Monday, April 30, 2012

Reminder for Newbies: MagicMaps

I don't know how often satellite images of the Bakken are updated, but often enough to make "MagicMaps" a lot of fun.

I was curious to see how MagicMaps is coming along with new innovations and I decided to check out the Brad Olson pad west of Williston:

http://www.google.com/maps?saddr=48.1828803,-103.81088&daddr=&dirflg=&hl=en

When you go to the link, you can zoom in, and clearly see two pumpers on the pad and two rows of tanks, nine tanks in each row (unless I miscounted, which I am prone to do).

Note to first time users: for some reason when looking for rigs or wells, you need to enter that information twice.

5 comments:

  1. Interesting story on Apple using biofuel cells http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57424037-76/apple-data-center-helps-fuel-bloom-energy-move-to-east-coast/?tag=txt;title

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    1. Very, very interesting. And this is a huge story. I don't think folks realize how much energy these data centers use. Comparing the cost of electricity in this country to that overseas tells me that the US has the manufacturing/server farm advantage by a wide margin. And it all goes back to the supply of natural gas in this country. Electricity would be even less expensive if driven purely by market forces; one notes that Bloom Energy is taking advantage of "green" subsidies. A great story. Thank you for sending it my way.

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    2. Apple also uses biogas fuel cells at the Cupertino campus.

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    3. It will be interesting to see how inexpensive natural gas/electricity gets in this country.

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    4. Apple will soon have the largest private solar array.

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