Random Update Of A BR He Well In Elidah Oil Field -- Small Jump In Production -- January 29, 2020

The well:

• 19586, 539, BR, He 1-20H, Elidah, t2/11; cum 353K 11/19; neighboring wells were fracked in late 2019;

Recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2019	30	9291	8990	6550	17236	12514	4648
BAKKEN	10-2019	30	4414	4282	6727	8333	6110	2149
BAKKEN	9-2019	4	169	0	400	374	212	152
BAKKEN	8-2019	13	1449	1802	993	2822	1619	1171
BAKKEN	7-2019	31	3002	2977	2419	7595	4733	2785
BAKKEN	6-2019	30	3404	3405	2467	6723	2027	4622
BAKKEN	5-2019	31	4597	4774	2848	9614	5039	4498
BAKKEN	4-2019	13	2164	1995	1310	4146	335	3779
BAKKEN	3-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2018	5	68	0	120	28	16	0
BAKKEN	11-2018	7	472	232	536	52	35	0
BAKKEN	10-2018	21	1396	1631	2943	1206	0	1154
BAKKEN	9-2018	16	661	467	1480	991	754	197

Halo Effect Pushes This Old Well Over 500K Bbls -- January 29, 2020

The well:

• 22113, 2,077, MRO, Baker USA 11-18H, 33-061-01967, Van Hook, t11/12; cum 537K 11/19; FracFocus, no recent frack:

Recent production:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	11-2019	30	5307	5315	4841	5880	4500	1043
BAKKEN	10-2019	31	6404	6334	5717	6621	5654	565
BAKKEN	9-2019	30	6633	6693	5263	7989	5820	1757
BAKKEN	8-2019	31	7997	7925	7926	7748	6200	1065
BAKKEN	7-2019	31	8203	8212	5571	7452	6502	463
BAKKEN	6-2019	30	8415	8431	5184	6796	4517	1780
BAKKEN	5-2019	31	12263	12197	9447	12533	1303	10507
BAKKEN	4-2019	21	9062	9022	12039	11880	0	11330
BAKKEN	3-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	2-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	1-2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	12-2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BAKKEN	11-2018	2	39	361	193	37	0	34
BAKKEN	10-2018	3	116	661	18	109	0	102
BAKKEN	9-2018	30	2434	2278	941	2216	0	1903
BAKKEN	8-2018	31	2809	2653	830	2609	628	1640

Just Happened To Catch This On The News Earlier Today -- Nothing About The Bakken -- It's All Politics -- Texas Politics -- January 29, 2020

Link here, still not behind a paywall, over at The Atlantic.

Democrats always knew it was going to be hard to turn Texas blue in 2020.

This week, they received a painful reminder of just how tough it’ll be. Republicans last night swamped Democrats in what one progressive group had hyped as “the most important special election since the midterms,” winning by 16 points a key state legislative race that both parties viewed as a test run for the much-bigger campaign this fall.

The defeat, particularly by such a wide margin, was a setback for Democrats, who poured nearly $1 million into the election. It also signaled the reinvigoration of the Texas GOP. Republicans were caught napping in 2016 and 2018, giving Democrats hope that they could put the country’s largest GOP stronghold in play this year. But the party came back to life in this race, well exceeding Democrats’ substantial investment.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other top Republicans threw their support behind the GOP candidate Gary Gates, who spent more than $1.5 million of his own money in the campaign. The millions spent in total were a whopping sum for an election decided by just 30,000 people—a turnout of 20 percent—to fill just one of 150 seats in the Texas state House.

After cutting into the margins of the Republican majority in the chamber in 2018, Democrats need to flip just nine seats to win control this fall and loosen the GOP’s long-held grip on the state government. They had hoped to get a head start on that bid by nabbing this open GOP seat.

“Democrats were convinced they could buy Texas. But tonight they learned Texans aren’t buying the nonsense the Democrats are selling,” said Austin Chambers, the president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, the national-party group dedicated to state legislative races.

“Texans sent a message loud and clear to the liberals in Washington: ‘We’re going to keep Texas Texas.’”The seemingly small stakes of a local campaign in the Houston suburbs had nevertheless captured the attention of the Democratic Party’s top presidential candidates, who used the race to demonstrate their commitment to Democrats’ broader goal of recapturing power in the states and making Texas truly competitive in 2020.

The Democratic candidate Eliz Markowitz won endorsements from Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Michael Bloomberg. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke, who nearly carried the district in his close Senate race in 2018, campaigned aggressively for Markowitz after dropping his own White House bid in the fall. Yet she not only failed to match O’Rourke’s performance two years ago against Senator Ted Cruz; she fell short of the 43 percent of the vote that Hillary Clinton earned in the district in 2016.

Another Interesting Permit From EOG In Clarks Creek -- January 29, 2020

Most interesting data point on this page: the "chronologic" number of the EOG permits.

Disclaimer: this was done very, very quickly. Not yet proofread. Likely to have content and typographical errors. In progress.

In today's daily activity report, this permit:

• EOG has a permit for a Clarks Creek well in Sanish-Antelope, section 7-151-94;

Clarks Creek oil field is tracked here. Antelope oil field is tracked here.

Does anyone recall this from the April, 2013, dockets?

The 2560-acre stand-up drilling unit:

Briefly:

• eleven wells, 1920-acre unit: sections 25/36-152-95 and section 1-151-95;
• eleven wells, 1280-acre unit: sections 30/31-152-94;
• twenty-two wells, 2560-acre unit: sections 6,7,18 and 19-151-94 

Because this will be an Antelope-Sanish well, my hunch is that the well site is a bit farther to the east.  

The two wells in Antelope-Sanish which appear to be the closest:

• 22505, 1,437, EOG, Clarks Creek 100-0805H, two sections; 38 stages; 4.2 million lbs; Three Forks, NOS; Antelope-Sanish, t6/12; cum 403K 11/19; off line 7/19; remains off line 11/19; a very non-descript well;
• 20550, 1,478, EOG, Clarks Creek 10-0805H, two sections; 37 stages; 4.3 million lbs; middle Bakken; Antelope-Sanish, t6/12; cum 436K 11/19; off line 7/19; remains off line 11/19; a very non-descript well;

The wells in the graphics on this page:

• 34380, drl, 1280-acres; EOG, Clarks Creek 151-0720H, Antelope-Sanish;
• 34677, drl, 320-acres; EOG, Clarks Creek 65-07H, Antelope- Sanish;
• 34678, ros (jan, 2020), 320-acres; Clarks Creek 63-07H, Antelope-Sanish;

• 20890, 600, EOG, Clarks Creek 11-0706H, Clarks Creek, t3/12; cum 368K 11/19; four sections; 33-053-03615; fracked 1/7/12; 2.7 million gallons of water; 84% water by mass; 22 stages; 4.1 million lbs proppant; steady but nothing great;
• 20892, 1,352, EOG, Clarks Creek 16-0706H, Clarks Creek, t3/12; cum 364K 11/19; off line, 7/19; back on line 11/19; four sections; 6/7/18/19-151094;
• 20891, 603, four sections;

Off to the west:

• 36409, loc, 2560-acres; EOG, Clarks Creek 44-0701H, Clarks Creek,
• 36410, conf, producing,EOG, Clarks Creek 45-0705H, Antelope, a nice well;
• 36411, conf, EOG, Clarks Creek 46-0706H, Clarks Creek; 33-053-09056; fracked 8/28/19 - 9/18/19; 11.55 million gallons of water; 84.4% water by mass; producing,

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2019	70818	91912
10-2019	40453	44377

• 36412, conf, producing, EOG, Clarks Creek 47-0706H, Clarks Creek, a nice well;

• 36413, conf, producing, EOG, Clarks Creek 1-6-0724H; Clarks Creek; 33-053-09058; 11.36 million gallons of water; 81% water by mass; fracked 7/25/19 - 8/23/19;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2019	73804	122169
10-2019	75855	89623
9-2019	51832	68307

• 36414, loc, EOG, Clarks Creek 17-0719H, Clarks Creek; 1920-acres; sections 19/18/7-151-94 (pending)
• 36415, conf, EOG, Clarks Creek 18-0719H, Clarks Creek, Clarks Creek oil field; 33-053-09060; no frack data available at FracFocus;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2019	48555	79616
10-2019	83464	93516
9-2019	86854	10417

• 36416, conf, EOG, Clarks Creek 105-0719H, Clarks Creek; 33-053-09061, fracked 7/20/19 - 8/22/19; 11.5 million gallons of water; 83% water by mass, producing;

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
11-2019	39737	92288
10-2019	71611	96448
9-2019	66951	87763

• 32797, 2,172, EOG, Clarks Creek 72-0706H, 55 stages; 13.6 million lbs, middle Bakken; Clarks Creek, t7/18; cum 265K 11/19; four sections; 6/7/18/19-151-94;
• 32800, 2,615, EOG, Clarks Creek 155-0706H, 55 stages; 13.6 million lbs; Three Forks; Clarks Creek, t6/18; cum 309K 11/19; four sections;
• 32798, 1,744, EOG, Clarks Creek 107-0706H, Clarks Creek, t7/18; cum 264K 11/19; four sections;
• 32799, 1,873, EOG, Clarks Creek 24-0706H, Clarks Creek, t6/18; cum 335K 11/19; four sections; a 71K well;
  
• 34448, 1,380, EOG, Clarks Creek 108-0706H, Clarks Creek, t6/18; cum 193K 11/19; four sections;

• 32796, 2,518, EOG, Clarks Creek 73-0719H, Clarks Creek, t6/17; cum 335K 11/19; four sections; 6/7/18/19-151-94;
• 32795, 2,204, EOG, Clarks Creek 110-0719H, Clarks Creek, t6/17; cum 339K 11/19; four sections;
• 32794, 2,382, EOG, Clarks Creek 74-0719H, Clarks Creek, t6/17; cum 366K 11/19; four sections;
• 33050, 1,703, EOG, Clarks Creek 75-0719HX, Clarks Creek, t6/17; cum 458K 19/19; four sections; off line 9/19; remains off line 11/19;

I count about twelve wells with 2560-acre spacing.

Notes From All Over, Part 1-- The $12-Lego-Kobe NBA Minifigure Worth $100 -- January 29, 2020

First things first: the other day I was talking about Lego. I was not aware that Lego had a license with the NBA and sold NBA basketball player mini-figures. These figures go for about $10/mini-figure. Our local "Bricks & Minifigs" has about six mini-NBA figures, each priced about $12. Last week the "Kobe Bryant" figure was selling for $10 - $12. Today? $75.

See eBay link.

Next up: CBO report out. It appears the revenue raised through the "Trump tax cut" has completely paid for the tax cuts. If that makes sense. A report heard on the run. Need to see hard copy of the report.

Now, back to oil and natural gas.

The monthly natural gas fill rate, link here: could we see a new five-year maximum?