A Nice Enerplus Well Still Being Carried As A DUC? November 18, 2023

Locator: 46096B.

The well:

• 22301, SI/A, Enerplus, FB Belford 148-95-22D-15-3B, Eagle Nest, t6/21; cum 278K 9/23;
  

Scout ticket:

The maps:

Production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	9-2023	21	1526	1529	1718	2963	1820	19
BAKKEN	8-2023	30	2398	2430	1595	4664	2890	78
BAKKEN	7-2023	31	2689	2682	1771	5377	2808	68
BAKKEN	6-2023	30	3369	3282	2688	5704	2308	329
BAKKEN	5-2023	31	2655	2663	2471	4452	1691	95
BAKKEN	4-2023	30	3605	3596	2760	8384	4275	375
BAKKEN	3-2023	31	1581	1592	1259	2104	540	61
BAKKEN	2-2023	27	1485	1488	1017	2054	522	80
BAKKEN	1-2023	1	110	114	32	187	74	22
BAKKEN	12-2022	27	2703	2701	1013	4695	1873	465
BAKKEN	11-2022	30	3200	3200	1466	5625	2599	690
BAKKEN	10-2022	31	4253	4270	3110	6874	3174	704
BAKKEN	9-2022	30	5219	5383	3260	9145	4817	949
BAKKEN	8-2022	30	5707	5694	3608	9217	5040	742
BAKKEN	7-2022	25	5686	5647	3433	10202	6125	947
BAKKEN	6-2022	1	235	246	135	443	275	39
BAKKEN	5-2022	31	7665	7717	4608	14114	8915	1545
BAKKEN	4-2022	28	7443	7415	4054	13491	7079	1177
BAKKEN	3-2022	31	9231	9261	4891	16288	10281	1558
BAKKEN	2-2022	28	9374	9360	5234	17514	12133	1342
BAKKEN	1-2022	28	10905	11099	5871	19350	13815	1704
BAKKEN	12-2021	29	12916	12721	9009	18737	16885	1852
BAKKEN	11-2021	30	14520	14537	11066	21747	19049	2545
BAKKEN	10-2021	31	23999	23939	12831	42918	34129	4804
BAKKEN	9-2021	29	25592	25709	8339	38692	30411	3209
BAKKEN	8-2021	31	31608	31586	16561	42230	33199	3561
BAKKEN	7-2021	27	31950	32004	20584	33191	28921	4270
BAKKEN	6-2021	22	41192	40643	45859	53709	26643	21017
BAKKEN	3-2021	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Lego: This Is Most Remarkable -- Nothing About The Bakken -- November 18, 2023

Locator: 46095LEGO.

Sites:

• from Brickimedia;
• from Amazon (third party sellers)
  

Lego set #: 21310.

• released: 2017
• retired: 2018
• "lifespan": a remarkable 13 months; it's my impression that the average "lifespan" for a Lego set is five years;
• original price: $149.99
• number of pieces: 2,049
• this may simply be the best set ever for manufacturer's price
• current prize on Amazon: $607
• can be found at resellers for $350 - $700; even Amazon has multiple listings at different prices;

Buzz, LEGO:

• Star Wars: endless releases; expensive
• Harry Potter: relatively inexpensive; individual sets can be attached to each other; good for collecting; best way to collect, watch when piece is soon to expire;
• Speed Champions: for those with very, very limited budget, these make great collectibles; includes a James Bond Aston Marton and mini-figure based on Daniel Craig (needs to be fact-checked); often heavily discounted over at Amazon.

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Boys Attending a Quilt Show

They enjoy the quilts as much as the machines. It's really quite remarkable.

Words And Music -- Nothing About The Bakken -- From The Bat Cave -- November 18, 2023

Locator: 46094BOOKS.

Word for the day: "chested." From Richard III.

Background: link here. Long, long, article. Just part of it:

That "chested burial" was at one time considered as an attribute of wealth or social standing may be gathered from the following ancient regulation taken from the records of the historic town of Rye (Sussex):

In the year 1580 the City Fathers decreed that "no person who shall die within the Port of Rye under the degree of Mayor Jurat or common councilman, or of their wives, except such person as the Mayor shall give licence for and being paid to the Mayor for the use of the poor, shall be chested or coffined to their burial, and if any carpenter or joiner make any chest or coffin for any person to be buried (other than for the persons aforesaid excepted) he shall be fined ten shillings for every coffin so made by him."

When a coffin was used for the poor it was only for the purposes of conveying the corpse from the house where the death took place to the graveside. There the body would be removed and placed in the grave, covered only by the shroud or winding sheet.

In Scotland, about the sixteenth century, a kind of combined coffin and bier was in use. It consisted of a wooden receptacle, one side of which was hinged as a lid, from which the corpse was removed and lowered into the grave by means of ropes.

Andrews also describes the "death hamper," as it was called, where it was in use in some parts of the Highlands. Three pairs of loop handles were provided, through which iron bars were passed to enable it to be conveniently carried. After it had been lowered into the grave, it was turned over to relieve it of its load, and brought to the surface again for use on a future occasion.

Simpler still was a contrivance once used in Brittany. It consisted of a top and bottom plank, one over and one supporting the body. Blocks of wood held them together, two being nailed close to the neck of the corpse, two under the arms, and two near the ankles, thus forming a rough crate without sides rather than a chest.

"To chest" or place the body in a coffin is an expression frequently to be met with in early English records. Thus we read in the Bible, "He (Joseph) dieth and is chested."

In countries where earth-burial could be avoided, a coffin would be of little importance in preserving the body from decay, a natural or artificial cave being used in which the body would rest on a ledge or shelf, without any covering except the grave clothes.

By the way, "lifeless corpse" is not a tautology.

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A Musical Interlude

When I look back on 2023, I may argue that the best weekend was the weekend we spent in Chattanooga / Nashville. I never thought that Texas could be beat, but Tennessee certainly comes close.

And now the mash up:

The Top Stories Last Week -- November 18, 2023

Locator: 46093TOPSTORY.

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Number 1: Taylor Swift

Locator: 46070SWIFT.  

Taylor Swift: more records. One concert: 29 terabytes of data.

AT&T’s network alone moved 28.9 terabytes of data during the busiest day of Taylor’s three-day tour stop at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Set 10 of 13 new records. The other records? NFL championship games. 

The company estimates 1TB of data represents about 200,000 photos or 400 hours of video moving across its network. 28.9TB is a staggering amount of photo and video sharing. [Think cloud, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA.]

That’s the most data AT&T’s network has moved at any stadium for any event this year — the average Cowboys game day at the stadium moves about 21 terabytes of data. 

Swifties also moved record amounts of AT&T data at various other stadium tour stops: 23 terabytes of data at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, 12 terabytes of data at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, and 8.6 terabytes at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

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Number 2: Vision Pro / F-35

Locator: 46071APPLE.  

From the September, 2023, issue of Combat Aircraft, page 59. Tag: Vision Pro, F-35.

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Number 3: Sam Altman

Sam Altman fired from Open AI (ChatGPT) -- CEO and co-founder. 

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Number 4:  Qualcomm

Apple still no luck replacing the Qualcomm 5G modem with its own in-house-designed modem. Link here. And here.

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Number 5: AAPL

Back to $190.

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Number 6: F1 Racing In Las Vegas

Ferrari transporter by Lego.

F1 race in Las Vegas exceeded expectations. Awesome. 

Week 46: November 14, 2023 -- November 21, 2023

Locator: 46092TOPSTORY.

My top stories: link here.

Top, top story:

• Sam Altman fired from Open AI (ChatGPT) -- CEO and co-founder.
  
• Israel-Gaza: Israel moving into tunnels under the hospital.
  

Top North Dakota energy story:

• 
  

Top story

• US Senate won't confirm US military leaders; GOP leadership at its finest.
  

Top international non-story story:

• Russian-Ukraine war continues; drags on and on and on; starting to take backseat to Israel-Gaza;
  
• Russia most recently invaded February 22, 2022
• the war actually goes back to 2014
  
• Israel-Hamas war: lots of anxiety about regional spread, but so far, contained
  

Top international energy story:

• price of oil keeps dropping
• OPEC considering another cut in oil production; a cut of another one million bopd -- and you know what -- it won't make a difference.
  

Top national non-energy story:

• F1 race in Las Vegas exceeds expectations. What a difference a day makes.
• Thanksgiving dinner 4.5% less pricey than last year. Last year an anomaly. Transitory.
• Biggest US corn crop ever. Yup.

Top national energy story:

• MDU to spin off construction subsidiary.

Focus on fracking: most recent edition.

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• 
  

Top North Dakota energy story:

• 
  

Geoff Simon's quick connects:

• Geoff Simon's quick links.

Bakken economy:

• holding in there -- active rigs running about 36;

Commentary:

Headlines -- November 18, 2023

Locator: 46091ECON.

What recession? Barron’s.

Taxes? US oil companies doing just fine, thank you.

Earnings: Thanksgiving Week.

BRK-AAPL: portfolio.

Sam Altman being fired: good news or bad news for NVDA?

Canada! Just when the Panama Canal becomes an issue.

Real estate: $6-million riverfront home in South Dakota immediately raises “value” questions for homes on Flathead Lake, Montana. I’m thinking about homes selling for around $1 million. Are they worth closer to three tines?

Agree 1000%. 

Last weekend, May and I had a light midafternoon snack at our favorite gastropub (also gastro pub) -- the total bill came to $26 and change. We paid by credit card. We left a $20 tip.

The waiter wanted to know if we were splitting the bill -- half credit and half cash. Nope, the $20 bill was the tip. That's our SOP. We pay for the meal on the credit card and all tips in cash. For all tabs less than $75 we leave $20 regardless of the tab. Above $75, the tip will be more but no set rule. No set rule, because for the two of us we seldom have a tab greater than $75.