Nice Update On New Pipeline Activity In The Great Plains, From The Rockies To Patoka -- RBN Energy; October 24, 024

Active rigs:

	10/24/2014	10/24/2013	10/24/2012	10/24/2011	10/24/2010
Active Rigs	194	180	190	196	151

RBN Energy: First in a series, an update on all the pipeline projects across the midwest, from the Rockies to Patoka, IL.

New pipeline projects to take crude out of the Rockies are starting to make the map look like a spider’s web. The latest proposal comes from Spectra Energy – owners of the Express and Platte pipelines that ship crude from Hardisty to Wood River via Guernsey, WY. Spectra hope to build a pipeline carrying light sweet crude from Guernsey to the Midwest pipeline hub at Patoka.

The project would bypass Cushing and push more light crude to the east with potential access to Midwest refineries or even the East Coast. Patoka is also poised to become an origination point for shipments to the Gulf Coast. Today we review the Spectra project’s chances in a crowded pipeline field.

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The Road To New England
Constitution Pipeline

From Yahoo!In-Play:

Williams Partners: Constitution Pipeline receives Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's final environmental review: Constitution Pipeline Company, owned by subsidiaries of Williams Partners (WPZ), Cabot Oil & Gas (COG), Piedmont (PNY), and WGL Holdings (WGL) reported a key regulatory milestone toward approval to construct its proposed pipeline on a schedule that targets increasing natural gas supply to New York and New England markets in time for the winter 2015-16 heating season.

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Oct. 24 published its final environmental review of the proposed 124-mile Constitution Pipeline.

The approximately 124-mile Constitution Pipeline is being designed with a capacity to transport 650,000 dekatherms of natural gas per day (enough natural gas to serve approximately 3 million homes). Buried underground, the 30-inch pipeline would extend from Susquehanna County, PA, to the Iroquois Gas Transmission and Tennessee Gas Pipeline systems in Schoharie County, NY.

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The Ebola Experience: NYC-Style

Mayor of NYC: "We learned from the Dallas experience."

The NYC Health Commissioner's definition of quarantine self-isolate:

"We know that he left his apartment and so that he -- self-quarantine would have meant he never left his apartment. But he did self-isolate in the sense that ... he limited his contact with people and saw friends. He did leave his apartment, so I don't want to give the impression that he was in his apartment the entire time."

The same health commissioner went on to later note that the Ebola patient took the subway (the A train, L train, and the 1 train), went to a bowling ally, took an Uber, later went to the High Line, and "may have stopped and gone to a restaurant along the way." He also went for a 3-mile run around the city.

Additionally, the patient spent time with his fiance and two friends.

Or, more succinctly, to quarantine/self-isolate in NYC, one must limit oneself to:

• see friends
• take no more than three subways (the A train, the L Train, and the I train)
• go bowling
• take a taxi (Uber, perhaps)
• visit a public park (the High Line, e.g.)
• take a 3-mile run around the city
• stay overnight with fiance, friends

About the only thing he did not do was visit a ""Minit Clinic."

I can't make this stuff up. And that's why checking temperatures at JFK airport is futile.

Last night I watched "This is Spinal Tap," a rock documentary. The writing in the rockumentary was not half as good as what the NYC Health Commissioner came up with.