WTI Trades Above $80; Profit-Taking Mars Rally; Eight New Permits -- July 27, 2023

Locator: 45229B. 

F: incredible earnings. Surprised analysts; strong conventional truck sales; conventional prices "inflated" to pay for costs associated with EV ramp; Ford pushed out EV target. But their earnings were incredible -- many story lines here. Analysts expected an earnings decline of 20% to 54 cents, but, in fact, reported earnings of 72 cents. This was key, and exemplifies the entire EV industry:

• Ford Model-e, the emerging EV business, saw revenue vault 39%, year over year. But its loss widened to $1.08 billion from $722 million in Q1. Analysts will have problems forecasting and establishing a buy point.
  
• Further, Ford now expects to reach a 600,000-unit global EV production run rate during 2024. It previously expected to reach that target by the end of 2023. 
• link to WSJ here.
  

INTC: earnings beat. Link here.

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs: 39.

WTI: $80.09

Eight new permits, #40077 - 40084, inclusive:

• Operators: Hess (5); Grayson Mill (3)
• Fields: Big Butte (Mountrail); Round Prairie (Williams):
• Comments:
• Grayson Mill has permits for three Cuda wells, NENE 15-154-104; 
• to be sited 757/758 FNL and between 663FEL and 603FEL;
• Hess has permits for two EN-Trout wells and three EN-Halvorson wells, all in lot 3, section 2-156-94; 
• to be sited 524 FNL and between 1708 FWL and 1840 FWL.

Six producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 32237, 238, Petro-Hunt, Bella 4B-28HS,
• 32449, 244, Petro-Hunt, Donna Bddy 14B-20HN,
• 39020, 927, CLR, Rhonda 6-28H1,
• 37945, 1,395, CLR, Brangus FIU 14-11H2,
• 36631, no ip, XTO, Tobacco Garden 21X-17D,
• 37698, 0, BR, Ole 4-1-29MBH,