Locator: 51005B.
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Investing: tech ... storage (e.g., Micron, now), but chips... coming ... CPUs -- circuits -- connectors ..
"You can howl at the wind, but AI is here to stay."
We're still in the early days. Cost is not the #1 concern; the #1 concern remains the supply chain.
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $75.85.
Active rigs: 27.
Three new permits, #43048 - #43050, inclusive --
- Operators: Formentera Operations (2); Enerplus;
- Fields: Frazier (Divide County); Ellisville (Enerplus)
- Comments:
- Formentera has permits for two Matador wells, SESW 16-161-97;
- to be sited 546 FSL and 1550 / 160 FWL;
- Enerplus has a permit for a Helstad well, NWNW 28-158-99,
- to be sited 474 FNL and 353 FWL.
Eight permits canceled:
- Formentera (8): four Jackson and four Piper permits, all in Burke County;
One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:
- 42029, 806, Kraken, Steen LW 12-13-24 10H, McKenzie County;
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This is what Sophia, grandchild #3, age 11, is racing this summer.
She also raced the even better boat, the Laser -- but not in Japan as shown below, but on Grapevine Lake, north Texas, USA, where you don't need to wear a wet suit during the summer..


