Whiting With Four New Permits -- December 19, 2024

Locator: 44485B.

US House fails to pass Trump-Musk-supported funding bill to keep US government operating into the new year: one wonders if "they" have to cancel the inauguration if the government is shut down. 

Great optic: members of US Congress flying home for Christmas break knowing that they have failed to fund the US government to keep it operating.

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $69.91.

Active rigs: 36.

Six new permits, #41444 - #41449, inclusive:

• Operators: Whiting (4); Kraken (2):
• Fields: Bear Butte (McKenzie); Dollar Joe (Williams)
• Comments:
• Kraken has permits for two wells in Bear Butte, a Bear Butte well and a Bubba well, NENE 23-148-101; 
  
• to be sited 425 FNL and 435 FEL, and 425 FNL and 501FEL;
• Whiting (Chord Energy) has permits for four Violet Olson wells, lot 2, section 5-155-96,
  
• to be sited 871 / 882 FNL and 2045 / 2144 FEL

Dry hole:

• 32124, dry, Whiting, Niemitalo 31-15-2XH, Mountrail County; 

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The Book Page

Four essays back-to-back in the current issue of Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2024:

• "The Liberties of a Nation": Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery, by Cara Rogers Stevens, University Pres of Kansas, 400 pages, $54.00, essay / book review by Jean M. Yarbrough, p. 56."The Great Miscalculation": A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War, by David S. Brown, Scribner, 352 pages, $32, essay / book review by Christoper Flannery, p. 59.
• "A Rediscovered Gem": The United States, Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Salvery, by John Swanson Jacobs, edited by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, University of Chicago Press, 328 pages, $115 (cloth), $20 (paper), p. 62.
• "Reconstructing Reconstruction": The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860 - 1920, by Manisha Sinha, Liveright, 592 pages, $39.99 (cloth), $19.99 (paper), p. 64.