Monday, September 2, 2024

A Five-Well Petro-Hunt Pad, The Zabolotny / State Wells, Little Knife, Billings County, Is Coming Off Confidential List This Next Week -- September 2, 2024

Locator: 48520PETROHUNT.

Link here.

Clearing Out The Inbox -- September 2, 2024

Locator: 48519ARCHIVES.

Stories I'll be interested in this week, or stories that simply caught my eye over the weekend.

The usual disclaimer applies and I can't guarantee the links all work; often for any number of reasons, links are wrong and/or are broken. 

The Fed:

  • the Fed may have reduced inflation even more than it intended; we've talked about this before. Link here.
  • Morgan Stanley saying the same thing, link here.

US gasoline prices

  • EIA says, adjusted for inflation, US gasoline prices are about $1.70 lower today vs twelve years ago!!! Link here.Thank you Harold Hamm and Joe Biden.

Intel (INTC):

  • the plan to save the company; comments are very, very helpful.  Link here.
  • the plan, Reuters; exclusive. Link here.
  • over at twitter, link here.
  • crash and burn! Badly designed chips or are they defective? Link here.
  • Intel says nothing to see here? LOL. Link here.

Portfoil Parrot: investing; twitter; new. Link here.

Nvidia (NVDA)

AI:

  • Apple, Johnny Evans. Link here.
  • Open AI user count soars as Apple and Nvidia want to invest. Link here.
  • Facebook's (META) Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date. Link here. IIRC, Mark Zuckerberg is the number 1 buyer of Nvidia's GPUs. Needs to be fact-checked.
  • Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp. Link here.
  • Barron's -- Apple, Nvidia may join Microsfot in funding Open AI, link here.

MSFT: its "recall uninstall option is just a bug. LOL. Link here.

Germany can't compete:

  • VW weighs first-ever Germany plant closure to cut costs, link here.
  • Dan Tsubouchi, link here.

Lucid:

Dollar General: consumers are "strapped," feeling the pain. Link here. But they can afford $100,000 EVs.

HEVs
:

  • the fake EVs. Simply ICE with a bit of a kick. Nothing more, nothing less. Link here.
  • sales. EIA. Link here.

ERCOT: Texas -- huge natural gas demand. LOL. Predicted.

Beth:

BRK: sells more BofA; has now cut state by nearly 15%. Link here.

NBC: with the Summer Olympics, "hit it out of the bullpark." Link here.

Investing: stock market returns after rate cuts; link here.

Caitlin Clark: WNBA Rookie of the Year; link here.

Taylor Swift: concert tickets, start at $2,220. Can go as high as $100,000. Link here.

World Heritage Sites: Frank Lloyd Wright, six across the US, including Taliesen E and Taliesen W. Link here.

Dinosaurs:

  • a new species? NY Times. Link here. Why it's important? Montana.
  • for Sophia: Gorgonopsia. Link here. Gorgons.

Debunked science: from The WSJ. And folks think Trump was wrong with regard to Covid. LOL.

Tax law: companies are reaping millions. Link here. Congress put the wrong date in the tax law and haven't been able to fix it for several  years, but to a dysfunctional Congress.

Parody: link here.

Three college football games over the weekend:

  • Colorado vs NDSU
  • Notre Dame vs Texas A&M
  • USC over LSU!!!

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Katie Ledecky In Williston, North Dakota

Book tour. Signing. At the old Williston library. The line stretched for quite some distance out the front door. That library: one of my favorite spots when growing up in Williston. When I first saw it, I was amazed. I never knew there was anything like a public library and all those books.

The other woman in the picture is my sister, Karla. 

#3 among the Carl and Ruth Oksol siblings.

Going down the Katie Ledecky rabbit hole, I ran across this:

It's hard to believe, but our middle granddaughter will be starting her freshman year at the same university Katie Ledecky attends: Stanford University. School for Olivia starts in less than two weeks.

Initial Production For Wells Coming Off Confidential List This Next Week -- September 2, 2024

Locator: 48518WELLS.

The wells:

  • 40515, conf, CLR, Hartman 12-28H, Chimney Butte, npd,
  • 40325, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-9C-4-3H, Little Knife, npd,
  • 40148, conf, KODA Resources, Amber 1402-3BH, Fertile Valley,

DateOil RunsMCF Sold
7-2024195626972
6-2024212835821
5-20242245111992
4-20242331410561
  • 40514, conf, CLR, Hartman 11-28H, Chimney Butte, npd,
  • 40326, conf, Petro-Hunt, State 144-98-16B-21-1H, Little Knife, npd,
  • 40203, conf, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-9C-4-2H, Little Knife, npd,
  • 40327, conf, Petro-Hunt, State 144-98-16B-21-2H, Little Knife, npd,
  • ` 37578, conf, BR, Mathistad 2B MTFH, Croff, npd,
  • 40481, conf, CLR, Roadrunner 7-15H, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 40328, conf, Petro-Hunt, State 144-98-16A-21-3H, Little Knife, npd,
  • 40149, conf, KODA Resources, Amber 1435-2BH, Fertile Valley,
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
7-2024215517489
6-2024230526148
5-20241956110137
4-20242637212189
3-20246750
  • 40147, conf, KODA Resources, Amber 1402-3BH, Fertile Valley,
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
7-2024193346653
6-2024220866724
5-20242264313804
4-2024206689693
  • 40480, conf, CLR, Roadrunner 6-15H, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 39543, conf, Grayson Mill Knight 35-26F 7TFH, Banks,
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
6-20241875667768
5-20243087198122
4-202454468130579
3-2024167746271
  • 39542, conf, Grayson Mill, Knight 35-26F 6H, Banks,
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
6-202431601100458
5-202442103122326
4-202463439164432
  • 39256, conf, Hess, SC-4WX-LW-153-98-3130H-1, Banks,
DateOil RunsMCF Sold
6-2024530584
5-20242209645369
4-20243103663878
3-20245376261432
  • 37579, conf, BR, Croff 2B MTFH, Croff, npd,
  • 40479, conf,  CLR, Roadrunner 5-15H, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 40457, conf, Slawson, Nightmaker 6-17-8TFH, Big Bend, npd,
  • 37580, conf, BR, Mathistad 2A MTFH, Croff, npd,
  • 40458, conf, Slawson, Nightmaker 7-17-8TFH, Big Bend, npd,
  • 40417, conf, Oasis, Fossum 5301 43-35 3B, Indian Hill, npd,
  • 40490, conf, CLR, Roadrunner 4-15HSL, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 40478, conf, CLR, Clover 6-10H, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 40459, conf, Slawson, SnakeEyes 7-30-29TFH, Big Bend, npd,
  • 37581, conf, BR, Croff 2A MBH, Croff, npd,
  • 40477, conf,  CLR, Clover 5-10H, Murphy Creek, npd,
  • 40460, conf, Slawson, SnakeEyes 6-20-29H, Big Bend, npd,