Tuesday Morning Links

Active rigs: 188 (down from 192 just the other day; as many as half the wells coming off confidential list are going to DRL status)

Wells coming off the confidential list have been posted; scroll down or check sidebar at the right.

WSJ Links

Section D (Personal Journal):

• Triathlon in New Mexico canceled on short notice; schedule for this weekend; security concerns;

Duane Kinsley of Sport Systems, an athletic store in Albuquerque which owns the race, said the last-minute decision to cancel was spurred by the store's inability to provide additional personal details for all of the estimated 2,000 race participants and spectators within a short time frame.

Kinsley said the base was requesting each individual's full name, including middle initial, driver's license, and full social security number, in order for background checks to be performed before the race, compared with the standard procedure of first and last name and last four digits of one's social.

He said that the base officials he spoke with did not expressly state that the ramped-up security was because of last month's Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 200, but all of the additional security requests came within the last two weeks.

Section C (Money & Investing):

• Corn slumps; Midwest weather doesn't look so bad; 

Section B (Marketplace):

• Solar installer sues the US; says the grants were not as big as he was promised; SolarCity; previously reported at the blog; SolarCity continues to trade near its all-time high;

Section A:

• SEC hits Harrisburg, PA, with fraud charges; 

• Three big Syrian risks holding back "no drama" Obama; two divergent views:

Stephen Hadley, national security adviser for President George W. Bush, argued in an interview on WSJ.com that "it's past time, by a long shot" for the U.S. to get more involved in toppling the Syrian regime. Sectarian violence spreading from Syria threatens to swamp the region, he argued, and the U.S. should be providing arms to help moderates in the Syrian opposition currently "starved for weapons."

At about the same time, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, was on Bloomberg Television warning that U.S. military involvement in Syria would risk "a large-scale disaster for the United States." The U.S. must be careful "not to get engaged in such a way that we become the chief protagonist, and eventually not just in Syria, but in the region as a whole," Mr. Brzezinski said.