Locator: 49732B.
TNF: I vividly remember a note I got from a reader after the Amazon - Thursday Night Football deal -- the reader suggested this was the dumbest deal ever; TNF was historically the lowest-rated NFL game of the week -- vs the Sunday ticket, SNF, and MNF. I suggested that Amazon would take control once they had control. LOL. Did they ever. Last night? Best NFL game ever?
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $56.42.
New wells reporting (I found no less than three typographical errors in the list below -- they've been corrected; it may be time for me to stop blogging -- LOL -- three typographical errors in one short list!
- Sunday, December 21, 2025: 50 for the month, 173 for the quarter, 757 for the year,
- 40968, conf, Devon Energy, Costanza 24-13 4H,
- 40935, conf, BL-Herfindahl-156-95-3031H-9,
- Saturday, December 20, 2025: 48 for the month, 171 for the quarter, 755 for the year,
- 41690, conf, CLR, Sibbern Federal 4-22H,
- 41279, conf, Hess, BB-Rice-LW-150-95-0718H-4,
- 41014, conf, Devon Energy, L And E 9-4 2H,
- Friday, December 19, 2025: 45 for the month, 168 for the quarter, 752 for the year,
- 41691, conf, CLR, Sibbern Federal 5-22H1,
- 41278, conf, Hess, BB-Rice-LW-150-95-07H-1,
RBN Energy: will there be a new oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada's west coast? Link here. Archived.
A framework agreement signed in November between Canada’s federal government and the province of Alberta, the source of most of the nation’s crude oil production, aims to kickstart a process to construct a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the country’s west coast. The goal would be to expand direct crude oil exports to Asia and further reduce Canada’s reliance on the U.S. as an export customer. In today’s RBN blog, we examine the agreement, what pitfalls might be in store, and what can be learned from prior pipeline proposals.
Western Canada’s crude oil production has been in near-steady ascension since 2010, when major oil sands projects that produce bitumen in the energy powerhouse of Alberta began to really ramp up. The result has been a literal doubling of oil production in Alberta from just under 2 MMb/d in 2010 to just north of 4 MMb/d to date in 2025 (rightmost stacked bar in Figure 1 below), with more increases expected in 2026 and beyond. With Alberta’s 2025 share of Western Canadian crude oil production averaging 88% (and 82% of all Canadian crude output, don’t forget about East Coast oil!), the real growth focus has been on Alberta and ways to expand the customer footprint for all those barrels.
