Odds And Ends -- Really Late Night Edition -- Palindromic Friday -- 2-25-22

MRO: Folks following the Bakken are quite aware of MRO and the monster wells they consistently report in the Williston Basin.

Others have noticed. Link here. 

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Pipelines, link here. For the archives:

• Trudeau killed the Trans Mountain pipeline that would have taken Canadian oil from Alberta to the west coast;
• Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline that would have taken Canadian oil from Alberta to the US gulf coast;
• a federal judge killed the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline, West Virginia / Virginia
• the US Supreme Court agreed with a lower court that the DAPL is operating without a legal permit;
• Germany decided decades ago to commit to energy dependency on Russia with approval of Nord Stream 2; and, then killed it;
  
• someday this is all going to look really, really stupid;
• it appears "someday" has already come.

Covid-19: if you thought previous CDC guidelines were confusing, things just got a whole lot worse  today with the new guidelines. Biggest question: why are we still wearing masks in airplanes, perhaps the cleanest air in the world. I can sort of understand terminals except for the fact that crowd density was a whole lot worse at the Super Bowl and no one wore masks. And schools. Really?

Ukraine: has anyone else noticed that the only NATO country flying military missions in eastern Europe is the US, and maybe the UK. Earlier this week, US (and maybe UK) aircraft and drones were flying over the Ukraine. Now, nada, zilch, none. The closest they are getting is over Poland and now Romania. Link to Flightradar24. This appears to be a "strategic retreat."