Lots of Links Today; Confidential Wells Posted, Part I

Links for Wednesday, Part I

Confidential wells posted.

RBN Energy: Fractionation capacity updated (refineries, not fracking).

For those who missed it earlier, here's the link again to the top story in the WSJ yesterday: US redraws world oil map.

A shale-oil boom will help the U.S. overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020, according to the International Energy Agency, a shift that could transform not just energy supplies but also U.S. politics and diplomacy.

Cuomo forces resignation of Long Island Power Authority head, but apparently that's not true:

The head of the Long Island Power Authority resigned on Tuesday night, but he claims it has nothing to do with LIPA coming under the harshest criticism of any utility in the region post–Hurricane Sandy. CEO Michael Hervey told The Wall Street Journal that he'd been planning to step down for months and offered to leave on Thursday, but lawyers and trustees persuaded him to stay on through the end of the year. "The company had changed and was changing over time," Hervey said. "I was in the interim position as acting CEO and COO for the past two years plus, and it seemed like I didn't have further opportunities here."

Sure. He was right about that last part: "It seemed like I didn't have further opportunities here."

And a bit more from the governor's office:

Now that may be even more true. On Tuesday Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he's established a commission to review the response of New York utilities — including LIPA, the New York Power Authority, and Con Edison — to Hurricane Sandy, Tropical Storm Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee. At a news conference today, Cuomo reminded everyone that he "talked about consolidating LIPA and the other energy agencies in my campaign two years ago," but sidestepped the suggestion that he probably should have done more to fix the troubled utility in the 22 months he's been in office.

No mention in the first two paragraphs that LIPA is a government-owned utility. In fact, a word search revealed that this fact is not mentioned in the entire article. I assume that make Governor Cuomo the honorary CEO.

Oh, well. On to more.

But this will get too long. Will start another stand-alone post.