A reader sent me this photo today with the caption:
Wed, Dec 29 at 8:48 PM -- Nabors B05 or Nabors B5
Rigged up in Mercer county just north of the Morton county line on highway 49 a couple miles or so.
I can't find the Nabors B5 rig at any of the NDIC sites (well search, confidential well, daily activity reports. I'll keep looking ... see if I can identify the well.
The size of these rigs never cease to amaze me and, in this case, look at the small town that has popped up around this rig to drill a single well.
For those who understand the pricing of gasoline in this country, one can connect the dots back to 2005 when the Keystone XL was first publicly proposed.
It's a complicated story, not easily explained to the American public.
But at the end of the day, all discussions about $4.00-gasoline circle back to the Keystone XL.
Can any reader remember if any major US airport has ever been shut down, not because of weather or terrorism, but because not enough workers showed up for work?
DFW (Dallas-Ft Worth International Airport) has just been closed to all incoming flights because there are not enough workers.
I have not fact-checked this, but I have that from a very, very reliable source. Local news.
Following this story: all liquor stores in the DFW area will be closed this Saturday and Sunday.
I was challenged with another "tech" problem earlier today; the iPad solved it for me. It just worked for me. It did what I wanted it to do. Didn't need a manual. Intuitive.
Sometimes I think Apple is transferring all its software folks to mobile and letting desktops twist in the wind.
Sophia is with her family on the famed River Walk in San Antonio this week /weekend.
Long story. But that's where Sophia and Corky are tonight.
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Bike ride before it gets too dark to pick up a rotisserie chicken for dinner, and I bet it's less expensive than a frozen "organic young chicken" in the back of the store.
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This is great! Adult daughter -- ph.d. in nursing -- shows up for work today -- one of the employees tested positive for Covid -- the whole staff is off for the next ten days!
Not exactly "off" -- they will work from home, but that's as good as being off in my book.
Long live Covid-19. More family time. Wow, what a great country. And 80-degree weather -- until winter hits this weekend for a couple of days.
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Active rigs:
$76.62
12/29/2021
12/29/2020
12/29/2019
12/29/2018
12/29/2017
Active Rigs
31
13
56
66
48
No new permits.
Hess put a large number of old producing Madison wells on the "abandoned" list.
Dry hole:
35151, XTO, Bullberry Federal 24X-2D, Lost Bridge, will plug and abandon; cementing issues were encountered on the well. Re-drilled as the 24X-2DR (#35789);
other wells on that pad, all drilled, but not completed:
35789, SI/NCW, XTO, Bullberry Federal 24X-2DR, Lost Bridge,
35150, SI/NCW, XTO, Bullberry Federal 24X-2H2, Lost Bridge,
35154, SI/NCW, XTO, Bullberry Federal 24X-2G, Lost Bridge,
35155, SI/NCW, XTO, Bullberry Federal 24X-2C, Lost Bridge,
A reminder: these wells are in the immediate vicinity of this well -- from an earlier post, note production in September, 2020, below.
MRO is on a roll. This is really quite incredible. Maybe more on this later, but for now, the well:
32434, drl/NC-->4,679, MRO, Stillwell 21-13H, 33-025-03101, Lost Bridge, first production, 8/20; t--; cum 215K 9/20; fracked,
8/19/20 - 8/25/20; 7.9 million gallons of water; 81.2% fresh water by
mass; 6.4% produced water by mass; production; note 90K in first full month of production; 215K in three months. Early in the boom, EURs of 300K were the expected; 403K 8/21; F;
