Friday, March 6, 2015

Active rigs:

	3/6/2015	03/06/2014	03/06/2013	03/06/2012	03/06/2011
Active Rigs	113	191	186	206	172

There are no MRO rigs actively drilling in Dunn County at the moment. Link here.  UPDATE: a reader tells me that there is still a Marathon rig in the far northwest corner of Dunn County. 


RBN Energy: NGL infrastructure in the northeast.

In the five years since gas production began to take off in the Marcellus, gas processing capacity in the northeast has expanded nearly 13 times over from 600 MMcf/d to 7,600 MMcf/d. Natural gas liquids (NGL) production from those plants began to expand significantly in 2011 and is now over 245 Mb/d. Midstream companies have developed gas processing infrastructure from a small group of stand-alone plants into a fully integrated system designed to operate without the luxury of significant NGL storage capacity. Today we begin a new series describing how the innovative infrastructure build-out has overcome regional constraints.

From SeekingAlpha:

• Apple will take AT&T's spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average following the March 18 close.
• Since the Dow is price-weighted rather than market cap-weighted, the change was made possible by Apple's 2014 7:1 split. As of right now, Apple will account for 4.7% of the Dow's weight. 

A shout-out to Apple Tech Support: yesterday my wife noticed that she was getting her Yahoo! e-mail on her MacAir but not to her iPhone. A google search revealed this is not particularly unusual but we were not able to correct the problem on our own. May called Apple Tech Support, and was talking with a technician almost immediately (I didn't ask, but it did not seem she was on hold at all). She was in another room out of earshot so I don't know all the details but she was on the phone with tech support for, I bet, 45 minutes. The problem was solved, but the Apple technician has no idea how the problem began in the first place. In the end, it appears, my wife and Apple simply re-initialized everything. At one point she was on three devices: her MacAir, her iPhone 6, and my Samsung 2009 (or thereabouts) clamshell dumbphone.