An MRO Well With Halo Effect In Bailey Oil Field -- Reminiscing -- For The Archives -- For The Grandchildren -- February 9, 2023

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs: 46.

WTI: $77.56.

Natural gas:$2.466.

One new permit:

• Operator: CLR
• Field: Pembroke (McKenzie)
• Comments:
• CLR has a permit for a Brooks well, SESW 9-149-98, 
• to be sited 1050 FSL and 2404 FWL

Seven permits renewed:

• Oasis: seven Lars permits in Mountrail County;

Four producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 29294, 1,703, Slawson, Vixen Federal 6-19-30TFH, Big Bend,
• 30868, 1,233, Prima Exploration, Smokey Bear State 3H, Smoky Butte,
• 38592, 3,238, MRO, Killion 44-7H, Bailey,
• 38593, 3,014, MRO, Weeks 14-8TH, Bailey,

 
Most of the wells in the MRO Killion / Weeks area are off line or too new to discuss, but this is one in the immediate area (remember: the Bailley oil field is a great field for observing the halo effect)

• 18384, 394, MRO, Glenn Eckelberg 24-8H, Bailey, t5/10; cum 575K 12/22, recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2022	24	8948	9009	13384	7355	6883	308
BAKKEN	11-2022	27	14104	14093	21899	10992	10202	507
BAKKEN	10-2022	31	17872	17857	35351	15571	14102	1233
BAKKEN	9-2022	30	15750	15796	45331	16188	15933	7
BAKKEN	8-2022	27	16451	16527	61968	11173	10846	126
BAKKEN	7-2022	7	5100	4802	26119	3835	3252	337
BAKKEN	6-2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	5-2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	4-2022	0	0	11	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	3-2022	29	1793	2006	1090	1147	0	821
BAKKEN	2-2022	28	1848	1825	1178	1166	0	842
BAKKEN	1-2022	31	2065	2035	1278	1304	0	940
BAKKEN	12-2021	31	2106	2157	1261	1332	0	966
BAKKEN	11-2021	30	2044	1983	1367	1292	0	942
BAKKEN	10-2021	31	2125	2093	1392	1340	0	979
BAKKEN	9-2021	30	2145	2175	1518	1348	0	990
BAKKEN	8-2021	31	2403	2392	1658	1444	0	1108

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Reminiscing -- For The Grandchildren

Some people like to snow-ski. Some like to pontoon-party on the lake. Some like to travel to exotic locales. 

Me, my favorite activity -- it's not a pastime -- it's more than that -- is walking. Just that, nothing more, walking. Depending on the weather, the location, the environment, sometimes I prefer walking in a big city; sometimes I prefer walking in the badlands, whether it's North Dakota or North Yorkshire. 

In the badlands, I don't need a destination. In a big city, I need a destination.

And, in the US, that destination is a bookstore with and/or next to a coffee shop with free wi-fi and outlets to recharge several mobile devices. 

I love the big city. 

Forty-six years ago, my favorite city in which to walk, Boston.

Forty-three years ago, San Francisco.

I didn't care much for London, as a walking city. Paris? Supreme, but not for bookstores and that was before mobile devices.

Istanbul? Kind of okay. But I needed more time.

Chicago? Sort of.

Trondheim? Oh, yes!

I prefer walking with a particular type of woman or by myself. Never with another man. I'll have coffee with another man but never walk "aimlessly" with a man. For me, walking is a private activity only to be shared with a woman. Biological XY with pronouns she/her. [With another male: there was one exception. Walking across Europe in the summer of 1973. Unplanned, but a fellow hiker.]

So, today, I love Portland. Yeah, that Portland. Oregon. Wow, the weather is perfect, bright sunshine, no rain, no wind. 

It really reminds me of San Francisco, the San Francisco I remember in the 1970s. 

For me:

• the extended 60s: public school; graduated from high school, 1969; college;
• North Dakota and South Dakota
• grew up watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" every Sunday night, 1959 - 1962
• I believe television first signed on in Williston, ND, in 1957
  
• the 70s: professional education; doctorate, 1977; post-graduate degree, 1980;
• Europe, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco
  
• the 80s: foot-loose and fancy-free in the USAF, overseas;
• Europe, Asia, Africa
  
• the 90s: the US south; no longer foot-loose or fancy-free, but still in the USAF;
  
• Alabama, Virginia, Texas;
• the 00s: the lost decade
• the 10s: San Antone
• the 20s: Sophia

Destination: Powell Books. This is the fourth day in a row I've MAXed from Gresham, Oregon, to downtown Portland. It's an hour ride on the MAX and I probably pass twenty Starbucks along the way. But I want this one, across the street from Powell Books.

Each day, I've bought at least one book from Powell's. Over the four days, I've averaged two books / day. 

I didn't need another book -- I've got six to finish on my trip back to Dallas, but I can't go to Starbucks without a new book when I'm in Portland. That's why I'm here.

My first six books were serious literature or serious science or serious politics. Today, a lark, as they say. 

The two new books: ---

But, first, how I got to these two books -- 

I was nostalgic (but in a very, very good way). I experienced my coming of age in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston with a few stops in between. So, I wanted a "history" book of California -- and what luck -- I found two: a "political history" (sort of) of California which would satisfy the northern California itch, and a book on Disneyland, which would satisfy the southern California itch.

The Disney book is a throw-away -- once read I will pass it on to my younger daughter who will take the twins to Disneyland, Anaheim, California, when they are eight. 

The other book, amazingly, interestingly, coincidentally, is really about the California immigration issue. Wow, it might be a bit dated, but it will serve as the foundation for what's going on now. 

I'm thrilled:

• California: America's High-Stakes Experiment, Peter Schrag, c. 2006. 
• Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World: Richard Snow, c. 2019.