30812, 1,462, Oasis, Andersmadson 5201 14-25 11B, 36 stages, 4.1 million lbs, t3/16; cum 167K 1/17;
30811, 1,119, Oasis, Andersmadson 5201 14-25 12T, Camp, producing, the Andersmadson wells are tracked here; 36 stages; 4.1 million lbs; t3/16; cum 108K 1/17;
30810, 2,320, Oasis, Andersmadson 5201 14-25 13BX, Camp, 4 sections, 36 stages, 4.2 million lbs, t3/16; cum 152K 1/17;
21029, 981, Oasis, Andersmadson 5201 41-13H, 36 stages, 4.6 million lbs, t10/11; cum 187K 1/17; taken off-line 11/15 and sporadic production through 7/16; off-line again as of 12/16;
In the same 1280-acre spacing unit, running south to north:
23480, 1,174, Oasis, Leanne 5201 41-24B, 36 stages, 2.6 million lbs, t1/13; cum 207K 1/17; was taken off-line once, from 11/15 through 1/16; no halo effect observed
This is a bit dated; I'm not sure if there is more recent information from non-pay sites. This article in Forbes (linked below) was posted shortly after this post in the blog with the top 15 oil-producing counties in the US.
The
energy ministers of Russia and Saudi Arabia, which together produce
more than a fifth of the world’s crude, said at the G20 in China that
they could limit output in the future, while establishing a “working
group” to explore other ways to reduce volatility in markets. Russia is
the largest exporter outside the Opec cartel.
“Freezing production is one of the preferred possibilities but it
does not have to happen specifically today,” Saudi oil minister Khalid
Al Falih said.
Russia
was ready to join the producers’ cartel in freezing output in April
before Saudi Arabia collapsed the talks at the last minute, refusing to
join any deal without the participation of its regional rival Iran.
Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak described Monday’s agreement as “historic” but tensions remained readily apparent.
While Mr Novak said that an output cap was “the most effective
instrument” with details of a plan “currently being discussed”, Mr Falih
suggested that freezing production may not be necessary.
Mr Novak also said a production deal may not have to include Iran
until Tehran’s production had recovered to pre-sanctions levels. Mr
Falih said he believed, however, that Iran’s output was already at that
level.
One can read between the lines what could be going on here.
Later, 8:08 p.m. Central Time, September 5, 2016: Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia, Russia sign oil pact; may limit output in future. Oil futures up 70 cents, trading at just over $45. Still not nearly enough for Saudi Arabia. The interesting thing: at $45 oil, Russia and US are doing just fine. It is Saudi Arabia and others in OPEC that can't live on $45 oil. Very ironic how things have worked out.
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A Note For The Granddaughters
My three most recent purchases for recreational reading:
Cistercian Abbeys: History and Architecture, Jean-Francois Leroux-Dhuys, c. 1998, a coffee-table book
How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley, c. 2016
Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour, Keiron Pim, field notes by Jack Horner, c. 2013, 2016
It is interesting how things work out. All the time I spent reading about dinosaurs while growing up often came back to me, thinking that it was all a waste of time. They had died out -- but a footnote -- although a huge footnote -- in geologic history.
But two huge surprises: 1) much of what we know about dinosaurs came from my backyard, the Hell Creek Fossil Beds in eastern Montana and to fields in southwestern North Dakota; and, 2) hey, the dinosaurs never died out. The non-avian dinosaurs may have died out, but the birds are doing just fine, thank you.
With regard to How To Read Water: it all has to do with our older son-in-law's love of the sea; and our oldest granddaughter's desire to be a marine biologist some day, although her interests are evolving.
And finally, what a huge surprise. While visiting the Kimbell Museum last week, I happened to come across Leroux-Dhuys' Cistercian Abbeys coffee-table book.
From the book:
The Cistercians' Carta Caritatis is, even today, a model of organization. Its innovation lies in the proposal for a system that preserves the independence of each participant in the whole within an interdependence that guarantees the respect of a centralized "general line." The Constitution eliminated the rigidity and inefficiencies of the essentially feudal pyramidal system that was usual in medieval religious Orders, and particularly that of the Cluniacs.
The cult of the Virgin Mary:
Bernard of Clairvaux was well aware that he lived in a time that was marked by the emergence of a new sensibility based on the discovery of profane love, and, in particular, that of women....a number of theologians saw this as nothing but the sin that leads to Hell... Bernard took a page out of the troubadours' book.
He placed love at the heart of his mystical theology, and sublimated it into devotion to the Virgin, queen of Heaven. The Cistercians kept women out of their monasteries, but all the abbeys were placed under the protection of Our Lady, and the Salve Regina (the antiphon of Le Puy) became, under the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux, the last devotion of each day in all Cistercian communities.
Warming to his fantastic talent for writing, Bernard of Clairvaux, the "honey-tongued Doctor," developed endless elaborations on the theme of the love of God and of his Church in the extraordinary series of 86 sermons on the Song of Solomon.
The Salve Regina can be easily found on YouTube.
I spent many, many hours and days and weeks hiking Yorkshire County in northern England. There were days when I would lay (lie) on the green grass surrounding perhaps the most famous Cistercian Abbey in England, Fountains Abbey, and walk on the yellow grass along the small creek that ran alongside it. The creek had a name, I assume. Ah, yes, --- there over at google maps: the River Skell. A river, not a creek.
From Norah Jones:
I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come away with me.
I'm not sure this pipeline will even have a name. If not, my suggestion: The Alexander Connector. Some data points from The Williston Herald:
Tesoro
3.6 miles long
8 inches in diameter
$6.8 million
origin: the existing Break-Out Tank site six (6) miles north of Alexander
terminus: the NST Express Alexander Facility
But then this: the NST Express Alexander Facility:
$60 - $80 million project
nine (9) miles northwest of Alexander
three above-ground storage tanks, each 50,000 bbls
a pump station; a pig launcher
100,000-bopd pipeline ties into the NorthStar facility in Fairview -- update at The Bismarck Tribune -- 23 miles long, 12-inch pipeline;
timeline: on track to be operational by November, 2016 (this year)
permit was sought one year ago
NorthStar Transloading, Fairview, on the state line
"a bit slow" with the downturn
will improve with the completion of the NST Express Alexander Facility
fracking sand offsets loss of crude oil business
20 miles of track
could squeeze in 10 unit trains at once
For newbies: the Bakken may have slowed down, and major East Coast media outlets talk about a bust in the US shale industry, but when they are still putting in $75 million infrastructure facilities it speaks volumes about the future of the Bakken.
Remember: the EIA forecasts the Bakken to produce 2 million bopd through 2040 without much decline between 2030 and 2040.
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Stony Creek Rail Yard
Mentioned in same story linked above.
Stony Creek Rail Yard is currently handling about 1,000 wind tower components for two projects in North Dakota.
This is the incredible rail yard build by Red River Supply just east of Williston (if not inside city limits, very, very close; just off State Highway 1804)
Red River Supply has announced the immediate addition of industrial rail
space to Williston, something that had been in high demand and short in
supply. Red River is now offering 25 acres of shovel-ready,
5-to-10-acre parcels at its Stony Creek Railyard southeast of Williston
and will be adding another 100-plus acres of industrial rail access
through 2020. The final development will be 180 acres and include an
industrial park.
Enel Green Power S.p.A. is an Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation, headquartered in Rome. The company was formed as a subsidiary of the power generation firm Enel
in December 2008, grouping its global renewable energy interests.
Enel
Green Power has operations in over 16 countries across Europe, North
America and South America. It generates energy from hydroelectricity, wind, solar power, geothermal electricity, biomass and Incineration
sources. At the end of September 2011, the company's total worldwide
installed capacity was 6,490 MW, which it intends to increase to
10,400 MW by 2015.
I do not know the status of the mega-wind farm proposed for Ward County, the Harland Wind Farm. The last update at wiki was in 2014.
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
The images were taken on 2 September by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of the surface and clearly show the main body of the lander, along with two of its three legs.
The images also provide proof of Philae’s orientation, making it clear why establishing communications was so difficult following its landing on 12 November 2014.
Rosetta is "Europe's comet chaser." Its mission is about to come to an end.
Saudi
Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, raised pricing for October
oil sales to Asia and the U.S. in a sign of strengthening demand.
State-owned
Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Aramco, increased its official
selling price for Arab Light crude to Asia by 90 cents a barrel, to
20 cents below the regional benchmark.
The company had been expected to raise Arab Light prices by
50 cents a barrel, to 60 cents less than the benchmark for Asian buyers.
We're still talking chump change but at least the trend is encouraging.
Politicians gathered at the Port of Long Beach on Sunday to call for
the flow of cargo to Southern California to resume, days after the
bankruptcy of one of the world’s largest shipping lines disrupted the
global supply chain.
Officials said the collapse of South
Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co., which declared bankruptcy Wednesday,
threatened local union workers’ jobs and merchants’ access to goods at a
crucial time, just before the holiday season.
Because Hanjin, the world’s seventh-largest shipping line, cannot
pay ports and terminals to unload, ships filled with merchandise have
sat idle for days. As of Sunday, officials said one massive container
ship was still drifting 50 miles south of the Long Beach and Los
Angeles ports; another ship was anchored at the Port of Long Beach,
inside the breakwater; a third was anchored outside the harbor.
I remember the unions shutting down the ports for increased pay saying that their six-figure salaries were not adequate. Just saying.
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Folks Still Don't Understand ObamaCare, Health Insurance, Or Insurance, In General
Paul Vondra is just the sort of person the architects of Obamacare had in mind.
The 59-year-old Bellevue resident is a temporary worker contracted
through a New Jersey agency to work as a mail clerk for a major local
bank. He doesn’t own a car, so he bikes each day to his job in the Strip
District.
His agency has offered him a choice of two Affordable Care
Act-approved marketplace plans. But Mr. Vondra, who makes less than
$25,000 annually and has no dependents, said the cheapest plan carries a
monthly premium of $165, or $800 a year, and a yearly deductible of
$2,500.
Also, the plan’s co-insurance — the amount he would be responsible
for after he has met his deductible — is $4,500, while out-of-pocket
hospital costs are capped at $10,000.
“It might as well be $10 million,” he said.
My heart goes out to the Paul Vondras of the world, but the Paul Vondras will still vote for Hillary who will promise them she will fix ObamaCare.
