"They can say whatever they want," Bill Ryan, an oil-field services consultant, said of an Interior Department that he believes is blocking what could be a much larger industry. "'Nuf said.
(President Barack) Obama's administration can say they're pro-development, but they always add 'as long as it's environmentally sound.' They're using the environmental argument to hamper development."
While state lawmakers threaten a long-shot legal bid to own Utah's federal lands and prime the petroleum pump, the congressional delegation rails against an administration it calls anti-energy.
"We're seeing more exploitation of state and private lands just because companies are seeing that it's getting more difficult on federal lands," said John Baza, director of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Feds Slow-Rolling the Domestic Oil and Gas Industry -- Utah's Experience
Link here.
Well, This Is Interesting -- Riersgard Well -- Hess -- $100 Million -- 12-Well Pad -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA
Updates
July 5, 2016: this is now a 15-well pad. In addition to the six wells noted below, here are nine more; the first three on a 3-well pad to the west, and the second six, on a 6-well pad to the east:
- 25574, 333, Hess, EN-Riersgard 156-93-1718H-4, Alger, 4 sections, t12/13; cum 59K 5/16;
- 25575, 493, Hess, EN-Riersgard 156-93-1718H-5, Alger, 4 sections, t11/13; cum 69K 5/16;
- 25576, 447, Hess, EN-Riersgard 156-93-1718H-6, Alger, 4 sections, t12/13; cum 116K 5/16;
- 26718, 648, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-4, Alger, 4 sections, t5/14; cum 103K 5/16;
- 26719, 777, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-5, Alger, 4 sections, t6/14; cum 119K 5/16;
- 26720, 660, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-6, Alger, 4 sections, t6/14; cum 123K 5/16;
- 28065, 597, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-7, Alger, 4 sections, t10/14; cum 96K 5/16;
- 28066, 850, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-8, Alger, 4 sections, t11/14; cum 82K 5/16;
- 28067, 669, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-9, Alger, 4 sections, t11/14; cum 104K 5/16;
Original Post
Well, this is very, very interesting.Regular readers know that I try to post 5 to 10 new stand-alone posts per day (as well as updating countless number of older posts).
With so much posting, I often forget what I've posted. Only by going back through earlier posts do I sometimes catch things. I just noted this, and no one sent in a comment yet which suggests a) no one else noticed; or, more likely, b) no one cares. Smile.
Anyway, earlier today I posted that mineral owners would not be happy to see a Hess well on a 2,560-acre spacing unit come in with an IP of 777. (On the other hand, it could have come in at 666, even worse, I suppose.)
Later this evening, I posted a Filloon story suggesting Hess may have in mind a 12-well pad. Someone noted that the pad currently has six confidential wells on site, with one showing a rig on site, according to the NDIC map. Generally I don't expect to see an IP reported for any well on the pad when the map still shows a ROS at the pad.
So, I wasn't expecting this, but there it is. One of the wells on that pad reported an IP.
- 21129, 777, Hess, EN-Riersgard-156-93-1718H-1 (this link is broken; Teegue could not stand all the nonsense on flaring). Alger, Bakken, s9/11; t2/12; F; cum 65K 8/12; 4 section spacing; a Three Forks well; frack data to be provided later, according to Hess. Trivia: boy, these guys are good: they reached total depth in 20 days. At total depth, the bit was 1.7 feet below the ideal target total vertical depth (TVD) of 10,305.65 feet, according to the file report.
- 21129, 777, Hess, EN-Riersgard-156-93-1718H-1 (this link is broken; Teegue could not stand all the nonsene on flaring). Alger, Bakken, s9/11; t2/12; F; cum 71K 9/12;
- 21130, 739, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-1; t2/12; cum 53K 9/12;
- 21131, 705, Hess, EN-Riersgard-156-93-1718H-2, t4/12; cum 86K 9/12;
- 21132, 372, Hess, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-2; t4/12; cum 38K 9/12;
- 21133, 540, Hess, EN-Riersgard-156-93-1718H-3; t4/12; cum 61K 9/12;
- 21134, 456, EN-State C-156-93-1615H-3; t4/12; cum 40K 9/12;
Now, go back to the March, 2012, dockets:
- Case 16885, cont'd, Hess, 12 wells on a 2560-acre unit, Banks-Bakken, Williams, McKenzie
Here we go.
Idle rambling follows; recommendation: ignore it.
By the way, I was following one of the longest threads ever on another site regarding spacing of Bakken wells (this link is broken; Teegue could not stand all the nonsense on flaring). I thought one or two of the folks talking about this issue would understand the concept of unconventional/tight shale based on their expertise of the Bakken in general, but the one or two whom I thought understood things, said things about spacing that completely amazed me. I didn't post anything at the time for a number of reasons, but now with this 2,560-acre spacing pad and the first of six wells reporting an IP, it confirms what I thought all along. There are very, very few folks that really understand the concept of unconventional/tight oil and the reasoning for the spacing.
Also, a second note, same subject (2,560-acre spacing) but a different issue. I remember when 2,560-acre spacing was first being considered. Folks said that it would be impossible for rigs to push a horizontal wells across four sections (four miles of horizontal boring), much less keep the rig in the 10-foot seam of the formation (in some places). Now we see how they are going to exploit a 2,560-acre unit: with standard "long" laterals. So a mineral owner with one acre in the far northwest corner of the 2,560-acre unit, will participate in any oil taken from the far southeast corner in an east-west oriented four-section spacing unit, even though the horizontal is two miles away.
Rumor: Obama To Fast-Track the Keystone XL 2.0S
Updates
March 26, 2012: Forbes' take on Obama's hypocritical visit to Cushing, OK.
It will be a strange and remarkable visit considering that Obama in January denied a permit for the northern section of the pipeline that would have crossed the Canadian border. The strangeness wasn’t lost of Harold Hamm, the chief executive of Continental Resources, Mitt Romney’s new energy advisor, and a first-rate oil tycoon, worth $11.5 billion by Forbes’ most recent reckoning.
“It’s so hypocritical and so ironic after everything he’s tried to do against the industry,” said Hamm in a phone interview with me today. “He’s trying to take credit for all the gains we’ve made against the backdrop of the biggest oil storage complex in the world.”
Take credit? Naw, the president couldn’t be taking credit for this stretch of the Keystone XL, could he? After all, he must know full well that TransCanada got approvals to build the southern stretch months ago, and that pipelines that stay within U.S. borders don’t need presidential approval anyway. Maybe someone forgot to tell Obama advisor David Axelrod. “This president has approved dozens of pipelines,” said Axelrod on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “So he’s certainly not hostile to transporting oil but we have to do it in an appropriate way.”
Original Post
Link here. CNN reports, citing "a source familiar with the president's announcement," that Obama will announce in Cushing that his administration will put the southern section of Keystone on the fast-track to approval. "The permit process for a project like this can typically take a year or more. The source familiar with the president's announcement says the administration could shave several months off that timeline," says the network.Up until now, most of us were unaware that the federal government even got involved in approving in-state pipelines. So much for states' rights.
But, glad to see that the president supports the Keystone XL, albeit half of it, and the half that is not connected to Canada.
This reminds me of all the federal projects that build bridges to nowhere.
Story: Dimock, Pennsylvania ---- Photo: Belfield, North Dakota
I'm sure this page at the link will be changed by the time some of you get to it. It is so ridiculous that even the host will try to find a relevant picture. Not a "more" relevant picture, but a relevant picture.
The EPA says first tests of the well water coming from Dimock, Pennsylvania, reveal that the water is safe to drink. Dimock is home to a fair amount of fracking natural gas wells.
The accompanying photo is of an oil pipeline in North Dakota where no natural gas wells are fracked (or if they are, a bare minimum). Wells in North Dakota are much, much deeper, and are oil wells, not natural gas wells. (Yes, natural gas accompanies the oil but that's a different story.)
And so it goes.
But in the "what goes around, comes around" category, a recent story about fracking in California in the LA Times was accompanied by a photograph from Dimock, Pennsylvania. Here's that link.
One would think that local newspapers reporting on a local story would have local photographs, but it appears that budget cuts and/or pure laziness makes it imperative/easier to simply cut/paste or otherwise link stock photographs from the internet.
Blogs do that all the time, but mainstream, print media with websites? Mainstream, print media outlets are turning into blogs.
The EPA says first tests of the well water coming from Dimock, Pennsylvania, reveal that the water is safe to drink. Dimock is home to a fair amount of fracking natural gas wells.
The accompanying photo is of an oil pipeline in North Dakota where no natural gas wells are fracked (or if they are, a bare minimum). Wells in North Dakota are much, much deeper, and are oil wells, not natural gas wells. (Yes, natural gas accompanies the oil but that's a different story.)
And so it goes.
But in the "what goes around, comes around" category, a recent story about fracking in California in the LA Times was accompanied by a photograph from Dimock, Pennsylvania. Here's that link.
One would think that local newspapers reporting on a local story would have local photographs, but it appears that budget cuts and/or pure laziness makes it imperative/easier to simply cut/paste or otherwise link stock photographs from the internet.
Blogs do that all the time, but mainstream, print media with websites? Mainstream, print media outlets are turning into blogs.
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