Active rigs:
| 10/13/2014 | 10/13/2013 | 10/13/2012 | 10/13/2011 | 10/13/2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Rigs | 191 | 184 | 192 | 195 | 153 |
Wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend and Monday were posted earlier; see sidebar at the right.
Six (6) new permits --
- Operators: Statoil (6)
- Fields: Banks (McKenzie)
- Comments: 6-well pad, I believe
- 27504, drl, Hess, BB-Budahn A-150-95-0403H-7, Blue Buttes, no production data,
- 27809, drl, Statoil, Maston 34-27 6H, Banks, no production data,
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Pressure Building To D/C Exploratory Drilling In The Bakken
Bloomberg is reporting:
Bakken shale-oil producers are under pressure from tumbling prices to scale back their 2015 drilling plans in a region that accounts for one of every eight U.S. barrels of crude.
Bakken oil fell 1 percent to $79.40 a barrel today, the first time it’s dropped below $80 in 11 months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Crude prices have been declining worldwide as ample North American supplies tempered the U.S. appetite for imports and Persian Gulf producers signaled they’re prepared to keep output high to protect their market shares in Asia.
Companies drilling expensive, experimental wells in frontier regions such as the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale beneath Louisiana and Mississippi will be first to feel pinched by the drop-off in prices, said Gabriele Sorbara, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets in New York. Bakken producers will soon feel the pain as well as their returns dwindle.That would stop the flaring problem.
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CNN is reporting:The battle for a key Syrian city on the Turkish border intensified Monday as ISIS continued its push for control of Kobani while also scoring a victory in neighboring Iraq, taking a strategically important military base in Anbar province.
A fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Unit, or YPG, told CNN's Arwa Damon that the battle in Kobani concerned the main border crossing into Turkey. If ISIS took control, he said, "it's over."
The fighter said the Kurdish fighters had pushed back an attempted advance by ISIS on Monday morning but that it would be "impossible" for them to hold their ground if current conditions continued.
Should they take Kobani, the militants would control three official border crossings between Turkey and Syria and a stretch of the border about 60 miles (97 kilometers) long.
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Official: Even Small Droplets Could Contain Ebola Virus
CBS_DFW:
Dr. Dennis Maki, University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control: "New data suggest that even tiny droplets of a patient’s body fluids can contain the virus, Maki said."Really?
I think this has been known by "everyone" for the past ten years. The first known outbreak was back in 1976. It has been studied "to death" ever since.
