Finally, A Well Comes Off The Confidential List -- January 28, 2021

Before we get started: I can't provide the specifics for obvious reasons, but it's always a great day when one of the best energy blogs in the world, takes ideas from the milliondollarway blog, not once, but twice. And we move on.

Fast and furious:

• Goldman Sachs: Biden's federal land, water leasing is bullish for the drilling industry. Agree.
• Iraq: ready to implode (again)
• Saudi Aramco to sell more shares to the public
  
• Texas democrats not happy with Biden's announcement to ban federal leasing (LOL)
  
• seven incredible Apple stories (pending; stand-along post)
• Miley Cyrus marathon

Comment: there was a lot of talk recently that Texas might go blue. It might. But with the federal ban on new oil and gas leasing, it set back that effort tremendously. Even MSNBC is reporting stories that Texas democrats are not happy with that development. Is there any one thing that could have gotten more attention from the Texan democrats? LOL. Well, I suppose there is one other thing: if they "tear down that wall." 

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$53.30	1/28/2021	01/28/2020	01/28/2019	01/28/2018	01/28/2017
Active Rigs	13	53	65	57	38

Number of active rigs inside the reservation: 5

Finally, a well coming off the confidential list -- Thursday, January 28, 2021:

• 36812, drl/A, Hess, TI-Hanson-158-94-0706H-1, 33-061-04553, Tioga, first production, 7/20; t--; cum 66K 11/20; a moderately good well; a great well considering its location; fracked 6/21/20 - 7/2/220; 7.8 million gallons of water; 86% water by mass:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2020	23	9167	9285	10513	11021	10281	740
BAKKEN	10-2020	31	16145	15996	19488	17623	17623	0
BAKKEN	9-2020	26	11822	12076	18864	18450	18423	27
BAKKEN	8-2020	27	26553	26883	46616	23088	23028	60
BAKKEN	7-2020	4	2601	1896	4094	1399	1282	117

RBN Energy: making sense of the hydrogen buzz, production edition, part 2. Archived.

Based on the response we received to our first-ever hydrogen blog last fall, it’s fair to say we didn’t waste this space on a fringe subject. To be honest, the level of interest in hydrogen far exceeded our expectations, and suggested that we might have even been a little bit late to the party — but fashionably so, if you ask us. In the weeks since then, we’ve spent a fair amount of time distilling the tremendous amount of news flow and reading material that was either sent our way or popped up in the daily news feeds. 

You could go a lot of different directions with hydrogen and it’s still very easy, in our view, to get lost in the forest of green energy technology. So, as we are wont to do, we have stuck to our simple approach of tackling this fuel just like we do with hydrocarbons, and we are first turning our attention upstream. Today, we continue our series on hydrogen with a look at the top production methods for the fuel.