No Wells Coming Off The Confidential List Today -- October 13, 2021

Active rigs, updated daily COB by NDIC:

$80.16	10/13/2021	10/13/2020	10/13/2019	10/13/2018	10/13/2017
Active Rigs	29	14	58	67	59

No wells coming off confidential list.

RBN Energy: railing Uinta Basin waxy crude to gulf coast refineries, part 2. Archived.

There are a number of reasons why certain U.S. refineries might want to include waxy crude oil from Utah’s Uinta Basin in their crude slates — the highly paraffinic oil has a lot of neat qualities. But waxy crude can be a hard sell, mostly because, like bacon fat, it needs to be kept warm to remain in a liquid, flowable state. 

As a result, the vast majority of the waxy crude produced is driven in insulated tanker trucks to refineries in nearby Salt Lake City. Uinta producers have been making progress of late, however, in sending regular shipments of waxy crude in coiled and insulated railcars to a couple of Gulf Coast refineries. Existing terminals would support incremental growth, and a proposed new railroad out of the basin would allow far larger volumes to be efficiently railed to market. In today’s RBN blog, we continue our look at the prospects for a most unusual type of crude oil.