Just Say "No" to Wind Farms -- Save The Whooping Cranes

Link here.

"A chap called George Mitchell turned the natural gas industry on its head. Using just the right combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing – both well-established technologies — he worked out how to get gas out of shale, where most of it is, rather than just out of (conventional) porous rocks, where it sometimes pools. The Barnett shale in Texas, where Mitchell worked, turned into one of the biggest gas reserves in America. Then the Haynesville shale in Louisiana dwarfed it. The Marcellus shale mainly in Pennsylvania then trumped that with a barely believable 500 trillion cubic feet of gas, as big as any oil field ever found, on the doorstep of the biggest market in the world.

The impact of shale gas in America is already huge. Gas prices have decoupled from oil prices and are half what they are in Europe. Chemical companies, which use gas as a feedstock, are rushing back from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Mexico. Cities are converting their bus fleets to gas. Coal projects are being shelved; nuclear ones abandoned.

From Carpe Diem. com. 

Overview of Pipelines From Canada to the US

This post serves two purposes: a) to provide an overview of pipeline systems from Canada, with an emphasis on Enbridge; and, b) to remind folks that The Oil Drum, linked at the sidebar at the right, which is an excellent source of information about oil in general. It remains one of my favorite sites.

Dickinson's Crude-By-Rail Oil-Loading Facility: Bakken Oil Express -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here. The website for the CBR oil-loading facility west of Dickinson. First oil shipment is scheduled for October 31, 2011.

Fracking Backlog -- More to the Story? -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

From three different sources -- actually four different sources if you throw in the Red Wing, Minnesota/La Crosse, Wisconsin, angle -- , I am now getting the feeling there may be reasons other than lack of frack teams that may explain the fracking backlog.

Since early this year, the companies have said they would catch up with the fracking backlog by November, but in fact, right now, in October, one out of four wells that come off the confidential list are not completed.

The recent sand/ceramic mix used at the Lucy Hanson well suggests there may be more to this fracking backlog than simply lack of teams.

I will throw this out there, leave it at this, for now, mostly for a time/date stamp if something comes of this.

But I think there's more to the story than lack of fracking teams.

Week 41: October 8 -- October 14, 2011

Mike Filloon's series on the three best oil fields in North Dakota

Update on widening US-85 south of Williston

Comparing the Lodgepole production with the Bakken

Lucy Hanson, east of Williston, huge BEXP well; another link here

Updating the Whiting Wells in Stark County; Date/Stamp a New Lodgepole Well in Williams County

A Hess well with 26,000 bbls in August; not yet fracked

New Bakken record: 444,000 bopd -- August, 2011

Has Newfield been selling Bakken acreage?

Newfield with a huge well; and here

Aerial photo of Williston pointing out activity

Location of Sand Creek Retail Center (Menard's)

The day hell froze over in the Bakken

Update on new Holiday Inn Express in Williston

Mike Filloon: 3-part series -- Bakken activity moving to the McKenzie and Williams counties

Trenton diesel refinery

Why Obama will scuttle the Keystone XL

CLR buys more great Bakken acreage

Harassment, pure and simple

Man-camp to build own waste treatment plant

Takeaway capacity -- pipeline vs rail

COP to split in two

XOM to spend record amount on CAPEX