Only In The Bakken ... "Our Own" Ron Burgundy

Updates

March 3, 2015: add permits for four "Chip Diller" wells. 

August 5, 2014: to the others, add these - Emerald's Dudley Dawson (Booger from "Animal House") and Joel Goodsen ("Risky Business"), see comment below:

• 27485, loc, Emerald, Dudley Dawson 5-2-11H, Moline,  
• 27486, loc, Emerald, Dudley Dawson 4-2-11H, Moline,
• 28698, loc, Emerald, Dudley Dawson 7-2-11H, Moline,
• 28700, loc, Emerald, Dudley Dawson 6-2-11H, Moline,
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• 27483, loc, Emerald, Joel Goodsen 4-32-29H, Moline,
• 27484, loc, Emerald, Joel Goodsen 3-32-29H, Moline,
• 28696, loc, Emerald, Joel Goodsen 7-32-29H, Moline,
• 28697, loc, Emerald, Joel Goodsen 6-32-29H, Moline,
• 28699, loc, Emerald, Joel Goodsen 5-32-29H, Moline,

December 27, 2013: a reader noted that the names of two Emerald wells come from "Animal House." I missed those:

• 26669, conf, Emerald, Dean Wormer 1-33-28H, Moline, producing,
• 26668, conf, Emerald, Dean Wormer 2-33-28H, Moline, producing, 

On that same well pad, three "Ty Webb" wells -- the Chevy Chase character in "Caddyshack":

• 26665, drl --> conf, Emerald, Ty Webb 3-1-12H, Sheep Butte, producing,
• 26666, loc, Emerald, Ty Webb 2-1-12H, Sheep Butte,  
• 26665, conf (but well file available), Emerald, Ty Webb 1-1-12H, Sheep Butte, producing,

Original Post

Emerald Oil has permits for the following three wells ("Anchorman 2"):

• 27334, drl, Emerald Oil, Ron Burgundy 3-23-14H, Temple, producing,
• 27335, conf, Emerald Oil, Ron Burgundy 2-23-14H, Temple,
• 27336, conf, Emerald Oil, Ron Burgundy 1-23-14H, Temple,

And, of course, here's a picture of the "real" Ron Burgundy....

For those who may have missed him on KX News...

Ron Burgundy, KX News

Spot Price / Futures Price For Bakken Crude Oil?

A reader asks:

Rose Rock/SemGroup has recently dropped North Dakota Sweet from its list of daily spot price for oil. Does anybody know of another source for this information?

I have no idea. It seems every time I find a source, it's only a matter of time before it's removed. Bloomberg used to post prices at Clearbrook (for free) but now it requires (a very expensive) subscription. 

Six (6) New Permits -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA; A Whiting Red River Well Comes In Dry (No Further Explanation); MRO Reports A Nice Well

Active rigs: 186

Six (6) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (3), Emerald Oil (3)
• Fields: Hofflund (Williams), Temple (Williams)
• Comments:

Wells coming off the confidential list were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Wells coming off the confidential list tomorrow:

• 25478, drl, CLR, Malcolm 2-20H1, Sauk, no production data, 
• 25345, 1,852, MRO, Hunstad 31-13H, Reunion Bay, t11/13; cum 6K 10/13;
• 25395, dry, Whiting, KG Ranch 21-21, Camel Hump, a Red River well, see also this well; 

That's disappointing. The Whiting Red River well, the KG Ranch was reported as "dry." There is nothing in the file report with details. They reached total depth (12,370 feet, pretty much all vertical) in about 11 days. The geologist's report simply said the well was waiting completion.

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A Note to the Granddaughters

I'm sitting on the porch along the coast in southern California. It is 82 degrees a few miles inland, but here along the coast it is 79 degrees. Some of the locals suggest it is warmer today than it is in the summer. A beautiful day.

In between blogging on the Bakken, I am enjoying my Christmas gifts: munching on Tillamook cheddar cheese and crackers, and reading the new Salinger biography (authors David Shields and Shane Salerno). I'm a slow reader, and I like to take my time reading a good book but in this case it is hard to put the book down. The format is very, very unusual, but really "neat." To the best of my knowledge it is the only Salinger biography I have ever read; I know little about him. Without question, if one has never read a Salinger biography, I would strongly recommend this as the one to start with. I find it interesting that some seasoned Salinger fans were disappointed in this book. It makes me wonder if they read the same book I did. There is information in this book that is being, supposedly, published for the first time. The photographs are incredible.

Bakken Hiring Blitz As Boom Turns From Exploration To Production

Some time ago I was told that Burlington Northern was getting ready to hire a lot of folks.

Today, The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

Oil-related companies are on hiring blitzes as the focus in the patch shifts from exploration to production.

Specifics:

Power Fuels: a subsidiary of Nuverra Environmental Solutions and one of the largest oil field service companies in the Bakken, put out its call for 300 new employees going into the holidays.

Needed employees range from commercially-licensed truck drivers and mechanics to support services positions in accounts payable, rental billing, credit and collections, information technology, and human resources.

The increase in production has brought need to other industries as well, like trucking, rail, pipelines and gas plants.

“BNSF is hiring a ton of new people,” Sanford said. “2014 is going to be a busy year.”

Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, said with 8,000 wells on the ground now, companies have to have the man power to service all of them every day.
“It’s reaching the point that production is getting as big as exploration type jobs,” he said.

And then this: the new jobs will be more permanent in nature --

According to the National Labor Exchange website, the need for wellhead pumpers has gone up 399 percent over the last year. The need for service unit employees increased 135 percent. These positions are long term jobs on the production side of oil and gas as opposed to the more temporary positions needed for drilling.

It will be interesting to follow "Oil Patch Jobs" up at the top on the sidebar at the right.

Disappointed In My Readers -- But Nothing To Do With The Bakken

Wow, I love to blog.

Some time ago I wrote that not signing up for ObamaCare will be the biggest (greatest, largest?) act of civil disobedience in the history of the nation, excepting perhaps the Civil War, though that was a bit more than civil disobedience, I suppose.

None of my readers wrote to tell me I was wrong. I am disappointed. LOL.

But the WSJ has come to my rescue. It turns out there was an example of civil disobedience in this country that was greater than refusing to sign up for ObamaCare. The Wall Street Journal writes in an op-ed piece:

The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its proponents call it "settled law," but as Prohibition taught us, not even a constitutional amendment is settled law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if Americans can see a clear alternative. This fall's website fiasco and policy cancellations are only the beginning.

Next spring the individual mandate is likely to unravel when we see how sick the people are who signed up on exchanges, and if our government really is going to penalize voters for not buying health insurance. The employer mandate and "accountable care organizations" will take their turns in the news. There will be scandals. There will be fraud. This will go on for years.

So, there it was, prohibition. I completely missed that one.