Oasis Reports A Very, Very Nice Well In A Drilling Unit With Almost No Other Activity -- June 6, 2019

The well:

• 23203, 1,438, Oasis, Kaitlin Federal 5693 41-28B, Alger, t12/18; cum 151K 4/19;

Production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2019	30	31901	32548	28611	44623	5367	38776
BAKKEN	3-2019	20	21383	20905	20238	21944	3920	18024
BAKKEN	2-2019	25	23206	23667	26626	24602	13720	10482
BAKKEN	1-2019	31	41715	41086	47605	43761	33643	9622
BAKKEN	12-2018	26	32474	32287	52531	34799	8861	25522

No other wells int he area except #17477 which is barely "involved." No effect on #17477 which is a pretty lousy well:

• 17477, 200, Oasis, Mell 44-21H, Alger, t12/08; cum 111K 4/19; producing less than 250 bbls/month;

#23068, an Equinor well in the drilling unit to the east was not affected. That well, too, is not particularly good:

• 23068, 2,454, Equinor, Liffrig 29-20 5H, Alger, t12/12; cum 158K 4/19; producing about 1,000 bbls/month (4/19) 

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Sophia Checking In 

Six Wells Come Off The Confidential List Today -- June 6, 2019

Jobs, link here:

• forecast: 215K
• actual: 218K

Wells coming off the confidential list today -- Thursday, June 6, 2019: 16 for the month; 205 for the quarter;

• 35389, SI/NC, Newfield, Goliath 150-98-5-8-6H, 
• 35097, 562, Liberty Resources Management Company, LLC, Stanley W 158-91-30-6-1TFHX,  Kittleson Slough, t12/18; cum 74K 4/19;
• 34697, 1,760, CLR, Rolf 4-17H, Brooklyn, t4/19; cum 22K after 21 days;
• 32205, SI/NC, BR, CCU Pacific Express 32-19TFH,  Corral Creek,  no production data,
• 30028, SI/NC, Hess, BB-Federal-151-95-0817H-5, Blue Buttes, no production data,
• 23203, 1,438, Oasis, Kaitlin Federal 5693 41-28B, Alger, t12/18; cum 151K 4/19; 

Active rigs:

$52.19	6/6/2019	06/06/2018	06/06/2017	06/06/2016	06/06/2015
Active Rigs	64	60	52	26	82

RBN Energy: how much more crude export capacity does the US really need? Archived.

Crude oil production in the U.S. continues to rise — it currently stands at 12.4 MMb/d, up more than 1.6 MMb/d from 12 months ago, according to the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). New pipeline projects from Cushing and West Texas to the Gulf Coast are being developed to ensure there is enough flow capacity to move all those barrels from the wellhead to refineries and export docks. Which leads to two critical questions — namely, how much actual crude oil export capacity is already in place at the Gulf Coast, and how much more needs to be developed? Today, we begin a series presenting our latest analysis of crude oil export capacity in the U.S., our forecast for total export demand, and our view of what it all means for the large slate of potential projects.

U.S. crude oil export volumes have grown substantially since the ban on most crude exports was lifted in December 2015. After doubling from nearly 600 Mb/d in 2016 to 1.2 MMb/d in 2017, export volumes increased again last year (averaging 2 MMb/d.
So far in 2019, crude oil exports have been averaging just over 2.7 MMb/d after hitting an all-time high of 3.6 MMb/d in mid-February. The demand to ship barrels overseas shows no signs of slowing, and for good reason. Crude exports are being driven by simple fundamentals, all of which point to continued growth in crude oil volumes moving out of the Gulf Coast and into international markets.

Only Known Allied Color Footage Of D-Day Landing -- June 6, 2019

From YouTube:

The only known Allied colour footage of World War Two was uncovered in the attic of a Hollywood director by his son.

When the warship HMS Belfast fired the shot that launched the D-Day landings, it was carrying an unlikely passenger - Hollywood film director George Stevens.

With Allied forces set to storm the Normandy beaches of Nazi-occupied France, Stevens was on-board making a unique 16 millimetre colour film journal. He had made his name in the 1930s, directing the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 'Swing Time' (1936) and Cary Grant in 'Gunga Din' (1939).

But in 1942, after seeing Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda movies, Stevens enlisted. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned him to head up the combat motion-picture coverage, a unit covering the war in black-and-white 35 millimetre film for newsreels and military archives.

But while documenting the Allied forces' advance towards Berlin, he took with him a 16 millimetre camera and boxes of Kodachrome film on which he would shoot a personal visual diary of the war. The film canisters of the war were developed back in the US, but Stevens stored them and for decades they went untouched.  

Much more at the comment section for the video.

D-Day Landing

New Jersey Denies The Pipeline That NYC Denied Earlier -- June 6, 2019

For the backstory, see this post from yesterday. The multiple New York City, New York state, and New Jersey pipeline stories are being tracked here.

New Jersey denies key permits for Williams' NESE natural gas project. Link here.

New Jersey regulators have rejected key wetlands, water quality and land use approvals for Williams' Northeast Supply Enhancement project, in another blow to the pipeline expansion that would bring 400 MMcf/d of incremental natural gas supply into New York markets.

The project only three weeks earlier was denied a water quality certificate by New York state regulators, though Williams has expressed optimism it could answer New York's "technical concern" and meet its in-service target.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, in a decision released late Wednesday, found that Williams' Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line had not fully shown how it could avoid or minimize adverse impacts to surface water quality caused by dredging to build a segment of the pipeline that would run through New Jersey waters of the Raritan Bay. The decision was without prejudice to Transco submitting future modeling analysis to demonstrate that mitigation.

The state regulators also found Transco had not shown there were no alternatives that ease impacts of a proposed compressor station to freshwater wetlands and riparian areas, and had not shown a compelling need warranting the compressor station as presently proposed.

New Jersey portions of the project include a 32,000 horsepower compressor station in Franklin Township, the 5.96-miles Madison Loop, and the roughly 6-mile Raritan Loop in New Jersey waters.

The decisions are without prejudice, giving Transco an opportunity to reapply.

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Pipeline Under The Sea Not To Be

Back to the Future

Expect More Fake Science, Not Just Fake News -- June 6, 2109

From What's Up With That:

I quit subscribing to The National Geographic after that cover photo of the submerged Statue of Liberty. I still pay for a subscription for the granddaughters, and never discuss global warming with them. They can sort it out for themselves, but they never bring it up.

We're still waiting for the "official" May, 2019, atmospheric CO2 readings at this site. Apparently we hit 415 ppm in May, 2019. Interestingly enough, I did not see any news story when that milestone was reached. I suppose this was mostly because May was somewhat cooler than usual and definitely wetter than usual and that would not have fit the global warming narrative.

Was it a wet winter? From iceagenow:

Lake Mead water level is at a three-year high and not by a trivial amount.

Flashback.