LNG From Russia Set To Arrive In Boston Any Day Now -- Just In Time For The Next Polar Vortex -- January 26, 2018

Updates

January 29, 2018: update here. 

Original Post 

See this post -- Massachusetts importing natural gas from Russia. Tanker to arrive this weekend; a second one is scheduled to arrive February 15, 2018. This gives me a chance to re-post my favorite map:

The story is here.

The tanker carrying Russian natural gas that’s been sitting outside of Boston Harbor for days will probably land over the weekend, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Gaselys carries liquefied natural gas originally produced in Siberia, according to vessel tracking data. The ship, poised to dock at Engie SA’s Everett import terminal, would be the first LNG shipment from anywhere other than Trinidad and Tobago in about three years.

“It is expected to be in the port over the weekend,” Luke Pinneo, chief petty officer at the U.S. Coast Guard in Boston, said in a telephone interview.

The delay in bringing the ship into the harbor “is not unusual,’’ according to Pinneo. Inspections can take as long as three days, depending on the time line for getting a Coast Guard boat with a boarding team to it and the specific safety concerns being addressed.

What's unusual is importing natural gas from Siberia when there is ample supply just a few miles to the west.

Sort of reminds me of a Geico commercial.

Reader Has A Question Over At The "Discussion Group" -- January 26, 2018

A huge "thanks" to a reader for using the "discussion group" forum. I haven't seen anyone use that forum in a long, long time. The reader was curious about why a well was put on confidential status after it was fracked, instead of earlier when it was being drilled. For those interested, I posted my thoughts.

EOG Has Permits For Another 6-Well Austin Pad; Twenty Permits Renewed; And That Was All -- January 26, 2018

Active rigs:

$66.24↑↑	1/26/2018	01/26/2017	01/26/2016	01/26/2015	01/26/2014
Active Rigs	57	38	48	156	187

Six new permits:

• Operator: EOG
• Field: Parshall (Mountrail)
• Comments: EOG has permits for a 6-well Austin pad in NWNW 17-154-90

Twenty permits renewed:

• EOG (12: six Sidonia permits; three Liberty LR permits, all in Mountrail County; three Hawkeye permits in McKenzie County
• QEP (4): four Tipi V permits in McKenzie County
• Resource Energy Can-Am (2): two Marauder permits in Divide County 
• Sinclair (2) two Ersa Federal permits in McKenzie County

No DUCs reported as completed.

No permits canceled.

2018 Geico Rock Award Nominee -- Robert Rapier Over At Forbes -- January 26, 2018

How many years has Venezuela been going down its road of self-destruction? Wasn't Hugo Chavez first elected president in 1998? If so, I guess that would be coming up on 20 years.

Apparently Robert Rapier, contributor to Forbes has just come out from under the Geico rock and noticed that: "barring major reforms, Venezuela's oil industry is finished."

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Keystone XL Is Still Doable -- TransCanada CEO

From Bloomberg.

Doable, even with new route. 

Hope springs eternal.

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If This Is True, This Is Brutal

It is being reported that Maxine Waters will be giving the Democratic response to the 2018 State of the Union Address.  Most likely Maxine will become the face of the state of the Democratic Party.

This Natural Gas Graphic Should Get Your Attention -- January 26, 2018

I thought the graphs at this link were striking:

But then I saw this one, the one on the right below, today, via Twitter: