Thursday, August 27, 2026

Four New Permits; Two DUCs Reported As Being Completed -- August 27, 2026

Locator: 51568B.

Bankrupt? The chickens are coming home to roost.

Trading success

New Covid vaccines: approved by FDA. 

Venezuela: considers leaving OPEC.

 
Tech
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Back to the Bakken 

WTI: $83.64. Continues to climb the wall of reality. Iran pushing to ban US Navy from the strait. Sounds like the blockade of Iran is being felt.

Active rigs: 34.

Four new permits, #43262 - #43265, inclusive -- 

  • Operators: Enerplus (3); EOG;
  • Fields: Marmon (Williams County); Clarks Creek (McKenzie County)
  • Comments:
    • EOG has a permit for a West Clark well, lot 5, section 36-151-95, 
      • to be sited 847 FNL and 1929 FWL;
    • Enerplus has permits for three Red Panda wells, SWSE 9-157-100, 
      • to be sited 305 FSL and 2195 /  2261 FEL. 

Two producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

  • 42111, 2,205, Prima Exploration, Gummy Bear 2H, Divide County;
  • 42429, 770, Oasis, Prestwick Federal 5602 12-232 3B, Williams County;

Day 1, PGA Tour Championship -- Thursday -- August 27, 2026

Locator: 51567ARCHIVES.

Berkshire lagging: link here.  

PGA: Tour Championship -- after seven holes, Scott Scheffler tied for 13th. The PGA changed the rules and it's very likely Scottie Scheffler won't win the FedEx Championship. And that's the way it should be. If you are the FedEx champion, you need to win the Tour Championship.

Geography: Lake Ontario is now Lake America. 

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Starbase Louisiana: Louisiana's New Space Port

Here's the story:

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The Book Page

On the recommendation of Gemini: The Transcendentalists and Their World, Robert A. Gross, c. 2021.

Arrived today.  

Notes will be kept here: link here

Nvidia -- A Brand New World -- August 27, 2026

Locator: 51566ARCHIVES.

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WTI

WTI jumps almost 2%; jumps $1.50; trading at $83.76. Yes, another tanker was hit while in / near the strait. This could go on for years or until a Biden / Obama / Newsom / Pocahontas / AOC is elected president, at which time the US will pay Iran reparations and monthly installments to keep the strait open. CVX was green for awhile today but has since turned negative by about 9 cents. 

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Why CASH MOATS Matter

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Clarification

Earlier today this was posted on x


Usually such analysts' projections go out one year. Certainly we're not going to see NVDA at $17 trillion in one year. What's the story?

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Later -- Late Morning

WTI: climbing the wall of worry? Nope, climbing the wall of reality.

AAPL: at the open and most of the morning Apple (AAPL) has been in the red; it just turned positive (10:51 a.m. CT). 

ENB, link here

Under the joint venture agreement, the investment group will provide up to C$700 million in up-front cash to support Enbridge’s sanctioned Aspen Point and Sunrise expansion projects for the Westcoast natural gas pipeline system. 

Market:


BRK-B: coming off its lows for the day, but still negative --

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Pre-Market 

Huge round table discussion on Nvidia on opening hour of CNBC. 

The numbers are impossible to comprehend.

Revenues: $1 billion / day.

Sales will continue to grow at 70%, y/y. Mostly on back of "increasing prices" for its chips. 

Current market cap: $5.4 trillion.

At current rate of growth will result in a $7.5-trillion market cap.

Anticipation: futures -- NASDAQ could open 300 points higher.


But notice WTI: still at $82. 

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Briefly

  • I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken and I am often well out front of my headlights. I am often appropriately accused of hyperbole when it comes to the Bakken.
  • I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market.
  • I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.
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  • Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, US economy, and the US market.
  • I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple. 
  • And now, Nvidia, also. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Nvidia. Nvidia is a metonym for AI and/or the sixth industrial revolution. 
  • I've now added Broadcom to the disclaimer. I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Broadcom. Now, I've added Amazon. And QCOM.
  • Longer version here.
  • It's Only Thursday -- And It's Still August -- Taking Forever To Get To September -- August 27, 2026

    Locator: 51565ARCHIVES.

    September: huge month for dividends.  

    Must be a really slow day: top story seems to be Trump vs List Cook. Link here

    Breaking: Trump considering new sweeping tariffs on semiconductors and products that use semiconductors. 

    FedEx championship starts today. Atlanta, GA. Thirty players. That's it.

    Hugging Face: to be acquired by Nvidia -- reports. 


     

    KEY

    For E&P Investors, Highly Recommend RBN Energy Blog - August 27, 2026

    Locator: 51564ARCHIVES.

    Post two days ago. A very, very long article. Right now the full article is available. In a few days it will disappear. Highly recommend reading. 

    RBN Energy: commodity price swings reshape E&P earnings in 2Q26. Link here. Archived.

    The second quarter of 2026 was a tale of two commodity markets for U.S. exploration and production companies. A 29% quarter-over-quarter increase in WTI oil prices to $92.53/bbl provided a more powerful tailwind for Oil-Weighted E&Ps, who experienced a pre-tax operating profit turnaround with a war-driven late Q1 price surge. In stark contrast, plunging natural gas prices wounded Gas-Weighted producers after bountiful Q1 results. 

    In today’s RBN blog, we review the Q2 2026 results of the 37 publicly traded E&Ps we cover and analyze the remarkably wide performance gap they reveal. 

    The oil price climb from the Iran conflict and a spike in natural gas prices driven by an unusually cold winter across the eastern U.S. combined to double the average pre-tax profits for our 37-company universe from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 to $15.12/boe, the highest result since mid-2023. 

    The continuing rise in oil prices spurred another 31% increase in pre-tax operating profits in Q2 2026 to $19.83/boe, the richest since 2022. 

    Cash flow also reached a post-2022 peak, increasing 8% to $29.72/boe ). Upstream revenues rose 6% to $44.67/boe.

     One would hope return to investors would reflect those results.