BR Dodge Wells In Dimmick Lake Have Been Completed -- May 18, 2018

These wells have been updated; see this post:

• 17200, 829, BR, Dodge 1-17H, Dimmick Lake, t6/08; cum 225K 1/18;
• 33338, 420, BR, Demicks Dodge 1A MBH-ULW,  Dimmick Lake, t12/17; cum -- (#17200)

I started following this well in January, 2018:

• #17200; neighboring well recently fracked; bump in production; see what it is in a month or two; 

The neighboring wells have all been fracked; will post results over the weekend if I remember but they are all great wells. The BR Dodge wells are tracked here, but that post needs to be updated.

For those following IPs of recent BR wells, this is interesting to follow.

At the linked post, see the comments about these Dimmick Lake wells; completion strategies are unusual, and BR is reporting incredibly low 24-hour IPs for these wells.

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Scientific American Not So Scientific Any More

I haven't looked at a Scientific American in ages. I quit reading the magazine some time ago: there were simply too many articles on anthropogenic global warming.

Last night, I had some free time, so I grabbed a couple of magazines off the rack at Barnes and Noble to read while having coffee. One of the magazines was Scientific American. Observations:

• much smaller both in size of footprint, and number of pages; has gotten very, very small
• lots of small, inconsequential fillers at the beginning of the magazine -- caters to a generation that doesn't have the attention span to read a two-page article
• the magazine appears to be more "politically correct" than scientific; mostly filled with global warming articles or references to same
• a nice long article on dinosaurs; asked why the dinosaurs were lucky to have emerged; question never answered
• entire magazine has been dumb-downed; years ago when I was reading it, I had trouble following a lot of articles; no more; seems to have been dumb-downed for an audience of 8th graders -- which makes sense -- when I was teaching middle school students and high school students, it appears that students loved to read and read voraciously through 8th grade, and then stopped reading
• entire magazine has been dumb-downed: those excellent math columns no long exist 
• it's hard to believe this magazine will be around another ten years

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Re-Posting: Can't Get Enough Of This

Far From Any Road, The Handsome Family
The group (or this song) reminds me of another group/song -- if I think of it, I will post it. Not Nancy Sinatra and that other guy, Summer Wine, but possibly.

From wiki:

The Handsome Family is an alternative country and Americana duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

They are perhaps best known for their song "Far from Any Road" from the album Singing Bones, which was used as the main title theme for the first season of HBO's 2014 crime drama True Detective.

The band's 10th album, Unseen, was released on September 16, 2016, the first new release on the band's own label and through long-time label Loose in Europe.

This is enough to get me to visit Albuquerque again. Wow.

Be sure to read the entire wiki entry on The Handsome Family. Absolutely fascinating.

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Memories

Years and years ago I had a very, very close psychologist friend. I learned a lot about mental health from that psychologist. I was reminded of that by the background of The Handsome Family. I also had a very, very close physician friend who thought about going into psychiatry because he was fascinated by the thin line between sanity and insanity. He went into renal research instead. I don't keep in touch with either of these two any more.  

Global Warming -- Inconvenient Truths -- May 18, 2018

Updates

Later, 10:13 p.m. CDT: mid-May -- frost warning in the Bakken.

Original Post 

From iceagenow:

Also from iceagenow:

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Note for the Granddaughters

New research suggests that the "dinosaur family tree" could be changed. If so, it would "shake dinosaur paleontology to its core." When I saw the "new and revised family tree" I was shocked. LOL. And some folks don't consider the Bakken a "revolution." LOL. And, stunningly, the new research bumps the emergence of dinosaurs back to 247 million years ago, versus the generally accepted 240 to 245 million years ago.

Link here.

There does appear to be a "new term" but it is not: "ornithoscelidans." This term was originally proposed back in the mid-19th century by Thomas Henry Huxley but abandoned. The term was revived in 2017 after a new cladistic analysis by Baron et al. See linked article at the very beginning of this note.

From wiki:

In March 2017, a paper in the journal Nature by Matthew Baron, David Norman, and Paul Barrett, published an analysis in which the theropod dinosaurs — no longer containing the Herrerasauridae — were more closely related to ornithischian dinosaurs than to the Sauropodomorpha, the group to which the sauropod dinosaurs belong.

Previous analyses had rather combined the Theropoda with the Sauropodomorpha into the Saurischia, to the exclusion of the Ornithischia.

These groups had also been formally defined to reflect this. Using these standard definitions, the new results would have had the effect of bringing the Ornithischia within the Saurischia and indeed the Theropoda; and the Sauropodomorpha outside the Dinosauria.

To avoid this, Baron and colleagues redefined all these groups. Proposing that the Ornithischia and Theropoda were sister groups also meant that a new name was needed for the clade combining them.

They named this new clade Ornithoscelida, defining it as "the least inclusive clade that includes Passer domesticus and Triceratops horridus."

This means that this node clade consists of the last common ancestor of the extant theropod Passer and the ornithischian Triceratops; and all its descendants. Huxley's old name Ornithoscelida was chosen because its meaning, "bird legs", well fitted the hindlimb traits of the clade.

Passer, from wiki:  Passer is a genus of sparrows, also known as the true sparrows.

The house sparrow = Passer domesticus.

Random Look At An MRO-Re-Fracked Well -- May 18, 2018

For newbies.

Go back to this post: did MRO just set a new IP record in the Bakken?

Then this post: new record in the Bakken. 

At those posts, note this very, very old well:

• 18471, 380, MRO, Hunts Along USA 12-1H, Antelope, Sanish, t1/11; cum 143K 3/18; off-line since 5/17;

So, how is this well doing with all that fracking activity going on around it? Well, pretty good. Prior to that activity, it was producing 1,000 bbls of crude oil every month. It was taken off line so neighboring wells could be fracked ... or so I thought. It turns out that it was re-fracked January 22 - 23, 2018, but with a very small amount of water: 2.8 million lbs, 89% water by weight, 10.6% sand. When it came back on line it was producing 3,719 bbls of crude oil over six days which extrapolates to almost 20,000 bbls of crude oil over 30 days. This should turn out to be an incredible well despite being, at best, a mediocre well when first drilled.

Recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
SANISH	3-2018	6	3719	3347	0	3000	0	2180
SANISH	2-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	1-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	12-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	11-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	10-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	9-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	8-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	7-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	6-2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SANISH	5-2017	8	178	357	38	283	0	236
SANISH	4-2017	30	986	1369	80	1381	0	1092
SANISH	3-2017	31	1042	947	115	1448	0	1147
SANISH	2-2017	28	962	1201	105	1336	0	1065
SANISH	1-2017	31	1112	1261	110	1540	0	1235
SANISH	12-2016	27	941	312	98	1220	191	768
SANISH	11-2016	30	1054	1247	115	1331	26	1012
SANISH	10-2016	31	1084	926	115	1367	141	924

MRO Reports A Huge Antelope-Sanish Well -- May 18, 2018

Active rigs:

$71.28→	5/18/2018	05/18/2017	05/18/2016	05/18/2015	05/18/2014
Active Rigs	61	52	26	82	190

Six new permits:

• Operators: XTO (4); Slawson (2)
• Fields:West Capa (Williams); Parshall (Mountrail)
• Comments: XTO has permits for a 4-well Christiana pad in section 6-154-94 (northwest quadrant)

Eight permits renewed:

• BR (4): one Gladstone permit, McKenzie County; and, three Patton permits in Dunn County
• EOG (4): one West Clark permit in McKenzie County; three Austin permits in Mountrail County

One producing well (DUC) reported as completed:

• 33492, 6,637, MRO, Mamie USA 21-1TFH, Three Forks B1, Antelope-Sanish, t4/18; cum --; permit says 640 acres; a huge well, but not a record by any stretch; see this post;

North Dakota Road Restrictions -- May 18, 2018 -- Another Poll

Link here:

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Another Poll

This poll won't be found on this blog. The poll may be elsewhere.

D- in High School Geography; Failed Science
Recently, Kanye West talked about folks telling us that slavery in the US lasted 400 years. I was wondering where this number "400" came from. I think I now know where: