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The administration released nearly 3 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve last week, bringing the reserves down to their lowest level since February 1983, according to Department of Energy data. About half of the 218.5 million barrels the Department of Energy said it would make available to the market have now left the salt caverns along the Gulf Coast.

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Brother, where for out there shall all this magical natural gas cometh? Associated gas from tight oil wells in the Permian Basin?

Wharton County; 1953

This is Adair; in 1953; he is 38 years old. He's been with Myron Kinley since 1946 and is an old well control hand now, capable of leading off on any sort of job, anywhere in the world. He is with a fella named Mansell Rake, who has been over in Louisiana with Myron on a big, complicated job for Pure Oil, south of Morgan City and when this job In Wharton County, southwest of Houston came in on April 12, 1953. Rake drove over to meet Red to help. Red hurt his right leg by jump

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Refugio; 1930

Refugio is pronounced, (re-FYOO-ri-o); its a county located along the lower Texas Gulf Coastal plains north and slightly east of Corpus Christi, its county seat is the city of Refugio. It is rich in large ranch history (Welders and O'Connors), cattle, cotton, oil and gas. Part of the county to the south lies along Copano Bay and the Aransas Wildlife Refuge, where whooping cranes spend the winter and big redfish can be caught in crystal clear water, then grilled on the half s

Mike

Jul 194 min read

The Guarding of the Gates

What danger lurks, what forms of industrial espionage might occur behind these oilfield entrance gates that require 24 hour, seven days a week surveillance from a team of diligent security specialists living in fortified travel trailers? Are there technological secrets to protect behind those gates, stimulation studies underway to revolutionize the US tight oil phenomena that companies want kept strictly confidential? Nuclear stage frac'ing? Fusion induced perforating?

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Jul 76 min read

It's A Family Affair

This post is not very old, but I am inclined to re-publish it anyway for emotional reasons. At the moment the entire domestic oil industry outside tight shale oil and shale gas is getting slammed hard right now by poor energy policies and a Presidential administration that does not understand long term energy security and conservation of the last of our remaining hydrocarbon resources. It's on a mission to drain America as fast as possible, mostly for exports to foreign count

Mike

Jun 305 min read

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Wharton County; 1953

Refugio; 1930

The Guarding of the Gates

It's A Family Affair

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