Decision Expected By Mid-March ....

.... of which year -- not specified.

It's almost comical at this point. Bloomberg is reporting:

[Insert name of Canadian government official here] plans to meet with the U.S. State Department that has been reviewing the Keystone XL pipeline for more than five years, during a trip to Washington between Nov. 11 and 13, according to a statement last month from the provincial government.

“If Keystone XL doesn’t get approved, it will have an impact on U.S.-Canada relations,” [insert name of Canadian government official here] said in the radio interview. 

My calendar shows SecState Kerry will be body-surfing off Hawaii in mid-November, but my calendars have been known to be wrong. And, of course, there's not a snowball's chance in a warm house that this premier will see the US president.

ObamaCare Website Will Be Down On Saturday For Scheduled Maintenance; It's Not Complicated

Reuters is reporting:

The glitch-ridden website used to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law will be down for "extended maintenance" overnight on Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services said. 

The website has been plagued by technology problems and has not worked reliably since its launch on October 1, embarrassing the administration and providing ammunition for Republicans seeking to roll back the law known as Obamacare. 

The application, enrollment tools, and "data hub" will not be available from about 9 p.m. ET on Saturday (0100 Sunday GMT) until 9 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the department said in a statement, telling consumers they can call a toll-free call center to apply for insurance in the meantime.

Does anyone recall Google, Facebook, YouTube coming down for maintenance? It is now the industry standard to have "mirror sites" allowing these sites to remain up while taking the "mirror" site down for maintenance.

The young child who suggested "10" was about as close to six as anyone -- the number of ObamaCare enrollees the first day the website went live:

It's Not Complicated, ATT     "It's not complicated; shop around," Mr Obama, said earlier.

It's Not Complicated, Shop Around, Mr Obama

EOG Monster Wells -- Update; One Well With 150,000 Bbls in 3.5 Months; Another Well With 180,000 Bbls in 3.5 Months; IPs Did Not Tell The Story; Production Increased In Past Month

Updates

August 24, 2014: current total production for these wells --

• 24671, 402K 6/14;
• 24672, 207K 6/14;

Here are the production figures --
24671:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2014	30	18001	17921	837	21871	21637	96
BAKKEN	5-2014	23	15707	15908	1005	15824	14851	864
BAKKEN	4-2014	30	20870	20609	770	23315	22640	530
BAKKEN	3-2014	27	21632	21582	1053	19347	17568	1648
BAKKEN	2-2014	14	11005	11005	568	9425	8972	391
BAKKEN	1-2014	29	24575	24615	1239	20701	20479	89
BAKKEN	12-2013	31	28820	28960	1315	23949	23242	562
BAKKEN	11-2013	30	34762	35854	1668	24969	23888	943
BAKKEN	10-2013	31	46940	46603	3468	31002	30851	0
BAKKEN	9-2013	30	52221	52345	4246	34194	27081	6963
BAKKEN	8-2013	31	49516	49631	6251	28648	27354	1142
BAKKEN	7-2013	30	52876	51530	6881	28877	24523	4209
BAKKEN	6-2013	19	25559	25249	4757	12775	0	12690

24672:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	6-2014	30	21411	21371	1301	17825	17600	78
BAKKEN	5-2014	7	4135	4095	790	2369	2209	128
BAKKEN	4-2014	1	47	47	0	3	3	0
BAKKEN	3-2014	25	20878	21018	1772	16381	14879	1396
BAKKEN	2-2014	20	16297	16277	1031	10860	10315	449
BAKKEN	1-2014	31	26167	26277	1139	17669	17447	76
BAKKEN	12-2013	31	34626	34526	1777	22111	21443	518
BAKKEN	11-2013	28	33091	32796	3682	17388	16601	656
BAKKEN	10-2013	1	0	0	0	1246	22	1223
BAKKEN	9-2013	28	37664	38983	5118	21484	16986	4367
BAKKEN	8-2013	25	27668	27588	15654	16582	15801	661
BAKKEN	7-2013	31	57574	57599	4164	33639	26476	7013
BAKKEN	6-2013	16	26994	25423	3835	19101	0	19028

Original Post

A reader alerted me to these wells. I posted data on these wells earlier, but this is one month later. Note the crude oil production increase in both wells, though it is incredible in the first well posted below.

NDIC File No: 24672    
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 6/7/2013     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: NWNW 11-152-91    
Current Operator: EOG RESOURCES, INC.
Current Well Name: VAN HOOK 29-1113H
Total Depth: 20927     Field: PARSHALL
Spud Date(s):  1/22/2013
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Perfs: 9901-20865     Comp: 6/7/2013     Status: F     Date: 6/8/2013     Spacing: ICO
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 150,000     Cum MCF Gas: 90806     Cum Water: 28771
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 6/8/2013     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 720     IP MCF: 840     IP Water: 211

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	9-2013	28	37764	39083	5118	21484	16986	4367
BAKKEN	8-2013	25	27668	27588	15654	16582	15801	661
BAKKEN	7-2013	31	57574	57599	4164	33639	26476	7013
BAKKEN	6-2013	16	26994	25423	3835	19101	0	19028

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One-hundred-fifty-thousand bbls in 3.5 months is nice, but how about 180,000 bbls in the same amount of time?

NDIC File No: 24671    
Well Type: OG     Well Status: A     Status Date: 6/4/2013     Wellbore type: Horizontal
Location: NWNW 11-152-91     Footages: 370 FNL 1250 FWL     Latitude: 48.006285     Longitude: -102.294684
Current Operator: EOG RESOURCES, INC.
Current Well Name: VAN HOOK 30-1113H
Total Depth: 22139     Field: PARSHALL
Spud Date(s):  1/25/2013
Completion Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Comp: 6/4/2013     Status: F     Date: 6/8/2013     Spacing: ICO
Cumulative Production Data
   Pool: BAKKEN     Cum Oil: 180,172     Cum MCF Gas: 104494     Cum Water: 22135
Production Test Data
   IP Test Date: 6/8/2013     Pool: BAKKEN     IP Oil: 871     IP MCF: 759     IP Water: 349

Monthly Production Data

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	9-2013	30	52221	52345	4246	34194	27081	6963
BAKKEN	8-2013	31	49516	49631	6251	28648	27354	1142
BAKKEN	7-2013	30	52876	51530	6881	28877	24523	4209
BAKKEN	6-2013	19	25559	25249	4757	12775	0	12690

I wonder if these wells are choked back; look at all the natural gas that is being flared? I wonder if any of the mineral owners are writing to EOG to shut in these wells until a natural gas processing plant can be built. With permits and environmental reviews that should only take a couple of years. And, of course, shutting in the well is no guarantee that the well will still be this good once it's brought back on line. Whatever.

Bakken 101 -- Stratrigraphy Of The Bakken Pool

For newbies: this is a screen shot from Whiting's corporate presentation, November, 2013.

I believe I have posted this screen shot previously; if not, I have certainly discussed it. Not all pay zones are in every area of the North Dakota Bakken.

The Scallion is sometimes referred to as the "false Bakken." See first comment below.

Note: The slide does not delineate the upper Three Forks and the lower Three Forks. The vast majority of "Three Forks" wells in North Dakota targeted the upper Three Forks. Only a handful of wells (CLR, KOG) have tested the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th benches of the lower Three Forks.

Be sure to double-click on the screen-shot to open it in another window. Note the millions of barrels of original oil in place per 1280-acre spacing unit. The recovery rate from the Bakken Pool is variously reported from 1% to 8%.

Bakken 101 - Evolving Completion Techniques

Regular readers know that I have a "soft spot in my heart" for Whiting. I  have always maintained that Whiting has the best corporate slide presentations. Early on Whiting had some of the best FAQs in their presentations; clearly the corporation was trying to explain to folks what was going on in the Bakken.

Whiting has not let us down. In their November, 2013, corporate presentation there is a series of slides that shows the evolution of completion techniques. Following are four screen shots of the evolution of Whiting's completion techniques. [Double-clicking on the individual slides will open them in another window for much easier viewing.]

I think the slides are self-explanatory. There are several story lines in these four screenshots, but the biggest story is what this means for the Bakken in general.