There are about twelve "new" Johnsrud wells, fracked in the past year.
This is the production profile of the "original" Johnsrud well. Neighboring wells were fracked around 6/16; note oil production, water production, and natural gas production after 6/16:
22202, 2,104, Oasis Johnsrud 19-18H, 28 stages, 3.3 million lbs, t5/12; cum 220K 11/16; off-line most of 7/15; MCF of 12,000 MCF = 2,000 boe; add that to the 6,089 bbls bo in 8/16;
Bone-freezing cold, heavy snowstorms, and floods have been
plaguing the European continent this week, causing power outages,
traffic jams, cancelled flights, and even a stream of plastic eggs with
toys washing up on a German island.
On Saturday, heavy
precipitation paralyzed Istanbul, Turkey. Around 6,000 passengers found
themselves stranded as hundreds of flights to and from the city's main
Ataturk Airport were cancelled due to the snowstorm.
The Bosphorus
Strait was closed to ships due to poor visibility, cutting off the
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea from the Mediterranean.
Many drivers
abandoned their cars and walked rather than waiting for streets to be
cleaned. Istanbul’s metro system operated throughout the night to deal
with a sudden passenger spike.
Most of the wild care games (all four of them) were less than exciting this weekend, but I think the Seattle Hawks game was better than average, and if you like the Green Bay Packers, they had an outstanding game today, easily beating the New York Giants.
The Green Bay Packers will now play "a" divisional game against the Dallas Cowboys next week. Can hardly wait.
Robert Mercer, a computer programmer and hedge-fund manager who distrusted the political establishment and loathed Bill and Hillary Clinton, issued a warning: Data he had seen indicated mainstream Republicans such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio
would have difficulty winning the White House in 2016, according to one
of the attendees. He said only a true outsider with a sense of voters’
frustrations could win.
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Wow, we almost forgot, #8 in the 20-song countdown:
It looks like Mexico is going to keep losing US dollars/investments if it doesn't work with PEOTUS on immigration issues and the "wall." If Obama had his war on coal, it clearly appears that Trump has his war on Mexico.
Fiat Chrysler will add three new Jeeps to its lineup
including a pickup
also, the new Jeep Wagoneer; and,
the new Grand Wagoner
all large SUVs
CNBC, tomorrow, will repeat the meme: these "onesies and twosies" don't mean a thing; Trump needs policy changes to bring on millions of jobs, not hundreds of jobs at any one time.
Okay, so how about this: a huge US Navy ship modernization program? Yup, it's going to be huge, and New England is going to love it. This is being reported everywhere, but the link to NavyTimes seems most appropriate:
Donald Trump has pledged the biggest US Navy build-up since the Reagan administration
it will cost less than Obama's stimulus program
it will cost less than ObamaCare
today's US Navy battle force: 272 ships
US Navy wants about 305 ships
Trump wants to build a 350-ship fleet that Republican defense hawks have long wanted
would restore US Navy to a size it hasn't seen since 1998
To get there the Navy would need to start building three Virginia-class
attack submarines per year and continue to pump out LCS and its
follow-on frigates starting in 2019 to do low-end missions. The
submarine build-up would need to continue even as the nation begins on
the next-generation of ballistic missile submarines, which are estimated
to cost at least $5 billion per hull.
The Navy, he said, could also accelerate the production of the
aircraft carriers to get the fleet up to 12 by the 2030s. That buildup
would get the Navy from an end strength of about 330,000 sailors today
to more than 380,000 in Trump’s Navy.
As I've said before, Donald Trump does not think small. He will let the New England and Mid-Atlantic state senators from Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine try to talk him out of this.
for me, it's hard enough getting my hands around billions of bbls of oil; it's almost impossible for me to get a feel for trillions of cubic feet of natural gas
proved reserves are based on price of recovery, confusing matters from year to year
estimates are just that, estimates (and often inflated for "certain" reasons)
watch for this gotcha: sometimes reported in trillion cubic feet; sometimes in trillion cubic meters (35 cubic feet = 1 cubic meter; not trivial)
for me it comes down to two things:
any discovery over 30 trillion cubic feet natural gas is staggering, worth reporting
"we" aren't going to run out of natural gas any time soon
This is the story of how a retired geologist discovered one of the biggest oil finds in the continental US this past decade: the Alpine High oil field.
[Steve] Keenan [retired geologist] and [Roberto] Alaniz [chief geologist] became intrigued by a section along a southern strip of Reeves County. The rest of the industry didn't think much of it. More than 100 wells had failed before Apache arrived, drilled by storied explorers like Oklahoma's Chesapeake Energy and Houston's Petrohawk Energy.
Petrohawk once owned half the oil rights in the area, said Floyd Wilson, the company's former CEO and current chief executive of Halcon Resources, another Houston oil company. But it didn't know quite what it had. "We didn't even have a clue those plays were there," Wilson said.
Oil companies largely avoided southern Reeves County. Most believed rock in that part of the Delaware was too deep and too hot to hold oil. In addition, as seas filled the basin millions of years ago, they deposited clay, which doesn't fracture well to let out oil and gas.
More:
Apache hired Keenan in April 2014, and Keenan opened a San Antonio office. Colleagues from EOG, including geologist Sara Reilly, 37, soon joined him. "I wanted to work for Steve again," she said.
Keenan's team started slowly, helping to improve existing wells and prospects, and operating other wells in the western half of West Texas' Permian Basin, called the Delaware. Keenan and chief geologist Roberto Alaniz, 67, a long-time colleague, had never worked in the Permian. But they liked the Delaware, with its deep underground basin that trapped organic material - the building blocks of oil - as seas rose and fell millions of years ago.
More:
In November 2015, the state approved the drilling of Spanish Trail, off County Road 318 on the edge of a lake outside the sleepy town of Balmorhea. Apache broke ground in January, drilling 10,767 feet below the surface, then turning 4,326 feet horizontally, according to state records..
One night a month later, a field report arrived in the inbox of Tim Samson, a 34-year-old geologist. Samson looked, then looked again. Spanish Trail had hit clear, sweet crude in a reservoir 2,000 feet thick more than a mile below the surface.
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Apache found something else there, too - something Keenan won't talk about, for fear of revealing the secret of Alpine High. But, whatever it was, it told him every well in the play would strike oil.
Much, much more at the link.
The big takeaway for me: there's a lot more to all these plays, including the Bakken, that we don't yet know about.
And the coolest thing: I had already placed "Alpine High - Apache" at the sidebar at the right.
Wells coming off confidential list over the weekend, Monday:
Monday, January 9, 2017
31336, 747, Oasis, Johnsrud 5198 14-18 13T, Siverston, Three Forks first bench; 36 stages, 4 million lbs, t7/16 cum 89K 11/16;
32618, SWD, Petro Harvester, Sorum SWD 1, Flaxton, looks like an oil & gas permit changed to a SWD well; it's been my experience that SWD wells had permit designations beginning with a "9", for example: 9XXXX.
