The Bakken Oil Patch: There Are Still More Places Where Nothing Is Than Something Is -- And That's Likely To Remain True "Forever"

Somehow I missed this great article from The Bismarck Tribune:

If, for example, you are a Wall Street Journal reporter or someone from the BBC, and you fly out from New York or London to Denver and then on a tiny plane to Williston "to make sense of the oil boom," you are going to see a city bursting with energy, enterprise, dust, chaos, congestion, noise, construction and growing pains that make it not a very attractive destination.

But Williston is not the oil boom and the oil boom is not Williston. Williston is one of the choke points of the oil boom.

Wow, that is well said.

I won't post more than that, but I surely hope this article is not archived by the Tribune. This article should remain easily accessible for decades.

For Investors Only: EOG Traded To A New 52-Week High Today

Regarding That Runaway Crude Oil Freight Train....

Updates

July 11, 2013: This disaster could give President O'Bama "top cover" if he decides to approve the Keystone XL. [His decision will be seen as arbitrary and capricious regardless which way he decides.]

July 11, 2013: The WSJ says criminal probe underway. Railroad owner says it is likely engineer didn't set brakes correctly. 

July 10, 2013: Rigzone has a long article on this story.

July 9, 2013: the "runaway freight train" did not frighten off investors. UNP is up almost $4.00 today. Disclaimer: this is not an investment site. Do not make any investment decisions based on what you read here or what you thought you might have read here.

July 9, 2013: The WSJ is reporting:

The operator of the runaway train that derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, this weekend recorded an accident rate far higher than the U.S. average over the past 10 years, federal data show.

A train operated by Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. train operator Rail World Inc., is at the center of a Canadian probe after the train was left unmanned at a crew rest stop and slammed into the small town early Saturday, triggering a deadly explosion and fire.

Rail World is controlled by a Chicago-area railroad veteran, Edward Burkhardt, who has put together an empire of small railroads around the world. Mr. Burkhardt, Rail World's chairman and chief executive, has spent a lifetime in the industry, earning the respect of many fellow rail executives.

But the 74-year-old Yale graduate has also faced criticism for a bitter battle with one of his boards and for championing the controversial use of remote-controlled trains in rail yards and one-person crews. The deadly Quebec derailment has put MM&A's safety record under a microscope.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the country's main investigator of rail accidents, doesn't publicly post safety records of individual operators, but does make that data available upon request. MM&A didn't turn up in a basic record search of Canadian accidents. A spokesman for the safety board said late Monday that a fuller record wasn't immediately available.

July 10, 2013: the train may have been tampered with. CNN is reporting:

The chairman of the company whose driverless train barreled into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic and unleashed a deadly inferno told a Montreal newspaper he believes it had been tampered with.

"We have evidence of this," Ed Burkhardt said in an interview published by the Montreal Gazette. "But this is an item that needs further investigation. We need to talk to some people we believe to have knowledge of this."

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From Platts:

Analysts also pointed to the dearth of hard facts about the incident, including the question of how a cargo of crude, which is not particularly flammable, was ignited.

I've wondered the same; great question. Weren't just four (4) tank cars of the 73 tank cars involved? I can't remember; seems I read something along that line.  -- yes, here it is, in the original post.

Wells Coming Off The Confidential List Tuesday; OXY USA With A Huge Well; Halcon WIth A Nice Well; 3/6 To DRL Status

• 22677, 1,191, OXY USA, Dennis Kadrmas 2-9-4H-143-96, Fayette, t1/13; cum 59K 5/13;
• 23258, 1,681, HRC Operating, Fort Berthold 147-94-3A-10-2H, McGregory Buttes, t3/13; cum 43K 5/13;
• 24004, 715, Hess, EN-Cvancara 155-93-1522H-2, Alger, t4/14; cum 29K 5/13;
• 24350, drl, CLR, Hawkinson 12-22H3, Oakdale, no data,
• 24390, drl, Hess, EN-Uran A 154-93-1522H-4, Robinson Lake, no data,
• 24698, WI, Enduro, MRPSU 19-33, Mouse River Park, Madison, no data

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22677, see above, OXY USA, Dennis Kadrmas 2-9-4H-143-96, Fayette:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
5-2013	5777	1918
4-2013	2653	6
3-2013	11140	0
2-2013	14680	0
1-2013	24270	0

23258, see above, HRC Operating, Fort Berthold 147-94-3A-10-2H, McGregory Buttes:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
5-2013	14073	3
4-2013	20702	0
3-2013	8103	0

24004, see above, Hess, EN-Cvancara 155-93-1522H-2, Alger:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
5-2013	12257	11870
4-2013	16703	18603

And Another Earnings Season Has Started....

WD-40 popped $8, from $58 to $66 in after-hours trading after 3Q13 earnings were released/discussed: net income rose 12 percent in the fiscal third quarter on greater sales of multipurpose items like its namesake WD-40 spray lubricant.

Magnum Hunter is scheduled to report tomorrow, before the market opens. Analysts expect a loss of 11 cents/share. [Update: MHR blows past analysts' consensus: earns 5 cents vs an expected 11-cent loss.]

Source For News For American Adults

More than half of Americans still get their news primarily from television (print, radio, and internet are way behind).

Although I don't think it's statistically significant, FOX is beating CNN for news: 8% to 7%. Lousy, lousy numbers one might say.  But FOX and CNN at 8% and 7% are almost ten times the number of folks who say they get their news from ABC (1%), and NBC (1%).

Twenty-six percent (26%) of Americans did not mention a specific news source on television. CNBC was mentioned by less than 1%. MSNBC was also at 1%, ABC. Those garnering 1% were listed in this order: ABC, MSNBC, Univision, NBC, BBC, PBS.

But this was most, most interesting: CBS was almost at the very bottom of the list, not even hitting 1%; CBS was below CNBC. Incredible.

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Speaking of "news," I can't wait to see what the O'Bama administration ends up calling the "coup" in Egypt. 

My hunch is: it won't matter. Monarchs simply pick and choose the "laws" they like.

Nine (9) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; Baytex Reports Four Nice Wells

Active rigs: 186 (trending down)

Nine (9) new permits --

• Operators: Whiting (4), Emerald (2), Hess (2), Fidelity 
• Fields: Stanley (Mountrail), Sanish (Mountrail), Boxcar Butte (McKenzie), Alkali Creek (Mountrail)
• Comments:

Wells coming off the confidential list were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.

Four (4) producing wells completed:

• 24280, 243, Baytex, Pulvermacher 33-28-162-99H, Ambrose, t5/13; cum 5K 5/13;
• 24353, 224, Baytex, Ebreck 4-9-161-97H, Frazier, t5/13; cum 10K 5/13;
• 24999, 535, J. Olson 22-15-162-98H, Blooming Prairies, t5/13; cum 9K 5/13;
• 24690, 602, J. Olson 27-34-162-98H, Whiteaker, t5/13; cum 6K 5/13;

Random Look At the 3rd Group of 100 Wells Early In The Bakken Boom -- 3rd In A Series

See first posting in this series.

Second posting in this series.

Of the 100 wells

• Dakota: 1 (dry)
• Devonian: 1
• Fort Union: 4 (all dry)
• Madison: 15
• Midale: 1
• Red River: 10
• Spearfish:3
• Winnipegosis: 3
• Bakken: 62

One Bakken well was inactive; one is temporarily abandoned.

The table below:

• The fourth column: bbls of oil in thousands, cumulative
• The fifth column: month/year drilled (tested)

16601	madison	20	2/8
16602		121	10/7
16603		182	8/7
16604	spearfish	PNC
16605		64	7/7
16606		PNC
16607	madison	90	9/7
16608		23	3/8
16609		24	12/7
16610		281	9/7
16611		134	10/7
16612		89	6/8
16613		85	12/7
16614		PNC
16615		PNC
16616	madison
16617		23	10/7
16618		PNC
16619		PNC
16620		103	8/7
16621		103	10/7
16622	madison	PNC
16623		27	9/7
16624	duperow	29	9/7
16625		PNC
16626		145	9/7
16627	madison	6	8/7
16628		280	6/9
16629	red river	13	6/8
16630	red river	155	7/7
16631	madison	dry	5/7
16632		PNC
16633		PNC
16634		106	10/7
16635		218	8/7
16636	red river	PNC
16637		350	10/7
16638	madison	249	9/7
16639		351	3/8
16640		96	10/7
16641	red river	52	8/7
16642	red river	51	10/7
16643	madison	2	4/8	PA
16644	spearfish	40	8/7
16645	madison	4	8/7
16646		130	7/7
16647		116	10/7
16648		243	8/7
16649	dakota	dry	1/9
16650	midale/nesson	131	8/7
16651	madison	8	9/7
16652		150	9/7
16653	madison	71	10/7
16654		136	8/7
16655	devonian	12	10/7
16656		411	10/7
16657	fort union	0	9/11	INA
16658	fort union	dry	9/11
16659	fort union	dry	9/11
16660	fort union	dry	9/11
16661	fort union	dry	9/11
16662		PNC
16663		47	12/7
16664		230	12/7
16665		PNC	11/8
16666		163	11/8
16667		337	4/8
16668	madison	dry	7/7
16669	winnipegosis	PNC
16670		74	11/7
16671		396	10/7
16672		94	5/9
16673		PNC
16674		30	4/8
16675	madison	exp
16676		183	11/7
16677		15	12/7	TA
16678		98	9/7
16679	winipegosis	143	4/16
16680	red river	dry	10/7
16681	red river	21	12/7
16682		67	10/8
16683		48	12/7
16684		400	3/8
16685		170	2/8
16686		96	12/8
16687		166	11/8
16688	spearfish	15	10/7
16689		78	6/8	IA
16690		PNC
16691	red river	294	9/7
16692	winnepoegosis	35	9/7	IA
16693		45	8/8
16694		143	12/7
16695		239	11/7
16696	madison	11	2/9	IA
16697	madison	6	10/7
16698		186	12/7
16699	red river	296	11/7
16700	red river	232	1/8

I did this little exercise because some folks have said the Bakken wells have such a bad decline rate, they will start shutting some of them down after five years. Many of the 46 Bakken wells above appear not to be economic, but as long as they are producing, they hold the lease by production.

In addition, a lot of those commentators were way ahead of their headlights. Early in the boom, "they" were drilling everywhere to see what they had: they were defining the boundaries of the middle Bakken. "We" didn't even know about the Three Forks which might turn out to be even better than the Bakken. Also, operators were still trying to crack the geology of the Bakken. And, it goes without saying that completion/fracking techniques were evolving. Costs were high, and getting higher. Now, with pad drilling and for other reasons, costs are coming down.

Many of the initial Bakken wells were short laterals, and they were all fracked with very, very few stages. Many had a single frack.  

In the game of basketball, there are players whose stats (points, rebounds, etc) are very, very poor, but they play an important role on the team for other reasons.

The most interesting thing in this little exercise: how great some of the Red River wells were.

Disclaimer: I went through the data base fairly quickly, and it is very likely there are errors. But the errors are unlikely to change the general results.

The London Array Off-Shore Wind Farm Is Up And Running

The world's largest off-shore wind farm, The London Array, is up and running.

I follow The London Array story here. 

The rest of the story is here, of course. 

Random Look At the 2nd Group of 100 Wells Early In The Bakken Boom -- 2nd In A Series

See first posting in this series.

This is the second group of 100 wells, permit numbers 16501 - 16600.

The current Bakken boom in North Dakota began in 2007.

Of the 100 wells

• Birdbear:2
• Greenhorn: 2 (all PNC)
• Madison: 26
• Midale: 1
• Pierre: 5
• Red River: 14
• Spearfish: 1
• Tyler: 2
• Winnipegosis: 1
• Bakken: 46

One Bakken well one was inactive; all the rest are still active.

The table below:

• The fourth column: bbls of oil in thousands, cumulative (updated Bakken wells, 10/14)
• The fifth column: month/year drilled (tested)

16501	madison	70	3/8
16502	madison	259	8/7
16503	greenhorn	PNC
16504	greenhorn	PNC
16505	madison	dry	1/7
16506	madison	0.9	6/7
16507	madison	106	3/7
16508	red river	72	6/7
16509		127	6/7
16510		286	4/7
16511	pierre	0	8/7
16512	pierre	0	8/7
16513	pierre	0	8/7
16514	pierre	0	8/7
16515	pierre	0	8/7
16516	red river	69	4/7
16517	red river	104	6/7
16518	red river	dry	4/7
16519	madison	24	4/7
16520	madison	exp
16521		47	5/7	-- OXY
16522	madison	34	6/7
16523	red river	2	10/7
16524	madison	PNC
16525	tyler	PNC
16526	tyler	0.3	3/7	TA
16527	red river	168	7/7
16528	red river	187	7/7
16529	red river	328	8/7
16530	madison	PNC
16531		192	6/7
16532		450	7/7
16533	red river	293	6/7
16534		345	5/8
16535	madison	dry	3/7
16536	madison	PNC
16537		144	9/7
16538		14	7/7
16539	red river	PNC
16540	madison	exp
16541		96	9/9
16542	red river	326	6/7
16543		419	7/7
16544		244	5/7
16545		13	8/7
16546	madison	exp
16547		PNC
16548		131	6/7
16549		96	5/7
16550		381	9/7
16551		41	7/10
16552		PA	8/7	-- Hess
16553	madison	PNC
16554	madison	PNC
16555	madison	PNC
16556	madison	dry	3/7
16557		PNC
16558	birdbear	5	10/8
16559		175	8/7
16560		47	8/7
16561		180	7/7
16562		109	9/7
16563		PNC
16564	madison	0.2	4/7
16565		69	8/7
16566		18	11/8
16567		52	9/7
16568		41	9/7
16569	madison	88	6/7
16570	madison	16	7/7
16571		195	11/7
16572		121	10/7
16573		91	7/7
16574	spearfish	exp
16575		53	8/7
16576	red river	dry	5/7
16577		512	1/8
16578		445	9/7
16579		140	7/7
16580	winnipegosis	42	7/7
16581	red river	41	10/8
16582		110	10/7
16583		336	4/8
16584		PNC
16585		PNC
16586		113	7/9
16587		102	7/10
16588	madison	40	7/7
16589	madison	PNC
16590	madison	100	7/7
16591	birdbear	86	12/7
16592	madison	16	8/7	IA
16593	madison	dry	6/7
16594		PNC
16595		PNC
16596		PNC
16597	red river	185	8/7
16598	red river	295	10/7
16599	midale/nesson	48	7/7
16600		36	7/7

I did this little exercise because some folks have said the Bakken wells have such a bad decline rate, they will start shutting some of them down after five years. Many of the 46 Bakken wells above appear not to be economic, but as long as they are producing, they hold the lease by production.

In addition, a lot of those commentators were way ahead of their headlights. Early in the boom, "they" were drilling everywhere to see what they had: they were defining the boundaries of the middle Bakken. "We" didn't even know about the Three Forks which might turn out to be even better than the Bakken. Also, operators were still trying to crack the geology of the Bakken. And, it goes without saying that completion/fracking techniques were evolving. Costs were high, and getting higher. Now, with pad drilling and for other reasons, costs are coming down. 

In the game of basketball, there are players whose stats (points, rebounds, etc) are very, very poor, but they play an important role on the team for other reasons.

The most interesting thing in this little exercise: how great some of the Red River wells were.

Disclaimer: I went through the data base fairly quickly, and it is very likely there are errors. But the errors are unlikely to change the general results.

Watford City School Population To Double

Updates

August 19, 2015: The McKenzie County Farmer provides an update for the Watford City school enrollment this year.

While classes won’t officially open for McKenzie County Public School District No. 1 until Thursday, Aug. 20, the preliminary enrollment numbers are indicating that Watford City schools will see yet another year of record enrollment.

As of August 14, McKenzie County Public School District No. 1 had an enrollment of 1,396 students, which is 171 students more than the district had one year ago at this time.

The official day for student count is September 10.

Last year the district had 1,301 students enrolled .... reasonably confident that the district will have over 1,400 students on September 10 of this year.

Much, much more at the link. 

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The city nearest the sweetest spot in the Bakken -- Watford City -- will see school enrollment double. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

The future will be here in no time and Watford City school officials got a startling look at how quick and how big it will be.

The school hired a consultant to help map that future, and the data that came in recently is nothing short of mindboggling: In three more school years, the current enrollment is expected to double to 1,600.

I posted this elsewhere but wanted to post the story as a stand-alone post. Years ago when the Bakken boom began there were many, many stories about lots of men coming up "here" to work but they wouldn't bring their families.

At the time, I did a long post on that phenomenon. I noted that in the military wives and families followed their husbands no matter where they were assigned. The military has some sites in countries like South Korea where families are "not allowed" to go. In fact, even when their husbands are assigned to these one-year assignments, families find a way to get there, ignoring the US government's "restrictions" -- at great personal risk, great expense, and great hardship. But yet they follow their husbands. (Yes, I know the service is now as much about active duty women as active duty men, but during my time in the military, I noted the phenomenon as noted.)

I posted that the same thing would happen in the oil patch. That's why the debate over man-camps vs permanent housing was so important. I won't rehash that debate. It is now what it is.

Now we will hear that these families will leave as soon as they can after they experience one North Dakota winter. Nope. I was assigned to Grand Forks AFB in the early 80's. Assignments were generally three years, but there was an overwhelming number of folks who requested 5-year controlled tours so they could see their children through five years of North Dakota elementary, middle school, and/or high school education. A lot of those families ended up staying in Grand Forks or Fargo.

Sandrocks Oil Field: Put On The Map With A Murex Gusher

Permits

2014 (the list is complete)
29953, Murex,
29952, Murex,
29951, Murex,
29950, Murex,
29930,  Hess,
29527, Hess,
28543, 1,107, Hess, BW-Arnegard State-151-100-3625H-6, Sandrocks, t5/15; cum 55K 6/15;
27733, 770, Newfield, Fleck 150-100-12-1-2H, Sandrocks, t8/14; cum 84K 6/15;
27732, 854, Newfield, Fleck 150-100-12-1-3H, Sandrocks, t8/14; cum 77K 6/15;
27731, 1,415, Newfield, Fleck 150-100-12-1-4H, Sandrocks, t8/14; cum 84K 6/15;

2013 (the list is complete)
26712, 756, Hess, BW-Arnegard State-151-100-3625H-2, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 73K 6/15;
26711, 1,085, Hess, BW-Arnegard State-151-100-3625H-3, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 107K 6/15;
26710, 1,106, Hess, BW-Arnegard State-151-100-3625H-4, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 103K 6/15;
26709, 1,072, Hess, BW-Arnegard State-151-100-3625H-5, Sandrocks, t8/14; cum 110K 6/15;
26321, 580, Triangle Petroleum, Sanders 150-100-9-10-2H, Sandrocks, t5/14; cum 113K 6/15;
26075, 476, Triangle Petroleum, Sanders 150-100-9-10-1H, Sandrocks, t5/14; cum 107K 6/15; gas levels as high as 4,500 units; replaces #25456 below;
25994, 1,016, Newfield, Barracuda 150-100-111-2-3HR, t10/13; cum 99K 6/15;
25777, 2,857, Statoil, Lloyd 34-3 3H, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 88K 6/15;
25457, 1,320, Newfield, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-4H, Sandrocks, t9/13; cum 88K 6/15;
25456, dry, Newfield, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-3H, looks like they had problems with drillign from the start; d/c'd ops about 3,030 feet; replaced by #25994 above;
25455, 1,061, Newfield, Barracuda 150-100-11-2-2H, t9/13; cum 104K 6/15;

2012 (the list is complete)
24257, 4,125, Murex, Albert Skari 35-26H,  Sandrocks middle Bakken, t2/13; cum 207K 6/15; 37 stages; 4.3 million lbs proppant;
23862, 2,633, Statoil, Hovde 33-4 3H, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 93K 6/15;
23861, 3,340 Statoil, Hovde 33-4 4H, Sandrocks, t7/14; cum 98K 6/15;
23860, 3,358, Statoil, Hovde 33-4 2H, Sandrocks, t12/13; cum 151K 6/15;
23559, PNC, Zenergy, Sanders 9-10H, Sandrocks,

2011
21033, 3,473, Statoil, Lloyd 34-3 2H, Sandrocks, t3/12; cum 202K 6/15;

2010 
20199, 1,318, Murex, Bradley Mark 35-26H, Sandrocks, t12/11; cum 194K 6/15;
20155, 2,185, Newfield, Barracuda 150-100-2-11-1H, Sandrocks, t5/11; cum 204K 6/15;

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Murex just put the Sandrocks oil field on the map with this well:

• 24257, 4,125, Murex, Albert Skari 35-26H,  Sandrocks middle Bakken, t2/13; cum 207K 6/15; 37 stages; 4.3 million lbs proppant;

A huge well.

Sandrocks is a non-descript 14-section oil field just north of Arnegard, west of Watford City. This is west of the sweet spots in northeast McKenzie County.

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	5-2013	30	10915	11174	4106	10004	10004	0
BAKKEN	4-2013	26	13626	13470	5049	23655	23655	0
BAKKEN	3-2013	24	20950	20652	7830	7690	7690	0
BAKKEN	2-2013	27	29323	28862	22717	15970	15970	0

Monday Morning Links, News, And Views

Active rigs: 187

Wells coming off the confidential list have been posted.  Murex has a gusher.

RBN Energy: great article on WTI-Brent spread.

Crawling out from under the Geico rock?

While in the search for a promising, profitable, small energy company, I discovered Northern Oil and Gas. The company is an $873 million small-cap producer of crude oil and natural gas in North Dakota and Montana. It is one of America's fastest growing oil and gas energy companies. Northern holds interests in the Bakken and Three Forks formations in the Williston Basin. The company is fundamentally undervalued with the potential for significant stock gains.

The city nearest the sweetest spot in the Bakken -- Watford City -- will see school enrollment double. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

The future will be here in no time and Watford City school officials got a startling look at how quick and how big it will be.

The school hired a consultant to help map that future, and the data that came in recently is nothing short of mindboggling: In three more school years, the current enrollment is expected to double to 1,600.

WSJ Links

I generally don't read The Journal Report, Section R on Mondays, but this might be a nice one to keep: how states tax IRA withdrawals. Actually, lots of good news.

Not much in Section C, Money & Investing today. Ditto, Marketplace. Nothing.

The Front Section goes with the San Francisco plane crash as the lead story: this was a "practice flight" for the command pilot. He was "upgrading" to a new aircraft; had less than 50 hours in this aircraft; and this was his first flight into SFO.

But, finally, we get the crude oil unit train that destroyed a Canadian town story as the second story in the on-line edition. 

The deadly weekend explosion of a runaway crude-carrying train in Quebec threatens to ratchet up scrutiny of rising crude-by-rail shipments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, amid a boom in North American oil production.

In both countries, shipments of crude by rail have shot up sharply, as producers race to get all their new oil to market and as pipeline companies scramble to build new lines or reconfigure old ones to handle the growing volumes. Meanwhile, uncertainty over several big pipeline projects—including approval delays for TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL, which would connect Western Canada's booming oil sands development to the Gulf Coast—have sent some oil companies looking to rail as a longer-term solution.
That accident was the fifth derailment of a CP train in three months. The city's mayor publicly questioned whether the company, which is responsible for its own track and bridge inspections, put profits ahead of safety. CP officials denied cutting corners on inspections and said the derailments aren't connected to any underlying trend.

But the accident early Saturday is on a whole different scale. The train's operator, Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Inc., a unit of privately held U.S. railroad operator Rail World Inc., said the runaway train was loaded with 72 carloads of crude bound from North Dakota to a refinery in New Brunswick. 

Two additional stories on this mishap in the WSJ: Canadians probe the disaster; and, A night out turns inot a nightmare: 5 dead, 40 missing.

This is an important story: Saudi Arabia has gained the upper hand amid Islamist setbacks.

Saudi Arabia has gained the upper hand in a series of new power struggles in the region, strengthening the kingdom against the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist political movements emboldened since the Arab Spring revolutions.

Just as swiftly as popular uprisings have brought to power the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic political blocs in several Middle East and North African countries since 2011, "what happened in Egypt...could be the beginning of the end of political Islam in the region," Khalid al-Dakhail, an assistant professor of political sociology at King Saud University in Riyadh, predicted Sunday.

Op-Ed: another O'BamaCare tax that is dangerous to your health. This is another piece of the Train Wreck that will be repealed.