’s Washington Post. Shutting down public schools has done more harm to black students than anything since the end of local school segregation in 1961.

Black lives matter. 

I don't even know how one quantifies a 500% increase and a 600% increase. 

A 100% increase is a doubling. 

200% would be another doubling, I suppose.

I give up. From wiki:

An increase of 100% in a quantity means that the final amount is 200% of the initial amount (100% of initial + 100% of increase = 200% of initial). In other words, the quantity has doubled. An increase of 800% means the final amount is 9 times the original (100% + 800% = 900% = 9 times as large).

So, I guess, a 600% increase means the number of students failing mathematics in this study is 7x as large.

If 5 students out of a 1,000 students fail, then only 35 students are failing. That put things in perspective. From 5/1000 = 0.5% to 35/1000 or 3.5%.

Working backwards, 35 students, now divided by 5 = 7. So, subtract one from seven, get 6, add two zeros and put a "%" sign behind that. 

Check: if ten students are failing now and originally there were five students failing, then 10/5 = 2. Subtracting 1 from 2 gets you 1. Add two zeros, and voila -- a 100% increase. And that checks.

What A Wonderful World, San Cooke

WPX Reporting Some Huge Omaha Woman Wells: One Nokota Well Produced At Rate Of 160K Over 30 Days -- July 24, 2021

Locator: 10010OMAHAWOMAN.

Updates

July 31, 2024: production updated below.

May 29, 2024: production updated; maps posted. 

Original Post 

Wow, wow, wow, I can't recall if I have posted this one before. I don't think so.

The Bakken never ceases to amaze me. 

I track record IPs at this link. 

The well:

• 36820, drl/A-->F/A, WPX, Omaha Woman 24-13-12HC, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 82K over 28 days extrapolates to 88,198 bbls over 30 days; fracked 8/1/20 - 8/22/20; 8.9 million gallons of water; 84.5% water by mass; five wells on this pad; and look at that, no natural gas vented or flared; good for them; cum 497K 5/22; cum 509K 7/22; cum 572K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	10-2020	28	82318	81951	58511	62518	53575	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• 36864, drl/A-->F/A, WPX, Omaha Woman 24-13-12HD, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 65K in 29 days; cum 305K 5/21; stimulated 8/20; 52 stages; 209K bbls water; 12.8 million lbs proppant; cum 426K 5/22; cum 438K 7/22; cum 500K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	21085	21081	19570	45247	31422	11409
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	23702	23748	16964	39014	25245	11077
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	34095	33987	20835	56121	30079	22239
BAKKEN	2-2021	28	25072	24925	16598	41268	18808	19640
BAKKEN	1-2021	26	26715	26742	19657	43973	14611	26381
BAKKEN	12-2020	31	54153	54128	35628	76194	42963	27282
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	54729	54881	43648	77003	41402	29595
BAKKEN	10-2020	29	64477	64194	58020	69007	61972	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	1	525	520	630	739	625	53
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• 37309, A/F, WPX, Omaha Woman 24-13-12HIL, Squaw Creek, first production, 9/20; t--; cum 351K 5/21; cum 579K 5/22; cum 596K 6/22; cum 734 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	40140	40139	18482	62692	58248	0
BAKKEN	4-2021	27	30185	30130	16221	39151	35013	779
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	42472	42547	20947	55085	49187	1198
BAKKEN	2-2021	17	18536	18498	10589	24354	22290	0
BAKKEN	1-2021	31	41052	40866	22277	53243	48635	62
BAKKEN	12-2020	31	48713	48725	26894	59283	42942	10973
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	34954	34911	20172	42539	32280	6368
BAKKEN	10-2020	31	48585	48702	22651	39600	34247	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	20	46676	46414	27852	56805	19326	32393
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• 36819, A/AL, WPX, Omaha Woman 24-13-12HY, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 317K 5/21; cum 438K 5/22; cum 447K 7/22; cum 506K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	21973	22006	21303	51439	35109	13819
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	27211	27156	27076	35539	27865	4606
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	29664	29648	28548	38742	20397	15016
BAKKEN	2-2021	28	28808	28624	26436	37623	14906	19497
BAKKEN	1-2021	31	27689	27656	32278	36161	20751	12295
BAKKEN	12-2020	29	35744	35780	41500	39569	26663	8938
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	57270	57376	51396	63397	41365	15754
BAKKEN	10-2020	25	55642	55679	57679	40646	34568	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	10	32942	32657	43387	36467	28579	4318
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• 36821, A/F, WPX, Omaha Woman 24-13-12HZ, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 331K 5/21; cum 461K 5/22; cum 473K 7/22; cum 570K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	25480	25439	23771	42677	33588	6203
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	26150	26069	22829	36167	21430	11783
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	26007	26012	23606	35967	16091	16939
BAKKEN	2-2021	28	26954	26787	22374	37278	19420	14836
BAKKEN	1-2021	27	26808	26818	25965	37074	18911	15170
BAKKEN	12-2020	31	48931	48921	46972	54902	37133	12378
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	54686	54792	62212	61359	40109	15248
BAKKEN	10-2020	27	53960	54086	48560	38150	31506	744
BAKKEN	9-2020	20	42354	41987	44865	47521	28425	14474
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Nokota Wells

The Nokota wells running in the opposite direction to the west of the Omaha Woman wells are similarly incredible wells. 

• 37133, A/AL, WPX, Nokota 24-13-12HA, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 294K 5/21; cum 412K 5/22; cum 422K 7/22; cum 498K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	19555	19572	15776	52956	37765	12936
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	21415	21411	16039	39573	37133	0
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	29150	29323	19748	43940	40662	0
BAKKEN	2-2021	28	37550	37478	24754	55630	51469	0
BAKKEN	1-2021	31	52952	52857	33377	74608	58322	10459
BAKKEN	12-2020	28	57818	57609	42777	81465	53064	22071
BAKKEN	11-2020	28	42546	42667	31567	59949	33001	22249
BAKKEN	10-2020	16	33359	33144	26724	47003	22303	21053

• 37134, A/AF, WPX, Nokota 24-13-12HB, Squaw Creek, first production, 10/20; t--; cum 390K 5/21; 69K over 13 days extrapolates to 160K over 30 days; cum 540K 5/22; cum 556K 7/22; cum 659K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	26142	26211	20108	61929	44087	14883
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	31921	31893	22168	53189	49621	0
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	41412	41373	26830	54582	49894	97
BAKKEN	2-2021	24	30537	30454	20670	40248	32166	4696
BAKKEN	1-2021	29	39777	39846	31805	52426	35692	12333
BAKKEN	12-2020	31	70137	69948	48429	92442	65453	19322
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	80474	80740	58188	106063	60245	37051
BAKKEN	10-2020	13	69136	68691	47438	91121	44375	39282

• 37328, A/AL, WPX, Nokota 24-13-12HQ, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 222K 5/21; cum 337K 5/22; cum 348K 7/22; cum 412K 5/24;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	31	18269	18287	24270	51498	39047	10334
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	20224	20213	25238	38225	35908	0
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	26835	26869	30120	39395	36364	0
BAKKEN	2-2021	27	24562	24508	28082	28713	25225	730
BAKKEN	1-2021	31	33639	33554	37363	39324	34495	1069
BAKKEN	12-2020	29	32025	31947	43697	37436	31588	2270
BAKKEN	11-2020	28	40407	40486	52075	47236	27456	15310
BAKKEN	10-2020	16	26211	26042	31044	30640	17510	10244

• 37135, A/F, WPX, Nokota 24-13-12HX, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 303K 5/21; cum 443K 5/22; cum 457K 7/22; cum 535K 5/24; 59,212 over 13 days extrapolates to 137K bbls over 30 days:
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2021	20	15993	16142	17837	31075	25709	3555
BAKKEN	4-2021	30	27115	27005	28704	42463	39409	0
BAKKEN	3-2021	31	26596	26665	27747	36543	28096	5442
BAKKEN	2-2021	28	27175	27077	29275	37338	26647	7646
BAKKEN	1-2021	29	32158	32156	34355	44186	28486	12111
BAKKEN	12-2020	31	45703	45616	46583	62797	40034	17710
BAKKEN	11-2020	30	68773	69001	74085	94493	41935	45043
BAKKEN	10-2020	13	59212	58831	48316	81357	36455	38501

An Old CLR Vardon Well In Siverston May Be Returning To Production? Still Listed As "Flowing" -- December 5, 2020

A large number of wells have been recently fracked.

The well:

• 20354, 1,200, CLR, Vardon 1-14H, Siverston, t7/11; cum 370K 10/20; recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	10-2020	6	373	192	1290	149	85	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2020	3	43	0	20	42	27	0
BAKKEN	6-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2020	1	54	240	30	83	0	78
BAKKEN	12-2019	31	6667	7060	5075	11022	12	10591
BAKKEN	11-2019	5	1538	1145	1079	2522	324	2133
BAKKEN	10-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2019	5	1333	1144	887	2454	776	1639
BAKKEN	8-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2019	0	0	211	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	6-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2018	0	0	233	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2018	31	12240	11976	7310	20562	12104	8052

Whiting Reports Results Of A New Sanish Well -- December 5, 2020

The well:

• 37078, conf-->drl/A, Whiting, Oddie 44-7HU, Sanish, t--; cum 40K over 51 days; fracked, 2/21/20 - 2/26/20 (less than a week?); 8.7 million gallons of water; water 89% by mass;

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	10-2020	31	22822	22802	5070	17843	17784	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	20	16775	16609	3051	9975	9937	0

The graphic, a great example of a section line well; due to setback rules, the existing wells leave "orphaned" oil along the section lines; section line wells resolve this problem but 2560-acre spacing (four sections instead of the normal two) to accomplish this); this section line well is oriented in such a fashion to prevent much interference with existing wells; nonetheless, they are taken off line while the newer section line well is fracked:

The WPX Mandaree Wells In Squaw Creek

The wells:

• 36261, drl/A, WPX, Mandaree Warrior 14-11HA, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 21K in 40 days; see this post; cum 251K 10/20; a 52K month;
  
• 36260, drl/A, WPX, Mandaree Warrior 14-11HX, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 271K 10/20; see this post; a 59K month;
  
• 36463, drl/A, WPX, Mandaree Warrior 14-11HUL, Mandaree, t--; cum 258K 10/20; see this post; a 55K month;
• 36259, drl/A, WPX, Mandaree Warrior 14-11HS, Squaw Creek, t--; cum 242K 10/20;
  
• 20320, 375, WPX, Mandaree Warrior 14-11H, Squaw Creek, t5/12; cum 386K 10/20; 
  

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Miscellaneous Production Data

Note production profile; quite unusual for a Bakken well. So much for that dreaded Bakken decline:

• 36259:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	10-2020	31	30786	30756	13347	35619	30981	481
BAKKEN	9-2020	30	40836	40699	17115	48545	43357	0
BAKKEN	8-2020	26	28388	28358	16189	32844	28666	619
BAKKEN	7-2020	31	27501	27657	16151	39436	36089	0
BAKKEN	6-2020	30	35376	35405	20207	43803	39678	0
BAKKEN	5-2020	31	35560	35322	23435	48499	44340	0
BAKKEN	4-2020	30	25285	25294	23929	34718	31674	0
BAKKEN	3-2020	14	17245	17422	17301	19280	7826	9438
BAKKEN	2-2020	28	808	523	48	86	0	0

Note production jump. The well:

• 20320:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	10-2020	31	7997	7975	3795	9253	5795	1739
BAKKEN	9-2020	29	8768	8699	4381	10144	4572	3848
BAKKEN	8-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	7-2020	0	0	20	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	6-2020	5	2307	2287	1433	2669	37	2177
BAKKEN	5-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	10-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2019	28	961	1192	235	2250	1240	186
BAKKEN	8-2019	31	2102	2080	340	3452	2585	0
BAKKEN	7-2019	31	2111	2141	352	3329	2461	0
BAKKEN	6-2019	30	2115	2111	359	3047	2207	0