Emily lease construction under way

- Emily build -

There's been some frittering about on the Emily trio site, but activity has been in high gear the last few days. Trailer houses and cranes and heavy equipment have this location bustling. This is permitted for Emily 1H, Emily 2H, and Emily SWD 1D.

The lease is located in the H&TC RR/A. J. Ellerd survey, section 68, block 2. The permitted operator is Moriah Operating. It's in the Garden City, S. (Wolfcamp) field.

Yellowstone 28 Well 4H raised

- Yellowstone -

Yellowstone is a Scurry County well, but I see it everyday at the southern end of FM 1614. There are many other wells going up around here, but, as everyone knows, I'm a lazy reporter and only interested in things that are in my line of sight.

Okay, I'm still trying to figure out the permitted site versus the physical site deal. This well is permitted about halfway between Camp Springs and US 180, while the rig is right at US 180. So, is oil only being taken from the permitted point, or is it being taken out along the entire route?

Also, why are there two permits in the Railroad Commission query database for the same well? Both are approved. One is amended. One has a spud date. They have different status dates. Does it matter? Probably not to me. I'm just an inquiring mind.

Hobbs Homecoming 2019

Homecoming will be held Saturday, October 19, at the Hobbs School campus. Rough Creek Catering will be catering the affair. Cobbler has been requested and chicken will be served as well as brisket. Registration is at 9 a.m., the program begins at 10 a.m. RSVP by October 9.

You may wonder why the cobbler is mentioned, but it's a very big deal. The last reunion Dad attended, he looked up after the meal and said "Where's the dessert?" I tried to shush him, because I thought it seemed rude, but other heads started popping up and asking the same question. "Is there any cobbler? Any cake?" An old fashioned meal is always finished up with sweets.

Years ago, when I was helping out around George Maule's place, we always had cake and cowboy coffee (ground coffee boiled in water in an old tin coffee pot, no filter, it's great) after lunch. Then he went and sat in the recliner and dozed to the soothing sounds of the dishwasher and midday television. I gained ten pounds working for him.

If you didn't get an invite, send me an email and I will pass it on to the homecoming committee.

Sahara goes up

- Sahara on FM 1614 -

With a new permit last week, about 70-80 loads of equipment brought in on tractor-trailers yesterday, and an astounding amount of persistence, Sahara 9, well 2H, has a rig atop it. It is permitted as a horizontal.

This lease is about 3.5 miles west of the Hobbs school on FM 1614, kitty-corner from Emilys 1H, 2H and 1D. Sahara is on the south side, the Emilys on the north and a little east.

Two more Emilys have had permits submitted. The sites for 3H and 4H are platted further to the west on FM 1614, on the Fisher/Scurry county line.

Cholla heats up El Paso and Gillespie in August

There was a lot of leasing activity in eastern Fisher County during August. The El Paso County School Land and Gillespie County School Land surveys seem to be very popular areas. Cholla made the majority of leases in August, with Sharp Image Energy still going strong after leading the race in July. Several horizontal wells have been permitted west of the Hobbs area in the past month, as well as many verticals. Leasing is ongoing in this area. Leasing and permitting is occurring county wide. Click the tabs at the top of the page for more information.

Watch out, I have an opinion

Anytime I've ever started a new job, I've had to be trained, even if it was in a field I went to school for or had previously worked in. Everything is different at each place; people, procedures, size, to name a few.

So, when a bureaucrat comes in and makes sweeping, over-generalized announcements about how they're going to make big changes, all I can do is groan. I live through these "changes" daily. I work in a bureaucratic environment, and big-butted people wearing knock-off Chanel suits are always coming up with new systems and rules that are so out of touch with day-to-day business that it should be a dang crime. The big butts and suits are just what I imagine. They may be wearing t-shirts and shorts. Being out of touch is reciprocal, I guess, but at least my ideas don't affect the way someone is trying to do a job.

Bernie Sanders has made a manifesto, I mean, a Green New Deal, and is talking about how he's going to change many, many large, ambling, prehistoric bureaus that have many moving parts, but there's no possible way he can know how these places operate, none of the minutiae that keep them functioning. It would be equal to me announcing that I was going to take over all the Dollar Store chains and claim that I was going to maximize profits and streamline retail service. It would be ridiculous.

What's really got me going is the part that reads "end all new federal fossil fuel infrastructure permits", a little over half-way down the page on his website. I'm this close (see my fingers pinched to a micro-measure) to finally getting a well and ol' Bernie's trying to shut me down.

I don't know how much pull he really has, or if this is just a way to get attention. I guess anyone can write up their ideas and post them, but he has much more of a presence than little people like me. Do ya'll want to hear my idea about a burrito stand?

Anyway, see what Railroad Commission Chairman Wayne Christian has to say about it on the RRC website.