Notes From All Over, Part 1 -- January 11, 2020

Refinery: not looking good. Google planned refinery by national park hurt by funding, lawsuits or go to KXNET news.  A reminder:

• greenfield refinery
• $800 million 
• near Theodore Roosevelt National Park 
• Williston would love to have it

Snow: overnight here in Grapevine.

Autos: quick! Name the #1 selling sedan in the US for the past 14, maybe 15, years. Hint: a member in that same family made the top 10 list also. Name the #1 selling SUV in the US for the past four years for so. I'll come back to this. I heard this on the radio while driving into work this morning -- I need to confirm. We'll see. Answers here.

Real estate: Charlie Sheen bought California mansion for $7.2 million 2006; apparently sold the mansion this past week to an undisclosed buyer for $6.6 million. He had been asking for $10 million; was on the market for two years. 

Recommendation: if you are an investor, and like to trade/invest on-line, there are many, many options out there. My personal favorite: Schwab. I am completely blown away by their service -- but, we are fortunate to have a local branch. But I was with Schwab decades before I lived near a brick-and-mortar branch.

One example: no matter how little or how much money I deposit in the local Bank of America, there's generally a hold on it overnight despite the fact that Bank of America owns Merrill Lynch and my ML account is linked to the bank. I've been banking with BofA for decades. On the other hand, when I drop by the Schwab branch, a) there is no standing in line; b) one is greeted with genuine smiles; c) offered coffee (sometimes an accompanying snack); d) the deposit is made in less than a minute; e) a "complete" receipt is returned; and, most amazing, f) the deposit shows up in the account at the same time as one gets the receipt and one can begin trading immediately.

It blows me away.

Okay, enough of this. To the top stories of the week.

We'll Get Around To It When We Get Around To It; Quit Bugging Us --January 10, 2020

The well:

• 23036, 455, Statoil, Allison 23-14 2TFH, East Fork, no production data; still SI/NC 2/19; t7/19; cum 31K 11/19; 

The permit from back in 2012: approximate date work will start, 02/15/2012.

Sundry forms and other correspondence in the file report;

• April 16, 2013: formal request to change name of Brigham Oil & Gas L.P., to Statoil Oil & Gas, L.P.
• May 6, 2013: permit will expire May 31, 2013
• April 14, 2014: the permit will expire May 16, 2014
• May 4, 2015: the permit will expire June 2, 2015
• June 9, 2015: the permit will expire May 31, 2016
• April 25, 2016: the permit will expire May 31, 2016
• May 1, 2017: the permit will expire June 2, 2017
• on/about June 1, 2017: plan to drill
• May 8, 2017: the permit will expire May 31, 2017; the operator requests to renew the permit for one year
• on/about July 10, 2017: plan to drill
• hallelujah! spudded July 18, 2017
• reached TD: August 28, 2017
• completion/test: 7/9/2019
• frack data not in the NDIC file report as of 1/10/2020

Production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2019	14	4848	4463	18911	4268	3505	734
BAKKEN	10-2019	0	0	99	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	9-2019	24	6863	7225	33738	7483	7320	134
BAKKEN	8-2019	30	9840	9816	60079	10790	10189	554
BAKKEN	7-2019	27	8952	8605	65160	11583	10692	812
BAKKEN	6-2019	3	970	880	8243	1098	159	930

1969 -- Music Only -- Nothing About The Bakken

Over at another ad-free, subscription-free, password-free blog, I argue that 1969 was the best year ever for music. Period. Dot. I was reminded of that when I ran across yet another 1969 song that I had not posted (as far as I can remember) on that post of 1969 songs.

From that post:

The top 100 songs of 1969.

There was an 18-month-period, from late 1968 through mid-1970 that clearly had some of the best music ever.  This was the year of Woodstock. The Beatles were still going strong, but touring less, and would soon stop completely.  Led Zeppelin's first two albums, Zeppelin I and Zeppelin II, were released in 1969. The era of "free love" and the uncertainties of the Vietnam War probably contributed to some of this really incredible music.

Speaking of the Vietnam war, I turned 18 in 1969. My lottery draft was July 1, 1970; my lottery number was 103. The highest lottery number called for this group was 125; all men assigned that lottery number or any lower number, and who were classified as available for military service, were called to report for possible induction. I would have been deferred by virtue of being enrolled in college. I was worried that I would be called up before I graduated from college. I was convinced, but wrong, that the war would still be going on when I graduated from college.

The 1969 song that I don't recall having seen on this list before: Laughing by The Guess Who.

Laughing, The Guess Who
Valleri by the Monkees is another example. Released in August, 1968, it fits that 18- to 24- month period.

Valleri, The Monkees
Another not previously mentioned:

• Indian Lake, The Cowsills, December, 1968

This one was a bit later, but I had not seen it before. Is this not incredible?

Are My Thoughts With You?, Linda Ronstadt
Is there anything Willie Nelson did not sing! Another incredible solo:

The City of New Orleans, The Highwaymen, ft Willie Nelson
It's incredible to see four legends on the stage at one time. Only in America. Only a few super-groups. I suppose one could call the Beatles the first super-group.

Last one. From The Kinks.

I Go To Sleep, Sia

Help Me, Help Me, Help Me, Sail Away, Give Me Two Good Reasons Why I Love To Stay -- A Musical Interlude -- January 10, 2020

Sunny Afternoon, The Kinks

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S&P Global Platts Feature:

US Shale Oil Productivity Growth Expected To Slow In Some Basins

Operative words:

• growth 
• expected
• to slow
• in some basins

The article begins:

The dramatic jump in productivity seen in the early days of the US shale oil boom may be waning, but is likely not over, according to analysts, who expect efficiencies, at least for some plays, to edge higher in 2020.

While productivity is expected to climb, drilling has slowed, and thus shale production gains are expected to slow. In the Delaware Basin in West Texas, for instance, S&P Global Platts Analytics expects crude output to average 1.5 million b/d in December 2020, up 15% on the year. That's down from a 16% gain in December 2019, and a 57% gain in December 2018.

Wells have become increasingly larger as E&P companies have drilled longer laterals, or horizontal legs, and used more proppant – sand and/or water that keep fractures open and facilitate oil and gas flow to the surface.

Deep in the article:

Moreover, improvements, at least in the Permian and Bakken Shale of North Dakota where efficiencies are still rising, will continue for at least another year. 

And:

"In the Bakken, Eagle Ford and DJ Basin [in Colorado], well productivity is observed at or close to all-time highs as of 1H 2019," the report said.

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So Put Those Headphones On And Play It Loud ...

Summer Afternoon, Ray Davies

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Yorkshire

For some reason, this song takes me back to those nights with a most beautiful woman in the pubs in north Yorkshire. Ah, yes, another life, so many decades ago. 

Less Than Two Years Old, This Bruin Fort Berthold Well Goes Over 600,000 Bbls Crude Oil -- January 10, 2020

This well was first mentioned here.

Less than two years old, more than 600,000 bbls of crude oil.

The well:

• 30541, 4,871, Bruin, Fort Berthold 151-94-26A-35-4H, Antelope, 55 stages; 14.4 million lbs, an incredible well; staggering, t6/18; cum 609K 11/19;
  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
SANISH	11-2019	30	11662	11598	8714	36813	6486	24612
SANISH	10-2019	31	14099	13561	8897	39556	31960	1941
SANISH	9-2019	30	15609	15638	9697	43255	32631	5859
SANISH	8-2019	31	18116	18127	13274	50936	31575	14284
SANISH	7-2019	31	22025	22148	14986	41594	23475	13814
SANISH	6-2019	19	12640	12693	8545	25159	5762	15748
SANISH	5-2019	27	21080	20966	14320	41982	640	35247
SANISH	4-2019	30	24395	24366	15743	48605	13916	26329
SANISH	3-2019	31	31892	32029	18084	73230	44410	19011
SANISH	2-2019	28	28425	28381	20437	53934	39833	6426
SANISH	1-2019	31	35023	34977	22366	62596	40175	12596
SANISH	12-2018	24	24110	24405	16587	51431	28435	18516
SANISH	11-2018	22	14137	14213	12924	22550	9676	10733
SANISH	10-2018	31	43691	43822	30933	65025	27559	32588
SANISH	9-2018	30	52975	53044	56150	60629	46067	5677
SANISH	8-2018	31	72516	72408	63718	90671	45480	39524
SANISH	7-2018	31	63800	63646	74543	90608	42893	42889
SANISH	6-2018	30	95315	95959	67134	67211	37232	25562
SANISH	5-2018	15	7799	6657	26169	13921	7572	3178
SANISH	4-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0