Market And NDIC Daily Activity Reports Now Being Posted -- May 25, 2022

Gasoline demand, link here: 

Russia, link here:

Deere increases its dividend by about eight percent, and coming earlier than expected, I suppose. 

• That speaks volumes about the "health" of the American farmer and the regional banks that back them up. LOL. 

Not to be outdone, MNRL: 

One of America's biggest refiners, MPC, hit a 52-week intra-day high before dropping back just a bit. And MPC hasn't increased its dividend since February, 2020. 

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: about $110.10.

Active rigs: 39 or thereabouts. 

NDIC is back! Daily activity reports are being loaded!

May 24, 2022:

• One new permit; eight permits renewed; one producing well, a DUC, reported as completed.

May 25, 2022:

• Five new permits.

Summary of those two daily activity reports:

Six new permits, #38974 - #38979, inclusive:

• Operators: BR (1), Grayson Mill (5)
• Fields: Todd (Williams County); North Fork (McKenzie County)
• Comments:
• Grayson Mill has permits for three Oneill wells and two Dave Arnson wells, 
• to be sited in NWNW 17-154-101; between 321 FNL and 385 FNL and between 291 FWL and 441 FWL
• BR has a single permit for a Saddle Butte well in SESE 9-149-96; 230 FSL and 1147 FEL

Eight permits renewed:

• XTO (7): four GBU Wayne permits, and three GBU Kelly permits, all in Williams County;
• Hess: one EN-State permits in Mountrail County

The one DUC reported as completed:

• 32427, 61, BR, Phantom Ship 3B MBH, McKenzie County
  

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The Music Page

I'm in my Roy Orbison phase again. Most of what follows has been on the blog before in one form or another.

Best female singer in my lifetime: Linda Ronstadt.

Best male singer in my lifetime: Roy Orbison.

Many interviews available on YouTube: this is pretty good. "One-to-one interview, 1992." 

Perhaps best music video ever: "Black and White Night."

Amazing, the singers with whom he worked or collaborated. I forgot about Jennifer Warnes, but there she is, one of the three women backup singers, "Black and White Night."

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1988.

Died, 1988. December 6, 1988. 

"Traveling Wilburys, Vol 1" (1988) and "Mystery Girl," his last album, 1988.

Mystery Girl is the twenty-second album by American singer Roy Orbison. It was his last album to be recorded during his lifetime, as he completed the album in November, 1988, a month before his death at the age of 52, and it was released posthumously by Virgin Records on January 31, 1989.

Roy was not on the second Traveling Wilburys album. 

Don Was. The last album.

Barbara Orbison. Amazing. Happenstance. Married Roy when she was 17 years old. German.

"King of Hearts." 23rd album. "Heartbreak Radio" would have been perfect for Linda Ronstadt. "Heartbreak Radio" was a Rita Coolidge album, 1981.

Wow, a flash of Disneyland flashed across my mind.

The 60's -- what a great decade for music.