Tuesday, March 27, 2018

CLR EUR Type Curves Up To 1.1 Million BOE In The Bakken -- March 27, 2018

I've been waiting for this presentation for quite some time with all the recent activity in the Bakken -- CLR's most recent presentation, link here. Quickly, because I have more important things to do, the things that caught my attention that are new:
  • 34 slides
  • 2018: a breakout year for CLR
  • 100% funded from internal cash flow
    • $2 billion for D&C
    • 78% of D&C targeting the Bakken and the Springer (SCOOP)
  • targeting 17% to 24% YoY production growth; targeting annual 285K to 300K boe per day
  • up to $1 billion (rounded) in free cash flow with $60 WTI and $3 Henry Hub
  • continue to reduce debt
    • free cash flow to reduce debt
    • additional non-core asset divestitures
  • net reservoir acres / hbp
    • Bakken: 802,000 net acres / 90%
    • STACK: 409,500 net acres (I did not realize it was this much, compared to the Bakken) / 60%
    • SCOOP: 724,000 (ditto) / 60%
  • production
    • north (North Dakota): 175,563 boepd
    • south (Oklahoma): 111,422 boepd
  • Bakken continues to deliver record results (well / 30-day avg boepd / % oil / formation)
    • Tarentaise Federal 1-19H (2,126 / 79% / MB)
    • Tarentaise Federal 3-19H (2,074 / 805 / MB)
    • Tarentaise Federal 5-19H (2,034 / 79% / MB)
    • Tarentaise Federal 12-19H2 (1,848 / 79% / TF2)
    • Holstein Federal 8-25H (2,015 / 83% / MB)
    • Wiley 7-25H (1,966 / 76% / MB)
    • Akron Federal 7-27H (1,853 / 79% / MB)
    • Radermecher 2-22H1 (1,833 / 79% / TF1)
    • Monroe 7-2H (2,055 / 80% / MB)
    • Monroe 6-2H  (2,869 / 79% /  MB)
  • EUR type curves: 1.1 million boe
    • 134 optimized completions
    • 125% ROR
    • PV-10 up 47% per well compared to previous type curve
  • interesting term on slide 16: "children wells" / "parent well"-- we've blogged about that only once or twice in the past; a reader working for HAL alerted me to that "new term" maybe a year or so ago
    • children wells are producing 20% higher than parent wells (we've seen something similar in the Bakken); 50% reduction in drill time; 20% reduction in CWC
  • history of EUR type curves:
    • 2011: 430 mboe
    • 2014: 603 mboe
    • 2015: 800 mboe
    • 1H17: 980 mboe
    • 2018: 1,100 mboe; payout period down to ten months 
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Notes to the Granddaughters

Close Encounters With Humankind: A Paleoanthropolgist Investigates Our Evolving Species
San-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon
c. 2015

Chapter 1: Are We Cannibals
  • there may be cannibalistic behavior, but there are no cannibals
  • Fore, Australia, in the 1950s
  • the spread of an unknown disease
  • tremors and convulsions: kuru -- "shaking" in the indigenous language
  • also called "laughing disease" because patients would fall into fits of nonstop laughter
  • a very long incubation period: normally five to 20 years
  • the last reported person to have the disease died in 2005, but he was infected in the 1960s
  • after the incubation period, the patient usually dies within a year of the first symptoms
  • Daniel Gajdusek: documented the existence of a prion disease for the first time
  • another prion-related disease: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Gajdusek: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976
  • currently, scientists hypothesize that the kuru epidemic started with the funerary rituals for one person who must have had kuru, which was endemic to the population
Chapter 2: The Birth of Fatherhood
  • there is no question that the human family is unique: human families involve adult men
  • "couvade syndrome": sympathetic pregnancy and labor experience among (prospective) fathers
Chapter 3: Who Were the First Hominin Ancestors?
  • Propconsul  and Ramapithecus: first candidates; subsequently, the DNA said "no"
  • Australopithecus africanus: DNA, yes, but fossil record dated A. africanus to only 2 - 3 million years ago; too recent
  • then, Mary Leakey and Donald Johanson: A. afarensis found to be 3 - 3.5 million years old; "Lucy"
    • walked upright before developing an enlarged brain
    • "Lucy" resulted in a paradigmatic shift
  • bipedalism, not enlarged brains, would be the defining characteristic for an ancestral human
  • mid-1990s: several ancestral hominins much older than A. afarensis; also bipedal
    • Australopithecus anamensis, 3.9 - 4.2 million years ago
  • heated debate whether to add a third candidate, A Anamensis to A. afarensis and A. africanus
  • it's possible A. anamensis might simply be another A. afarensis
  • issue becomes more complicated in the early 2000s with three new candidates for "earliest ancestor"
  • 1999: two new candidates
    • Sahelanthropus tchadensis, discovered in Toumai, Chad (central Africa); 6 - 7 million years go; too little fossil to be more sure
    • Orrorin guenensis (no doubt named after a fossil of a senator in the US Senate, LOL), Tugen Hills, Kenya, East Africa; also 6 - 7 million years ago; femur shows traits of bipedalism
  • most recent addition: Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered in Aramis, Ethiopia; 4.4 million yeas ago
  • another reversal: bipedalism in doubt
  • the problem: A. ramidus may have been a tree-climber
  • one possibility: the three candidates may be members of the various ape lineages that roamed before hominins began, instead of being the earliest member of the hominin lineage
Chapter 4: Big-Brained Babies Give Moms Big Grief
  • childbirth in humans cannot (as a rule) be done alone: "social" childbirth
  • origin of "social" childbirth goes back at least 50,000 years; CT scan of Neanderthal newborn
Chapter 5: Meat Lovers R Us
  • first source of "meat" for hominins -- bones
Chapter 6: Got Milk?
  • co-evolution of humans and cows
  • in the last 10,000 years, humans evolved the ability to drink milk into adulthood from a series of genetic mutations in the lactase gene
  • but also, milk itself has changed; the genetic makeup of the cows that produce milk has changed through domestication
  • genetics and anthropology have shown that humans have continued to evolve recently, at an even faster rate than we did over the previous 5 million years (author will come back to this later)
Chapter 7: A Gene for Snow White
  • lighter skin among humans
Chapter 8: Granny Is an Artist
  • when did longevity begin? with sapiens or with erectus
  • longevity and the blossoming of art
Chapter 9: Did Farming Bring Prosperity

Chapter 10: Peking Man and the Yakuza
  • yakuza: the notorious crime organization of Japan
  • Peking Man was discovered in Zhoukoudian, China, in the 1920s
  • fossils vanished at harbor of Beijing, 1941, in preparation for transportation to the US; last time they were ever to be seen
  • now, ten years earlier, the author was told a yakuza rite would include Peking Man fossils
  • if legitimate --- wow!
  • author declined the invitation -- wow, even sadder (too dangerous to accept)
  • the Peking Man fossils have never been rediscovered
  • the molds still exist
  • argument that Peking man is not Homo erectus
Chapter 11: Asia Challenges Africa's Stronghold on the Birthplace of Humanity
  • the Dmanisi fossils
Chapter 12: Cooperation Connects You and Me
  • is helping others written in our DNA?
  • 1.8 million years of altruism
Chapter 13: King Kong
  • was King Kong real? Gigantopithecus
Chapter 14: Breaking Back

Chapter 15: In Search of the Most Humanlike Face
  • Homo rudolfensis
  • what makes a face "humanlike" anyway 
  • KNM-EM 62000: discovered in Koobi Fora, a renowned paleo-anthropological site in northern Kenyz
  • the most famous family in the field of anthropology: the Leakeys
Chapter 16: Our Changing Brains
  • adult brains and child brains are different
  • growth -- not physical size but the number of synapses
  • big brains need lean faces
  • "...for the skull to get bigger, the muscles holding down the bones that make up the skull have to become smaller first, to allow the skull to grow unencumbered. The biggest muscle connected to the skull is the masticatory (chewing) muscle. In other words, for the brain to get bigger, the masticatory muscles have to get smaller. Interestingly, a paper published in 2004 featured an experiment showing that a mutation in a gene (MYH16) to make the chewing muscle small led to an enormously big skull in mice, making this hypothesis more plausible."
  • there are indications that in the last 50,000 years, human brains might actually be getting smaller; if true, no one knows why, but that's where research is headed
Chapter 17: You Are a Neanderthal!

Chapter 18: The Molecular Clock Does Not Keep Time
  • come back to this chapter later
Chapter 19: Denisovans: The Asian Neanderthals
  • come back to this chapter later
Chapter 20: Hobbits

Chapter 21: Seven Billion Humans, One Single Race?
  • it is not clear when and where the concept of race originated
  • if a race is not like a biological species, researchers keen on proving that race exist as a natural category might then consider subspecies, a subclassification within the same species. A subspecies is a population that has been isolated to the point that it is on a trajectory to become a different species if the isolation continues. Subspecies are sometimes defines as sharing less than 85% of their genes with the other subpopulations of their species designation (don't humans - chimps share 99% of their genetic material?), in order to be considered on their way to becoming a different species.
  • key: prolonged isolation
Chapter 22: Are Humans Still Evolving?
  • wisdom teeth

The Market And Energy Page, T+27 -- March 27, 2018

After this post, I'm outta here, for an hour or so. Good luck to everyone.

Chart of the day:




Fake news, even in the WSJ. This is really, really cool. During the Bakken boom, back in 2007 - 2012, "emigres" from three or four states dominated the number of new folks coming to western North Dakota looking for jobs. Idaho was among the top five out-of-state license plates seen in those days. Idaho was in a severe recession.
Now? From The Wall Street Journal today: incomes in Idaho rising at fastest rate in the nation. Why? Let's see: nope, the article was unhelpful. The writer is trying to make a "worker shortage - wage inflation" story in Idaho "work" for the nation as a whole. Nonsense. Except perhaps on the margins.

Using the same model, my hunch is that globally, incomes in Bangladesh are also rising at the fast rate.
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@TeslaCharts: OMFG. Boom.

This is quite incredible. I have not seen something that has completely "shocked" the business world tweets like what is happening now over at twitter -- maybe like forever.

If you understand how Twitter works, @TeslaCharts is a no-brainer "site" to follow. [Also, Scott Adams, but that's another story. I digress.]

The news that is shaking "business world twitter" accounts today -- Waymo and Jaguar's self-driving I-PACE just announced a partnership. 



Wow, anyone following Waymo (just off the radar scope for most folks) and Jaguar's I-PACE (off everyone's radar scope) -- this story is incredible.

This will knock TSLA hard. Let's see what TSLA is doing. Before we look, remember, the market went up 700 points yesterday and up another 100 points today. Okay, here we go, TSLA (at 10:07 a.m. Central Time, just minutes after the Waymo - Jaguar pact was announced) is trading down $7.08, or down 2.33%. It's now well below its floor ($300). [Later: TSLA is down over $12 -- 11:16 a.m. Central Time.] [Later, 1:32 p.m. Central Time: inexplicably the market plummets, goes negative; TSLA shares down almost $20.]

Another Tesla fatality; this one in California, March 23, 2018.




Remember, a week ago, every talking head (except the moderator) was bullish on Tesla (posted previously).

Top story driving the drop in TSLA shares? Who knows? But Zacks reported one hour ago (something twitter reported yesterday) that Elon Musk has alerted investors that Tesla is "slowing" deliveries to Norway, on purpose.
According to CNBC, Tesla, Inc.’s CEO Elon Musk has asked his team in Norway to slow down deliveries of electric cars there due to issues pertaining to the local manufacturing supply chain. Notably, the electric vehicle maker is experiencing a lack of giant trucks to carry its vehicles safely around Norway. A truck, which was carrying Tesla Model S vehicles, was recently embroiled in an accident.
Two Tesla vehicles were crushed by the upper deck of the truck. Musk said, “I have just asked our team to slow down deliveries. It is clear that we are exceeding the local logistics capacity due to batch build and delivery. Customer happiness & safety matter more than a few extra cars this quarter.
The Waymo-Jaguar story certainly did not help.

Elon got his $3 billion bonus just in time.

Reflections on a short life.

Reflections Of My Life, The Marmalade

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The Equity Market

A dead cat bounce?

Q: When will we know?

A: Friday, March 30, 2018. 10:30 a.m. Central Time.

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This Story Won't Quit -- March 27, 2018

This is the one common theme coming out of western Canada. Everyone's writing about it. And it's not going to change very soon.

Trudeau's response: "I look up as I walk so the tears won't fall."

The story from Zacks: dearth of pipeline capacity plagues Canadian oil producers.
The new supply, which has arrived in the market from the start up of new oil sands, is facing transportation issues as Keystone pipeline lowered shipments in November 2017, thanks to a spill.
This has pushed the heavy Canadian crude prices to trade close to the largest discount to U.S. benchmark oil futures in more than four years [around $30 -- ouch]. Other existing pipelines are fully committed, while exporters shipping crude using rail have faced hindrances amid excess grain that is to be transported.

The heavy discount between Canadian crude prices and futures has forced the oil sands players to shut their plants this month for maintenance. For instance, Canadian Natural Resources’ Peace River oil sands site is currently under maintenance. Moreover, it has also reduced its pace of the ramp up and completion of some wells.

Per industry researcher Genscape Inc., Western Canadian crude production was more than the pipeline capacity to transfer it to markets by 87,000 barrels per day (bpd) in December 2017. This is expected to grow to 338,000 bpd by the end of 2018.
Sukiyaki, Kyu Sakamoto

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Looking for love in all the wrong places. Prince Salman wants "10 - 20 year alliance with Russia." Like Stormy Daniels, does anyone really care?



Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, Johnny Lee
API crude oil inventory data:
  • forecast: a build of 1.0 million bbls
  • actual: a build of 5.321 million bbls 
  • WTI after the announcement: nearly unchanged at $65.25
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LNG exports: nice data at this Platts article.

Apple: educators' conference today -- presentation not being streamed (standard protocol for these "educators' conferences). Updates at Macrumors. Folks expecting some lower-priced tablets and laptops for schools to compete with Google Chrome.

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Back to the Bakken

Active rigs:

$66.10↑3/27/201803/27/201703/27/201603/27/201503/27/2014
Active Rigs59493297196

RBN Energy: LNG and pipeline reversals turn Louisiana gas market upside down, part 3.

After 30+ Years Of Accumulating Shares In The Seven Sisters, This Story Makes My Heart Skip A Beat -- March 27, 2018

From Bloomberg via Rigzone: oil's seven sisters enter a "golden age." -- Goldman Sachs.
The world’s largest oil companies have survived a life-changing crisis, and are now poised to reap the rewards, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.
Big Oil is in a sweet spot with rising oil prices and low operating costs, leaving them with the biggest cash-flow growth in two decades and boosting earnings, Goldman said in a report Monday. That will increase their attraction for investors after years of elevated spending followed by crude’s slump sent their weighting in global equity indexes to a 50-year low, according to the bank.
“We see this as the start of a new golden age for Big Oil’s reborn Seven Sisters,” said analysts led by Michele Della Vigna, referring to the seven largest non-state oil companies. It is “also a favorable environment for returns in the commodity.”
Crude’s slump since the middle of 2014 wiped out some smaller companies and changed the way the biggest operate as they continue to drive down costs in an attempt to survive. A downturn is typically followed by a period of relative plenty as the cost of getting new barrels out of the ground takes time to catch up with the crude price, widening profit margins.
The majors are leading the pack. While crude’s collapse pushed the weight of oil companies in equity indexes to about 5 percent, less than half their normal level, Big Oil is now in a position to regain its standing. The slump culled smaller drillers and has left the larger ones with the opportunity to take more market share.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and BP Plc are among the majors that reported the highest earnings in years last quarter. Some even started share buybacks and others are promising higher dividends.
Much, much more at the link.

Tomorrow, we should expect a story from Goldman Sachs telling us that the global glut of oil will lead to a plunge in the price of Brent and WTI, leading to the imminent bankruptcy of most of the major oil companies. LOL.