Eleven (11) New Permits -- North Dakota, August 8, 2014

Active rigs:

	8/8/2014	08/08/2013	08/08/2012	08/08/2011	08/08/2010
Active Rigs	193	182	199	187	141

 
Eleven (11) new permits --

• Operators: KOG (8), Cornerstone, Liberty Resources, Enduro
• Fields: Truax (Williams), Woburn (Burke), McGregor (Williams), Newburg (Bottineau)
• Comments:

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

Four (4) producing wells completed:

• 27348, 1,155, MRO, Winston 34-10TFH, Chimney Butte, t7/14; cum --
• 27074, 1,689, MRO, Adamson 14-24TFH, Chimney Butte, t7/14; cum --
• 26480, 900, CLR, Brogger 5-4H1, Crazy Man Creek, t7/14; cum --
• 26479, 856, CLR, Brogger 4-4H, Crazy Man Creek, t7/14; cum --

There were six (6) fairly recent wells plugged or abandoned:

• 16959, AB, QEP, Jones 16-14H, Blue Buttes, t6/08; cum 102K 5/12;
• 25338, PA, Whiting, Jandt 14-1-25, Delhi, a Red River well, completed 5/13; no production;
• 23912, dry, Fidelity, Sandy 18-19H, Stanley, technical problems; d/c'd before fracking;
• 22236, PA, Fidelity, Hansen 18-19H, Stanley, c7/12; cum 817 bbls;
• 19705, PA, Fideltiy, Wanner 44-23H, Lehigh, t1/12; cum 10K 6/14;
• 25953, dry, Fram Operating, Alexander 10-1, a Madison well, West Greene,

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NYC: Summer Is Coldest In A Decade

Yes, it's just the weather, but after cooling weather for 19 years, I suppose at some point, we can start calling it climate.

Just yesterday, or the day before, I mentioned that many, many years ago I remember hearing on the radio that the summer was miserably hot in Chicago and New York, and people were dying due to the heat, and being taken to the hospital, and it was just awful. But, you know, I haven't heard that kind of talk in ... well, decades, it seems.

And now, today, I get  home after spending a very, very cool day up at the Getty Museum in Santa Monica, California, and this is in the mailbox. The New York Post is reporting:

The summer of 2014 has been one of the mildest on the books — and could be the first summer in a decade without a heatwave.

“It wasn’t clear if it was going to be a hot or a cool summer,” said National Weather Service meteorologist David Stark. “We started out the year very cool and it seems like we just continued that. It doesn’t look like we have any heat waves in the near future.”
Instead of searching for the skimpiest outfits to battle the sizzling sun, New Yorkers are reaching for their sweatshirts.

“It’s been so much colder this summer,” said Susan Vartholomatos, 51, who broke out her bikini for a beach day Friday afternoon. “In the morning, when I go out to my terrace, I need a sweatshirt.”

It's been unseasonably cool here in southern California, also. At least that's my perception. Algore would know.

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Gettin' Ready For Football

Speaking of cool weather in New York, perfect football weather, NY Jets and Cincinnati Bengals, pre-season next week, August 16, 7:00 p.m. --

Sunday Night NFL Theme, NY Jets vs Cincinnati Bengals, Faith Hill
This was back in 2010 -- at the end of the song, the voice over says it is very, very cold in New York area. I can't make this stuff up. It was 21 degrees with a wind chill of 7 degrees.

The last one standing can turn out the lights...the season can't start soon enough...waitin' all summer for the season to start ....

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Baraq (per Drudge Report)

Monday Night NFL Football, Hank Williams, JR
We're ready to strike, our special forces are in flight, we're coming by air and on the ground.....

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Baraq (Top Gun)

Feeling the need for speed 

Highway to the danger zone

Highway To The Danger Zone, Kenny Loggins
Two words (their words, not mine): mission creep. Hooah!