Traveling -- Comments Won't Be Moderated Or Published; E-Mail Won't Be Anwered Until This Weekend -- July 29, 2020

Cross-country road trip.

All I can say is that the pandemic is going to have a devastating effect on small-town America.

BR WIth SIx New Permits -- July 29, 2020

Gasoline demand, link here:

Weekly EIA petroleum report, link here:

• US crude oil in storage: 526.0 million bbs; 17% above the five-year average;
• US crude oil in storage decreased by a whopping 10.6 million bbls from the previous week
• refineries operating at 79.5% operable capacity
• distillate fuel production increased last week, average 4.8 million bbls per day
• distillate fuel inventories increased slightly (0.5 mlliion bbls) and are about 26% above the five-year average, and well above the  summer average when stocks are usually at their lowest;
• jet fuel supplied was down 42.1% compared with same four-week period last year

Active rigs:

$41.11	7/29/2020	07/29/2019	07/29/2018	07/29/2017	07/29/2016
Active Rigs	12	60	62	61	35

Six new permits, #37750 - #37755, inclusive --

• Operator: BR
• Field: Pershing (McKenzie)
• Comments:
• BR has permits for a 6-well Kirklandfill / Morganfill pad in SWSE 21-150-96; Pershing oil field --
• 37750, 924' FSL 2383' FEL
• 37751, 909' FSL 2426' FEL
• 37752, 894' FSL 2458' FEL 
• 37753, 880' FSL 2511' FEL
• 37754, 865' FSL 2553' FEL
• 37755, 850' FSL 2596' FEL

Whiting With Three New Permits -- July 28, 2020

Active rigs:

$41.04	7/28/2020	07/28/2019	07/28/2018	07/28/2017	07/28/2016
Active Rigs	12	59	62	60	35

One producing well (a DUC) reported as completed:

• 35936, SI/A, XTO, Badlands Federal 21X-13AXD, North Fork, t--; cum --;

Three new permits, #37747 - #37749 --

• Operator: Whiting
• Field: Foreman Butte
• Comments: 
• Whiting has permits for three Link wells in SESW 12-150-102; sited as below:
• 37747, loc, Whiting, Link 14-12H, Foreman Butte, 420 FSL 1338 FWL;
• 37748, loc, Whiting, Link 14-12-2H, Foreman Butte,  420 FSL 1362 FWL;
• 37749, loc, Whiting, Link 14-12-3H, Foreman Butte, 456 FSL 1510 FWL;

The graphics:

Long Island Electricity, The Movie Page -- July 28, 2020

Electricity, ISO New York: Long Island residents are paying over a $100/MWh (marginal cost) at mid-afternoon, Tuesday:

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The Movie Page

From wiki, today's feature matinee:

Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film, directed by David Lean, about a passionate extramarital affair in England shortly before WWII.

The protagonist is Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated following a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger with whom she subsequently falls in love.

The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey.

The screenplay is by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.

The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Eileen Joyce on piano.

Brief Encounter was met with wide praise from critics upon its release and is today considered to be among Lean's finest works.

In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brief Encounter the second greatest British film of all time.

In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever.

The voice-over throughout the film is in the form of an unspoken confession from Laura to her husband.

This film / story could easily be taken from Graham Greene's life.  One of the best biographies I have ever read was a three volume biography of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry, San Antonio, TX-based at the time he wrote the biography. We happened to be living in San Antonio at the time I read the biography. It was quite coincidental.

TCM is a national treasure. No additional costs to basic cable television. No commercial interruptions during the movie. The feature films are introduced by a presenter, who also provides an epilogue after the movie concludes. The "stable" of presenters has increased. There is a slight "political" bent being introduced but it's very subtle and I suppose, if one notices it, like I have, one is simply too sensitive.

Again, from wiki, the lead actress:

Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, DBE (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. She was known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).

For Brief Encounter, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

A six-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).

A Closer Look At The Well Coming Off Confidential List Today -- CLR Ogden - #36389 -- July 28, 2020

Highlights of the well that came off the confidential list today:

• 36389, SI/A, Whiting, Ogden 12-3XH, Sanish, t--; cum 76K 4 months; the Ogden wells are tracked here;

From the file report:

• spud: August 6, 2019
• cease drilling: August 14, 2019 (wow -- 8 days)
• target: middle Bakken
• TD: 20,263' MD
• TVD: 10,172.33'
• VS: 10,524.63'
• drilled south to north; BH - NENE section 11-154-92
• geological services began at 8,400' MD
• KOP reached: 1:15 a.m. CDT, August 10, 2019
• these are important dates and times, repeating, KOP reached 1:15 a.m. CST, August 10, 2019
• drilling resumed at 9:00 a.m. CDT, same day, August 10, 2019 about eight hours later, to begin the curve
• the last slide for the curve ended at 7:40 p.m. CST, August 10, 2019, so less than eleven hours to build the curve;
• lateral: drilled out of the casing at 3:00 a.m. CDT, on August 12, 2019; 
• gases ranged from100 - 1187 units, unremarkable;
• the well reached TD of 20,263' MD at 12:45 a.m CST on August14, 2019; just under 48 hours;
• the wellbore tracked throughout the middle Bakken formation for 100% of the lateral

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2020	31	15665	15608	6750	20805	20433	342
BAKKEN	4-2020	30	19045	19114	8754	22800	22265	506
BAKKEN	3-2020	31	23215	23248	8059	21127	17440	3667
BAKKEN	2-2020	27	18248	18106	16357	15099	0	15082

From FracFocus:

• the well was fracked 11/24/2019 - 12/2/2019 -- 8 days; I generally see about ten days for a two-section lateral frack;
• 8.158 million gallons of water; typical; moderate frack;
• water by mass: 88.405%