EOG Well Records 500,000 Bbls In Less Than Three Years; So Much For Marching Against Fear -- March 26, 2016

EOG well goes over 500,000 bbls crude oil cumulative:

It looks like this well was taken off-line in July, 2015, to change production method from flowing to pump with the installation of an ESP on July 31, 2015.

• 24667, 1,179, EOG, Van Hook 19-2523H, Parshall, t7/13, cum 520K 7/16; only one day production in July, 2015; since then, full up; 50 stages, 10 million lbs;

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Miscellaneous

Breaking news: Organizers cancel Sunday's Brussels attacks 'March Against Fear'. ISIS takes notice.

Breaking news:  Russia says its warplanes have made 40 sorties around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in past 24 hours, with 158 Islamic State targets hit, more than 100 militants killed. ISIS takes notice.

Is the US even involved any more? President Obama made the decision to "sit this one out." That was reported in the cover story of this month's issue of The Atlantic: "The Obama Doctrine: How he has shaped the world." From that story, these two sidebars highlighted his un-Trumanesque doctrine:

• The moment Obama decided not to enforce the red line and bomb Syria, he broke with what he calls, derisively, "the Washington playbook." This was his liberation day.
• Leon Panetta, one of several SecDefs for President Obama, has criticized the president's failure to enforce the Syrian red line.

And he has the audacity to say the Senate is not doing its duty to act on his Supreme Court nominee, when he himself has apparently decided to throw away "the Washington playbook" and do it his way: sit this one out.

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Talk About Poor Timing

This week's issue of The New York Review of Books arrived in mailbox a couple of days ago, about the very same day, if not the exact day, March 22, 2016, when "Zaventem and Maelbeek bombs kill many" as reported by the BBC.

Ian Buruma has a piece, "In The Capital of Europe," in this week's issue of The New York Review of Books, pp. 36 - 39. It begins:

Brussels has frequently had a bad press. Already int he 1860s, Baudelaire, who fled there from the French censor, called the Belgian capital "a ghost town, a mummy of a town, it smells of death, the Middle Ages, and tombs." To a growing number of Europeans, "Brussels" is a byword for bureaucratic bullying by the so-called Eurocrats.

Donald Trump called Brussels a "hellhole." Perhaps he was thinking, if that is the right word, of Molenbeek. Densely populated by immigrants, mostly from North Africa, this district has become a symbol of seething european jihadism. Last year's mass murders in Paris were apparently plotted there; the number of young men and women (around a hundred) who have left Molenbeek to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq is relatively high.

Still, much of the negative reputation of Brussels is undeserved and overblown. [Not according to recent reports from The New York Times.] Brussels is not a dangerous city -- not even Molenbeek, which is shabby, sullen (unemployment 30 percent), socially cut off [or as Donald Trump would say, a "hellhole"], but not specifically menacing. [I guess if you don't count recent events.]

Talk about bad timing for this article to be published. No wonder journalists often turn to alcohol.

Note:

• Molenbeek: In 2015 and 2016, the municipality gained notoriety as the base of numerous Islamic terrorists, carrying out both attacks in France and Belgium. Molenbeek is about an hour and a half northeast of Brussels.
• Maelbeek, a suburb of Brussels; wiki does not mention the Islamic connection. Wiki will have to update its Maelbeek page after the airport and subway station bombing last week.

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The Katie Ledecky Page

Nineteen reasons Katie Ledecky is cooler than most 19-year-olds:

• she made her first Olympic team at her first senior national meet
• she won an Olympic gold medal at age 15
• she was the youngest US athlete at the London 2012 Olympics
• she has won 15 gold medals in major international competitions
• she has broken 11 world records
• she won three Golden Goggle awards for Female Athlete of the year
• she earned the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2013
• she was named the USOC's 2013 Olympic SportsWoman of the Year
• she swims in every freestyle distance from 200 to 1,500 meters
• she is the first to win all of those races at a major meet
• she won four Golden Goggle awards for Female Race of the Year
• she swims 8,000 meters a day in training
• she set a world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle in prelims
• she has never won an international medal that isn't gold
• she got Michael Phelps' autograph when she was 9 years old
• she deferred enrollment at Stanford to train for the 2016 Olympics
• she swims faster than nine-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz
• she was named to the Athletes' Advisory Commission for LA 2024
• she has the top eight women's 800-meter freestyle times in history