First producing oil in August 1861, the McClintock No. 1 oil well is located in Venango County, Pennsylvania, and was designated an American Treasure by the National Park Service.A National Park Service "American Treasure."
The aging well produces about 40 barrels of oil a year, which goes to the American Refinery Group, State Impact reported.
In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream.As noted earlier, this is the second story on the success of the president's green energy jobs program. One has to ask why so much interest by The New York Times all of a sudden.
“I won’t say I’m not frustrated,” said Van Jones, an Oakland activist who served briefly as Mr. Obama’s green-jobs czar before resigning under fire after conservative critics said he had signed a petition accusing the Bush administration of deliberately allowing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a claim Mr. Jones denies.
A study released in July by the non-partisan Brookings Institution found clean-technology jobs accounted for just 2 percent of employment nationwide and only slightly more — 2.2 percent — in Silicon Valley. Rather than adding jobs, the study found, the sector actually lost 492 positions from 2003 to 2010 in the South Bay, where the unemployment rate in June was 10.5 percent.
Although initial system deployments have occurred in the Bakken Shale with Brigham Exploration and Williams Production Company, this technology has application for shale developments on a global basis.Kewl. Maybe this is why BEXP continues to be the gold standard for Bakken well completions.
"Brigham's success in the Bakken has been driven by its early adoption of game-changing technologies," said Lance Langford, executive vice president, Brigham Exploration. "We believe our industry is in the very early stage of developing tools and techniques to optimally exploit the Bakken and working with Halliburton to successfully launch its RapidFrac system is an example of what can be done in this world class resource."
The North Dakota Department of Transportation is working on a number of road projects across the western half of the state, but landslides and flooding have made this construction season a stressful one.
DOT director Francis Ziegler told members of the Energy Development and Transition Committee that this was the most stressful time the department has seen in the roughly 40 years he's been there.I guess the official 2011 list is similar to an earlier list:
Chromatographic analysis of whole oil samples provides a “fingerprint” of hydrocarbons from C1 to C44, when present. An oil fingerprint is a histogram of the yield and distribution of resolvable compounds present in an oil. Quantitative results from these analyses were used to characterize and type these oils, infer source rock characteristics, determine thermal maturity, assess mixing or commingling of production, and predict oil expulsion temperatures. All oils were fingerprinted using whole oil, high resolution gas chromatography, while saturate and aromatic fraction biomarkers were assessed on selected samples from various key producing horizons. In addition, whenever sufficient sample was available, API gravities and sulfur contents were measured.The article talks about source rocks and viability of various formations as pay zones.