Leonard Nimoy Dead At 83 -- February 27, 2015

Kennedy Ice Age

The New York Times is reporting:

We have reached the 69th day of winter. It seems like the 6,669th. Pretty much the same nonsense is reprised day after day. Miserable, punishing, obnoxious, teeth-rattling, bone-numbing weather. Unmitigated, merciless, are-you-kidding-me cold.

With the average temperature for the month of February lingering around 24 degrees, some 11 degrees shy of normal by the National Weather Service’s calculation, this insult of a month looks as though it will clock in as the coldest recorded February in New York City since 1934. That is 81 years of weather. That is all the way back to the Depression, when there were so many more dire things to worry about than whether 7-Eleven had salt or whose turn it was to walk the dog.

Active rigs in North Dakota:

	2/27/2015	02/27/2014	02/27/2013	02/27/2012	02/27/2011
Active Rigs	119	194	181	205	169

Eight (5) new permits --

• Operators: Whiting (4), Oasis (3), MRO
• Fields: Pleasant Hill (McKenzie), Morgan Draw (Billings), Camp (McKenzie), Antelope (McKenzie)
• Comments: 

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

Statoil cancels three permits -- a Michael Owan permit in Williams County, and two Margaret permits in McKenzie County.