An "Old" SM Well Finally Completed/Reported By Petro-Hunt -- April 27, 2019

The well:

• 31367, SI/NC--> TATD-- 201, Petro-Hunt/SM Energy, Owl 1-28HS, Ambrose, t2/19; cum --; 

Wow, this certainly took a long time. This well came off the confidential list March 25, 2016, and went to DUC status; from the file report:

• a Three Forks well;
  tested 2/15/18; 35 stages; 3.5 million lbs sand
• February 1, 2017: SM requested that the well be temporarily abandoned until improved economics and recovery of oil prices
• spud: 9/24/15
• located just north of Williston in Divide County
• target zone defined as a 6' thick interval 6' below the base of the lower Bakken shale
• TD reached on 12/14/15
• lateral was drilled approximately 77% within the payzone

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	2-2019	20	2159	2373	7257	1783	1634	13
BAKKEN	1-2019	16	2435	2122	3556	828	578	156
BAKKEN	11-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Two sister wells:

• 31407: not completed yet; still TA 
• 31366: story and production almost identical to #21367 above 

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Slawson's Proposed Large Overlapping Units In The Parshall Oil Field, Up To 20 Wells Each -- April 27, 2019

From the May 23, 2019, hearing dockets, link here:

• 27556, Slawson, Parshall-Bakken; i) establish three overlapping 1920-acre units, E/2-20/21/22/W/2-23/W/2-26/27/28/E/2-29;33/34/35-151-91; twenty wells on each of those three 1920-acre units (60 wells in all); ii) establish two overlapping 3840-acre units, E/2-20 and 29/ 21/22/27/28, and W/2-23 and 26; 26/27/28/33/34/35-151-91, two wells; iii) decrease the number of wells from 22 to two wells on an existing 1280-acre unit, 34/35-151-91; iv) decrease the number of wells on each of two 1600-ace units, 21/22/W/2-23; and W/2-26, 27/28-151-92, from 22 wells to two wells; Mountrail County

Note: this is case #27556, not a permit.

Disclaimer: this is my interpretation of the details provided. It may be completely wrong or I may have misread something. If this is important to you, go to the source.

I'm pretty sure I have this correct but it's always notable when two operators (in this case, Slawson and EOG) are putting in wells so closely together. I assume this is an issue adjudicated by the NDIC based on majority of acres held.

The graphic of the three 1920-acre units. The three 1920-acre units are labeled A, B, and C.

The other wells in the three drilling units (note: these are spaced different but sited in these units, and the horizontals also run in these new 1920-acre units:

Drilling unit A (outline in red):

• 18979, PNC, EOG, Liberty LR XX-23H, Parshall, 10/11/10;
• 30593, loc, EOG, Liberty LR 29-2321H, Parshall, 1/28/15;
• 30594, loc, EOG, Liberty LR 108-2321H, Parshall, 1/28/15;
• 19721, 1,063, EOG, Liberty LR 19-23H, Parshall, t3/11; cum 372K 2/19; spacing ICO;

Drilling unit B (outline in purple):

• 20255, 892, EOG, Liberty LR 15-26H, Parshall, t4/12; cum 356K 2/19; spacing ICO;
• 20254, 980, EOG, Liberty LR 20-26H, Parshall, t12/11; cum 334K 2/19; spacing ICO;

Drilling unit C (outline in red):

• 18828, 1,066, EOG, Liberty LR 16-36H, Parshall, t2/11; cum 407K 2/19; spacing - 1280 acres;
• 19919, 1,648, EOG, Liberty LR 21-36H, Van Hook, t7/11; cum 504K 2/19; spacing - 1280 acres;

Global Warming Hits The Bakken -- April 27, 2019

I'm sure it happened but in the eighteen years of growing up in Williston, I do not recall a winter storm / blizzard at the end of April.

From KFYR, Bismarck:

Southern Surge

Locator: 10001SS.

During the Obama administration, I tracked the number of cities and states facing bankruptcy ["the doomsday chronicles"]. Since 2015 or thereabouts, we haven't seen many such stories. The new story seems to be the "southern surge."

Regardless of how one feels about the "southern surge," it's a fascinating story. This is where I will track the "southern surge." This page will be linked at the sidebar at the right.  Victor Davis Hanson has opined on the "sourthern surge" and I agree with his observations: things that go on forever, simply don't.

Updates

December 29, 2024: link here.

May 11, 2023: Title 42 ends. Covid-19 restrictions no longer in place to hold back the "southern surge." Mixed reports how things are going at the border.

May 12, 2022:

• Texas governor Abbott sending "illegals" by the busload to Washington (DC)
• Baby formula crisis;

October 13, 2021:

• middle class migrants fly to Mexico and then cross border illegally, WSJ;
• the new surge? Brazilians;

September 1, 2019: except for an occasional news item at/on a far-right media outlet about "families" continuing to stream across the southern border, the "southern surge" story has completely disappeared.

June 8, 2019: Trump says Mexico has announced immediately executable plans to help control illegal immigration into the US. Trump lifts threat of tariffs but says he will be watching Mexico's compliance closely.

May 30, 2019: in round numbers, 100,000 illegal immigrants streaming across the southern border every month; Congress and federal judges unwilling to stop to southern surge; Trump today announces, without warning, a 5% tariff on Mexican goods coming into US; that tariff will gradually be increased until Mexico stops the surge.

April 28, 2019: as few as 70 immigrants/day can overwhelm cities with populations over one million. Practically every major city from San Antonio to Phoenix is mentioned in this Time article.

April 27, 2019: migrants from El Paso, TX, now being bussed directly to Tucson, AZ.  Official population of El Paso: 683,000, probably closer to 750,000. Tucson official: 535,000; probably closer to 650,000. Phoenix, 1.6 million.

April 16, 2019: Yuma, Arizona, mayor declares emergency over migrang surge.

April 4, 2019: El Paso buckles under the migrant surge. 

May 11, 2019: Pelosi's Choice.

Background, Update, And Comments From A Reader On The Hess Ethane Pipeline -- The Vantage Pipeline -- To Alberta -- April 27, 2019

A reader was nice enough to remind me of some data points regarding the Hess Vantage pipeline.

I replied that I was lazy this week/this weekend -- just too much to blog and I did not take the time for a proper update. Sorry. This all started with updates on Hess yesterday, these two links:

• Hess, 1Q19 earnings;
• Hess reclaims bragging rights to largest NG processing plant in North Dakota

and then readers' comments regarding the "Hess pipeline to Alberta."

The "Hess pipeline to Alberta" is the Vantage Pipeline.

So, let's do a blog search and provide some background:

• the Vantage Pipeline, from an October 13, 2014, posting:

With regard to ethane and ethane pipelines, a reader recently commented:

The Vantage pipeline to Alberta from the Hess plant is probably the longest ethane pipeline in North America. OneOK y-grade pipe line takes Bakken NGLs to Conway, Kansas, where the propane is fractionated and sent to north to Iowa and points north. The rest of the NGLs are sent to Mt Belvieu, TX, where the rest of the fractionations occur. 

The Vantage pipeline:

The Vantage Pipeline is a high vapour pressure (HVP) pipeline carrying ethane from a source near Tioga, North Dakota, extending northwest, through Saskatchewan, Canada, and terminating near Empress, Alberta, Canada. The pipeline links a growing supply of ethane from North Dakota to markets in Alberta. 

The Vantage Pipeline is 445 miles steel pipeline, with an outside diameter of 10 inches.

• the Vantage Pipeline, from a September 2, 2014, posting:

The Wall Street Journal is reporting:

Pembina Pipeline Corporation is pleased to announce that it has entered into agreements to acquire the Vantage pipeline system and Mistral Midstream Inc.'s interest in the Saskatchewan Ethane Extraction Plant for total consideration of US$650 million.
 
Vantage is a recently constructed, approximately 700 kilometre ("km"), 40,000 barrel per day ("bpd"), high vapour pressure pipeline that originates in Tioga, North Dakota and terminates near Empress, Alberta. Vantage provides long-term, fee-for-service cash flow and strategic access to the prolific and growing North Dakota Bakken play for future natural gas liquids (NGL) opportunities. 

The Vantage pipeline can be increased to 60,000 bpd with minimum costs. 

• From July 16, 2013: Canada's biggest plastic producer will purchase all the ethane that Hess produces at its Tioga plant; US State Department approved the international pipeline to complete the deal. 

Now, new today: to say the least, the Vantage Pipeline really excited me when it was announced and then completed. But I was remiss re-posting all that for newbies. Again, a big apology. The notes above might be a bit disjointed, but one can probably sort it out.

Now, putting all that together from the reader today:

Hess moves ethane on this pipeline from Tioga to Empress, Alberta, where the Alberta Ethane Gathering System takes it to Nova Chemical's petrochemical complex at Joffre, Alberta. 

Hess is just completing the fifth year, I believe it is, of a ten-year deal supplying ethane to Nova. 

So I doubt they want to move ethane off this pipeline in the immediate future. 

And then this, which I had completely forgotten:

You may recall you previously mentioned one Bakken "tidbit", that Nova Chemicals is a subsidiary of IPIC (International Petroleum investment Company) which is wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Another Bakken amazement - supplying the UAE ethane! 

And for the post on that, see this September 19, 2018, entry.