Locator: 50126SAUDI.
Democratic spokesperson says US no longer #1 power in the world. Okay.
Locator: 50125USAF.
We were assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, 1986 - 1989, primary a/c, the F-111D. Right seat: WSO (weapons system operator).
Now, from wiki and Google Gemini (information from those sources are somewhat confusing and not necessarily accurate and/or current.
The 48th Fighter Wing (48 FW) is part of the United States Air Force's Third Air Force, assigned to Headquarters Air Command Europe and United States Air Forces in Europe.
It is based at RAF Lakenheath, England, near Cambridge, northeast of London.
The 48 FW is the only McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle wing based in Europe which hosts two F-15E Strike Eagle squadrons. [F-15 Eagle and F-15E Strike Eagle designations used interchangeably.]
The wing also hosts two Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II squadrons. The 48 FW was given the name "Statue of Liberty Wing" on 4 July 1954 and remains the only U.S. Air Force unit with both a name and a numerical designation.
48th Operations Group
Locator: 50124AVGO.
The numbers will be staggering.
That doesn't mean the stock price will reflect those numbers.
Current price target:
Link here to Yahoo!Finance from The Street.
Some data points:
Link here to Motley Fool.
Link here to Benzinga.
Dividend: raised its dividend last quarter; no raise in dividend expected today.
Locator: 50123B.
Ecuador:
Focus on dividends:
Is it just me or does it seem we're near a tipping point here? In a good way.
Trump's opposition, on almost any subject:
Operation EPIC FURY: tracked here.
Tehran: Achilles heel -- water -- chatbot -- Tehran water crisis.
Markets:
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Back to the Bakken
Remember all that concern about the aging shale fields becoming more gassy? See RBN Energy below.
WTI: flat overnight.
New wells reporting:
RBN Energy: short-term priorities emerge as global demand for natural gas heats up. Link here. Archived.
The world is hungry for more natural gas. The newly reintroduced Current Policies Scenario from the International Energy Agency (IEA) sees global demand rising from today’s 400 Bcf/d to about 475 Bcf/d by 2050, roughly in line with other notable forecasts from the likes of BP and ExxonMobil.
[75 Bcf/d divided by 20 years = less than 4 Bcf/day increase. That seems incredibly low, considering the "fourth industrial revolution.]
OPEC is even more bullish, predicting demand will reach 540 Bcf/d by midcentury. Any way you slice it, that’s a lot of natural gas. So, where will it come from and what are the biggest issues facing the market? Those are among the major questions addressed at RBN’s recent GasCon 2026 conference and the focus of today’s RBN blog.
Warning: Today’s blog includes some blatant plugs for a newly available replay of our event in Houston.
As we did at the conference, let’s start with a little background about where things stand today.
Global natural gas production in 2024 was a little more than 400 Bcf/d, with the U.S. (green layer in left graph in Figure 1 below) accounting for about 110 Bcf/d, or more than one-quarter of total supplies. Canada’s 20 Bcf/d (red layer) put total North American production at about 130 Bcf/d.
After the U.S., Russia (pink layer) is the next-biggest producer, with the rest supplied by Australia (yellow layer), Qatar (light-orange layer), and several other smaller producers within Other OCED (light-purple layer), Other OPEC (dark-orange layer) and others (blue layer).
But these numbers don’t tell the whole story because some countries — notably the U.S., Russia, Qatar and Australia — produce substantially more gas than they consume. In 2024, U.S. demand for natural gas was 91 Bcf/d (orange bar section at left side of right graph), leaving 13 Bcf/d available for export (blue bar section), primarily as LNG.