Keith (Site Publisher)'s Posts - GoEagleFordShale.com2024-03-28T16:54:45ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8chttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/68589840?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://goeaglefordshale.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1lnmmw1af3b8c&xn_auth=noCouple things about GoEagleFordShale.comtag:goeaglefordshale.com,2017-07-25:6447762:BlogPost:949152017-07-25T19:20:17.000ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8c
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">Shaler,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">Now that we are back on the old platform, there are a couple things I'd like to bring to your attention…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">Shaler,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">Now that we are back on the old platform, there are a couple things I'd like to bring to your attention to get back in the groove. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>New Name and Logo Same Site</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">As you may have noticed, our new URL is GoEagleFordForum.com! This change places this website right along with our two other "Go" websites: GoMarcellusShale and GoHaynesvilleShale. Everything on the site (content and members) has remained the same as it was on EagleFordForum.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>County Groups</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Most of the helpful conversations that deal with local happenings occur in a group. </span><font face="helvetica" size="4">Why is this? Because, when a new post is made all the members of that particular county group receive an update. I highly recommend joining and posting local information in the county group of your choice. Many of the groups need a jump start, so if you have some info others may find helpful-please post!</font></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://goeaglefordshale.com/groups" target="_blank">Find your county group</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Invite Others</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">GMS has always primarily grown via word of mouth. People inviting other people to share. Really simple yet really affective! One thing I like about this website is that it has a nice and simple tool for inviting others to join us. You can invite your contacts from your gmail or yahoo email account. Or, you can simply plug in email addresses.</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://goeaglefordshale.com/main/invitation/new" target="_blank">Invite Your Contacts</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">Keith Mauck</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: helvetica;">Publisher</span></p>EagleFordForum.com Updatetag:goeaglefordshale.com,2015-05-26:6447762:BlogPost:833442015-05-26T20:00:00.000ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8c
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #000000;">EagleFordForum Member,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The last 8 years have been quite a ride for the oil and gas industry and for our network. GoHaynesvilleShale, EagleFordForum and GoMarcellusShale have all weathered the ups and downs thrown at it. Despite this, we have succeeded. I have spoken with enough people to know that the network has…</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;" class="font-size-3">EagleFordForum Member,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The last 8 years have been quite a ride for the oil and gas industry and for our network. GoHaynesvilleShale, EagleFordForum and GoMarcellusShale have all weathered the ups and downs thrown at it. Despite this, we have succeeded. I have spoken with enough people to know that the network has left its mark in the shale industry and have shaped the way the shale plays were developed. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Moving forward, I’m looking forward to the future role our network will play in the domestic oil and gas industry. The shale isn’t going anywhere and mineral ownership will only continue to grow. We want to provide a useful and influential website that grows right along with it. It’s along these lines that we have been rethinking how we grow our community. Our conclusion is that now is a good time to change up our approach in order to have the widest reach and most affective platform possible....</span></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://eaglefordforum.com/forum/topics/the-future-of-eaglefordforum" target="_self">Continue reading....</a></span></strong></p>
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<div class="field-name-field-body clearfix"><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn’t the first time that Hondo Railway has experienced an energy boom. But it might be the one with the biggest impact on the 32-year-old company.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is Texas. Oil booms come and go, so there’s a cautious approach to how long it will last, or if it’s here to stay,” says Miles Lee, vice president of operations at Hondo Railway.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Five years ago, the transload and short-line railway had 20 employees and 13,000 feet of track on 25 acres just outside of San Antonio, primarily moving food-grade products such as high fructose sweeteners for companies, including ADM.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, Hondo Railway has more than 100 employees and 85,000 feet of track on 156 acres. “The Eagle Ford boom hit, and we went from moving 2,500 cars to around 15,000 cars each year,” says Lee.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lee is referring to the Eagle Ford Shale gas formation, which has been producing oil and natural gas resources since its discovery in 2008. There are 256 wells seeking the 20.81 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 3.351 billion barrels of oil that is believed to reside in the shale. Hondo Railway has benefited from the boom by hauling sand and drilling mud required for hydraulic fracturing.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hondo, Texas, isn’t even located in the Eagle Ford Shale. In fact, the entire county of Medina is just north of the 3,000-square-mile formation in South Central Texas. But this doesn’t mean that the area isn’t benefiting from the increased production.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a study by the University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development, the Eagle Ford Shale generated $19 billion in revenue in 2011, supported approximately 38,000 full-time jobs in the area, and provided $211 million in local government revenue and $312 million in state revenue. The study projects that by the year 2021, the Eagle Ford Shale could produce close to $62.2 billion in output and up to $34 billion in gross regional products.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“One of the benefits for Hondo is that there are all these trucks coming in and out of our facilities every day,” says Lee. “The workers are buying fuel, spending nights in hotels, and eating in restaurants.”</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, Texas hotel room revenues jumped to $151.3 million in the first quarter of 2012, and areas related to oil and gas production accounted for a third of that growth, according to the Eagle Ford Consortium, a group organized to collaborate and maximize the benefits of the shale development to the region and its communities. Room counts in 22 counties in the Eagle Ford Shale grew by 5.1% in the 12 months ended March 31, 2012. Hotel revenues in those counties soared by more than 34%. Statewide, room counts expanded by 1.5%, and hotel revenues jumped by 8.5% in that time frame.</span></p>
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<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">La Salle County is right in the middle of the Eagle Ford Shale and is home to Eagle Den Suites, a new 80-room hotel in tiny Cotulla, Texas. Three months before the facility opened in June 2012, it was 60% occupied with six-month leases and has been 100% occupied ever since, says hotel manager Celia Avila.</span></p>
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<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Eagle Den Suites is one of three identical properties built by South Ridge Management Property in the last year and aims to provide a temporary home for the influx of oil and gas company workers who are operating in the area. The companies pay $109 to $135 a night for the suites, which include two beds, access to washers and dryers and Internet service, and a popular barbecue area, according to Avila.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“There’s probably 50 to 60 oil companies here now, everything from crane companies to water well drillers. Everybody has gotten involved,” says Avila, a local who moved back to Cotulla after 19 years in San Antonio.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The one-stoplight town has changed drastically since Avila has been away. Its population has swelled from 3,300 to 10,000 in the last three years. “The 18-wheeler big truck traffic here is crazy. The trucks line up from one end of the town to the other,” Avila says. “But there’s work being done around here. The roads are being fixed, and the whole town has embraced it.”</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From Roller-Coaster Seats to Containment Liners</b></span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Embracing change is something that Seth Alberts knows a lot about. He is vice president of Ralph S. Alberts, a family business located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Since 1963, Ralph S. Alberts has made custom molded polymers for use in everything from roller-coaster seats to medical training mannequins.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a member of his local chamber board as well as the economic development board, Alberts began hearing about all the companies benefiting from the development of the Marcellus Shale formation that runs underneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and Ohio. </span></p>
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<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“About five or six years ago when the gas boom started to hit the area, I began thinking about what we could do to get involved without moving out of our comfort zone,” says Alberts. This led to the discovery that there was a need for secondary containment liners to hold the various fluids stored on the drilling sites. Using his background in chemistry, Alberts tweaked an existing formula to develop a heavy-duty, yet flexible, spray-on polymer enclosure to ensure that spills do not contaminate the soil. “Think of it like a spray-in truck bed liner. It’s very similar to that. It’s got integrity and durability properties of the original polymer, but it’s very flexible and can be easily moved.”</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alberts created a separate company, Alberts Spray Solutions, and has 14 employees doing installations for all the major operators in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania. In early 2012, he opened an office in Cambridge, Ohio, which employs 5 people. “As that business continues to grow in 2013, as the Uttica Shale is expected to do, we’ll add more employees,” he says. He’s also in talks to open another office in West Texas.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The economic benefits for Pennsylvania from natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale are already huge and are expected to multiply. A study released by the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy says that production of unconventional oil and gas in the state, including the Marcellus Shale, created 102,668 jobs in Pennsylvania in 2012. That number is expected to increase to 220,635 by 2020 and to 387,360 by 2035.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The same study found that Marcellus natural gas production in Pennsylvania added more than $2.9 billion annually in government revenues in 2012. This figure is expected to rise to more than $9.8 billion annually by 2035.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“In all honesty, I’ve grown up here my entire life, and the economic growth this community has seen in the last three years is astonishing to me. And it’s 100% tied to the gas and oil industry,” Alberts says. “We’re the seventh-fastest growing city in the country, and I’m convinced that if the industry was not here, we’d be struggling like other areas in the country are.”</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A Bustling Restaurant</b></span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Susan Gordon, owner of the WildcatZ Grill in Tioga, North Dakota, knows what it’s like to struggle. The single mom was working two jobs in Newport Beach, California, just to pay bills and raise her family. In January 2012, Gordon moved to Tioga to take over the Wildcatz Grill when the family who owned it accepted a contract to operate an on-site cafeteria at the Hess Corporation, which operates and maintains nearly 150 producing wells in the area.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The 45-seat restaurant and take-out counter does a brisk business, with 10 employees running from tables to kitchen to register to ring up $8 bacon cheeseburgers with names like Wildcat and the Jim Bob. “The menu is small, but it’s the stuff these guys want to eat,” Gordon says about the oil field workers who make up 95% of her business.</span></p>
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<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tioga may not have a WalMart (40 miles away) or a Target (80 miles away), but it sits on the Bakken formation, an oil and gas mega-field that spans 14,000 square miles under North Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The connection between Tioga and the Bakken runs deep—the find was named after Henry Bakken, an area famer who owned the land where the formation was initially discovered.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2001, North Dakota wells produced 31 million barrels of oil, less than 2% of which came from the Bakken. Ten years later, the state generated a record 152 million barrels, and more than 80% of it was Bakken derived. North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producer in the United States behind Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey says that there are at least 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil, but other estimates indicate that it could be four to five times that.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The growth has brought 71,824 workers, including Gordon, to North Dakota. “This is an opportunity to work as hard as I’m willing to. The hours are long, but if you put in the effort, you get something in return,” says Gordon.</span></p>
<p class="NoSpacing"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The biggest concern among the people of Tioga is that this latest energy boom may be a “one-shot deal,” she says. “They’ve had booms here before and people are worried about what happens if things die out. The local people don’t want it to be a ghost town again.”</span></p>
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</div>The EPA's Tainted Fracking Tests (WSJ OpEd)tag:goeaglefordshale.com,2013-01-02:6447762:BlogPost:252932013-01-02T18:24:20.000ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8c
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<h2 class="subhead">The agency's groundwatercontamination finding is undermined by the U.S. Geological Survey.</h2>
<h3 class="byline">By KEITH MAUCK</h3>
<p>It has been four decades since Richard Nixon launched "Project Independence" with the goal of making the United…</p>
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<h2 class="subhead">The agency's groundwatercontamination finding is undermined by the U.S. Geological Survey.</h2>
<h3 class="byline">By KEITH MAUCK</h3>
<p>It has been four decades since Richard Nixon launched "Project Independence" with the goal of making the United States energy independent. All presidents since then have said they shared that goal, yet never has it been within reach as it is today—thanks to domestic natural gas and especially to the extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing. The International Energy Agency estimates that such technologies could allow the U.S. to supplant Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. But, as ever, government regulation may stand in the way.</p>
<p>Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," uses water and trace amounts of chemicals to create tiny fissures in deep-rock formations and coax energy-laden molecules to flow toward the surface. Fracking technology is driving America's oil and shale-gas boom, yet a White House executive order from April directs no fewer than 13 federal agencies to consider new regulations on fracking—even as it is already regulated by the states.</p>
<p>In recent years the federal Environmental Protection Agency has investigated fracking in three locations. In Texas and Pennsylvania, the EPA was unable to establish a link between fracking and groundwater contamination, the main ill effect that critics warn against. (Fracking contamination is the theme of "Promised Land," a movie starring Matt Damon that opened last week.)</p>
<p>But the agency claims to have found a smoking gun at its third test site, in Pavillion, Wyo. There, according to draft findings, EPA investigators found "compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing" appearing at levels "below established health and safety standards."</p>
<p>The Pavillion study involves two water wells drilled by the agency in 2010 to test groundwater quality. Experts from the Wyoming Water Development Commission and elsewhere sharply criticized the EPA's results on several grounds, including that EPA investigators didn't follow their own guidelines on the timeliness of the testing and the purity of the water samples. The federal Bureau of Land Management said that "much more robust" testing would be needed to properly draw conclusions.</p>
<p>So the EPA agreed to test the wells again, in April and May of last year 2012. In October, it claimed again to have found contaminated water. But this time there was a new wrinkle: The U.S. Geological Survey had conducted tests alongside the EPA, and its investigators reported different results. Unlike the EPA, the USGS failed to find any traces of glycols or 2-butoxyethanol, fracking-related chemicals that could cause serious health issues if they entered the water supply at levels the EPA considers contamination.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the USGS found significantly lower concentrations of other materials identified by the EPA—including phenol, potassium and diesel-range organics—which might not have resulted from the fracking at all. The phenols were likely introduced accidentally in the laboratory, for example, and potassium might be naturally occurring or the result of potash contained in the cement used to build the EPA wells.</p>
<p>The USGS also noted that in constructing the monitoring wells, the EPA used a "black painted/coated carbon steel casing," and EPA photographs show that investigators used a painted device to catch sand from the wells. The problem is that paint can contain a variety of compounds that distort test results—so it is poor scientific practice to use painted or coated materials in well-monitoring tests.</p>
<p>After initially neglecting to disclose this information, the EPA eventually acknowledged it, but only while attempting to deflect criticism by releasing more test results and claiming that its data are "generally consistent" with the USGS findings. These actions only muddied the matter and postponed the peer-review process until after Jan. 15.</p>
<p>As the Tulsa-based energy and water-management firm ALL Consulting concluded: "Close review of the EPA draft report and associated documents reveals a number of concerns about the methodology, sampling results, and study findings and conclusions. These concerns stem from apparent errors in sampling and laboratory analysis, incomplete information that makes it difficult to assess the validity of the results, and EPA's failure to seriously consider alternative explanations for the results of its investigation. . . . Taken together, these concerns call into question the validity of EPA's analytical results and their conclusions regarding the sources of the reported contamination."</p>
<p>With no clear connection between fracking and groundwater contamination, it is premature and counterproductive to propose new federal regulations on the practice. Shoddy science should not form the basis of federal policy.</p>
<p>The fracking-facilitated development of shale gas and oil could create two million new jobs and billions in tax revenue over the next two decades, according to the research firm IHS Global Insight. Rather than look for reasons to stand in its way, the federal government should embrace hydraulic fracturing and take full advantage of its economic and security benefits.</p>
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<p><em>Mr. Mauck is publisher of GoMarcellusShale.com.</em></p>
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<p class="articleVersion">A version of this article appeared January 2, 2013, on page A15 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The EPA's Tainted Fracking Tests.</p>Gaining Some Perspectivetag:goeaglefordshale.com,2012-11-21:6447762:BlogPost:233932012-11-21T16:00:00.000ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8c
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84735861?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84735861?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200"></img></a> <span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why don't you join me this Thursday as I attempt to gain some perspective. I’m long over due for a timeout. Perhaps a day, or two, to consider the life that I’ve been blessed to live. How about you? If so, then quit scrutinizing over the recent election; whether your guy won or lost. Forgive your…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84735861?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84735861?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-left"/></a><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why don't you join me this Thursday as I attempt to gain some perspective. I’m long over due for a timeout. Perhaps a day, or two, to consider the life that I’ve been blessed to live. How about you? If so, then quit scrutinizing over the recent election; whether your guy won or lost. Forgive your family member for voting for the other guy. Forget about fretting over the royalties you aren't, or even are, getting. Don't go out shopping for deals on Thanksgiving Day...please, just don't do it. Forget about the pipeline row your yard could really do without. Erase the price of natural gas from your memory for a day.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, forgive the fracktivist for believing Josh Fox and Matt Damon. Forgive your landman for being kinda sneaky. Forgive the mineral owner for being kinda ignorant. Take your bratty teenager to a movie and make sure they leave their phone at home. Call your Mother, she wants to hear from you. Go say hello to your home-bound neighbor. Make a list of things you want to change about yourself. Get on the floor and play with your kids, grandkids, or nieces and nephews. Grab your spouse, look them in the eye and tell them that they are special to you. Take the Bible off your shelf, maybe dust it off, and read about the Giver of all good things in James 1:17. And lastly, read Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation...perhaps, even at the dinner table. And, if these things don’t work? Well, Christmas is just around the corner.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Thanksgiving.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Keith Mauck</span></p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation</b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subject to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins; to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand, which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln, 1863</span></p>LAUNCH: Cline, Wolfcamp And Bone Springs - Permian Basin Completions Congresstag:goeaglefordshale.com,2012-09-20:6447762:BlogPost:208292012-09-20T15:00:00.000ZKeith (Site Publisher)https://goeaglefordshale.com/profile/1lnmmw1af3b8c
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><font>Over two packed days, E&P executives and experts from the most active operators in the Permian will be coming to present their latest results and insights and deliver solutions on the following plays:</font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><b><font>Horizontal: Wolfcamp, Bone Spring & Cline</font></b></span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-2">Analyzing what horizontal completions and frac designs are being used by various operators</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Examining the cost of these horizontal wells vs. the rate of recovery being seen</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Improving the overall economics of a horizontal well in the Permian</span></li>
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<li><span class="font-size-2">Analyzing the type of frac fluids, frac sizes and pumping volumes producer’s are using to complete the wells</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Deducing the extra costs involved in frac design variations to determine if there have been any significant enhancements in production relative to costs</span></li>
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<p><span class="font-size-2"><font>The above is a short summary of the presentations being delivered at the </font><b><font>Permian Basin Completions Congress 2012</font></b><font>; the full <a href="http://www.permian-basin-completions.com/4/agenda/23/agenda/" target="_blank"><b>two-day agenda can be seen <font>here</font></b></a>.</font></span><br/> <span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://american-business-conferences-news.com/SRO-YY98-4M9OME-DIWDV-1/c.aspx" target="_blank"><b><font>Expert Speakers From Major E&P Companies Actively Operating In The Permian Basin</font></b></a><font><b><font>:</font></b></font><font><br/></font></span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Denzil West, <i>VP Operations, </i><b>Reliance Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Oscar Galvis, <i>Bone Spring Project Manager,</i> <b>Chevron</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Randy Nickerson, VP Exploration, <b>Caza Petroleum</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Robert Huitzenga, <i>Chief Drilling & Completion Engineer,</i><b>Cimarex Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Keith Skaar, <i>VP Exploration,</i><b><i> </i>Element Petroleum</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Darrell S. Lohoefer,<i> President, </i><b>Eagle Oil & Gas Co.</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Keith Baker, <i>VP Exploration,</i> <b>Blacksands Petroleum</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Matthew Gallagher, <i>Engineering & Geoscience Manager,</i><b>Parsley Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Kennedy Nwabuoku, <i>Sr. Staff Production Engineer - Wolfcamp Asset, </i><b>EP Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Bob Spiller, President, <b>Spiller Operating Co.</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Joel Stockford,<i> Drilling Manager, </i><b>Murchison Oil & Gas</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Jeff White, <i>VP Operations, </i><b>Diamondback Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Mark Solari, <i>Production Engineer, </i><b>Energen Resources</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>JC Courtney, <i>Production Foreman,</i> <b>Endeavour Energy</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Charles Teague,<i> Division Manager,</i> <b>Texas Rail Road Commission</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Wole Omole, <i>Operations Team Lead - Permian Production, </i><b>Hess Corporation</b></font></span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2"><font>Mitch Meyer,<i> VP Exploration, </i><b>Three Forks Resources</b></font></span></li>
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