Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Odds And Ends -- December 20, 2025

Locator49766PEAS.

The black-eyed peas southern style are in the oven! 

This is the big story in 2025: Trump opened the door -- took on "missions" that few previous presidents dared -- future US presidents will follow in his footsteps -- international leaders will also take pages from his playbook. Will expand later, but it's quite an interesting story. Good, bad, indifferent -- some would say that fortunately we had a strong judiciary and "rule of law" survived to keep the president inside the guard rails. 

Chips, 2026 -- all hands on deck! Anticipate another blistering year! Link here. Lead story in today's WSJ. A very, very nice summary of the big names. 

Micron: link here. Again, the comments at the thread are helpful.


 ******************************
The Recipe Page
Black-Eyed Peas: Casserole
Southern Style
From memory: Find your recipe on line to be safe!

Never add cold water to peas once you start the process. Cold water will make the peas split.

If they split, I guess you can make split-pea soup. LOL. 

Ingredients:

  • one-pound black-eyed peas; two cups
  • chicken broth; plan on two cups; have more on hand if necessary
  • bacon, six slices -- cut into one-inch pieces
  • onion, one medium -- minced
  • salt to taste: I start with a generous teaspoon
  • pepper to taste: I start with a generous 1 1/2 tsp
  • mustard, dry: a generous 1/4 tsp
  • ginger, "prepared," 3 tsps; I used sushi ginger because that's what I found at Walmart
  • honey: optional, 3/4 cup; I used 1/2 cup 

1. Soak black-eyed peas overnight.

2. Rinse/drain the peas; place peas in large pan; boil, cover with chicken broth, bring to boil, and then turn down to simmer for 45 minutes; add chicken broth as necessary to keep peas covered.

3. Meanwhile, sauté onions and bacon; recommended -- bacon first, eventually crispy; drain off most fat; leave some fat while sautéing onions with the bacon. 

4. Pre-heat over to 325°F. 

4. Mix solid spices: salt, pepper, dry mustard. 

4. Drain peas that have now been simmering for 45 minutes and place in a 2-quart casserole bowl.

5. Add prepared ginger to solid spices. 

6. Add solid spices/ginger to the sautéed onions and crispy bacon; add the mixture to the beans in the casserole bowl.

7. Optional: drizzle honey over peas, onions, bacon, spices.

8. Show your significant other how great the casserole looks before it goes into the oven; note the wonderful aroma.

9. Bake in over (325°F) for 1 1/2 hours.  

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Locator49765B.

WTI: $58.15. 

New wells reporting:

  • Wednesday, December 31, 2025: 72 for the month, 195 for the quarter, 769 for the year,
    • None (there was no June 31, 2025)
  • Tuesday, December 30, 2025: 72 for the month, 195 for the quarter, 769 for the year,
    • 41551, conf, XTO Energy, HBU Baptiste Federal 34X-11B, 
    • 41414, conf, Slawson, Atlas 3-21-16H, 

RBN Energy: the top ten RBN blogs of 2025. Link here. Archived.

The Top 10 RBN Blogs of 2025 -- Based On "Hits" -- Summaries Generated By ChatGPT With Human Editing -- December 30, 2025

What it takes to get energy from Point A to Point B — from where it is produced to where it is consumed — was at the heart of many of RBN’s most popular blogs in 2025. Infrastructure bottlenecks, shifting logistics, evolving price signals, and the constant push-and-pull between supply and demand all shaped the markets, with each segment seemingly wanting to go its own way. But there was another layer too: the three T’s that hovered over everything this year: Trump, tariffs and turbulence. Together, they formed the backdrop for a market that kept everyone guessing about where things were headed. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the Top 10 blogs of 2025.

Fortunately, in the RBN blogosphere, we have a great way to size up what’s coming next — the blogosphere itself. A huge advantage of publishing a daily blog on a single topic — and distributing it to tens of thousands — is that by tracking how many hits each post gets, we can spot emerging energy-market themes as they develop. And we share those insights with the RBN community. For more than a decade, we’ve wrapped up each year by reviewing which topics rose to the top of the hit parade in our year-end “Top 10” blog, distilling the common themes we learn from what amounts to crowd-sourced market intelligence. Today’s blog is the latest edition of that tradition.