Major Refinery Fire -- Could Affect New England; WPX Reports Two Great Wells -- October 8, 2018

Road to New England, just in time for winter: from Argus Media --

• Irving Oil confirmed a "major incident" today at its 300,000 b/d refinery in St John, New Brunswick
• it was not immediately clear whether the fire was under control
• Irving supplies fuels to the US northeast as well as to eastern Canada
• the company's US terminals in Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, and Rhode Island received an average 111,000 b/d of gasoline blends, and 51,000 b/d of distillates

Active rigs:

$74.23→	10/8/2018	10/08/2017	10/08/2016	10/08/2015	10/08/2014
Active Rigs	64	59	33	68	190

Eight new permits:

• Operators: WPX, CLR
• Fields: Antelope (McKenzie); Cedar Coulee (Dunn)
• Comments: WPX has permits for a 4-well Delores Sand pad in NWNE 29-151-94; CLR has permits for a 4-well Carus pad in SWSE 28-147-96;

Nine producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 27597, 441, Future Acquisition Company, Aaberg 8-5N-1H, West Ambrose, t9/18; cum --
• 33977, 494, BR, Kermit 5-8-32 UTFH, Pershing, t9/18; cum --
• 34072, 601, Petro-Hunt, JL Moberg 153-95-18C-20-1HS, Charlson, t9/18; cum --
• 34059, 379, BR, Rinkurtis 8-1-5UTFH-ULW, North Fork, t8/18; cum --
• 34058, 541, BR, Kermit 8-8-32MBH, Pershing, t8/18; cum --
• 31962, 2,366, XTO, Bang Federal 21X-19E2, Lost Bridge, t8/18; cum 17K after 20 days;
• 31965, 2,446, XTO, George Federal 21X-19A, Lost Bridge, t7/18; cum 48K after 46 days;
• 33366, 2,940, WPX, Hidatsa North 14-23HZ, Reunion Bay, t8/18; cum 7K 8/18;
• 33396, 3,051, WPX, Hidatsa North 14-23HW, Reunion Bay, t9/18; cum --

Nine permits renewed:

• XTO (4): two Lyla permits and two Roberta permits, all in Williams County
• EOG (3): three Wayzetta permits in Mountrail County
• Petro-Hunt: one State permit in McKenzie County
• Hess: one TI-Beauty Valley in Williams County

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Salmon Fishing -- Old School

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The Great Gatsby and Einstein's Theory of Relativity 

Wow, I am really jazzed. I'm in my Gatsby phase again.

From an earlier post at another blog:

Briefly, J. Gatsby has spent the last five years of his life, ostensibly, trying to "get back" with Daisy, the love of his life. And then this, Chapter 6, about halfway through the book, on page 116, near the bottom of the page. J. Gatsby felt that he had failed up to that point in winning Daisy back. His "friend," his neighbor, the novella's narrator, declares:

    "I wouldn't ask too much of her, "I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

    "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"

    He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

That was the climax. Then begins immediately the downward trajectory of the dramatic arc:

    "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see."

Or as Cher would say, "I will turn back time."

The other day I mentioned again that time is an important theme in The Great Gatsby:

I have watched Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby countless times. It is amazing how much I missed, symbolically. The rain is particularly interesting. So is the scene in which Gatsby nearly knocks over a clock during the awkwardness of his reunion with Daisy.

That bit about the rain and the clock was from Understanding The Great Gatsby, Dalton Gross and MaryJean Gross, c. 1998.

This morning, having randomly blogged that time is relative, wow, a bolt of lightning. Time. Relativity. The Great Gatsby.

Do the dates work?

When was F. Scott Fitzgerald born? How old was he in 1905 - 1920  when Einstein's theory of relativity came out and was being discussed in mainstream media?

Fitzgerald was born in 1896. In 1905, he would have been nine years old, soon to begin middle school, and would have been a senior in high school around 1913. His coming of age years would have been in the 1910s.

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925. It concerns events in 1922. It is suggested that Fitzgerald began thinking about the novel in 1923 -- tabula rasa.

As one example: the Picasso clock obsession (it came later) but was probably part of the whole phenomenon at the time. 

So, now the standard google search: 1920 theory of relativity einstein physics.

And here it is. 

Another dot connected.

Every time I watch the scene where Jay Gatsby almost knocks the clock off the mantel, I will think of a Picasso clock painting and Einstein's theory that led people to talk about turning back time.

See also this post.

See also this post.

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Great Days

Bill Murray -- Hunter S Thompson -- John Prine -- Linda Goes To Mars

Great Days