Thirteen (13) New Permits; BR Will Report A Nice Well Friday -- October 16, 2014

Wells coming off the confidential list Friday:

• 27147, 1,440, BR, Arches 14-35TFH, Keene, t8/14; cum 14K 8/14;
• 27768, drl, SM Energy, Luella 13-35H, Camp, no production data,
• 27824, drl, Statoil, Maston 34-27 7TFH, Banks, no production data,

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

Thirteen (13) new permits --

• Operators: Hess (4), XTO (3), WPX (3), Whiting (3)
• Fields: Robinson Lake (Mountrail, Indian Hill (McKenzie), Reunion Bay (Dunn), South Tobacco Garden (McKenzie)
• Comments: an American Eagle was on the list; it was the same permit issue some time ago; probably a "cut and paste" error

Active rigs:

	10/16/2014	10/16/2013	10/16/2012	10/16/2011	10/16/2010
Active Rigs	189	184	187	195	153

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Dallas, We Have A Problem

This is why "we have a problem." The New Yorker comes out weekly. It may be the #1 weekly subscribed to in New York City. I don't know. The most read section of The New Yorker is no doubt "The Talk of the Town," a series of short, topical essays at the beginning of every issue. There are usually about five short essays.

This week, the first essay begins:

In early March of 2003, when SARS swept into Hong Kong from Southern China, the streets of one of the world's most densely populated areas were practically deserted. Venders in kiosks sold face masks  and hand sanitizer  to anyone brave, or foolish, enough to leave home. The fear of a new highly contagious disease is understandable, and, with no effective treatment or vaccine for SARS, it was difficult to know what to do. The World Health Organization recommended that officials in the countries most affected warn people with a fever to stay off international flights. Hong Kong went further, using infrared scanners and thermometers to take the temperature of more than thirty-six million passengers as they arrived. Nineteen hundred and twenty-one of them had a fever, and forty were admitted to the hospital. None developed SARS. (Canada and Singapore also scanned arriving passengers. Neither country found anyone with SARS).

Last week, the Obama Administration announced that, at five major US airports, passengers arriving from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone will be checked for fever. That measure isn't likely to be any more effective at detecting the Ebola virus than it was at finding SARS.

The article goes on for another full page.

By the way, the school which our granddaughters attend here in the DFW metroplex sent out a notice to all parents telling them that two students at the elementary school across town were exposed to nurse #2. They were on the plane with her on at least one of the legs of her trip.

The letter was very, very, very long.

Some schools, I see, in Ohio and Dallas have announced closures. There may be a lot of elementary students taking their classes on-line this year.