"We've" Got A Secret -- Meridian/Davis Refinery Announces "Secret Partner" -- March 1, 2019

Link to The Williston Herald:

The parent company building the nation’s first greenfield refinery since 1976 in North Dakota has secured a silent partner to handle its midstream logistics.

Meridian Energy Group, which is building the Davis Refinery in southwestern North Dakota, announced Wednesday that it had signed a letter of intent with an industry leading firm for midstream logistics support. Midstream generally refers to pipeline companies.

The unidentified company will build, own and operate the crude oil and refined product midstream and logistics facilities for the greenfield refinery, which will allow Meridian to focus on operations inside the Davis plant.

Spirit In The Sky, Norman Greenbaum

Never Would Have Happened Under Previous Administration -- US Approves TransCanada Pipeline, Keeping America Great -- March 1, 2019

Making America great. Link here.

• Mountaineer XPress natural gas pipeline project
• will link the Appalachian basin's natural gas supplies with global markets
• $3.2 billion project
• 170-mile pipeline in West Virginia
• will increase natural gas capacity by 2.7 billion cfpd (333,000 boe)
• approval will allow TransCanada to start partial in-service of its Gulf Xpress Project, a network of seven new compressor stations in KY, TN, and MS
• will significantly increase the reach of low-cost, US-produced NG from the Appalachian Basin
• investment in Gulf XPress: $600 million
• Gulf XPress: additional capacity of 530,000 million cfpd (sic) -- I wonder if that isn't supposed to be 530 million (or 530,000 mcfpd)?

Note this:

In mid-February, TransCanada said it had revised upward its project costs for the Mountaineer XPress project to US$3.2 billion, due to delays in regulatory approvals from FERC and other agencies, higher contractor costs due to unusually high demand for construction resources in the region, inclement weather during construction, and changes in contractor work plans to mitigate delays. 

Something tells me the delays occurred "under" the previous administration.

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For Los Angeles:
February Has Never Been This Cold In "Weather-Recorded" History

Link here.

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For Bismarck, ND:
A Record Cold February

Link here.

From the linked article:

Meteorological winter in Bismarck was the coldest since 1979, according to the National Weather Service. 

Meteorologists measure winter from Dec. 1 to the last day of February. The 2018-19 winter had an average temperature of minus 0.4 degrees, said meteorologist Ken Simosko. 

Bismarck's meteorological winter was the fifth coldest on record, after 1979, 1887, 1875 and record 1936 — which had an average temperature of minus 11.4 degrees.

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Pancakes For Dinner

Rigs Hold Steady In North Dakota; Seven New Permits -- March 1, 2019

Active rigs:

$55.80	3/1/2019	03/01/2018	03/01/2017	03/01/2016	03/01/2015
Active Rigs	67	59	41	35	119

Seven new permits:

• Operators: XTO (4); Whiting (2); MRO
• Fields: Sorkness (Mountrail); Sanish (Mountrail); Chimney Butte (Dunn); 
• Comments: 
• XTO has permits for a 4-well Sorkness pad in section 36-157-93, in Sorkness oil field
• Whiting has permits for a 2-well Oppeboen pad in section 5-152-91 in the Sanish oil field;
• Marathon has a permit for a Gould well in Chimney Butte, section 23-146-94

Six permits renewed:

• Slawson (4): four Wolverine Federal permits, all in McKenzie County
• Kaiser-Francis (2): a Lady4 permit and a Solo permit, both in Stark County

Nine permits reinstated:

• BR: eight Cleetwood permits and one Rollacleetwod permit, all in McKenzie County

Three permits canceled:

• QEP: three MHA permits in Dunn County

It Could Be Colder -- Thank Goodness For Global Warming -- March 1, 2019

We are likely to hit record cold lows this weekend / Monday, here in north Texas.

The "cold" will start tonight, get severe on Sunday, through Sunday night and into Monday morning -- with a wind chill Fahrenheit temperature of 8 degrees Monday morning.

Can one imagine what it would be if it weren't for global warming? Maybe a wind chill of 6 degrees!

The absolute temperature could very well tie the all-time record low.

The middle granddaughter has a soccer game Saturday.

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Amazon To Launch New Grocery Chain

Link here.  Apparently "Whole Paycheck" not panning out as planned. Look for "Whole Paycheck" to restructure, renamed five years from now.

If I were Bezos, I would put the first Amazon-7-11 in Long Island City. 

March 1, 2019

I have a Katie Ledecky page. I may need to add a Hailie Deegan page. Link here.

 

Little Deuce Coupe, The Beach Boys