The XTO Odegaard Wells In Midway Oil Field, The Bakken -- June 8, 2015

Random update of the Odegaard wells in Midway oil field, midway between Ray, North Dakota, to the west, and Tioga, North Dakota, to the east.

These are the Odegaard pads:

West pad:

• 30670, conf, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16A, no production data,
• 30669, ros, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16E, no production data,
• 30651, conf, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16AXB, no production data,
• 22227, IA/1,144, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16B, 30 stages, 2.7 million lbs, t6/12; cum 230K 4/15; taken off-line February, 2015; prior to that, sporadic after October, 2014, when price slump began
• 30859, conf, XTO, Odegaard State 21X-16F, no production data,

East pad:

• 29969, conf, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16BXC, no production data,
• 29968, drl/NC, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16C, no production data,
• 29967, drl/NC, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16G, no production data,
• 29966, drl/NC, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16D, no production data,
• 30611, conf, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16DXA, no production data,

Huge Story For Railroad Buffs: Kansas City Southern To Build New Rail Yard Coupled To Houston's New Ethane Cracker -- June 8, 2015

BizJournal is reporting:

Kansas City Southern will build a new rail yard connected to a multibillion-dollar chemical facility in Louisiana.

On Monday, the Kansas City-based railway company announced it reached an agreement with Sasol Chemicals USA LLC for the construction and long-term lease of a storage-in-transit rail yard to support the Houston-based company's new ethane cracker and derivative project in Lake Charles, LA.

Kansas City Southern Railway Co. also will replace and expand its existing rail car classification yard in Mossville, LA.

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For Those Keeping Score At Home

Baltimore CBS Local is reporting:

Four children are among the victims of violence that’s surging across much of Baltimore.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is holding a crime walk Monday evening.

The number of killings this month has already surpassed what we saw last month, which was record setting. The mayor says she is here to listen. A number of residents say they want action.

The violence keeps surging across Baltimore with shooting after shooting, including a daylight gunfight and a body found near Curtis Bay Elementary School that closed it for the day.

A city councilman says the number of children shot is up from three this time last year to 22–a staggering 600 percent increase.

There were 42 homicides in Baltimore last month, making it the city's deadliest in more than 40 years. It appears the Baltimore mayor, bless her, is still giving thugs a bit of space to kill.

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Listening To His Core Constituency

A year ago I would have voiced my irritation that President Obama would actually admit he had no strategy for Iraq, ISIS, or the Mideast. Invariably I would receive e-mail from Obama supporters telling me it was better to have no strategy than Bush's strategy.

So, now I just keep my mouth shut and watch.

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Rolling Their Eyes And Crossing Their Fingers

Between now and the end of the month we are going to see a lot of stories on how ObamaCare will be eviscerated if the Supreme Court decision is based on law, and not politics. The stories are being published as a last-ditch attempt to influence the court. As an example, the lead story in today's Los Angeles Times says the world will come to an end as we know it if the court rules "against" ObamaCare. I will let you in on a secret. Promise not to tell anyone.  The court has already decided. It's a 6-3 decision. All they are doing now is dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Or are they rolling their eyes and crossing their fingers that riots don't break out?

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Demographics

For the archives. I can't post it publicly because it's too sensitive and too politically incorrect, but the Balkanization of the United States will result in the following ethnic groups becoming the elite 1% in the following geographic areas in 2025:

• eastern seaboard from NYC to Florida (except for the Carolinas and Georgia): Jewish
• north Texas: Sharia
• Detroit: Sharia
• northern California (San Francisco area): Asian
• southern California (Los Angeles): Hispanic

Twelve (12) New Permits; HRC With Two Huge Wells; Of Seven Bakken Wells Coming Off Confidential Tuesday, Six Will Be Producing -- June 8, 2015

For those who may have missed it, the EPA says fracking has no widespread effect on drinking water. None. Nada. Nil. Zilch. 

It's not often I see twelve (12) new permits on a Monday, even during the "better" times. But, be that as it may, twelve (12) new permits today. See below.

Hard-core Bakken buffs may enjoy this site. I'm not sure when the linked site was posted but the writer says it was based on NDIC data dated March, 2015, which is pretty current. I scrolled through it, but it looks like a post that might be worthy of another look.

Active rigs:

	6/8/2015	06/08/2014	06/08/2013	06/08/2012	06/08/2011
Active Rigs	81	194	189	214	169

Twelve (12) new permits:

• Operators: Statoil (7), Whiting (3), SM Energy (2)
• Fields: Banks (McKenzie), Truax (Williams), Ambrose (Divide)
• Comments: the seven Statoil permits are for wells on the same pad; see below

Along with several wells reporting IPs today from the confidential list, six (6) producing wells were completed, putting a dent in the fracklog:

• 24150, 2,760, HRC, Fort Berthold 148-94-27C-22-3H, McGregory Buttes, t5/15; no production data,
• 24739, 2,397, HRC, Fort Berthold 152-94-15B-22-5H, a Sanish well, Antelope, t10/13; cum 225K 4/15; not sure why this well was on the list of producing wells completed;
• 27549, 848, CLR, Lansing 4-25AH1, Banks, t5/15; cum 2K 4/15; choked way back;
• 29015, 1,782, XTO, Johnson Federal 11X-5A, Siverston, t5/15; cum --
• 29016, 1,558, XTO, Johnson Federal 11X-5E, Siverston, t5/15; cum --
• 30250, 257, Whiting, Jones 11-8XH, Sanish, t5/15; cum 1K 4/15; choked way back

Wells coming off the confidential list Tuesday:

• 21607, 1,122, Hunt, Halliday 2-19-18H, Werner, 25 stages, 2.7 million lbs, original application date: 9/28/2011;  t3/15; cum 29K 4/15; 
• 26782, 53, OXY USA, Shuck 3-33-28H-144-97, Little Knife, t12/14; cum 35K 4/15;
• 27854, 1,433, EOG, Parshall 37-0806H, Parshall, ICO (1920), 50 stages, 12 million lbs,, t12/14; cum 147K 4/15;
• 27859, 823, EOG, Parshall 57-0806H, Parshall, ICO (1920), 55 stages; 18.4 million lbs,  t12/14; cum 159K 4/15; 
• 28244, 823, Hess, EN-Madisyn-154-94-0706H-3, Alkali Creek, t41/5; cum 25K 4/15;
• 29969, drl/NC, XTO, Odegaard State 31X-16BXC, Midway, no production data,
• 30014, 480, CLR, Foraker 1-25H, Burg, t3/15; cum 12K 4/15;

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Permits for the proposed 7-well Statoil pad. I often make mistakes when I post this data. If this data is important to you, to to the source.

The existing four-well pad:

• 22900, 3,660, Statoil, Topaz 20-17 3H, Banks, t4/13; cum 146K 4/15;
• 22901, 3,225, Statoil, Samson 29-32 3H, Banks, t4/13; cum 130K 4/15;
• 22902, 2,404, Statoil, Topaz 20-17 4TFH, Banks, t5/13; cum 93K 41/5;
• 22903, 2,562, Statoil, Samson 29-32 4TFH, Banks, t5/13; cum 103K 4/15;

Random Look At A Newfield Well South Of Watford City, North Dakota -- June 8, 2015

Updates

July 11, 2015: frack data is now in the file, and information below has been updated
 

Original Post

 

Random look at a Newfield well:

• 23517, 1,411, Newfield, Johnson 150-99-34-27-2H, 32 stages, 3.6 million lbs, South Tobacco Garden, t3/15, cum 40K 5/15;

Production data:  

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	4-2015	30	12877	13032	6214	21890	21614	6
BAKKEN	3-2015	22	18028	17659	14141	24975	17278	7499

 
Note: as of the date of the original post, the well is still listed DRL status, which usually means the well has not been fracked. Obviously this well has been fracked, but the data is not yet scanned in at the NDIC website. (I suppose it's possible this well has not been fracked; we'll see.)

According to the file report, this well is located five miles south of Watford City; its target was the C facies of the Middle Bakken:

"The horizontal well path did an average job of following formation dip considering all of the undulations. 100% of the production well bore was drilled within the Middle Bakken Formation. 58.6% drilled within the productive C facies rock of the Middle Bakken Formation. 11.4% was drilled with the productive D facies rock of the Middle Bakken Formation. 14.2% was drilled in the "E" facies and 15.8% was drilled low in the "B" facies. ... Sample evaluation combined with gas and oil shows point to the well as being a commercially viable, productive oil well."

Background gas recorded as high as 1300 units with max gas at 3,907 units near the end of the lateral.

The drilling required six drill bits and took a total of 214 hours to complete.

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Current Events

The Shawshank Redemption is showing this evening on AMC. 

First Drone Manufactured In North Dakota Rolled Out, Wahpeton, North Dakota -- June 8, 2015

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

WAHPETON — "The skies are open for business in North Dakota."

That statement was how John Perry, CEO of the Florida-based unmanned aerial system company Altavian, described the milestone occasion of the first drone manufactured in North Dakota as it was rolled out Friday.

The unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) machinery was built at ComDel Innovation in Wahpeton. The company signed an agreement with Altavian to manufacture the UAS drones and components in Wahpeton.

Because of the partnership, ComDel hosted the celebration of the roll-out with representatives from both companies as well as government officials present.
"This is a fairly mature technology and is already being used by public agencies," Perry said at the event. "The recent changes in the regulations now allows for operations so what we really see coming is a big scale-up in the industry.

See also: background.