Four Wells Coming Off Confidential List To Be Reported Monday -- July 10, 2016

Monday, July 11, 2016
32336, SI/NC, SM Energy, Nystuen 14B-35HS, Skabo, no production data, 

Sunday, July 10, 2016
26906, 1,492, HRC, Fort Berthold 152-93-19D-18-7H, Four Bears, Three Forks, 33 stages, 4.9 million lbs, t1/16; cum 76K 5/16; only 13 days in 5/16;

Saturday, July 9, 2016
31979, drl, Statoil, Lougheed 2-11 5H, Todd, no production data,
32335, SI/NC, SM Energy, Nystuen 14-35HN, Moraine, no production data,

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26906, see above, HRC, Fort Berthold 152-93-19D-18-7H, Four Bears:

Date	Oil Runs	MCF Sold
5-2016	4640	2541
4-2016	17271	12647
3-2016	23307	29078
2-2016	23995	31771
1-2016	6411	7619

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US PADD 3 Exports To West Coast Of South America

Previously posted. This time the graphic:

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Green Bay Now Imports Refined Oil Products, Used To Be An Exporter

Pipeline Shut Down

This is a trivial story in the big scheme of things, I suppose, but a pipeline that use to export refined products from Green Bay to the East Coast has been shut down. Now, instead of exporting refined products, Green Bay is importing refined products. The story is linked here.

Shut down the pipeline and we now have two barges/week -- emitting all that CO2 -- delivering diesel fuel to Green Bay.

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Crying Wolf

From Forbes:

Nearly all U.S. coal plants have come into compliance with the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standard—which the Supreme Court last year ruled is illegal—and only a small percentage have closed.

It may be another sign that U.S. pollution goals may be more easily achievable than opponents claim. [Again, this is a Forbes article.]

Last June, the Supreme Court ruled in Michigan vs. EPA that the EPA had not conducted a sufficient cost-benefit analysis of the 2012 rule, which prohibits the emission of mercury, arsenic and other airborne toxins. But the court left the rule in place while the EPA conducted that analysis, and nearly all vulnerable coal plants have borne the costs and stayed in business.

About 1,400 coal and oil plants are affected by the rule, but EIA measures the industry in terms of gigawatts, a unit of the energy produced. From December 2014 to April 2016, U.S. coal capacity dropped from 299 GigaWatts to 276. Of that vanished capacity, about 20 GW retired. About 6 GW converted to natural gas.

But a much larger number—87.4 GW—adapted to the new regulation by installing pollution control equipment.

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In A Nutshell

Hillary now supports:

• a new government agency to provide health care to Americans -- the "public health insurance option" -- which would compete directly with private insurers (by the way, this is the British NHS -- a two tier system: government NHS alongside private insurers)
• expanding Medicare, allowing folks to sign up at age 55, rather than age 65
• tax-payer-financed college tuition

A little bit for everyone.

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ObamaCare Enrollment Not "As Good" As Originally Advertised
So, What Else Is New?
Must Have Been A Slow News Day

From Madison.com:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the latest report on the state of enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and it contained quite a surprise.

As a refresher, the CMS reported Obamacare enrollment as of the end of the 2016 enrollment period to be about 12.7 million. This included more than 9.6 million enrollees via HealthCare.gov, the federally run marketplace exchange covering 38 states, and roughly 3.1 million enrollees coming from the one dozen states, such as California, New York, and Washington, that operate their own exchanges. Seeing as how Obamacare ended 2015 with 9.1 million enrollees, this jump of 3.6 million people, equal to about 40%, was viewed as a big win for the program.

But looks can be deceiving. Last week's CMS report, which used insurer and marketplace data through March 31, 2016, just two months following the 2016 enrollment deadline, found that only 11.1 million consumers were still enrolled and paying. In just two months, 1.6 million people had stopped paying their premiums or lost coverage.

This is not news; this has been the norm since the program went live. We've talked about it at length. There are a number of reasons people would quit paying premiums, but we've talked about them before.

Time to move on.