CLR With Two New Permits; Three DUCs Reported As Completed -- February 11, 2025

Locator: 48540MOTIVA.

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The Book And Arts Page

Wow, what a great evening last night, catching up with some reading.

Three articles, all from the February 10, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

True Blood, Nicola Twilley: on "artificial blood." 

Artificial blood was a huge research endeavor in the US military many years ago. I had a colleague whom I had known for decades who was leading the research project for artificial blood for the USAF. After years of research he finally retired, and went into real estate in the San Francisco area. I lost track (and interest) in the whole subject. And, what do you know! There's an eleven-page essay on making artificial blood. So, there's that. I'm still not much interested in the subject, but at least I've been brought up to date.

Rape kits: this three-and-a-half page essay by Jessica Winter talks about "rape kits." 

This, too, brought back USAF memories. I believe I was first acquainted with a "rape kit" in 1977 or thereabouts, while working as the only Emergency Room physician one night at David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA. I had never seen a "rape kit" before and I certainly did not know its history. It was amazing. Everything Jessica Winter says about the "rape kit" and the examination was accurate -- relating my exact experience. Jessica Winter reviews / relates the journalist Pagan Kennedy who has just published her new book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit. More later. It sounds like "we've" not learned much.

But when I read this, and many other articles with regard to US medicine, I can say, without hesitation or qualification, US military medicine was as good as anything in US civilian medicine and better than 99% of what I've seen in the civilian world. All "all free." For the price of being active duty.

Morandi: Italian still-life artist. New word (phrase): Bel Paese. Not just a cheese. Connected me with the Phillips Collection, again, in Washington, DC.

Modern art begins with the post-impressionist painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

These artists were essential to modern art's development.

At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild," multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.

Matisse's two versions of The Dance signified a key point in his career and the development of modern painting.

It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.

At the start of 20th-century Western painting, and initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first Cubist paintings.

One book: Two Lives, by Janet Malcolm, Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein.  

A delightful book. Picked this book up years ago at a discount bookstore, finally getting around to reading it. This should not be the book of Gertrude Stein one reads, but it is, very, very delightful. Highly recommend. Can be read in one short sitting. Jewish women living in France during WWII.

From wiki: winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas "Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary 40-year partnership with the brilliant modernist Gertrude Stein in Two Lives, clearing up a few mysteries along the way—including how two Jewish women were able to survive World War II in their provincial French château with the help of a Vichy collaborator."—Vogue

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Natural Gas

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $73.32.

Active rigs: 35.

Two new permits, #41605 - #41606, just the two:

• Operator: CLR
• Field: West Capa (Williams)
• Comments:
• CLR has permits for two Klepp wells, lot 3, section 1-154-97; 
• to be sited 341 FNL and 2208 / 2272 FWL.

Three producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 38940, 1,070, CLR, Harms West Federal 4-32H, McKenzie,
• 40522, 725, Slawson, Fisherman 5-21-28TFH, Mountrail,
• 40554 980, Slawson, Fisherman 5-21-28H, Mountrail,