Busy, Busy, Monday -- Six Wells Coming Off Confidential List Today, Weekend -- July 3, 2023

Locator: 45873B.  

Car sales, June, pending.

Wagner Group: where are they?

The Southern Surge: what's happening?

Tech, Nvidia. Again.

Sports over the weekend: NASCAR, PGA. Ricky Fowler wins Rocket Mortgage, how fitting.

Later: a reader wrote to say he/she had not seen any note about NASCAR over the weekend, wondering if he/she had missed a note. My very quick reply:

No, haven't posted anything. May not get to it. NASCAR was a mess over the weekend. As you know. [The reader was from Chicago, where the race was held ... billed as "the Chicago street race."]

Saturday, the "junior" event cut short due rain and decision made later not to finish it on Sunday. Then, the "senior" event, on-again, off-again all Sunday due to rain / flooding -- and finally started late in the day by which time I was celebrating Sophia's birthday.

At least that's what I think happened. By that time I had turned to the PGA and watched Ricky Fowler's "historic" win.

GDPNow: June 30, 2023.

I-LL 22M: Say what? See this.

BUD:

Opera:

Wind: hurting.

Tyson: to remove advertising tagline re: chicken. "No antibiotics ever." No longer true.

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $71.41.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023: 48 for the month; 156 for the quarter, 411 for the year
39438, conf, Kraken, Orbit 24-13-12-1H,
39426, conf, CLR, Bice Federal 9-32H1,

Monday, July 3, 2023: 46 for the month; 154 for the quarter, 409 for the year
35680, conf, Liberty Resources, Albertson E 158-93-27-34-4MBH,

Sunday, July 2, 2023: 45 for the month; 153 for the quarter, 408 for the year
39425, conf, CLR, Bice Federal 8-32H,
37898, conf, BR, Lillibridge 2A MBH,
35679, conf, Liberty Resources, Albertson E 158-93-27-34-3MBH,

Saturday, July 1, 2023: 42 for the month; 150 for the quarter, 405 for the year
39424, conf, CLR, Bice Federal 7-32H1,
35678, conf, Liberty Resources, Albertson E 158-93-227-34-2MBH,

RBN Energy: with many steps required, mining projects face trickiest path to approval, part 4.

When it comes to large-scale energy and infrastructure projects, permitting can sometimes look like a game of Whack-a-Mole, where efforts to conclude the process are continually frustrated by issues that appear (and then sometimes reappear again and again), encompassing everything from environmental reviews and the vagaries of different federal agencies to legal challenges and public (and political) opposition. But if the difficulties in building a new pipeline, transmission line, or solar farm seem immense, they pale in comparison to what developers of mining projects can face. In today’s RBN blog, we look at why mining projects take so long to develop, the unique challenges of the permitting process, and some ways that it might be improved.

Permitting for large-scale infrastructure projects can be a complicated, drawn-out process that is often easier said than done. The permitting process can drag on for years — such as with Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the poster child for today’s permitting challenges — and prevent some from ever becoming a reality. As an example of how long the process can take, the TransWest Express Transmission Project, which will move 3,000 megawatts (MW) of Wyoming’s wind-generated electricity to utilities in more densely populated regions of the Desert Southwest. Even though it’s a straightforward idea, the project didn’t receive final federal approval until April — 18 years after it was first proposed — and serves as a prime example of how long the permitting process can take. New transmission lines are critically important for the development of wind- and solar-powered generation, which are increasingly running into more permitting issues at the local level as they grow in scale and move closer to populated areas.