Six (6) New Permits -- The Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA; KOG Reports Three "High IP" Wells

Wells coming off the confidential list Wednesday:

• 25142, 965, Enerplus, Horned 147-93-18B-19H, Moccasin Creek, t12/13; cum 81K 3/14;
• 26356, 389, Hunt, Bowline 1-3-10H, Boxcar Butte, t3/14; cum 6K 3/14;
• 26790, drl, Hess, BB-Belquist-150-95-1110H-4, Blue Buttes, no production data,
• 26927, conf, BR, Crater Lake 11-14MBH-R,

Active rigs:

	5/27/2014	05/27/2013	05/27/2012	05/27/2011	05/27/2010
Active Rigs	189	187	214	172	117

Six (6) new permits --

• Operators: Petro-Hunt (5), QEP
• Fields: Keene (McKenzie), Eagle Nest (McKenzie)
• Comments:

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

Eleven (11) producing wells completed:

• 18518, 2,710, KOG, Two Shields Butte 3-24-12-4H, Mandaree, t4/14; cum --  
• 20257, 2,475, KOG, Two Shields Butte 3-24-12-3H3, Mandaree, t4/14; cum --
• 20259, 1,579, KOG, Skunk Creek 3-24-25-14H3, Mandaree, t4/14; cum --
• 25159, 541, CLR, Columbus Federal 2-16H, Mandaree, 4 sections, t5/14; cum --
• 25160, 749, CLR, Columbus Federal 3-16H, Baker, 4 sections, t5/14; cum --   
• 25875, 108, Murex, Haley Marie 1-12H, Writing Rock, t4/14; cum -- 
• 26444, 1,703, CLR, Vachal 5-27H1, Alkali Creek, t4/14; cum --
• 26726, 351, MRO, Edwards 44-34TFH, Killdeer, t4/14; cum --
• 26904, 434, Whiting, Lee State 44-16-2H, Parshall, 1 section, t4/14; cum --
• 26905, 950, Whiting, Lee State 44-16-3H, Parshall, 1 section, t4/14; cum --
• 27122, 2,372, KOG, P Scanlan 153-98-16S-9-11-16H, Truax, t4/14; cum --

Operator tranfer: about 32 wells changed hands, from Sequel Energy, LLC, to Liberty Resources:

• permits ranged from #13379 up to #26826; it looks like the vast majority of wells are relatively recently permitted, McKenzie, Divide, and Williams Counties 

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Global Warming
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From The Hockey Schtick: If You Can't Explain The Pause, You Can't Explain The Cause:

A new paper published in the Annals of Glaciology shows Antarctic air temperatures were warmer during the early 1800's and 1940's in comparison to the end of the 20th century. The authors find evidence of a quasi-periodic climate cycle lasting 30-50 years, with at least 5 climate shifts over the past 350 years, the last beginning during the 1970's.

According to the authors, "The correlation of the newly obtained record with the circulation indices of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) shows that the central Antarctic climate is mainly governed by the type of [natural] circulation in the Southern Hemisphere: under conditions of zonal circulation, negative anomalies of temperature and precipitation rate are observed, whereas the sign of the anomalies is positive during meridional circulation."

The paper adds to many others finding nothing unusual or unprecedented regarding the natural and cyclical changes of Antarctic climate over the past century.

Awesome: a new global warming website link for the sidebar at the right!

By the way, ice coverage on Lake Superior is the greatest ice cover of that lake since satellite records began.

As of today, 27 May 2014, Lake Superior ice cover stands at 4.3% – the greatest level of ice seen on this date, not only on Lake Superior, but on all of the Great Lakes since modern satellite records in 1980-81.

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