Monday Morning

Production data for wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend and today have been posted.

I will be off the net for a short period of time while I ride my bike through the snow to get to the coffee shop.  Beautiful day out there with about 0.5" of new snow.

Remember the virus alert posted over the weekend.

RBN Energy: Brent/WTI spread didn't narrow all that much despite reversal of the Seaway. Apparently there are some operational issues affecting the full expansion; issues may not be resolved until 4Q13. Crude is "off a dollar" in pre-market trading.

CLR issued a press release overnight announcing a webcast. As a reminder, in that press release:
In October 2012 , the Company announced a new five-year plan to triple production and proved reserves by year-end 2017.

Maps with location of rigs in North Dakota and the United States can be found at "Data Links." Overnight "anon 1" sent another link for Nomac Drilling which has been added at that link, or go here directly.

Low rates are forcing companies to pour money into pension plans to shore them up.

Gun-related deaths on a rise in Massachusetts; a state with strict gun controls; Boston Globe;

WSJ Links

Section R (Retirement): investing, stocks, bonds, taxes; did not read.

Section C (Money & Investing): interest in investment clubs dwindles

Section B (Marketplace):
Tech titans clash in "cloud"; this is interesting phenomenon; yesterday Amazon let me know that all the CDs I had purchased from them over the years were now available in the "cloud" for free; that's really quite incredible when you think about it

Chrysler, Taco Bell win in ad bowl; Oreo's ad -- a fight breaking out in a library -- was among the favorites; one ad executive called the Oreo ad an 'epic' commercial;

Daimler boosts investment in China

Sports page: the night the lights went out in the Super Bowl

Section A:

Op-ed: Chuck Hagel's defenseless performance -- but he will be approved anyway

Op-ed: Ed Koch -- entertaining but no reformer; he saved NYC from an immediate fiscal crisis, but mortgaged its long-term future to public unions.

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Something is happening here, buy you don't know what it is:

Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan Classic Dylan