Thursday, April 10, 2014 -- CLR Reports Montana Bakken Completion With Six (6) Laterals

Active rigs:

	4/10/2014	04/10/2013	04/10/2012	04/10/2011	04/10/2010
Active Rigs	191	190	209	173	105

RBN Energy: barriers to ethane export.

• infrastructure
• shipping
• pricing
• petrochemical demand

In the previous post, RBN Energy spoke to the first two barriers; in this post, the pricing and petrochemical demand barriers to ethane export are discussed.

Montana Update, from Fairfield SunTimes:

In Richland County, Continental Resources Inc. reported the completion of three Bakken Formation wells.

• Mabel 1-14H, six laterals (14K, 13.5K, 13K, 15K, 17K, and 20K). An IP of 301. Seems like a lot of drilling for 301 IP.
• Mifflin 1-30H, 14K, 348 IP.
• Mullholland Federal 1-32H, 20K, 294 IP

In Roosevelt County, Oasis:

• Reveille Federal 2759 14-26H, 20K, 1,284 IP

The Wall Street Journal

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Fed shows growing worry about low inflation. Note my long post yesterday along these lines.

Brandeis University has withdrawn its offer of an honorary degree to a human-rights advocate and former Dutch lawmaker after a campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned her as an Islamophobe.

ATT said it is in advanced talks to bring up to one gigabit per second speeds to six North Carolina cities, or about 10-times the current fastest options. Apple has a huge presence in North Carolina.

This may have been the reason my Yahoo e-mail was in-op a couple of days ago: popular websites and millions of internet users scrambled to update software and change passwords Wednesday, after a security bug in crucial encryption code was disclosed sooner than researchers had planned.

The Dickinson Press

State clamps down on oilfield waste: rules specify leak-proof containers for filter socks. That was easy.