Wednesday -- August 20, 2014

RBN Energy: continuation of the series on Canada losing opportunity to export LNG.

Canada’s National Energy Board already has approved export licenses for nine LNG export projects in British Columbia that, if all built, would demand a total of up to 16 Bcf/d of Western Canada natural gas. Several other LNG export projects also are under development in BC. In reality, though, at most only a handful of all these projects will be financed and constructed. The BC government’s optimistic estimate is that five liquefaction “trains” with a combined gas throughput of 3.5 Bcf/d (to produce up to 25 million metric tons/year of LNG) will be online by 2023. The questions then are, what will it take for a project to advance, and which developers are making the most headway so far. Today, in the second of our Slip Sliding Away series, we start to assess BC’s top LNG export contenders, including a few late-arriving long shots that could surprise.

Active rigs in North Dakota:

	8/20/2014	08/20/2013	08/20/2012	08/20/2011	08/20/2010
Active Rigs	191	184	199	193	138

The Wall Street Journal

Looks like the Baraq War is escalating: more airstrikes.

Inflation? What inflation? Consumer prices advanced in July at their slowest pace since February, rising only 0.1%.

I mentioned it yesterday; big story for WSJ today: Apple topped $100/share yesterday.

The Los Angeles Times

Top story: LAPD chief faces tense crowd over shooting of mentally ill man. Whatever happened to tasers?

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I missed this yesterday. On the radio I thought I heard "them" say that the Dow closed only 7 points blow the all-time high yesterday. If accurate, wow. I thought the pull-back was going to be much worse. And it's up a bit today. Let's see: Yahoo!Finance says the 52-week high for the Dow was 17,151,6. Today, it's trading about 16,950. Okay.

The Yahoo!Finance oil ticker is wrong; the correct number ofr WtI crude oil, September 14, 2014, contract: up about 70 cents, around $95.15. That's fine.

Trading at new highs that caught my eye: AAPL, EEQ, EW,  KMP, UNP.

AAPL is almost at $101. XOM, around $99.

Back to the Bakken:

Wells coming off the confidential list Thursday:

• 25770, 1,509, Oasis, Nadine Bob 5501 11-1T, Cow Creek, t6/14; cum --
• 26615, 1,350, Oasis, Brier 5200 11-27 8T2, Camp, ICO spacing, t6/14; cum 18K 6/14;
• 27187, 346, American Eagle, Ella 4-15-163-102, Skjermo, t6/14; cum 14K 6/14;
• 27255, drl, Hess, EN-Hanson A-155-94-0607H-2, Manitou,
• 27359, drl, XTO, Franchuk 24X-19F, Murphy Creek,
• 27451, drl, CLR, Hatman 8-28H2, Chimney Butte,
• 27500, drl, XTO, Lyla 24X-10F, Lindahl,

27592, conf, Slawson, Challenger Federal 5-29-32TFH,