Friday, June 15, 2012

For Newbies: Satellite Views Of Your Wells

Updates

After the original note below, a reader sent me this note:
On the NDIC GIS map server, one can click on "NAIP 2009" under "imagery" at the sidebar to the right of the map.  The reader says the imagery may not be as recent as Google's and having just looked at it, it seems not to be as clear. However, the topography seems to be better visualized. Anyway, at least two options.
The instructions below seem a bit complicated, but once you do it, you will see how fast it is: a) center your cursor; b) click on "rect identify'; c) cut and paste the "lat" and "lon" at google maps. You don't have to clean up the "lat" and "lon" before pasting.

Original Post
Easy as pie.

1. NDIC website.

2. Click on "GIS Map Server" on left sidebar, about the eleventh button down.

3. At the map, at the sidebar on the left, near the bottom, click on find well.

4. Type in one word of the well's name.  Locate the name of the well you are looking for.

5. Click on that well. It will be highlighted on the GIS map server.

6. Again, on the sidebar at the left of the map, click on the eleventh button down, "Rect Identify."

7. Nothing will happen. Drag the cross-hairs over the well you are interested in. Click on that well.

8. At the bottom of the GIS map are the coordinates of the well; you will have to scroll to the right.

9. Do you see "lat," and "lon"?  Highlight the "lat" and "lon" with your curser.  "Copy."

10. Go to Google maps.

11.  Paste "lat" and "lon" into the white rectangle/search box at the top of Google maps.

12. Hit search, and voila -- there you are. Make sure you are in "satellite" mode on Google maps and you can drill down to see the well.

Dallas -- Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Bakken -- For the Bakken, Skip and Scroll

It's hard to believe I was going on 30 years old when the original "Dallas" was on television. Wiki says it started in 1978 -- I would have been 27 at the time, I guess. I don't recall being that old when I watched it. I honestly didn't think I had time then to watch it, but I must have seen some episodes because I remember the opening credits very, very well. In 1978 I was raising a family, and in a most intense training program that was literally 24/7. I honestly don't remember watching much television then.

So, tonight after the golf tournament, and after a bit of news, I wasn't watching, but it was on in the background to provide company, all of a sudden on TNT, it must have been 11:00 p.m., the "new" Dallas begins.

It opens with a truck-mounted rig drilling into a gusher...on the Apple laptop, the data showed that the IP was 10,000 bbls. But there's an argument over whether the owner will allow drilling on South Fork -- the matriarch who died many years ago had forbidden any drilling for oil on South Fork. OMG. And then these fateful words, "...it will have to be fracked." OMG. Fracked.

Funniest first few minutes of any show I had seen in quite some time. Anyway, that was about as much as I could watch, the first 20 minutes or so. Television is off; I'm a happy camper, and will listen to some music.

Week 24: June 10, 2012 -- June 16, 2012

Could Bakken-centric companies be undervalued?

MillionDollarWay has been identified as a fraudulent site; I've notified Norton but something tells me it fell on deaf (or Bangladeshi) ears

Daily production now over 609,000 bopd in North Dakota

Rangeland ships first Bakken crude from rail terminal

North Dakota tax receipts setting records; Williston surpassed Fargo by $100 million for 4Q11.

Updating the list of fracking companies in North Dakota

Seismic survey covering 1,000 square miles of the reservation to commence

More crew camps for Dunn County

Hotel boom in the North Dakota oil patch

Williston wireline: 2,000 more rail tankers to the oil patch; FEMA trailers to the oil patch; Montana native to head COP

Ten (10) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

Daily activity report, June 15, 2012 --
  • Operators: MRO (4), Triangle (3), Samson (2), Whiting
  • Fields: Ambrose (Divide), Werner (Dunn), Rosebud (Williams), Lost Bridge (Dunn), Gaylord (Billings)
Seven wells released from "tight hole" status:
  • 19929, 357, CLR, Glendon 1-17H, Williams,
  • 20328, 1,647, Petro-Hunt, Fort Berthold 151-94-26B-35-1H, Sanish, McKenzie,
  • 20972, no data, Petro-Hunt, Brenna 152-96-23C-14-4H, McKenzie,
  • 21183, no data, KOG, Smokey 16-20-32-15H, McKenzie,
  • 21639, 464, CLR, Sutton 1-3H, Williams,
  • 21663, no data, BEXP, Zacrep 2-11 1H, Williams,
  • 21842, 671, Zenergy, Knels 20-29H, McKenzie,
Again, a high number of wells not being completed.

Two producing wells completed, including:
  • 19614, 1,635, Oasis, Christianson 5404 14-34H, Painted Woods, Williams, t4/12; cum 9K 4/12;
Painted Woods is turning out to be a pretty good field.

Economic Miracle in North Dakota -- CarpeDiem

Link here to CarpeDiem.