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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Texas Growth -- For The Archives -- May 18, 2024

Locator: 47117TEXAS.

Links:

  • Newsweek, America's fastest-growing cities, May 16, 2024.
  • New York Post, America's fastest-growing cities, May 16, 2024.
  • Fox 13, America's fastest-growing cities, May 16, 2024.
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The Bakken Never Ceases To Amaze Me -- Looking At Huge Jump In Production

Locator: 47116B.

 The maps:


 

The wells of interest:

  • 25455, 1,061, Grayson Mill, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-2H, Sandrocks, t9/13; cum 246K 3/24;
  • 25456, dry, Grayson Mill, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-3H, Sandrocks, dry,
  • 25457, 1,320, Grayson Mill, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-4H, Sandrocks, t10/13; cum 247K 3/24;
  • 25994, 1,016, Grayson Mill, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-3HR, Sandrocks, t10/13; cum 247K 3/24; 

Note the jump in production, anything but trivial, and people still don't get it (the Phoenix Capital Group does, LOL):

  • 25455: 
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN3-20243119443192266790430752295511080
BAKKEN2-20241488368895497331296412123785
BAKKEN1-20240000000
BAKKEN12-20230000000
BAKKEN11-20230000000
BAKKEN10-20230000000
BAKKEN9-2023155495673816016010
BAKKEN8-202331120212021187139613960
BAKKEN7-202331126212661408172814490

  • 25457:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN3-2024261516615374261263250132261143
BAKKEN2-202427202802007810697137515325864824
BAKKEN1-20240000000
BAKKEN12-20230000000
BAKKEN11-20230000000
BAKKEN10-20230000000
BAKKEN9-202385265411311891890
BAKKEN8-202331597616465107210720
BAKKEN7-20233111141103734223519560

  • 25994: 

PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN3-2024311629516312437822150520588796
BAKKEN2-20242214188141011023391952619298140
BAKKEN1-20240000000
BAKKEN12-20230000000
BAKKEN11-20230000000
BAKKEN10-20230000000
BAKKEN9-2023121401681939809800
BAKKEN8-202314784708522113511350
BAKKEN7-20233112391345914279725180
BAKKEN6-202316546434386804242425
BAKKEN5-2023197239754261599133699
BAKKEN4-202321640534532147213121

To the north, the map:

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Scheffler: Has Yesterday’s Events Finally Caught Up With Scottie’s Psyche? Double Bogey, Bogey, Now In Penalty Area On The Fourth — May 18, 2024

Locator: 47115GOLF.

Meanwhile, others are knocking in birdies and … eagles.

So, after four holes, double bogey, bogey, and … a bogey. Seven off the lead.

Update, May 23, 2024: Scottie Scheffler: on the day of the arrest — felony arrest, booked, charges dropped -- resolved within an hour or so. Should be an interesting day in Louisville at the PGA. Update, May 23, 2024, Louisville police have not dropped charges. Second-degree assault of a police officer is a felony in Kentucky, subject to 10 years in prison. I think the issue here, is that with all the confusion, darkness and rain, law enforcement was concerned about the risk of a second fatality.

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Journaling -- May 18, 2024

Locator: 47114EVS.

EVs, rambling: I don't drive much any more. In fact, if I didn't have Sophia to chauffeur to friends' parties; jiu-jitsu; or, soccer, I could probably give up my car completely. My own cars I only drive locally. If I take a road trip, I always rent from Enterprise -- they have a site about four minutes from where we live.

When I do drive, and this has been the way it's been since I got my first car -- a 1948 Willys jeep -- back in high school,  when I get home, I don't think about the car. I drive up to the house, park the car and get out. I don't think about the car until the next time I go out to drive it. No fuss, no muss, with the car on most days.  Annual maintenance, oil change, state inspection and registration, new tires every so often, and a new battery every so often. And that's it.

I don't think about gassing up -- re-fueling -- whatever. On the way home, I take a glance at the gauge, and if I need gasoline, I stop at one of any number of gas stations along the way, almost no matter when I am. The stop takes five minutes and I'm good-to-go for the next week or so, unless traveling cross-country.

“Along the way.” I don’t need an app to find a gas station.

But my perspective with regard to EVs. Just the opposite. Tethered. Always thinking about the battery. On the drive home -- every day -- every time I'm driving -- I would be checking the battery gauge. It's no different than looking at my battery every so often when I'm on the laptop. When will I need to plug it in? Will I be going somewhere later today where I will need to have a fully charged computer? Same with an EV. Not only every time I get into the car, but throughout the trip, I would be looking at the battery gauge. 

And, then, before calling it a day, I need to decide whether I need to charge the car overnight, either in the garage (and worry about an in-garage battery fire) or at a public charging station -- where the next one might be; will there be a charger available; will the charger work; how long will I need to charge the EV? Is it safe to leave the car unattended overnight in some dark parking lot on the edge of town?

Tethered to a battery.

It’s no longer about the car. It’s no longer about range, per se. It’s about the battery. Everything wrapped up in the battery.

I think about that almost every day, trying to understand  why EVSRNFM, and then I saw this in the news feed this morning:

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Journaling

I've kept journals since middle school. My longest continuous journal went from summer between my junior year and senior year in high school to medical school graduation, 1968 - 1977. About nine years.

In addition, a lot of my journaling was in the form of letters sent from college and graduate school to my parents. My mom kept all those letters, kept them organized, and are safely stored in the bat cave. 

Then in the USAF for 30 years plus a day, I kept multiple journals, covering different activities, permanent duty stations and temporary duty locations.

Then with the grandchildren, any number of photo albums for each. 

I continue to journal but it's a bit different now that I blog.

Anyway, here's a few of my journals and photo albums down in the bat cave.

This is my most treasured journal for form and function, and detail. It was one of many kept at the time. First entry, San Antonio, January 23, 2006; final entry, August 6, 2006. I would have had two or three other journals covering specific subjects running concurrently.

Here's a sample of what the journal looks like on the inside. I opened the journal and randomly came to the entry for May 2, 2026. We were stationed in San Antonio, TX, with just a bit more than one full year yet to serve, before retiring. I was surprised by the entry; it could have been written today, LOL:

  • depressed over some family news
  • Hamas
  • Puerto Rico
  • investing
  • oil prices
  • the Fed and inflation concerns.
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