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Pre-cruise Land Adventure Galápagos Islands
Visit one of the world´s most remarkable destinations - The Galápagos Islands – home to an astonishing variety of endemic species.
Explore the wonders of the Galápagos Islands, home to Darwin´s theory of evolution.
See the famous Galápagos land tortoises in their natural habitat
Stay three nights in a hotel on Santa Cruz Island that offers a luxury eco experience
Enjoy two full-day navigable tours with naturalist guide
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Our pre-cruise Land Adventure allows you to explore even more of your destinations before sailing with Hurtigruten.
Day 1 Guayaquil/Galápagos Islands
Depart your hotel and drive to Guayaquil Airport for the flight to the Galápagos Islands. Upon arrival at Baltra/Galápagos airport, we meet a local representative and board a bus for the short transfer to Itabaca Channel, which separates Baltra Island from Santa Cruz Island. Here, we board a small ferry that crosses the channel’s azure waters to Santa Cruz, a journey that takes about five minutes.
On the other side, we travel through a rural agricultural area surrounded by wild landscapes and many different species of flora and fauna.
See the famous Galápagos land tortoises in their natural environment and learn how private ranches help protect these special creatures and their habitat. Lunch will be served in the highlands.
The well-known Lava Tunnels are another amazing experience. Formed by lava flows from island volcanoes, they extend from the highlands down to the sea. Join an amazing half-hour hike through one of the tunnels to where it gets too small to pass. A naturalist guide will share in detail the story about the origin of these fascinating tunnels.
Afterwards, we continue to our hotel in the town of Puerto Ayora. Once settled, we walk to the nearby Charles Darwin Research Station, which hosts exhibits about the history and development of the Galápagos Islands, and protection of their natural heritage. Native giant land tortoises can also be observed. Many different tortoise species exist in the Galápagos and the station is the only place where most of the species reside at one site.
The afternoon is at your leisure to explore tiny yet picturesque Puerto Ayora and its many shops with local arts and crafts. We later enjoy dinner at the hotel´s cozy restaurant.
Day 2 & 3 Galápagos Islands
Breakfast at the hotel. We have two full days to tour one of the nearby, uninhabited islands by boat. Please note that only one of the four islands listed below will be visited per day:
Bartolomé Island, famous for Pinnacle Rock and Galápagos penguins; South Plaza Island, home to a colony of land iguanas; Santa Fe Island, known for having the islands´ most beautiful coves; or North Seymour Island, considered a microcosm of the entire archipelago.
The visits are regulated by Galápagos National Park and we are notified of permission 30 days prior to the visit. Regardless of the islands we visit, lunch is served onboard the vessel during the tour. Later, we have dinner at the hotel and overnight.
Day 4 Galápagos Islands/Guayaquil
This morning we transfer to Baltra’s airport for the flight to Guayaquil. En route to the airport, we stop at “The Twins” or “Los Gemelos,” two huge volcanic depressions in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island. Upon arrrival in Guayaquil, a local representative will meet you and transfer you to the pier. Embarkation on MS Amundsen.
Please note that due to changing conditions, the order of sights may vary.
The price includes coach-class flights between Guayaquil and Baltra/Galápagos Islands, including current taxes; Galápagos National Park entrance fee; three nights, including full board, at hotel on Santa Cruz Island/Galápagos Islands; and all transfers, excursions and meals as described, including English-speaking naturalist guide.
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Remarks and requirements:
This tour is available as a pre-cruise Land Adventure in combination with your cruise starting or ending in Guayaquil.
The land-based tour Includes walking on uneven terrain and is not suitable for guests with limited mobility. It also entails long stretches of physical activity, including climbing in and out of a boat. The physical condition of participants should be prepared for tropical weather.
Tour date: 04.13.2020-04.17.2020 (The overnight prior to the pre-cruise tour is part of your cruise.)
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Kate Middleton is expecting her first child
Mon, Dec 3 2012
Also tagged: breaking news, British people, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Entertainment news, Entertainment/Culture, Hollywood, hollywood news, House of Windsor, Human Interest, Kate Middleton, Prince, William
HollywoodNews.com: The day has finally come that it has been confirmed that Kate Middleton is expecting her first child with Prince William. The Royal Palace has confirmed that the two are expecting their first child, states TMZ. The palace reportedly commented that she is still in the very early stages of[...]
Kate Middleton debuts new hairstyle
Wed, Nov 28 2012
Also tagged: breaking news, British people, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Entertainment news, Entertainment/Culture, hair, Hollywood, hollywood news, House of Windsor, Human Interest, London, London's Natural History Museum, Publishing, Royalty, Us Weekly
HollywoodNews.com: Everyone is keeping an eye on Kate Middleton and her style, and now there is something new to look at as she has debuted a new hairstyle. Middleton recently stepped out at London’s Natural History Museum with a new style that showed off her new side-swept layers that framed her[...]
Kate Middleton ready to announce a pregnancy?
Mon, Nov 19 2012
Also tagged: breaking news, British people, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Entertainment news, Entertainment/Culture, Hollywood, hollywood news, House of Windsor, Human Interest, Kate Middleton, Prince, RadarOnline, royal couple, Technology, twitter, William, World Wide Web
HollywoodNews.com: Fans of the royal couple have been waiting forever for Prince William and Kate Middleton to announce a pregnancy, and it seems the waiting might soon be done. It is being rumored that the two will be announcing baby news in the next month, states RadarOnline. Middleton has allegedly put[...]
Kate Middleton topless pics photographer identified
Mon, Oct 29 2012
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HollywoodNews.com: It looks like the case of Kate Middleton being photographed topless while at a private home is moving forward as the photographer involved has allegedly been identified. It is now being reported that the French authorities have been given the name of the male who took the pictures, states RadarOnline.[...]
Prince William, Kate Middleton wear wrong traditional outfits to islands
Thu, Sep 27 2012
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HollywoodNews.com: A little royal snafu took place this last week as Prince William and Kate Middleton were visiting the Solomon Islands. The two were reportedly given clothes to wear that were traditional of the islands, but it apparently was the wrong clothing, states Hollyscoop. A spokesperson with the couple commented that[...]
Donald Trump blames Kate Middleton for topless pictures
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HollywoodNews.com: Donald Trump is often saying things that will get him in trouble, and his latest comment is no different as he is blaming Kate Middleton for the topless pictures that were taken and released. Although Middleton was at a private residence when the photos were taken, Trump still thinks she[...]
French court stops publication of topless Kate Middleton pictures
Tue, Sep 18 2012
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HollywoodNews.com: There has been a small victory for Kate Middleton and the Royal Family as a French court has ordered no further publication of the topless pictures of her. The court has reportedly ordered ‘Closer’ magazine to turn over all their digital copies or else they will face a $13,100 daily[...]
More topless Kate Middleton pictures published by Italian magazine
Mon, Sep 17 2012
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HollywoodNews.com: The Italian magazine ‘Chi’ has decided to join in on the topless Kate Middleton scandal and has published more photos of her from her private vacation at a private residence. The magazine ended up publishing a 26-page spread that includes 50 pictures of Kate without her bikini top on, states[...]
‘Closer’ removes topless Kate Middleton pictures from site
Sat, Sep 15 2012
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HollywoodNews.com: It looks like ‘Closer’ might be a little worried about the legal actions against them as they have decided to remove the topless Kate Middleton pictures from their site. The French magazine has decided to remove the pictures although they previously defended their choice to publish the controversial images that[...]
Editor defends publishing topless Kate Middleton pictures as “beautiful”
Also tagged: Awards Movies News Award, breaking news, British people, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, editor, Entertainment news, Entertainment/Culture, Hollywood, hollywood news, House of Windsor, Human Interest, Kate Middleton, Laurence Pieau, News Hollywood Awards, PRINCESS, The French magazine, the princess
HollywoodNews.com: Topless pictures of Kate Middleton were recently published by the French magazine ‘Closer,’ and now the editor of the magazine has spoken out to defend their decision to publish the pictures that were taken while Kate and William were vacationing at a private residence. Laurence Pieau has reportedly commented that[...]
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Terre d'Hermes Eau de toilette set
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The strength of citrus fruits and peppers combined with a note of flint reveal the trace of earth.
The Terre d’Hermes gift set comprises one 100 ml eau de toilette spray, one 15 ml eau de toilette spray and one 40 ml hair and body shower gel.
Eau de toilette:
Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Limonene, Hydroxycitronellal, Citronellol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Linalool, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Evernia Prunastri (Oakmoss) Extract, Geraniol, Citral, Farnesol.
Hair and body shower gel:
Aqua (Water), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Propanediol, Dipropylene Glycol, Parfum (Fragrance), PPG-26-Buteth-26, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Ceteareth-60 Myristyl Glycol, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids, BHT, Chlorphenesin, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Limonene, Citronellol, Hydroxycitronellal, Glycerin, Disodium EDTA, Hexyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citric Acid, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Sodium Hydroxide, Ethylhexylglycerin, CI 19140 (Yellow 5), CI 15985 (Yellow 6).
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Mother’s smoking affects baby’s DNA
Hippocratic Post | 31st December 2018 | Fertility, Sexual Health, Women's Health | No Comments |
Smoking during pregnancy causes chemical changes to a baby’s DNA that affect its risk of smoking-related conditions in adulthood, a study has found.
The research, led by scientists at Imperial College London and the University of Oulu in Finland, analysed data from more than 18,000 people in several countries, including the UK, US and Australia, to study the impacts of maternal smoking on cardiovascular health.
Their findings are published in the Lancet’s journal EBioMedicine and are the first to uncover a mechanism for exactly how smoking during pregnancy may have an impact on the development of disease over the life-course – by affecting the DNA without changing the genetic ‘code’ itself.
Instead, smoking can add or remove chemical groups attached to the outside of the DNA – called ‘epigenetic’ tags, from the Greek word ‘epi’ meaning on or above the DNA. According to the team, these epigenetic changes found in people whose mothers smoked while they were in the womb, or in current smokers, are strongly linked to smoking-related disease risk factors, including adult obesity.
“Our study shows compelling evidence that changes in epigenetic markers may persist over the lifetime of an individual,” said Professor Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, from Imperial’s School of Public Health, and who led the research group.
Smoking during pregnancy can lead to premature birth and low birth weight, as well as predisposing the child to higher risk for cardio-metabolic risk factors in later life, but the exact mechanisms underlying these longer-term effects were unclear. Yet despite the known risks, it is estimated that worldwide more than half of women (53%) who smoke daily continue to smoke during pregnancy.
Professor Jarvelin added: “These findings are important for health policy makers to further draw attention towards increasing awareness on smoking cessation programs and for better prevention strategies in maternity clinics and health centres.”
Inside our cells, the DNA can be regulated by adding or removing markers to the DNA, like chemical sticky notes, through a process called DNA methylation. These epigenetic changes can alter how certain regions of DNA are read and copied, so affect the activity of key genes.
In the latest study, researchers focused on methylation of a gene called GFI1, known to be linked with smoking.
Using data from 22 population-based studies from Europe, the US and Australia, the team looked at the link between maternal smoking and epigenetic changes in a number of regions of the gene.
They identified lower DNA methylation of GFI1 in those who smoked or whose mother smoked while they were pregnant.
According to the researchers, these epigenetic changes are associated with increased body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and blood lipids levels in adulthood, meaning exposure to cigarette smoking in the womb ultimately increases a person’s risk for a range of health conditions in adulthood, including diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Priyanka Parmar from the University of Oulu, said: “Such epigenetic loci might serve as objective biomarkers of past environmental exposures that could be used for preventive health measures. This discovery provides a strong foundation for further work to unravel emerging smoking epigenetic markers with downstream detrimental health outcomes.”
Cigarette smoking accounts for an estimated six million deaths each year and even former smokers are at long-term risk of cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer and stroke.
The researchers add that while their work highlights an underlying epigenetic component for maternal smoking exposure and disease risk, the size of the effect and exactly how much it increases a person’s risk is unclear. The team now hopes to explore more genetic regions linked with maternal smoking exposure and disease risk, highlighting that their work focused on just six genetic markers out of a potential 6000.
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Marco Silva hands warning to United ahead of league meeting
May 15, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton boss Marco Silva has handed a warning to Manchester United ahead of the weekend’s Premier League meeting. The Toffees have been in impressive form in their home patch in the past month and Silva believes the team are capable of getting the better of United when they make the Merseyside trip on Sunday.
In a report covered by Sky Sports, Silva said that the Toffees have a great respect for the forthcoming opposition but expects his team to produce a strong performance against them, he said: “Even if we have big respect for Man United, with the quality they have, not just individual quality but as a team also, it’s up us playing at home. I’m 100 per cent sure if we’re at our best level, we’ll be tough for them. I don’t have doubts about that. If we can reach the same level we played the last three home games, it will be really tough for them and it’s something I want, it’s my desire, our desire as a team, to see again at Goodison our team playing at that level.”
Everton manager unperturbed with Idrissa Gueye link with Manchester United
April 27, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton boss Marco Silva has said that he has no concerns with the ongoing speculation linking Idrissa Gueye with a probable move to Manchester United. The Senegal international has been the standout performer in the Toffees midfield for the past few seasons and his consistency has supposedly caught the attention of several European clubs including Manchester United.
Speaking in a press conference, Silva stressed that he has nothing to say about the speculation regarding the Senegalese’s future and would rather concentrate on the proceedings on the playing field, he said: “It’s new to me. No concerns about that. All the speculation is in the media and will come in the next few days or weeks. It’s something natural. I’m not here to answer about the possible rumours.”
Marco Silva speaks on transfer situation of Andre Gomes
Everton manager Marco Silva has acknowledged that the club are yet to make a decision over the future of Andre Gomes. The Portuguese midfielder has been impressive since making the season-long loan from Barcelona last summer but the Toffees have yet to finalise a permanent move for his services.
Speaking to reporters, Silva said that the club are working closely to cement a permanent deal for the Portugal international, although the final outcome could wait until the end of the campaign, he said: “We already have (an idea). Of course, when I am speaking to him, we have to say what we can say in this moment. To be 100% honest with you, we did nothing yet about the situation because all of our focus is on the season. But I am working with Marcel, we are planning everything, and with time – which is different to last season. We maybe know more than you about the Andre position and all these things, but all we can say to you, is what he said.”
Idrissa Gueye refusing to give up on Paris Saint-Germain move
March 2, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye appears determined to part ways with the club during the summer after failing to do so during the winter transfer window. The Senegal international had been the subject of multiple transfer bids from Paris Saint-Germain last month but the Toffees made clear that the midfielder was not available at any price.
As such, Gueye was left extremely disappointed with the situation and he has now opened up regarding the same in an exclusive interview with L’Equipe. Speaking to the French publication, Gueye admitted that he has the dream of playing for an elite team in the Champions League and that was not fulfilled with Les Parisiens last month.
Marco Silva says Everton carried on their desired image against Manchester City
February 23, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton manager Marco Silva has said that his team carried on the desired club image during the recent 2-0 Premier League defeat at the hands of Manchester City. The Merseyside outfit could not restrict the Citizens from taking maximum points in midweek but they still received a positive feedback from the faithful watching after giving their best against the reigning Premier League.
Speaking in a press conference at USM Finch Farm, Silva has admitted that he was pleased with the team’s overall showing against the Mancunian giants and he wants a similar kind of performance when they make the trip to Watford for the weekend fixture, where they will be aiming to return to winning ways.
Marcel Brands updates on Everton’s transfer plans
February 5, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton’s director of football Marcel Brands has indicated that the Toffees don’t have ‘big plans’ of strengthening the squad during the January transfer window. The Merseyside outfit were closing the gap to the top six by the end of November but they have since gone through a lean run of form which has dropped them to the bottom half of the table.
Owing to this, there has been speculation linking the Toffees with multiple players especially in the forward department but Brands has said that the chance of pursuing recruits in the window remain minimal, he quipped: “We don’t have big plans. It’s a very difficult period to bring players in. We don’t want to let our best players go, also other clubs don’t. I’m more focused on the summer window than the January window. If we sell or loan players, then maybe we have to do something, and if we do something, it has to be good.”
Marco Silva praises Everton’s character after Burnley mauling
January 8, 2019 indexUncategorized
Everton manager Marco Silva has hailed the character of the Toffees squad after they secured comfortable 5-1 triumph over Burnley on the road. The Merseyside outfit were given a hiding last weekend after they suffered an embarrassing 6-2 league defeat to Tottenham Hotspur but they managed to make amends with an easy win against the Clarets.
Speaking after the game, Silva was elated with the performance of the team and welcomed the fan support at Turf Moor following the dampening home loss to Spurs, he said: “The first thing I’d like to say is this is for our fans and our players. The fans welcomed our players before the match, which is fantastic after a tough result on Sunday. And the players as well, they deserve this. It was a good win for us and now is the moment to rest and prepare for the other quick games.”
Brazil coach heaps praise on Marco Silva for Richarlison’s development
December 7, 2018 indexUncategorized
Brazil assistant manager Xavier Cleber has heaped praise on manager Marco Silva for aiding the development of Richarlison into a top-class prospect for club and country. The attacker first worked under Silva at Watford last term but their association reached an abrupt end after the Portuguese was sacked from the head coach position.
However, the Brazilian managed to reunite Silva at Everton after the offer came by during the summer and he has since not looked back with six league goals from just 10 appearances. Meanwhile, he has also made the step up to the national side with good effect and Cleber, who has watched him in close quarters happened to heap praise on the Toffees head coach.
Dean Souness predicts Richarlison will move on from Everton
November 20, 2018 indexUncategorized
Former Liverpool star Dean Souness has said that he is a keen admirer of Richarlison but does not believe the Brazilian will stay with Everton for the long-term. The 21-year-old only joined the Toffees from Watford last summer but he has since made genuine progress, which has already earned him his maiden cap with the Brazilian national team.
In a report covered by The Times, Souness highlighted that the Toffees are finally playing the football to please the supporters after spending intelligently during the previous transfer window. He added to reserve special praise for Richarlison and feels the attacker could join a bigger club, should he find the consistency in his game.
Marco Silva Delighted to Welcome Yerry Mina Back from Injury
October 17, 2018 indexUncategorized
Everton manager Marco Silva has claimed that the fitness position of Yerry Mina does provide him with a lot of issues in terms of selection, but he is glad to have such a selection headache for the time being. After having struggled to name a consistent defensive line so far this season, Silva is now looking forward to a selection headache in this position. Everton have had numerous changes in the defence due to the elements like injuries and suspension. Phil Jagielka has been unavailable for the last three matches after getting a suspension, while Michael Keane was unavailable for up to 4 weeks due to an injury. Kurt Zouma came into the backline as the club’s new signing – on loan from Chelsea.
In recent matches, however, Keane and Zouma have been able to form a great partnership in the centre of defence and Everton travel to the King Power Stadium looking for three points. Now, Everton also have the availability of Mina, who trained with the squad and is looking to make his comeback just after the international break. Silva claimed that Zouma and Keane have been playing well while the return of Mina and Jagielka makes it a competitive position in the defence. Everton have had an indifferent first few weeks in the 2018-19 campaign.
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F2B-Mexico: Visa Bulletin Predictions
Family Visa Bulletin: February 2020 Analysis and Predictions
Mexico - January 2020 Visa Bulletin
What does Immigration Planner predict?
Our latest predictions for the Final Action Dates of F2B for 🇲🇽Mexico.
Children of Green Card holders who are adults, but not married.
F2B, Mexico – Final Action Dates Predictions FY2019 – FY2021:
Oct 2019 Aug 1, 1998
Nov 2019 Aug 22, 1998
Dec 2019 Aug 22, 1998
Jan 2020 Aug 22, 1998
Feb 2020 Sep 15, 1998
Mar 2020 Oct 22, 1998
Apr 2020 Nov 22, 1998
May 2020 Jan 1, 1999
Jun 2020 Feb 1, 1999
Jul 2020 Mar 15, 1999
Aug 2020 Apr 15, 1999
Sep 2020 May 22, 1999
Oct 2020 Jun 22, 1999
Nov 2020 Aug 1, 1999
Dec 2020 Sep 8, 1999
Jan 2021 Oct 15, 1999
Feb 2021 Nov 15, 1999
Mar 2021 Dec 22, 1999
Apr 2021 Jan 22, 2000
May 2021 Mar 1, 2000
Jun 2021 Apr 8, 2000
Jul 2021 May 15, 2000
Aug 2021 Jun 22, 2000
Sep 2021 Jul 22, 2000
Oct 2021 Aug 22, 2000
Nov 2021 Oct 1, 2000
Dec 2021 Nov 8, 2000
Jan 2022 Dec 15, 2000
Feb 2022 Jan 15, 2001
Mar 2022 Feb 22, 2001
Apr 2022 Mar 22, 2001
May 2022 May 8, 2001
Jun 2022 Jun 8, 2001
Jul 2022 Jul 15, 2001
Aug 2022 Aug 22, 2001
Sep 2022 Sep 22, 2001
Don’t see your Priority Date? Want to know when your Interview will take place? Get more details with Immigration Planner.
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What is the latest?
Visa Bulletin Date: Feb 2020
Chargeability: Mexico
Final Action Date: Sep 15, 1998
Movement: +3 weeks
After a two-month pause in Dec '19 and Jan '20, Feb '20 is showing advancement again. Fiscal Year 2019 has been the best of the last 20 years for F2B - Mexico, and we had a good start of Fiscal Year 2020 with a solid advancement in both October and November 2019. Times are generally still better for F2B-Mexico as 5 of the last 6 years (2016 being the exception) having been above average.
Note: U.S. immigration agencies ‘Fiscal Year’ is from October to the following September. It is different from a ‘Calendar’ year. For example Fiscal Year 2018 is from October 2017 to September 2018, and Fiscal Year 2019 is from October 2018 to September 2019.
Last Six
Feb 2020 Sep 15, 1998 +3 weeks
Jan 2020 Aug 22, 1998 None
Dec 2019 Aug 22, 1998 None
Nov 2019 Aug 22, 1998 +3 weeks
Oct 2019 Aug 1, 1998 +4 weeks
Sep 2019 Jul 1, 1998 +4 weeks
For other F2B areas see All Countries and the Philippines.
I am going through adjustment of status, what else applies to me?
Applicants going through Adjustment of Status are often allowed to use the ‘Filing Date’ of the Visa Bulletin to determine when they are allowed to file Form I-485. Here is the latest:
May 15, 1999 +3 weeks ✔︎ Yes, the Filing Date can be used
Historically, how long did it take for F2B-Mexico applicants to become ‘current’?
This is how long it took for prior F2B-Mexico applicants to have their priority date become current, plus our prediction for the next few years:
If you can, should you ‘opt-out’ of F1 right now?
When sponsors who were Green Card holders become U.S. Citizen, their over-21-year-old unmarried children are moved from F2B to F1. But these applicants can also ‘opt-out’ from F1 and stay in F2B. Should they? That is what we are trying to help applicants determine here:
Does F1 have an advantage over F2B? Yes
Should applicants 'opt-out' of F1? No
Where is F1 compared to F2B (in Months)?
Last update? February 2020
This is how F1 compared to F2B historically, and our prediction for the next few years:
When will the Interview be scheduled?
The process of scheduling the interview is initiated by U.S. immigration agencies when the following two requirements are met:
The applicant’s Priority Date is ‘current’ when compared to the relevant ‘Final Action Date’
The applicant’s Green Card Case is ‘interview-ready’ (also called ‘case complete’ or ‘documentarily qualified’, meaning that all the proper Forms, Evidence, and Fees necessary to make a decision on the Green Card Application have been received by U.S. Immigration Agencies).
Being ‘current’ means that the applicant’s Priority Date (which is when Form I-130 was filed) is ‘earlier’ than the relevant Final Action Date. If the relevant Final Action Date is January 1st 2018, then applicants with a Priority Date ‘earlier’ (that is up to December 31st 2016) are said to be current.
The relevant Final Action Date refers to the Final Action Date that applies to applicants based on their preference classification (F1, F2A, F2B, F3, F4) and countries of birth (Mexico, All Countries, …).
The month when the applicant’s Priority Date is current, U.S. Immigration agencies look for an available Interview slot in the month after next (if the applicant’s priority date becomes current in January, then they will start looking for slots in March). How long applicants wait depend on how busy the U.S. Consulate or USCIS Field office is.
What happened during Fiscal Year 2018?
Fiscal Year 2018 refers to the period from October 2017 to September 2018. The following graph compares the last 20 years of the Visa Bulletin with Fiscal Year 2018 (represented by the annotated line). Fiscal Year 2018 was one of the best of the last 20 years for F2B-Mexico:
When will Immigration Planner update its predictions?
We expect to update our predictions the day after the next Visa Bulletin is released. Our best guess as to when we will update these predictions is as follows:
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4 Lessons for Startups From the United Technologies Breakup and the End of the Conglomerate Era
Here's how growing companies can create top shareholder value.
By Robert GlazerFounder, Acceleration Partners, speaker, and author of 'Performance Partnerships'@robert_glazer
Conglomerates were all the rage in the 1990s, as companies from Tyco to GE gobbled up businesses though aggressive mergers and acquisitions and integrated horizontally to handle a wide range of customer needs. Back then, the strategy looked brilliant; today, not so much.
Last week, United Technologies (UTX) announced that the company is breaking itself into three, separating out its Otis and Carrier divisions from the core business. In doing so, UTX is following other industrial companies -- including DuPont, GE and Honeywell -- in undoing the era of mega conglomerates.
This begs the question: What has changed, and what does it mean for businesses today? The short answer is that today's market is more demanding and segmented than ever before, and that mega corporations can't keep up.
Here's what growing companies can learn from watching the big guys fall down on the job of creating top shareholder value.
1. It's hard to be all things to all people.
Before this move, United Technologies was making everything from helicopters to elevators, airplane engines and HVAC systems. That's a broad range of technology to keep track of. Splitting the company up will make it possible for each new business to focus on its core area, set appropriate priorities and ultimately make the best decisions for each unique set of customers.
This statement by the company's chairman and chief executive, Gregory J. Hayes, says it all: "Our decision to separate United Technologies is a pivotal moment in our history and will best position each independent company to drive sustained growth."
I know that in our own business, when we decided to scale back the number of services we offered and focus on a few core areas instead, our growth rate doubled within the next six months. We had underestimated the real costs and distractions of being in many different businesses.
2. Economies of scale are no longer paying off.
Historically, many mega conglomerates came into being to take advantage of bulk buying and shared resources. The rationale was cost savings and reduced overhead -- but operational costs have come way down over time.
Cloud-based technology has reduced the need for companies to invest in servers and other hardware, which used to be a major expense. And many non-core functions can now be outsourced, including payroll, human resources, training, travel and information technology. In fact, the majority of our operational expenses at Acceleration Partners are on a per head or per seat basis today, there are very few fixed cost investments that we make.
Finally, marketing has moved away from big-budget print ads to online advertising, and sales are increasingly conducted online.
3. Specialization sells.
Customers -- including business-to-business customers -- increasingly use the internet to find exactly what they want at the price they want to pay. No longer blindly trusting of the biggest brands or best-known names, people today are looking for experts. They want more control and more choices than most giant companies are willing or able to provide.
Look at what has happened to television. More and more households today are cutting the cord on cable service, unwilling to pay for packages that include a lot of channels they don't want. Instead, they are choosing to purchase only the apps and shows they want directly from content providers such as HBO and Hulu.
Similarly, in our industry, the agency of record (AOR) concept in which marketing agencies sell large integrated projects and then find other firms to deliver that work and mark up those services is quickly becoming obsolete.
4. Smaller organizations are more nimble.
The pace of business today is fast and getting faster. Large, bulky bureaucracies simply can't keep up.
Look at how quickly Uber disrupted the entire U.S. taxi business. Markets evolve quickly, and companies need to be lean and nimble, not bogged down in the internal politics and exhaustive procedures so common to mega corporations.
It's also way easier today to be small, since businesses can team up via a concept we at Acceleration Partners call "Performance Partnerships" -- making deals with other companies to supply non-core functions, while collecting a commission or referral fee. A company can outsource marketing and sales, for example, or pass off the hassle of worrying about delivery and fulfillment -- while keeping all its most critical functions in-house. As a study by Bain Capital has shown, companies benefit most when they divest themselves of non-core businesses and focus their time and capital on growth areas.
The bottom line is that today's business landscape is no longer rewarding generalists -- those companies that provided just-OK goods or services across a wide swath of areas. Companies today need to be best-in-class, responsive and 100 percent focused on the customer. That is the blueprint for success going forward.
Published on: Dec 3, 2018
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The stables, which are faced in the local Carr stone from Snettisham, are in fact the second set built by Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton and were erected between 1733 and 1735. The first set had blocked the southerly views from the Hall and were therefore demolished.
The interior of this imposing building was as carefully considered as the house, with superbly constructed brick vault ceilings supported on timber pillars. The Stables were planned to house eighty horses of different qualities, the most valuable having their own stalls, whilst the coach horses would share.
You can visit a traditional tack room and see some of the original wooden stalls in the stable block where Norfolk by Design will be showcasing art, design and craft from around the eastern region from May 1st to September 29th, 2019.
More about NORFOLK BY DESIGN
The west stable block now houses the Model Soldier Museum, the Gift shop and the Stables Café.
Plenty of lovely things to choose from in the Gift Shop. Do pop in.
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State Unemployement Rate Drops Slightly
11:44AM / Tuesday December 24, 2013
BOSTON – The state's unemployment rate trended slightly downward for November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But for the first time in some years, it's shifted above the national unemployment rate.
The seasonally adjusted statewide November unemployment rate, released on Dec. 19, was 7.1 percent, down 0.1 of a percentage point over the month and up 0.4 of a percentage point over the year. The statewide seasonally adjusted jobs estimate showed a 6,500-job gain in November following a revised gain of 9,400 jobs in October.
The preliminary estimates put the unadjusted unemployment rate at 6.6 percent, down 0.2 of a percentage point over the month. Over the year, the statewide unadjusted rate was up 0.4 of a percentage point from the November 2012 rate of 6.2 percent.
Pittsfield's unadjusted rate was 7.7 percent, with more than 1,700 of the city's 22,664-member labor force out of work; North Adams' stood at 8.7, with 592 out of 6,822 out of work. For the Pittsfield Metropolitan area, including surrounding towns from Cheshire to Windsor to Washington, the jobless rate was slightly lower at 7.2 but still above last year's November rate of 6.6.
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported on Tuesday that seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates for November were down in 15 areas, up in five areas, and unchanged in two areas.
More labor information here.
Ocean State Job Lot, Tractor Supply to Open in North Adams
By Tammy Daniels
iBerkshires Staff
12:08PM / Wednesday May 22, 2013
An Ocean State Job Lot is expected to move into the former Walmart store along with two other tenants.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Closeout retailer Ocean State Job Lot has signed a purchase and sales agreement for the old Walmart building on Curran Highway.
The chain expects to hire for 30 to 40 jobs and will sublet a section of the building to Tractor Supply Inc., with both operations opening in the fall, pending permitting.
The location will be the 46th in Massachusetts for the North Kingstown, R.I.-based chain, which has several stores in the Springfield area. It has 109 stores total with 4,000 employees in New England and New York, and annual sales of more than $540 million.
Tractor Supply, a farm and ranch retailer, operates more than 1,000 stores nationwide with the closest in Pittsfield's Allendale section and in Bennington, Vt.
Walmart constructed the 94,000-square-foot building at 830 Curran Highway 20 years ago at the site of the former Coury's Drive-In. It relocated two weeks ago to a new 160,000 square foot "super center" a mile or so south.
Ocean State will take up 40,000 square feet of the building for operations and storage; Tractor Supply will occupy 27,000. The plans will go before the Planning Board for permitting on June 10.
Ocean State's head of marketing, David Sarlitto, said the area was a good fit for the chain, which looks for right-priced, retail-based real estate that can be readily repurposed in good shopping locations. Walmart, too, has been aggressive in selling off vacant locations to other businesses.
"Massachusetts has done pretty well for us," he said, adding that Ocean State had been aware of the Walmart building's upcoming vacancy. "We've been talking to them for quite a while for their plans, and the price was right."
Ocean State's store size varies from about 19,000 square feet to mid-50,000s, said Sarlitto. The new North Adams location is about right in the middle. "I think this one is right in the sweet spot."
There are still some elements to be worked out with the city and the agreement but the number of inquiries the store was getting about a possible opening led to Tuesday's announcement.
There also is the likelihood of a third operation going into that location, since some 27,000 square feet would still be available, but Sarlitto said there was nothing he could specifically say at this point.
According to the retailer, Ocean State sells brand-name, first-quality merchandise at closeout prices, including household goods, apparel, pet supplies, seasonal products (gardening, pool supply, outdoor), and kitchen pantry staples. The chain buys overstocks and discontinued items.
Sarlitto said the store carries everything from $2,000 pellet stoves to 39 cent Pez dispensers, and if they could sell a 747, they'd carry that, too.
As one example, the chain recently bought all the excess cleaning equipment from the BP oil spill in the Gulf. "We now own more hazmat suits than any store in North America," said Sarlitto.
The company plans two donations to area organizations to coincide with its North Adams store opening through its Charitable Foundation: a tractor-trailer load of food to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts with distributions to local food pantries, and the sponsorship of Honor Flight New England, which flies Massachusetts-based World War II veterans to visit the WWII Memorial dedicated to their service in Washington, D.C.
Mayor Richard Alcombright called the opening good news for the city.
"I think these are two national, regional retailers that are both strong within their markets," said Alcombright, who figured that once the building was fully occupied, it would mean 70 to 80 full and part-time jobs. "I think it's a good fit for the area, the price points are there for the people to shop.
"They create another bit of an anchor and destination post with Walmart."
The addition of Ocean State and Tractor Supply, just down the road from the Walmart Super Center, adds to the idea of creating a "shopping destination" along the Curran Highway corridor that officials hope will continue to draw more anchor stores and spill over to the smaller unique stores and restaurants in the downtown.
In a statement, the mayor had said, "We are a city that's committed to being business friendly and are focused on the positive economic development and goodwill initiatives that Ocean State Job Lot can bring to our community."
Sarlitto said the goal was to open by October, sooner if possible.
"We're hoping step it up as fast as we can," he said. "I think it will work out well."
Updated at 3:25 p.m. to add mayor's comments.
Telemarketer Signs Lease On Historic Pittsfield Building
iBerkshires
07:21PM / Monday April 08, 2013
Updated: April 9, 2013 at 1:27 with information from Premium Marketing Enterprises founder Mike Eitelberg.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A business-to-business telemarketing company is leasing the historic Wollison-Shipton building on North Street and bringing at least a half-dozen new jobs.
Premium Marketing Enterprises Corp. signed a least last week to occupy office space in the 125-year-old building. The company, established in 1998, connects businesses in the technical, software and insurance fields by generating leads. The company already works with agencies such as Travelers Insurance and Nationwide.
"It's direct contact marketing. We're not calling people at their home. We're connecting business to business," founder Mike Eitelberg said on Tuesday.
The company was formerly headquartered in Kingston, N.Y., but Eitelberg recently moved to the Berkshires full time and is bringing the business with him. There will still be a presence in Kingston but "we're leaning more with an emphasis on Pittsfield."
With a new office that can fit 12 employees, the company has already hired four people to staff its North Street location and is looking to bring on a few more in the next few months. Eitelberg said he seeing the business growing as it delves more into the technical fields.
Eitelberg said the jobs are "median" income in a "professional work environment" with the opportunity for upward momentum.
"It is significantly above the minimum wage job around here," he said.
He chose Pittsfield in part because the office space, which is being leased by Financial Firebird Corp., has controlled costs and the city has the potential work force he needs to grow the company. The city offers a lower "cost of doing business" with the rental space.
Eitelberg said the company opened a small office in the building initially just to get a few workers in and on Friday, they will be moving into the larger space.
The Shipton building was opened in 1888.
Original story published on April 8, 2013 at 7:21 p.m.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A telemarketing company is leasing the historic Wollison-Shipton building on North Street.
Premium Marketing Enterprises Corp. has signed a lease to occupy the 125-year-old building. The company, established in 1998, provides "business-to-business telemarketing" for commercial insurance agencies such as Travelers and Nationwide.
The company has recently grown by "providing prospecting services and lead generation campaigns to the technology and software industry."
It is unclear what the company will do in the newly leased space and a phone call was not immediately returned.
The building is being leased by Financial Firebird Corp., the building's leasing agent. The Shipton building opened in 1888.
To read the full release click here.
North Adams City Hall Seeking Part-Time Planner
05:40PM / Wednesday March 13, 2013
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is looking for a part-time planner to help with the completion of the master plan and in implementing it.
Mayor Richard Alcombright had stated his intention last month to fill the post as soon as possible. He said a planner will be essential to bringing the city's zoning and ordinances into alignment with the master plan and in researching and writing grants.
The city hasn't had a master plan in some 40 years. The mayor has said he wants to put economic and community development in the forefront, and putting more support into the community development office will be necessary to achieve the master plan's goals.
The city hopes to use the comprehensive plan to access state and federal grant funding for projects. The position itself will be funded in part by Community Block Grant Funding. The salary is negotiable, according to the posting.
The job is listed as being 20 hours at first, with the likelihood of growing into a permanent full-time position with the next year. The individual will work with Community Development Director Michael Nuvallie.
According to job posting on BerkshireJobs.com, the planner will be expected to coordinate with the city's Planning and Zoning boards and take on addditional responsibility of projects including "neighborhood revitalization strategies, economic development planning, and bike path planning."
The candidate needs a master's degree in planning or five years in a relevant profession, and preferrably experience with a wide range projects, from enerty efficiency to trail planning to GIS mapping. Deadline to apply is April 5.
North Adams Walmart Hiring for New Supercenter
11:55AM / Friday March 01, 2013
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Walmart is holding a job fair on Wednesday, March 6, to hire for the new Walmart Supercenter being constructed on Curran Highway.
The company is expected to hire some 85 associates. According to store manager Alexis Bartos, the openings will be for both full- and part-time associates.
Previous reports put the total number of workers needed for the new 160,000 square foot structure at about 300. The more than 170 employees at the current store, also on Curran Highway, were to move to the new location without having to reapply for their jobs.
"We are excited that relocating our store will bring additional jobs with great career opportunities to the area," said Bartos.
The new Supercenter is twice the size of the current Walmart and includes a grocery, deli, bakery, expanded electronics section, garden center, pharmacy and vision center.
The hiring event will take place Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the existing store located at 830 Curran Highway.
Walmart said it provides a benefits program to eligible full- and part-time associates, including a variety of health and well-being benefits. Walmart also offers eligible associates matching 401(k) contributions of up to 6 percent of pay, discounts on general merchandise, an Associate Stock Purchase Program and company-paid life insurance. Additionally, eligible associates receive a quarterly incentive based on store performance.
The majority of new associates will begin work in April to help prepare the store for its grand opening.
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Significance of the Month of Shrawan in Nepal
Contributed by Dipa Rai
A holy pilgrimage bolbam ⓒ Riwaj Rai
The Nepali annual calendar is full of life and filled with celebrations and festivals enjoyed by communities from different castes, ethnicities, and religions. Shrawan (July/August), the fourth month of the Nepali calendar, reflects greenery in the environment and in the lifestyle of women.
The entire month of Shrawan is dedicated to Lord Shiva, the supreme deity in Hinduism. Devotees offer their prayers and seek blessings from Shiva for success, prosperity, and a better conjugal life. Shrawan is filled with religious celebrations.
It is said that samundra manthan (the churning of the ocean) took place during Shrawan. Through that process, a number of valuable rubies emerged from the sea along with the halahal (a deadly poison with the potential to destroy the world). Lord Shiva came to the rescue by consuming the poison himself. It is believed that his neck turned blue due to the poison’s toxic effects, thus earning him the name Nilkantha (the one with a blue throat). The other gods came to help Lord Shiva using the water from the Ganges. He wore crescent moon over his head to reduce the effect of poison and maintains the temperature of his body. It is also believed that Lord Indra came to help by showering him with rain to reduce his body temperature. This is why water (particularly of the Ganges), leaves of the bel plant (bilva leaves), and milk are offered to Lord Shiva during Shrawan to earn good fortune.
Fasting and Bolbam
Bangles and glass beads necklace potay ⓒ Smriti Rai
Shrawan is one of the most sacred months of the year in the Nepali calendar, and people devote themselves to religious activities. Although devotees visit temples regularly, it is believed that offering prayers on Mondays during Shrawan has special significance. People perform pilgrimages, also known as bolbam, barefoot and in orange attire to bring pure water from the holy river and offer it in temples to Lord Shiva. There are different practices of fasting. Some avoid grains, salt, oils, and spices on this particular day only, whereas others avoid meat, garlic, onion, and ginger for an entire month. Mostly Hindu women and girls continue fasting during this month. A married woman observes a fast for their husband’s healthy life while unmarried women do so in the hope of finding a better life partner.
Henna and Bangles
Henna ⓒMamta Acharya
Nepali women and girls are often seen wearing green and orange attire, hennas, and bangles to mark this month. Nepalese markets are filled with brightly colored accessories and apparel for the whole month. The green color signifies not only the cultural spirit but also the environment, which is verdant after the monsoon season. Married women can be seen wearing colorful glass bead necklaces, known as potay, a symbol of marriage in the Hindu culture. The potay is an important piece gifted by a groom to his bride during the wedding ceremony.
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A man works on a balcony at the Cedar Pointe Apartments, a 255 apartment complex for seniors 55+, on Jan. 6, 2020, in Arlington, Washington. (Andy Bronson/The Herald)
Washington state has been under-producing housing units for decades
A new report said there should have been an additional 225,000 units created between 2010 and 2015.
by Aaron Kunkler
Friday, January 10, 2020 1:54pm
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Washington state has been under-producing housing stock by 225,600 units between 2000 and 2015, according to a new report released Jan. 10.
The report, created by Up For Growth and ECONorthwest, couples with a 2018 nationwide study. It found that in 23 states, some 7.3 million units were under-produced over the same 15 years. Up For Growth promotes building more units as a critical part of getting out from under the state’s housing crunch, which has left many struggling to pay rent or find houses.
“This isn’t just a Washington-specific problem, it’s really a nationwide phenomena,” said Michael Wilkerson, an economist with ECONorthwest.
Rent in the state has been increasing faster than incomes, a trend that peaked in 2016-2017. But still at least 30 percent of all households in every county are paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. The problem is particularly acute for households earning under $30,000 a year.
“Those who can least afford it are those who are paying the most in rent,” Wilkerson said.
For every household that forms, a little more than one housing unit has to be produced to keep vacancy for new people looking to rent or buy. The national average between 2000 and 2017 was 1.06 new housing units created per new household. But in Washington, it was 0.99.
In short, more people are looking for housing than there are housing units being built.
Compounding this is the high cost of property for developers, who choose to build luxury apartments instead of more affordable housing to recoup costs and turn a better profit. An October study from the Institute for Policy Studies found that several luxury apartments in Seattle were likely sitting empty, possibly serving as a place for investors to park their money.
Of the 225,600 units the market failed to create, around 80 percent of them would have been affordable units. This is defined as units available to households earning less than 80 percent of the area median income. State Sen. Patty Kuderer (D-Bellevue) said this is one of the most pressing issues in her district.
“We need more housing, we also need more affordable housing,” Kuderer said. “And as one constituent said to me, there’s affordable housing and there’s housing I can afford.”
Production of additional housing units could be ramped up in coming years, hitting a stride of just under 16,000 units created per year between 2024 and 2033.
The report also analyzed the ratio of jobs created to housing produced between 2010 and 2017. It found that there were 3.3 jobs created in King County for each housing unit produced, the highest in the state. Snohomish County sat at 2.12 jobs per unit, and Pierce County at 1.98.
State Sen. Hans Zeiger (R-Puyallup) said people are being forced out of Seattle and farther south into his district around Puyallup.
“People would like to work closer to where they live,” he said.
Zeiger wants to see jobs more evenly distributed around Puget Sound instead of clustered in Seattle. However, Rep. Nicole Macri (D-Seattle) has seen the opposite happen, as she described her Seattle district as the number one place where Washingtonians said they used to live.
The report viewed creating more units closer to transit. In a distribution model, it recommended placing more than three-quarters of the units within a mile of transit stations. It further recommended creating a 300 percent increase in density — up to 150 units per acre — within a quarter mile of transit stations.
Under the study scenario, increasing to that level of density near transit stations could result in 2.3 million fewer miles traveled daily. This chalks out to around 74,000 fewer cars on the road annually.
The report advised increasing funding for affordable housing, enacting statewide zoning reform, planning regionally and creating public-private partnerships. And action at the state level could free up local governments from having to fight neighborhood-by-neighborhood zoning battles, said Marilyn Strickland, Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce’s CEO and former Tacoma mayor.
The Legislature last year invested $175 million into the housing trust fund for affordable housing. Rep. Andrew Barkis (R-District 2) said he hopes that this session more legislation will be passed to facilitate the creation of more accessory dwelling units. It would also have to consider urban and rural needs, which are served by different levels of transit service.
The state could additionally look at reducing barriers to development, such as streamlining its permitting processes and mitigating sales tax requirements for developers. Zeiger said production costs need to be driven down by at least 25 percent for housing to be affordable across the board. The state could use funds to reimburse local governments that provide tax breaks.
Macri pointed to bills that passed last year as positive signs, including HB 1406, which created a sales tax credit. It allows local governments to keep a portion of the state sales tax to be used for affordable housing. The state could also enact duplex zoning, which would allow them to be built more easily.
“The issue of homelessness and housing affordability is affecting the entire state,” Kuderer said. “This is happening everywhere, but it’s happening differently so we can’t have a one size fits all.”
Low Income Housing Institute’s 57-unit August Wilson Place apartments in downtown Bellevue includes affordable housing units for households at 30, 50 and 60 percent of the area median income. Photo courtesy of Low Income Housing Institute
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Porto Cervo, September 13, 2017. The Mistral winds continued to batter the Costa Smeralda for the second day of the Audi J/70 World Championship, which is organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with the Title Sponsor Audi and the Official Sailmaker Quantum Sails. The strong north westerly wind came tantalizingly close to dropping to the 25 knot class limit. Principal Race Officer, Mark Foster continually updated the fleet but the wind refused to subside and racing was called off for the day at 15:00 CET.
Martin Kullman, Global Sales Director Quantum Sails, commented. “Tomorrow we are expecting 18 knots from the west with a medium sea state. So ideal conditions for the fleet, with the J/70s just about getting up on the plane downwind, let’s hope the forecast is right.”
Tomorrow, weather permitting, 162 teams will fight to gain the right to race in the Gold and Silver Championship fleet, the big change is that the scores from those races will now count towards the Championship Series.
Olympic Gold medallist and multiple world champion, Jonathan McKee, is racing with Texan Glenn Darden on Hoss. McKee has an intimate knowledge of heavy weather sailing, and revealed some useful tips for racing a J/70 in high winds.
“The main thing is to keep it simple and safe.” commented Jonathan. “When it’s over 20 knots, you should try to minimize manoeuvres and sail in your own water if you can. Upwind the key to speed is a lot of co-ordination between the main and jib, to keep the balance of the boat correct. In the bigger puffs, you might ease the jib so it isn’t pulling the bow down. You should have a fairly neutral helm with the driver steering aggressively to keep the boat on its feet. Downwind it is important not to tip over, by being aware of gusts and by putting as much weight out as you can. Keep the boat going fast, but not so high that you are in danger of broaching.”
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Free smoke detectors mean every home can be protected
Deacon Mills' death Monday morning in a Frankfort house fire jarred a lot of people out of denial that fires only happen to other people.
Free smoke detectors mean every home can be protected Deacon Mills' death Monday morning in a Frankfort house fire jarred a lot of people out of denial that fires only happen to other people. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/12/06/free-smoke-detectors-and-batteries-anyone-who-needs-one/2623070001/
Lafayette Fire Inspector Todd Trent explains there's no reason not to have a working smoke detector or CO2 detector inside a residence. Free detectors are just a phone call away. (Photo: Ron WIlkins/Journal & Courier)
LAFAYETTE — Eight-month-old Deacon Mills' death last Monday morning in a Frankfort house fire jarred a lot of people out of denial that fires only happen to other people.
“It makes people think. It’s reality," Frankfort Fire Chief John Kirby said of requests this week for free smoke detectors to be installed in homes. "It seems like this week, we’ve had a few extra calls.”
Smoke detectors save lives, and Clinton, Carroll and Tippecanoe counties all have grants from various organizations that fund free giveaways of smoke and CO detectors.
“If they want a detector, call us, and we’ll send a truck out,” West Lafayette Fire Chief Tim Heath said. “We do it two or three times a week.”
Lafayette's grant funds smoke and CO detectors in Tippecanoe and Carroll County, Lafayette Fire Inspector Todd Trent said.
West Lafayette has a grant from another organization that funds their detectors, and Clinton County's detectors are funded by yet another organization.
Everyone having a working smoke detector is that important.
More: Investigator: Fire that killed infant started by a space heater
“Our main objective is that nobody’s left behind and everybody has working smoke detectors,” Trent said. “Our average is 300 installs for a year.”
Smoke detectors save lives, but the life of the detectors is limited to only 10 years from date of manufacturing, Trent said. The date of manufacturing is on the back of the detectors.
After 10 years, the detectors need to be replaced because the sensors begin to falter, Trent said, adding don't be fooled by the "test" button on the detectors.
“There’s no way to tell that the technology went bad,” Trent said.
“Everybody thinks, ‘I push the test button, and it goes beep, beep, beep,’" he said. “That’s only testing that it has power to the unit. It doesn’t mean that the detector is in working order.”
Fire departments in the region have grants to install free smoke detectors and free carbon monoxide detectors, so there's no reason a residence does not have these life-saving devices, Lafayette Fire Inspector Todd Trent said. (Photo: Ron WIlkins/Journal & Courier)
Heath said the detectors installed on the West Side are combination smoke and CO detectors with a battery that never needs changing. When the detectors begins to beep after about 10 years, it's time to get a new one, he said.
Indiana code requires that rental properties and newly constructed homes have a smoke detector outside of the bedrooms, but maintaining the batteries in the devices are up to the tenant and the homeowners.
Not a big deal, Trent and Heath said. If renters discover their smoke detector doesn't work, they can contact the fire departments directly, who will replace the detector and its batteries.
Or, if a renter or homeowner just needs batteries, they'll provide those, too.
Everyone should be protected by smoke detectors, regardless of whether the cities or counties provide them or whether homeowners buy their own.
“Are you willing to lose your life over 15 bucks,” Trent said, boiling down the cost analysis.
Heath added that some people might have smoke detectors near the top of cathedral ceilings, and they might not feel comfortable on a ladder checking or replacing the detector. Call them, Heath said. They’ll check the detector, replace it or the batteries.
In Frankfort or Clinton County, call the Frankfort Fire Department at 765-654-4329 to request a smoke detector or battery change, Kirby said, noting they've installed 4,300 detectors in the four years of the program.
In Lafayette or Tippecanoe County, go to the Lafayette website, lafayette.in.gov, and click on the "Services" tab at the top of the page and click on Action Center tab. Find the Fire Department and click on "Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Request." Or they can called the fire department at 765-807-1600.
In West Lafayette, call the city's fire department at 765-775-5175.
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Every Simpsons Ever: the Epic Marathon by FXX - But Now What?
12 days. 25 Seasons. 552 episodes. 1 movie. Every Simpsons episode ever. A huge programming stunt to promote a semi-new network (roughly a year old) and their $1 billion deal to get The Simpsons on cable. Early indications are that the increase in viewership has been successful. The first day brought in 1.01 million viewers in prime time...up 391% over their normal viewers. Of that, the 18-49 age group accounted for 623,000 viewers...up 461%! (stats gathered here) However, smartly, FXX didn't just leave it at the programming stunt. They incorporated social media and web tactics to take advantage of the marathon.
The social media aspect included a Twitter account, @EverySimpsonEver, that live-Tweeted during the entire marathon. They have just under 56,000 followers. Additionally, they created a #SimpsonsSelfie contest for viewers to post their photos of themselves watching the marathon which included collecting their email addresses (I entered! See below.). They also worked with the TVTag app on a contest for checking in on Simpsons episodes during the marathon to win giant stickers. All told, I can tell you that my Twitter feed was full of SimpsonsSelfies and overall comments from viewers watching throughout the 12 days.
I think it's safe to say that the marathon was a success for FXX, but what now? The key is to build upon the audience they've built. FXX does have some plans in place. They're building a website/app called "Simpsons World" (read more here). This portal will launch in October (and will grow in January) and will have everything a super fan could ask for. It will require you to authenticate that you have FX as part of your cable package. Features will include:
Access to every episode ever (Note: The Simpsons Movie will be available for limited times. They're also working on the original clips from "The Tracey Ullman Show".)
A search function to easily find and share your favorite jokes and scenes
The ability to curate your favorite episodes and scenes - and then recommend similar content
An exhaustive episode and character guide - including scripts that can run along with the episodes
With all of the email addresses they were able gain with the #SimpsonsSelfie promotion, hopefully, they'll use that info to push out content to promote the Simpsons World app, promotions for new Simpsons season on the Fox network, additional Simpsons mini-marathons/programming stunts, promotions for other programming on the channel (and FX), more contests or other ways to keep these viewers engaged in the channel and their shows. As long as it's relevant and interesting, I, for one, won't mind getting emails from them.
Overall, I think they were able to breathe new life into The Simpsons as a whole...whether it needed it or not. I think a lot of people have a renewed appreciation, if not just a reminder, for the brilliance of the show and Matt Groening. I'm curious to hear from you. Did you watch any of the marathon and how much? What's your favorite episode or gag? Thanks for reading and please share this post with your friends!
One last reminder (at least on my blog) that were just a week away from Content Marketing World in Cleveland! Feel free to reach out to me if you're going. I'd love to meet up and talk marketing!
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Irish passengers caught up in chaos as Gatwick Airport closes down due to drones
The London airport was brought to a standstill with Army specialists called in to hunt down the culprits
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Irish travellers were caught up in the chaos at Gatwick on Thursday as more than 110,000 passengers were stranded by rogue drone operators.
The South London airport was brought to a standstill with Army specialists called in to hunt down the culprits.
They were trying to pinpoint where the gadgets were being operated from over fears they could be controlled from as far as 8km away.
Dublin Airport Authority’s Siobhan O’Donnell said last night only a small number of flights had been grounded there over the issue.
She added: “No flights have been diverted to Gatwick as it has been closed all day. Dublin Airport has taken two Norwegian Gatwick-bound flights which were coming from Los Angeles and Orlando.
“There have been eight cancelled flights at Dublin Airport so far today due to the issues at Gatwick out of a total schedule of 650 flights.”
Armed police are seen next to the runway at Gatwick airport as the hunt for a drone operator continues. Flights have been cancelled and thousands of passengers have been delayed after the airport closed due to two drones being spotted nearby. (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP)
Flights in and out of Dublin diverted as Gatwick Airport shut down after drone sighting
Some 110,000 people were due to either take off or land at Gatwick on 760 flights on Thursday.
Around 10,000 passengers were affected on Wednesday night.
Irish woman Grace Lyons passed through immigration twice before being redirected to Stansted Airport.
The 32-year-old, who lives in South London, said: “It’s an absolute mess. I’m going home to Ireland and have very little time as it is, this has essentially cut two days off my family time.”
Richard McC tweeted: “Ryanair my 9:40am flight from Gatwick to Dublin is cancelled and there are no available flights until Sunday, as per regulations will you find me a flight from a different London airport to Dublin? Or even to Belfast?”
Another traveller posted: “Hey AerLingus, Any idea what’s going on? I just want to go home.
“Can you please let me know if there will be any form of compensation? As we missed a night in the Dean in Dublin [that was paid for] & other bookings in Dublin that we will now miss.
(Image: Patrick Campbell / SWNS.com)
Ryanair flight TURNS BACK to Stansted after 'fight' breaks out between two passengers
“We have been at the airport for 14hrs. I am missing valuable time with my family.” Aer Lingus advised passengers travelling to Gatwick to check their flight details before leaving for the airport, while Ryanair diverted flights to other airports in London.
The airline operated an extra flight last night in both directions between Cork Airport and Stansted.
Surrey Police said two “industrial-grade” drones capable of bringing down a passenger plane were spotted above Gatwick at 9pm on Wednesday.
They were treating the incident as “a deliberate act to disrupt the airport”.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: “The people who were involved should face the maximum possible custodial sentence for the damage they have done.”
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The Cost of Waiting
By Shmuel Shayowitz | July 03, 2019
Last week I ‘challenged’ friends and followers inquiring whether they would choose $1 million guaranteed, or a 75% chance at $10 million. It was a mixed bag of results, and each respondent had their philosophy and motivation as to why they would pick one over the other. The question was a great example of perspective and how something might be compelling to one person, yet not to another.
Along those lines, another fascinating analysis came out this week. According to Freddie Mac, the average mortgage rate hit a three-year low. Black Knight, a financial analytics company, estimated that 8.2 million borrowers could refinance and lower their interest rates saving approximately $270 per month with these new rates. Exciting news, indeed.
But wait; about a month ago, Black Knight reported that because of the drop in rates as of the first week of June, that 5.9 million people could potentially save money by refinancing their existing home loans and securing a lower rate. They estimated an average savings of $271 per person.
So, here is my latest perplexing question of the week … If there is now a total of 8 million viable applicants, an increase of 2 million people who can additionally benefit from refinancing their current mortgage - why didn’t those candidates who were eligible a month ago not do anything about it?! Those candidates are still “out there” and haven’t acted.
One possible answer is that those 8 million candidates are people who spoke with me, and were in touch about interest rate questions and market trends, and by-design they waited in anticipation of this further drop. That can certainly be the case because I have been advising some of my clients who were able to wait a bit more to try “to catch” a further dip. The only thing is, I know that I didn’t speak to 8 million prospects over the past month, and I know that not everyone is giving and getting the same advice as I am.
I have to believe that of the millions and millions of eligible candidates out there who have not yet refinanced, it is because they don’t realize they should, or don’t know that they could. Many people have a preconceived notion that they “it won’t pay” to refinance because they were told rates need to drop “$X” for it to be worthwhile, even though that is no longer the case. Others may wrongfully believe that they are not eligible because of appraisal values, credit issues, or income disqualification that might not be accurate.
Things have changed substantially, and no one should employ old school logic in today’s market. For most, they merely need the guidance and advice of a competent professional who they believe is genuinely their advocate to help make the determination. Find out if you are eligible and how much you can save before it’s too late. Remember, when the Federal Reserve lowers rates (as expected later this month), mortgage rates are expected to rise. The cost of waiting can be quite costly, indeed. Shout out and happy birthday to Dov Erdfarb, Miriam Lightman, and Estie Rottenstreich.
By Shmuel Shayowitz
Shmuel Shayowitz (NMLS#19871) is President and Chief Lending Officer at Approved Funding, a privately held local mortgage banker, and direct lender. Approved Funding is a mortgage company offering competitive interest rates as well as specialty niche programs on all types of Residential and Commercial properties. Shmuel has over 20 years of industry experience including licenses and certifications as certified mortgage underwriter, residential review appraiser, licensed real estate agent, and direct FHA specialized underwriter. He can be reached via email at [email protected]
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Students invited to climb aboard Kongsberg Maritime's Fast Boat Simulator at the first ever Nor-Shipping Campus
The simulator is expected to attract a lot of attention, especially as Kongsberg Maritime is allowing visitors to try it out for themselves.
Konsgberg Maritime is shipping in its Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) Simulator for the inaugural Nor-Shipping Campus, a new event introduced to engage students, the media, politicians and the general public with the maritime industry. As the company's fastest boat simulator, the spectacle is expected to attract a lot of attention, especially as Kongsberg Maritime is allowing visitors to try it out for themselves.
The Nor-Shipping Campus is being held in Oslo's City Hall Square (Rådhusplassen), during Nor-Shipping week and has attracted strong backing from major companies with the mutual goal of promoting the benefits of a career in the maritime sector. The city centre exhibition also holds a social zone, which will give Nor-Shipping 2011 delegates a comfortable and accessible location for networking in the city.
The inclusion of the Kongsberg Maritime RHIB simulator at the Nor-Shipping Campus will provide young people, training institutions, shipowners and others a glimpse into the world of high technology maritime training systems. It simulates faithfully the movement of a small, fast military boat using cutting-edge graphics, high-fidelity sound and six degrees of movement thanks to its full hydraulic motion.
"It's certainly one of our most eye-catching simulators and we're pretty sure that the people visiting the Nor-Shipping campus will agree when they see it and indeed get behind the wheel," comments Marketing Coordinator Anne Voith, Kongsberg Maritime Simulation and Training. "We hope that the noise, vibration, action and high-fidelity visuals persuade students and others to come over and talk with us, so we can explain just how exciting and rewarding a career in the maritime technology industry can be."
Kongsberg Maritime's stand at the Nor-Shipping Campus will also feature a wealth of videos and information about the company, its people and products. The company can be found on stand C02-28 at the Nor-Shipping 2011 exhibition itself, where among other things, it will be highlighting new developments in navigation and automation technology and training.
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Pilot For Sequel To ‘thirtysomething’ Picked Up By ABC
January 10, 2020 Entertainment Daypop
ABC has picked up the pilot to “thirysomething(else),” the sequel to the network’s “thirtysomething” series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
The new show will follow an new cast of actors playing the 30-something year-old children of the original cast, with Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston) returning. The new cast members have yet to be announced. According to ABC’s description of the piilot, “apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?”
“thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 episodes, and earned 13 Emmy Awards out of 41 nominations, including Best Drama. It also won two Golden Globes. The drama series highlighted a tight-knit group of baby boomers living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and their struggles. It revolved around husband and wife Michael Steadman (Olin) and Hope Murdoch (Harris) and their baby Jane.
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Community affected by 6-year-old girl's death
Jada Craft, 6, run over by school bus
A school day tragedy as a 6-year-old girl is run over and killed by a school bus.
A six-year-old girl was killed after she was run over by a school bus Tuesday morning in front of the Avana Grove Apartments, near Loop 1604 and Kitty Hawk Road.
Police said Jada Craft, 6, usually catches her bus right outside the complex to get to Coronado Village Elementary. On Tuesday morning, she was with an adult relative, but somehow ended up in the bus' path as it pulled away.
Marlayna Martinez said her daughter, Faith, also age 6, was on the bus at the time, but did not witness the accident.
"It's hard for (the students) to understand," said Martinez.
Jennifer Click, who has a 13-year-old daughter, said she didn't know Jada Craft, but felt they just had to do something for her.
Click, along with some other parents, left stuffed animals and toys close to the scene of the accident.
"It's such a horrific accident," said Click. "It breaks my heart. I can't imagine putting my kid out the door for school and her not coming home."
Judson district officials said it's not uncommon to have buses out that early because classes start at 7:30 a.m. for elementary students.
It is dark out there during that hour, but district officials said their drivers are trained to drive in all conditions.
Police investigators said the bus driver is not facing any charges.
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Child rushed to hospital after falling into rhinoceros exhibit at Florida zoo
By: Mary Stringini
A child was transported to the hospital on New Year's Day after falling into the rhinoceros exhibit at the Brevard Zoo, officials say.
MELBOURNE, Fla. — A child was transported to the hospital on New Year's Day after falling into the rhinoceros exhibit at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, officials say.
Brevard County Fire Rescue said that the child was transported to the hospital under a trauma alert status. The condition of the child is unknown at this time. Firefighters say that the child's mother was also transported to an Orlando, Florida, hospital for treatment.
BCFR responded to the Brevard Zoo today for a child that fell into the Rhino exhibit. The child was trauma alerted to a pediatric hospital & mother was ground transported to an Orlando hospital for treatment. Further info being referred to zoo officials. #BCFR #BrevardsBravest
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According to officials with Brevard Zoo, on Tuesday afternoon, the child was injured during Rhino Encounter, a hands-on, educational experience with Brevard Zoo’s white rhinoceroses. During the encounter, participants and the rhinoceroses are separated by a series of steel poles. According to witnesses, the child stumbled and fell in between two of the poles and, at this point, the snout of at least one of rhinoceroses made contact with the child.
Zoo officials say that Brevard Zoo has offered this experience daily without incident since 2009.
“Our number one concern is the safety and welfare of our guests and our hearts go out to the family,” said Keith Winsten, the zoo’s executive director. “Safety has always been of paramount importance to us and we are suspending these encounters until we have thoroughly reviewed our processes and procedures to ensure this cannot happen again.”
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children has released a statement on behalf of the father of the young girl injured in Tuesday's rhino incident:
Today has been a trying day for our family. We’re thankful to everyone who has reached out with their concerns. Our daughter is in good care at Arnold Palmer Hospital and is doing well. My wife was also treated for her injury and has been released from the hospital. At this time, we ask for privacy as we focus on our daughter’s recovery.
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No additional information has been released at this time.
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Wills & Probate: Digital Assets
When we refer to digital assets we mean –
Most law relating to wills and probate is Victorian in origin, and we sometimes struggle to make modern concepts – social media – fit in with Victorian legal ideas.
The physical devices we use such as computer hardware and memory sticks are easy to deal with as we can call them “personal chattels” – like sofas and fridge-freezers.
But what about social media accounts? YouTube channels? In the case of subscription accounts such as iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Kindle, the position is generally that an individual has a limited licence to use the piece of music, movie or book, rather than ownership. As such, often both the collection and the account would be non-transferrable and therefore of no value.
To begin with though there are other hurdles the executor has to overcome when trying to establish what assets there are and what value, if any, they have. Firstly, he needs to know about them – finding them will be impossible without someone having been told the asset specifically exists. Beware the friend or family member who is aware of the account but who keeps quiet so that they can take the money for themselves!
Beware also the secretive gambler! There may be unobvious sources of funds – or liabilities – if the person who has died is an on-line gambler for example. No-one may have been told what they do, and so any cash balance may be lost, and we may be unaware of on-line liabilities.
It is important for people to record their on-line life so that, after their death, their executors will know what might be out there and what has to be dealt with.
Sharing logins and passwords is an essential part of this. If you use a password manager program, you can simply share your access information to that account. If not, it's important that you record the login and password information for key accounts. If you have computing hardware, such as computers, external hard drives or flash drives, tablets, smartphones, digital music players, e-readers, digital cameras, etc., you should also record where those items are located, as well as any passwords that are required to access them.
Another problem is whether the executors have authority to access the computer material? The Computer Mis-use Act 1990 created some new criminal offences connected to computer hacking but which could apply here:
Unauthorised access to computer material;
Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate a crime;
Unauthorised modification of computer material;
Making, supplying or obtaining anything which can be used in computer mis-use offences.
There are ways around this – it has been suggested that if you were to give your solicitor a sealed envelope containing access to your list of accounts, usernames and passwords, which was not to be opened until after your death, that would not lead to the commission of any offence under the Act if the executor opens it after your death to use the password information. This does only work where the password list is up to date of course!
It is possible that an experienced digital asset owner will know to appoint a separate executor to deal with his digital estate. Anyone working in the digital world really should have considered this because some family members (and some professionals!) will have no relevant knowledge to deal with the digital assets on the deceased's death.
This might be necessary where the rest of his estate can be managed in the ordinary way; but there is no-one in his or her immediate circle with enough computer literacy to carry out some of the tasks necessary for finding and realising digital assets.
Valuing digital assets can be another problem. Money based accounts are valued in the normal way but we have to know where they are! Certain “e-material” does not actually belong to you even if you have 'paid' something for it e.g. music held in iTunes.
The terms on which you hold 'digital assets' is important to establish. An iTunes account will die with you (so there is nothing to leave and it has no value) but now it is possible to have a 'family' version which enables other members of the family to have access to the data.
In most circumstances it is unlikely that social media accounts will be intrinsically valuable but they may be vulnerable to identity theft and cannot be ignored.
Another modern phenomenon which would leave most Victorians non-plussed is virtual or cryptocurrencies with no physical existence but which are used to purchase goods and services on-line
A finite number of Bitcoins, for example, 'exist' — 24 million (something to do with mathematics!), and Governments around the world take the phenomenon seriously. Even HMRC have issued a Brief about how it will treat Bitcoins – they treat Bitcoins like a foreign currency for corporation and income tax purposes.
A Bitcoin is stored in an electronic wallet to which transactions are recorded. There are smartphone apps which allow this electronic wallet to receive Bitcoins. The system is password protected.
However, as the currency is not linked to any Government, it attracts criminals who want to move money anonymously without security questions or state involvement. This makes Bitcoin a currency system susceptible to hacking.
The value of cryptocurrencies rises and falls just like any other, but we cannot ignore this potential asset since in November 2014 the Government estimated that 20,000 Britons owned Bitcoins which then were worth approximately £60 million.
The modern world of social media also presents intellectual property rights issues. By this we mean the text of a novel by a writer; digital images; YouTube video channels and so on. These intellectual property rights such as copyright will belong to you.
If you own digital assets can you pass them on? This is a legal minefield! It will depend on the contractual position which was entered into by you at the time. It would be hugely beneficial if you had downloaded and printed off the Terms and Conditions upon which you agreed to use the digital service or product. As you probably won’t have done this, there is a great deal of potential for disputes between competing family members and also the service providers.
With Digital media accounts - MP3s, digital movies and eBooks - many would consider there to be value in their collection and would therefore assume that their collection could be accessed and be passed on after their death.
However, in the case of subscription accounts such as iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Kindle, the terms of the contract with the company supplying the e-material will probably say that the company retains ownership of the data and it only gives the user a licence to use it.
It is useful to note that, although there is no right to do so and it’s not a published policy, Apple’s customer service team will often transfer an account following death. In addition, a device that holds such digital media may be transferred (along with any passwords) on incapacity or death, despite the non-transferability rules. But there would be nothing to stop the content providers suspending any accounts and access to the contents being lost. Anyway, wouldn’t we want to be able to direct where they go instead?
Cloud storage - We increasingly store data that we create in the cloud, rather than on physical devices. For example, many of our digital photographs are now only stored online. The right to access such accounts is again subject to the specific terms of the relevant provider.
Typically, such accounts, and all data held in them, will be deleted when the holder ceases to pay the subscription fees, or dies. However, you are usually able to grant access rights to others, so it is worth giving a family member the ability to access your account and your photographs if you want them to have access after your death.
Following death, the account can then be dealt with by the family member, and the photographs downloaded or transferred to another account. Another alternative is to maintain offline backup, such as on an external hard drive that you regularly update.
For further information on any aspect of obtaining probate, please contact David Roper in the experienced private client team on 01489 864 754 or email david.roper@lawcomm.co.uk.
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Civil Justice Council says no need for specialist housing court
By John Hyde2019-01-25T10:23:00+00:00
An influential body led by the master of the rolls has said it cannot support government plans for a specialist housing court. The Civil Justice Council, which is led by Sir Terence Etherton, said money would be better spent elsewhere rather than on a court designed to provide a single path of redress for landlords and tenants.
In its response to the government’s consultation, the CJC said whatever delays currently exist are due to a lack of resources in the court system and a lack of bailiffs, rather than any lack of knowledge among judges or the courts they sit in.
If there was a need for judges to be more specialist, the response said, this could be resolved by a system of ‘ticketing’ judges to deal with housing issues, as happens in family cases.
‘The CJC would not support a major redesign of and/or transfer of cases within the courts and tribunal services for housing cases at this time,’ said the response.
‘This is particularly so at a time when the court reform programme and the increasing digitalisation of procedures within the courts and tribunal service is yet to be completed or evaluated.’
The CJC said delays that may occur appear in part to be caused by landlords’ and agents’ errors and lack of knowledge of the technical requirements when granting assured shorthold tenancies. These requirements would be the same whether a case was held in the county court or a newly-created housing court.
The CJC said landlords could not complain about tenants obtaining legal advice and delaying the process by defending claims. Responding to the suggestion of reducing the number of lawyers involved, the response said the court procedure must give tenants the opportunity to obtain advice.
‘In many of the claims for possession in which a landlord relies on a statutory ground, it is often the absence of available legal advice and support [which] contributes delay,’ said the response. ‘Courts often adjourn cases involving arrears of rent for benefit problems to be resolved but if the tenant is unable to obtain assistance to resolve the benefit issues the case may return weeks later with no progress having been made.
The CJC added that many housing cases often involve complex technical arguments on the law of contract, tort, equity and public law, and these were best heard in a mainstream civil court.
Meanwhile, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has told the government its plans may benefit litigants, but only if the court is adequately resourced with specialist judges.
Its response said: ‘Whilst an integrated housing court shall help in creating a simplified framework that is easier for consumers to understand and navigate, obtaining prompt judgments and securing enforcement of case outcomes will not be possible without sufficient court staff and resources.’
Launching the call for evidence last year, communities secretary James Brokenshire said the proposals would help tenants and landlords access justice when they need it and create a fair housing market.
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Trump not welcome in New Mexico
New Mexico has a long history of welcoming immigrants into our state and society and it's a tradition our communities will continue to fight for.
Trump not welcome in New Mexico New Mexico has a long history of welcoming immigrants into our state and society and it's a tradition our communities will continue to fight for. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2019/09/22/trump-not-welcome-in-new-mexico/2404427001/
Eduardo Esquivel, Your view Published 2:20 a.m. MT Sept. 22, 2019
Eduardo Esquivel (Photo: United We Dream Action)
Donald Trump came to New Mexico this week to stir up racism within our immigrant and Latinx communities in an attempt to make political gains.
It’s particularly disturbing for him to be visiting New Mexico and talk to “Hispanics” when just a month ago a white supremacist, fueled by Trump’s own racist rhetoric, killed more than 20 Latinx people at a Walmart in our sister city of El Paso. His visit to New Mexico came with this racist, xenophobic hate that cost so many lives .
Even though Trump did condemn the attacks, not taking responsibility for the hate speech that lead to them, while actively preaching it, is a total disregard for humanity and our Latinx communities and we don’t want it in our state. Our New Mexican Latinx community is diverse. It includes immigrant, refugee and LGBTQ families, the same families and communities that have been the prime targets of his discriminatory rhetoric. We deserve better.
Neither Trump nor his inhumane ideals and policies, are welcome in New Mexico.
Learning that the Trump campaign is hiring a state and regional political director, as well as field crews in New Mexico, means that we can’t sit our upcoming elections out. Our communities rejected the racist politics and rhetoric of Trump and Republicans that are killing and deporting Black and Brown communities in 2018, and can do it again. We did this by electing champions like Deb Haaland, and defeating anti-immigrant politicians like Yvette Herrell.
It can be anticipated that Trump will lose in other states he won in 2016, so perhaps he's coming to New Mexico looking to add our state’s five electoral college votes to his pocket by empowering racist views in the state. We won’t allow it.
Voting and actively participating in elections is our most powerful tool to fight back against Trump and his racist administration. Yes, people need to vote, but this also includes our undocumented, immigrant and refugee communities actively engaging in elections as well. Those who can’t vote, can advocate. We should ensure we’re engaging with voters by knocking on doors and making callings. There is more than one way to make our voices heard in political elections.
Our power comes from the unity in our community and our commitment to continue to organize people to vote and remind Trump that he is not welcomed in our diverse and welcoming state of New Mexico. The Land of Enchantment has a long history of welcoming immigrants into our state and society and it's a tradition our communities will continue to fight for.
Eduardo Esquivel is a Mexican immigrant, UNM graduate, and member of United We Dream Action.
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Rosin is a solventless cannabis extract made using heat and pressure.
As marijuana gains in popularity, it’s no surprise that people are inventing new and innovative ways of using it.
Rosin is the latest craze in the world of marijuana. It’s made from a new technique that uses pressure and low heat to release a sap-like concentrate that can be used for dabbing.
Butane hash oil (BHO) extracts are still the most popular type of cannabis concentrate. But more recently, rosin has started to gain mainstream recognition.
Here, we explore the basics of rosin: what it is, how it’s made, and the benefits and risks.
What is Rosin Tech?
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Rosin is a popular kind of solventless cannabis extract. The manufacturing process, known as the rosin technique (or “rosin tech”), uses high pressure to produce a pure cannabis concentrate without the use of solvents.
Like other cannabis concentrates, rosin can be used in a variety of ways. The most common way to consume rosin is by dabbing. Rosin can also be cooked into edibles or made into tinctures, balms, or creams.
Like BHO, rosin can have different appearances and consistencies depending on the methods used and the quality of the cannabis extracted.
It may appear as a very hard and stable product, commonly referred to as shatter.
Rosin can also appear very soft and fluffy when extracted at a low temperature. This form of rosin is generally higher in terpene content, and is referred to as budder.
Rosin can even be a viscous liquid, but this generally occurs when it is extracted at too high of a temperature.
Origins of Rosin
(Photo: @soilgrown_solventless/Instagram)
The precise origins of rosin are not known, but some facts have been established.
The rosin technique is believed to have initially been posted to Instagram on a page called Soilgrown Solventless, in February 2015. However, it is possible that the technique had been known for some time prior.
After this posting, the internet began accumulating reports of rosin extractions.
From there, rosin has only continued to grow in popularity. It has become increasingly known as a safer method for obtaining a high-quality cannabis extract. The technique has even been considered to be revolutionary among cannabis enthusiasts.
Today, many people produce their own rosin at home, either with a rosin press or by using a hair straightener.
How is Rosin Made?
Rosin is created by physically separating the active compounds from the cannabis plant material. Heat and pressure melt and isolate the concentrated cannabinoids from the flowers.
Heat and pressure are both necessary for making rosin. Heat temporarily transforms the trichomes from a solid to a liquid state, while pressure forces the liquid concentrate away from the extraction material. The more pressure that is used, the better the yield will be.
Ideally, the amount of heat used for a rosin extraction is very low. This will ensure the preservation of the terpene profile expressed by the extraction material.
Making rosin is not limited to just dried bud. You can make rosin from marijuana flowers, dry sift, or bubble hash.
Individuals have been reported to use their body weight or different hand clamps for applying pressure. Larger scale operations use hydraulic and pneumatic rosin presses that apply much more pressure.
What Are the Benefits of Rosin?
The main benefits of rosin are that it does not contain harmful solvent residues and is safer to produce, compared to other cannabis extracts.
The rosin technique is a safe and simple alternative to solvent-based extractions such as BHO. Butane extractions can be extremely dangerous if proper safety protocols are not followed. A number of explosions have resulted from cannabis extractions using the highly volatile solvent.
Rosin products are also guaranteed to contain no residual solvents, because rosin is never exposed to solvents in the first place. This means that rosin is generally safer for medical cannabis users who require clean and pure products.
What is Marijuana Shatter and Wax?
Like other cannabis concentrates, rosin has many practical benefits. The effects are very strong, requiring users to consume less material overall.
The taste is considered to be much cleaner and smoother and because it is fast-acting, rosin could be an effective way of delivering medical marijuana.
What Are the Risks of Rosin?
Rosin is considered to be on the safe side, as far as concentrates go. The main risks include the potency, risks associated with dabbing, and the possibility of getting a burn while making homemade rosin.
If you’re making your own rosin, you run the risk of burning yourself using the hair straightener or rosin press. You can also get burned when dabbing. Keep these risks in mind, and use proper precautions and safety strategies when consuming dabs.
Rosin is also extremely potent. Much like other cannabis concentrates, rosin can have very powerful effects and should be consumed responsibly. It is important to remember that THC is a powerful psychoactive substance that can have adverse effects. The side effects of THC include paranoia, anxiety, dizziness, and dry mouth.
Another rare side effect of using high doses of THC is psychosis. The journal Schizophrenia Research published two case studies where dabs were linked to the development of psychosis in 2016.
How to Make Rosin — Hair Straightener Method
The main reason that rosin has become so popular is how simple it is to produce. Unlike BHO, rosin can easily and safely be made at home.
To make rosin, all you need is a hair straightener, parchment paper, a tool to collect the rosin, and of course, some cannabis.
Of course, it is always recommended that you purchase rosin from a reputable supplier — but many have found success using the hair straightener method.
Step 1: Preparation
Fold a square of parchment paper in half. Make sure the square is big enough to contain all the rosin that separates.
Place a bud of marijuana in the center of the folded parchment paper.
Turn the hair straightener on to a temperature around 200°F, or the lowest temperature setting.
Step 2: Pressing
Take your parchment paper containing the bud of marijuana and put it between the heated plates of the hair straightener. Make sure the plates cover the bud and that it is centered.
Using heat-resistant gloves, oven mitts, or a hand clamp, apply as much pressure as possible to the hair straightener containing the parchment and bud.
Continue to apply the pressure for 10-20 seconds.
Remove the paper from the hair straightener.
Using a dabbing utensil, remove the flattened bud from the paper as well as any remaining plant material which may have broken off.
Allow the paper containing the extract to cool down.
Step 3: Collecting
Once cooled, use a dabbing tool to collect the rosin from the parchment paper.
If your rosin has a fluid-like consistency that is difficult to collect, you may have used too high of a temperature.
If there is a hole in your parchment try applying the pressure more gradually.
If you did not yield much or any rosin, it may be the strain and not your technique. Many users have reported that some strains simply do not work when making rosin.
A lack of rosin yield has also been attributed to buds which are too dry, suggesting moisture may play some role in the process.
Rosin is a new, inexpensive, and safe method of extracting marijuana using heat and pressure. The rosin technique produces a high-quality concentrate that has strong and immediate effects when dabbed.
The simplicity of the rosin technique has made concentrates more easily accessible to the general public than ever before. With just a hair straightener and parchment paper, anyone can make their own rosin at home.
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Scotland’s wind turbines produced enough electricity to power almost double the number of homes in Scotland between January and June 2019, as wind power output in Scotland reached another record high.
According to a Weather Energy report, Scotland’s renewable electricity output soared in the first half of the year, providing enough energy to powe...
Scotland to Host Offshore Wind Summit
Offshore wind developers, supply chain companies and government will come together in Edinburgh on 02 May to maximise the offshore renewables sector.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay MSP will co-host the summit with UK Energy Minister Claire Perry MP.
Mr Mackay said:
“Scotland has all the natural resources required to make it an ideal location for of...
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Budget Blinds still growing at 17 years old
John Sloca
Jeff Vlasak, co-owner of Budget Blinds, inside the company’s headquarters and showroom at 5407 Spring St. in Mount Pleasant.
MOUNT PLEASANT — With Budget Blinds, the name only tells part of the story.
Budget Window Coverings would be more accurate, as a visit to the local showroom at 5407 Spring St. in Mount Pleasant would confirm.
The Racine County and Kenosha Budge Blinds franchises are both owned by Jeff and Sally Vlasak, who started as a home-based business. They have had the Racine County Budget Blinds franchise for 17 years, Kenosha County for 16 years and on July 1 they bought the Franklin, Oak Creek and South Milwaukee franchise.
With the latter, the Vlasaks also acquired the showroom at 6570 S. Lovers Lane Road in Franklin.
“But this (5407 Spring St.) is our headquarters; we do everything out of here,” Jeff Vlasak said.
The word “budget” in the name is accurate, he said. “Our pricing is great; we’re the largest franchise in the country by far. And locally, we’re the largest in southeastern Wisconsin, this operation.
“That’s nice to boast about, but it doesn’t mean anything unless you’ve got something to offer the customer because of it,” Vlasak added. “Well, we do: We have better pricing because of our volume.”
The window covering options at Budget Blinds are many, Vlasak said. It starts with blinds of many types including vertical, horizontal, wood and miniblinds; honeycomb shades, Roman shades, roller shades; toppers; and shutters. “These are huge in the South and in the West,” he remarked about the latter.
“The big thing right now is automation,” Vlasak continued: shades that can be controlled by remote control or with a smartphone. Budget Blinds also offers lighting controls that work hand in hand with blind controls.
“Away from home, you can turn your lights on in the evening if no one”s home and shut the blinds from a remote location.”
The company also carries the newest variations in window covering styles that have evolved over the years such as variations in roller shades that far surpass the original ones that often wanted to go flying up to the rollers if let loose at the bottom. One type of honeycomb shade, for example, can be opened from the bottom or top. Another type is cordless.
“It’s really products evolving, technology evolving,” Vlasak remarked.
‘Old school’ service
Vlasak said Budget Blinds makes the process of acquiring new window coverings simple for the customer.
“We’re kind of old school here,” he said. “We focus on customer service, and maybe that’s an old cliché, and a lot of people say that. But we do that.”
Much is involved in adding new window coverings, Vlasak pointed out, including taking exact measurements, picking out fabrics and picking out colors.
“Our goal is to go in there and make it as stressless as possible for (customers) from start to finish,” he said. That includes having five design consultants on staff, in addition to three installers.
“The initial step is to have one of our design consultants come out and help them with colors,” Vlasak said. “These people have degrees in interior design. They can whittle down those hundreds of choices of colors to maybe three.”
Those consultants can also talk about the pros and cons of different types of window covering options, he added.
With Budget Blinds, there is no minimum order size. “We’re happy getting an order for one blind or 200 blinds,” Vlasak said. His commercial customers have included Primrose Retirement Community, Educators Credit Union, Shogun and Asiana restaurants in Downtown Racine, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Gateway Technical College.
The Budget Blinds showroom at 5407 Spring St. is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and by appointment. In-home hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday by appointment.
For more information call the Mount Pleasant showroom at 262-886-2333 or in Kenosha, call 262-654-1880.
TALL SHIPS PARADE OF SAIL
Bluenose II is shown on the right Aug. 1 during the tall ships Parade of Sail.
Brian Passino
Niagara, left, Picton Castle, center, and Pride of Baltimore, right, gather off of Simmons Island in the sparkling waters of Lake Michigan for the Tall Ships Festival Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Bluenose II, left, Picton Castle, Niagara, and Pride of Baltimore during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Niagara, left, Denis Sullivan and the Pride of Baltimore during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Pride of Baltimore fires a cannon while entering the harbor.
People line the lakefront to welcome the tall ships during the Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Picton Castle enters the harbor during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Crew members on the Bluenose II, left, and Niagara gather the sails before entering the harbor.
Bluenose II, Niagara, Appledore and Pride of Baltimore during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Denis Sullivan during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Niagara during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Niagara enters the harbor during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Pride of Baltimore during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Picton Castle, left, and the Niagara, right, during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Red Witch during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
The Picton Castle during the tall ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Denis Sullivan joins the Tall Ships Parade of Sail on Thursday.
Tall Ships Festival sails into Kenosha
Tall ships cruised the lakefront before making their grand entrance on Thursday, patiently waiting for what is poised to be a weekend to remember in downtown Kenosha.
Nearly 15 months of anticipation and picture-perfect weather could attract huge crowds for the Tall Ships of America’s Tall Ships Challenge, which opens at 10 a.m. today and runs through Sunday.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $9 for kids (ages 6-17). A family pass is available for $45.
The three-day festival returned to Kenosha for the first time since making back-to-back appearances in 2003 and 2004. The event, which now takes place in the Great Lakes every three years, relocated to Chicago before Kenosha successfully won its bid to host this year’s event.
“It’s very much a celebration,” said Kris Kochman, city community relations liaison. “Our city is so patriotic. Fourth of July and the parade is a really big deal. People come out in droves every year, and it never gets old.
“This is something new. We haven’t had an event like this for more than 10 years. People are excited to see the ships and the festival that goes along with it.”
Kochman said attendance could easily top the original 30,000 estimate.
General admission tickets are available at the gate or can be purchased online at www.kenoshatallships.com. Those tickets include access for boarding the ships as well as entrance to the art fair, food court, children’s area and the Miller Lite Music Stage. A limited number of sail-away tickets, ranging from $55 to $75, are still available.
“I noticed the sail-away tickets ramped up quickly in the past week,” Kochman said. “We went from 600 tickets sold to 1,000 in the snap of a finger. I think those remaining tickets are going to be sold out.”
American English, a Beatles tribute band, performs 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. Tickets to the concert are $20 or included for anyone who purchases a general admission ticket before 4 p.m. Friday.
Seven ships
Seven ships are taking part in the festival in Kenosha, one of 11 Great Lakes ports of the Tall Ships Challenge. The ships set sail from Green Bay on Tuesday and began arriving in Kenosha on Wednesday.
Ships docking in Kenosha include the Barque Picton Castle, Bluenose II, S/V Denis Sullivan, U.S. Brig Niagara, Appledore IV, Pride of Baltimore II and Kenosha’s own Red Witch.
Appledore IV and Red Witch are offering 80-minute excursions from the Kenosha Sailing Center and Yacht Club, 5130 Fourth Ave.
Boarding is allowed on the five other ships docked on the south side of the harbor. Crew members will be available to answer questions during the self-guided tours.
Taking a tour
Touring the ships adds an entirely different perspective from watching them sail.
The U.S. Brig Niagara, which is 198 feet long and 120 feet high, is a replica ship from the War of 1812. It includes a sub-deck complete with sleeping quarters and a wood-fired stove.
“You haven’t had the full experience until you’ve gone on board,” Kochman said. “They’re all very unique. People will want to explore them and stand at the ship’s wheel for a picture. It’s kind of the iconic thing to do.”
Chicago initially committed to host this year’s tour and canceled due to ongoing construction at Navy Pier. Kenosha gladly obliged to take over and will have priority to host the event again when it returns to the Great Lakes in 2022.
“The mayor (John Antaramian) wanted this event to come here in the worst way,” said Patricia Lock, the city’s tall ship festival consultant. “It’s good for Kenosha. It’s good for tourism. It’s a great way to showcase the city. When we had this event in 2003 and 2004, the people who came downtown said they had no idea it was this nice down here.”
Traffic restrictions, shuttles, parking set for festival weekend
The Kenosha Tall Ships Festival and the Pike River Rendezvous will result in changes to traffic patterns near Kenosha’s lakefront through the weekend.
The tall ships festival begins today and continues through Sunday at Kenosha’s harbor. The Pike River Rendezvous will be Friday through Sunday on Simmons Island.
HarborPark traffic
Traffic will be directed one way eastbound on 56th Street, beginning at Third Avenue, proceeding counter-clockwise around Calabria Way, and westbound only on 54th Street from Calabria Way to Sixth Avenue. The one-way traffic pattern will continue until 10 p.m. Sunday.
Temporary no-parking signs will be posted at areas along the route to facilitate the one way traffic flow.
Sixth Avenue will be closed starting at 3 p.m. today between 52nd Street and 54th Street during the opening ceremonies for the Tall Ships Festival during the evening Peanut Butter & Jam Concert. Sixth Avenue will re-open after the concert by 10 p.m.
Free shuttle services operated by Kenosha Transit will be offered Friday through Sunday.
The shuttle will provide rides between the festival grounds and the Sail Away Village near the Kenosha Yacht Club.
The shuttle route goes between the Kenosha Yacht Club and the west entrance gate.
Shuttle stops are located near 54th Street and Sixth Avenue (east side of Sixth Avenue); at 50th Street and Seventh Avenue (east side of Seventh Avenue), and at the Sail Away Village near the Kenosha Yacht Club.
Remote parking
Those holding sail-away tickets are encouraged to park east of the Dream Playground at Petzke Park, 2820 14th Ave., in the fenced Carthage College lot. A free shuttle will drop off riders at the Sail Away Village near the Kenosha Yacht Club, 5130 Fourth Ave.
Additional parking is available at Indian Trail High School, 6800 60th St. A free shuttle will pick up visitors every 15 minutes and take them to the west entrance gate of the festival at Sixth Avenue and 54th Street.
Simmons Island
Access to the beach at Simmons Island is limited to only non-motorized traffic (such as walking or bicycling through the park). The park road also is closed at the north entrance to the park via Kennedy Drive.
Fourth Avenue remains open today, including vehicle access to the Kenosha Yacht Club and Kenosha History Center parking areas.
Starting Friday, there will be no vehicle access or parking on Simmons Island. Barricades will be staffed, and vehicle access will be restricted. People may visit the Pike River Rendezvous, but there is no programming or horse and carriage rides.
People with Sail Away tickets may access the Sail Away village by foot, or by taking a shuttle.
On Saturday and Sunday, There will be no vehicle access or parking on Simmons Island for the public. Pike River Rendezvous is open with programming.
People may access the Rendezvous area by foot or by one of the shuttles available.
A limited amount of parking is available at Kennedy Park, accessed at 44th Street east of Fifth Ave. Parking also is available as posted on residential streets near the park.
A free horse-and-carriage shuttle will operate from Kennedy Park to the festival entrance at Simmons Island.
Only residents of Fourth Avenue, the Coast Guard, and those with business at the Kenosha Water Utility and Kenosha Yacht Club will be allowed to drive vehicles on the island.
WEATHER FEATURE
Waves on Lake Michigan crash into the north pier near the lighthouse on Jan. 7. The view may change as city officials consider a $3.65 million pier extension to help stop silt and sediment from building up at the mouth of the harbor.
kenosha news file photo by BRIAN PASSINO
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Above, the sun rises slowly over Lake Michigan’s dark, churning waters off the Kenosha lakeshore on a recent morning. At top, the tall ship the Red Witch sits at its moorings alongside the Kenosha Harbor.
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This image was taken by a Kenosha couple of local teens in swimming attire on the north pier who were seen jumping several times into Lake Michigan on Friday.
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Shrouded by fog
Fog on Lake Michigan Wednesday partially obscures the Red Witch, a reproduction of an early 19th century Great Lakes schooner that regulary cruises the local coastline and is homeported in Kenosha.
KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY BILL SIEL
The Thomas family enjoying an early evening walk down by the Kenosha pier on Lake Michigan (Jake, Camryn, Samantha and Darin)
Submitted by Taylor Thomas
Casting for a bite, Tyler Niemeyer of St. Charles, Minn., makes his way back to shore to change lures while fishing Lake Michigan off the Pike River. Fishing columnist Bill Kloster believes the bite around town from the shoreline at Lake Michigan, although presently bleak, has the potential of providing “extra angling excitement that keeps fishermen awake at night.”
Brian Erwin, of Kenosha, get his foil-equipped board out of the water while kiteboarding near the Pennoyer Park Sesquicentennial Band Shell on Lake Michigan.
KENOSHA NEWS PHOTOs BY KEVIN POIRIER
Brian Erwin, of Kenosha, get his foil-equipped board out of the water while kiteboarding off of the Pennoyer Sesquicentennial Band Shell on Lake Michigan.
KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY KEVIN POIRIER
Behind the Lens - Kiteboarding
Brian Erwin, of Kenosha, get his foil-equipped board out of the water while kiteboarding off of the Pennoyer Sesquicentennial Band Shell on Lake Michigan. When I headed to the lakefront to take photos of him in actino, I packed our longest lens, a 400 mm and brought a converter as I was expecting him to be out on the lake. To my surprise, he stayed pretty close to the shore and I found myself with a little too much of a zoom. This photograph filled the entire frame of the camera.
Charles Matalonis Jr., of Kenosha, starts his kiteboard from the beach by the Pennoyer Park Sesquicentennial Band Shell on Lake Michigan.
Some peace of mind
“I like open space. I don’t see the end of it, so that gives me peace of mind,” said John Kramarz as he fished at the Pike River outlet into Lake Michigan at Pennoyer Park on Sunday.
KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY BRIAN PASSINO
STANDALONE WEATHER FEATURE
A wild ride on the Lake Michigan waters
A kiteboarder plays in the waves along Simmons Island on Thursday. It won’t be much warmer today, despite mostly sunny skies in the forecast. Winds will be easterly from 10 to 20 mph today, and waves on the lake will be from 5 to 9 feet high. For more on the lake boating advisory and the AccuWeather forecast, see Page A12.
KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY SEAN KRAJACIC
Andrew Sadock, owner/captain of the Red Witch, oversees the dry dock procedure from the bow last fall at Southport Marina. The 77-foot double-masted schooner served 3,232 customers over summer 2017 in Kenosha. It is back in Lake Michigan this year and the ship will lead the procession of the Tall Ships Festival back to Kenosha in 2019.
KENOSHA NEWS FILE PHOTO BY BILL SIEL
Another home game postponement for Kingfish
Kenosha Kingfish grounds crew members Nathan Hansen, left, and Drew Dyer (grandson of Kingfish manager Duffy Dyer and son of hitting coach Brian Dyer) fill in a muddy infield patch at Simmons Field on Wednesday afternoon. Wet field conditions delayed the midday game against the Lakeshore Chinooks before it was eventually postponed. It will be made up July 3 at 4:05 p.m. as the first game of a doubleheader consisting of two seven-inning games. Wednesday was the second consecutive day the Kingfish had a home contest postponed after rain washed out Tuesday night’s tilt against the Wisconsin Woodchucks. That will be made up Aug. 2 at Simmons as part of a doubleheader starting at 4:30 p.m.
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The Barn Ruins
Walking on this world are people whose very bones contain the dirt under their feet, their blood the water of nearby streams. The passing of their earthly wisdom to kin gives meaning to their lives. And on this world are children who reject their elders’ ways and abandon home in search of an identity all their own. But can anyone born to carry the burden of entire generations ever really escape the weight of it?
This is the question at the heart of The Barn Ruins.
Sheperd Whelan was born with some kind of ghost. A ghost of expectations to carry on the proud and righteous farming traditions of the Whelan men before him. But in the miserable wake of a family tragedy, he is forced to hold tenuously to the shreds of his mother and father and decides as a young man to forget all he'd been given and find out who he really is.
As an adult, he finds himself lost in a miasma of alcoholism, vagrancy, and violence when he is faced with yet another fateful decision about who he wants to be. It's then that the past he spent his life trying to out-run comes rushing back in the most unexpected form.
The Barn Ruins stretches over more than twenty years and is set in the vastness of the American landscape, from rural Virginia to the expansive American West. It is an introspective and eloquent story about land, self-discovery, and the meaning of home.
Portions of The Barn Ruins have been published as a short story titled "Death Spares Not Another Year," Levee Magazine, 2019.
The Barn Ruins is a completed manuscript and currently open for representation and/or publication.
Special thanks to editor Caitlin Alexander for your help revising the latest draft.
Agents or publishers wanting to learn more about The Barn Ruins are encouraged to email the author at kevinwaynezerbe@gmail.com.
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African Petroleum announces discovery at Bee Eater-1
Eirik Raude (Transocean) (Semisub)
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) announces a discovery at the Bee Eater-1 well. The well was designed to test the Turonian fan by way of a large step out of 9.5km, west of the original Narina-1 oil discovery and has encountered 48 metres of Narina equivalent oil bearing Turonian sandstone out of a 135 metre oil interval, in line with the Company’s pre-drill expectations. Bee Eater-1 spudded on the 4th January 2013 using the ‘Eirik Raude’ drilling rig which has taken 48 days to drill the well, of which 21 days was downtime due to a malfunctioning Blow-out Preventer (BOP). The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,100 metres in a water depth of 1,067 metres.
Source: http://www.africanpetroleum.com.au/system/files/press/AOQ%20Announce_021726644_0.PDF
More News for Operator: Transocean
Darwin East prospect successfully spudded
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc is pleased to announce that their exploration well 61/17-1 was spudded on 31st January 2012. The well is located approximately 140 km south of the Falkland Islands. B&S is the operator of the well, holding a 100% interest in licence PL018. It is the first of a two well exploration programme. The well is designed to test the Darwin East prospect, a fault / dip closed structure with a Lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir target. The well will investigate geophysical attributes that include a flat spot, amplitude conformance to structure and an AVO anomaly. It is anticipated that operations will take about 45 days. A further announcement will be made once the well has reached total depth and the wireline logs have been run and their interpretation completed.
Darwin East has good hydrocarbon shows
Borders & Southern (BOR) is pleased to announce a significant gas condensate discovery. Well 61/17-1 was drilled to a total depth of 4876m and came in very close to prognosis. As predicted, the strong AVO anomaly represented a porous sandstone reservoir containing hydrocarbons. Whilst drilling, the well encountered good hydrocarbon shows from 4633m down to 4810m. The main reservoir interval, comprising good quality massive sandstone, was found to be 84.5m thick with net pay of 67.8m. Average porosity for this interval is 22%, with maximum values reaching 30%. Fluid samples from the reservoir have been recovered and will be brought back to the UK for analysis. Once the lab analysis is complete and the results integrated with other data collected from the well, the Company will be able to comment on the liquid content of the reservoir. It is too early to give an accurate resource estimate, but this large simple structure, with a seismic amplitude anomaly measuring 26 square kilometres, is likely to contain significant volumes. The well has successfully proven a working source rock, good quality reservoir and competent seals in the South Falkland Basin. The Company has an extensive prospect inventory to exploit this success. The Company now intends to complete wireline logging operations, plug and abandon the well in line with regulatory requirements and move to the Stebbing prospect, the second well in the current drilling programme. An announcement will be made once this well has spudded.
Borders & Southern spud Stebbing prospect
Borders & Southern (BOR) is pleased to announce that exploration well 61/25-1 was spudded on 11 May 2012. The well is located approximately 170 km south of the Falkland Islands. Borders &Southern is the operator of the well, holding a 100% interest in licence PL018. It is the second of a two well exploration programme. The well is designed to test the Stebbing prospect, a thrust cored anticline structure with an area of closure of 85 square kilometres. Objectives comprise Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous sandstone reservoirs. The well duration is estimated to be 49 days. However, this is a wildcat exploration well and geological challenges might cause variation from this initial estimate. A further announcement will be made once the well has reached its total depth and the wireline logs have been run and their interpretation completed.
Stebbing prospect reaches total depth
Borders & Southern (BOR) reports results from its Stebbing well. Well 61/25-1 was drilled to a total measured depth of 3060m (true vertical depth of 3011m). The well penetrated the upper Tertiary target on prognosis but was unable to reach lower targets due to anomalous pressure conditions. The lower targets remain unevaluated. The well encountered very strong gas shows (C1 to C5) whilst drilling the Tertiary section. Petrophysical analysis of the wireline logs suggest an interval (2500m to 2651m) of thin bedded siltstones and claystones with a net to gross of 36% and an average porosity of 19%. Due to the thin bedded character of this sequence it was not possible to obtain a clear indication of the fluid type or saturation. The geophysical anomalies identified on seismic are coincident with this zone containing hydrocarbons. Our initial assessment is that this upper target is unlikely to be commercial although further technical evaluation is required. Strong gas shows continued below the upper target. However, progress was slow due to lost circulation and well flows which occurred in consecutive hole sections. Several of these flows contained gas. On each occasion the well was successfully controlled but it became necessary to set additional strings of casing, using the contingency casing considered in the well design. In the final 6" hole section, the fluid pressures continued to rise giving further well flows and it became impossible to continue drilling whilst maintaining well integrity. A decision was therefore made to cease drilling. It is very disappointing not to have reached all the potential reservoir targets in this well. The geological and engineering data will now be reviewed in detail in order to understand the complexities of this prospect. The Company now intends to plug and abandon the well in line with regulatory requirements and assign the rig to Falkland Oil and Gas. An announcement will be made once this has been completed.
FOGL begins contracting of 'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, notes the announcement made today regarding the 'Completion of the 2012 drilling programme' by Borders & Southern Petroleum plc. The 'Leiv Eiriksson' is now under contract to FOGL and its joint venture partner Edison International Spa. The rig has commenced its move to the Loligo well location.
FOGL spuds Loligo prospect in Falkland Islands
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to announce the Loligo exploration well 42/07-01 was spudded on Friday 3 August 2012. The well is located approximately 200 km east of the Falkland Islands. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 75% interest, together with its joint venture partner Edison International Spa, who hold the remaining 25% interest in licence PL028. It is the first of a two well exploration programme using the 'Leiv Eriksson' semi submersible drilling rig.
FOGL announces gas discovery with Loligo well
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to announce that the Loligo exploration well is a gas discovery. The Loligo well has proven a working hydrocarbon system in the northern part of the East Falkland basin. The results also demonstrate that Loligo is a viable stratigraphic trap. It is clear from the initial well results that the main hydrocarbon phase within the T1 to T5 aged reservoir objectives is gas, but it has not been possible to determine whether this gas has any liquid content. Well 42/07-01 has been drilled to a depth of 4,043 metres. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 75% interest; its joint venture partner Edison International Spa (Edison), holds the remaining 25% interest. The well penetrated six Tertiary aged reservoir objectives on prognosis. These comprise the T1, T1 deep, T2 (Trigg), T2 deep (Trigg deep), T3 (Three Bears) and T5 targets. These objectives had all been identified on the basis of their seismic amplitude responses. Very strong gas shows (C1 to C5) were encountered whilst drilling through each of these horizons. Analysis of the wireline log data indicates that all six targets comprise fine grained sandstones, siltstones and claystones. FOGL interprets that these sediments have been deposited either outside, or at the distal (outer) end of the slope channel system. Gas bearing zones were encountered over a 1,300 metre vertical interval from 2,420 to 3,720 metres. Petrophysical analysis of the T1 to T3 intervals inclusive (2,420 to 2,885 metres) indicates porosities ranging from 18% to 35% in the gas bearing zones. Due to the thin bedded nature of these sediments it is difficult to assess precisely both hydrocarbon saturation and the total net hydrocarbon bearing reservoir. Preliminary estimates however, suggest hydrocarbon saturations ranging from 40% to 60% and net hydrocarbon bearing reservoir of between 10 and 20 metres. Within the T5 target two main hydrocarbon bearing zones were encountered (3,462 to 3,558 metres and 3,608 to 3,705 metres). The net hydrocarbon bearing reservoir in these two zones was 46 and 59 metres respectively. Porosities ranged between 23% and 30%, averaging 24% and hydrocarbon saturations between 40% and 75%. Attempts were made to obtain pressure data and collect fluid samples. This was unsuccessful, probably due to the fine grained nature of sediments in the gas bearing zone and also, not having access to the specialised test equipment appropriate for this type of formation. Further detailed evaluation of all the well data, together with the existing seismic is now required in order to better define reservoir distribution and more precisely map the channel systems. Determining the reservoir potential of the thin bedded sandstones and siltstones using detailed petrophysical evaluation will be undertaken once the sidewall core samples have been analysed back in the UK. These studies will facilitate a better assessment of resource potential and also help define the work that will be required to further appraise this discovery over what is a large complex. The area of the previously mapped amplitude response at the target horizons range from approximately 250 square kilometres at T2 to over 600 square kilometres at T1. The T5 hydrocarbon zones were better than expected based on pre-drill estimates, but more work will now be required to define their areal extent. FOGL now intends to plug and abandon the well, which is expected to take approximately 10 days. FOGL and Edison believe that it would be premature to drill a second well on Loligo at the current approved location (Loligo north-west) before having undertaken detailed analysis of the current well results. Accordingly the decision has been taken that the next well will be on the Scotia prospect in the Mid Cretaceous fan play. On the basis that Scotia is also drilled within budget, it is estimated that the Company's cash balance post the 2012 exploration campaign will not be less than US$200m. A further announcement will be made when the Scotia well is spudded.
FOGL spuds Scotia well in Falkland Islands
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to announce that the Scotia exploration well FI 31/12-01 was spudded on 25th September 2012. The well is located 315 km east - northeast of Stanley, Falkland Islands and 114 km from the Loligo prospect. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 75% interest, together with its partner Edison International Spa, which holds the remaining 25% interest. Under a farmout agreement announced on 6 August 2012, Noble Energy Inc. will also participate in this well for a 35% interest, thereby reducing FOGL's interest to 40%. The farmout agreement has been approved by the Falkland Islands Government and the changes to the licences will be formally executed in the near future. Scotia is the second of FOGL's two well exploration programme using the ‘Leiv Eriksson’ semi submersible drilling rig.
FOGL complets Scotia well
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, announces the results of the Scotia exploration well. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 40% interest, whilst Noble Energy Inc. holds a 35% interest and Edison International Spa, holds the remaining 25% interest. Under the terms of the farm-out agreements, FOGL is paying 15% of the costs of this well. Well 31/12-01 was drilled to a depth of 5,555m. The well penetrated the mid Cretaceous aged reservoir objective on prognosis. The Scotia objective had been identified on the basis of its seismic amplitude response. Strong gas shows (C1 to C51)were encountered whilst drilling the target section. Interpretation of wireline log data indicates that the target interval 4719m to 4769m comprises 50m of hydrocarbon bearing fine grained sandstones and claystones. The wireline logs indicate that, at this location within Scotia, the sandstones form fairly poor quality reservoir, although some zones have up to 20% porosity. Other thin hydrocarbon bearing sandstones were encountered beneath the main target in the interval 4900m to 5164m. Subsequent evaluation of the main interval using a wireline formation testing tool did not flow hydrocarbons, indicating that the reservoir has low permeability. The well was deepened below the main target in order to penetrate and sample Cretaceous aged source rocks. Rock cuttings and sidewall core samples have been obtained from several potential source rock intervals and these will be sent to the laboratory for detailed analysis. The results should provide vital information on the quality and maturity of these source rocks and also provide a better understanding of the distribution of oil and gas within this part of the South and East Falklands basin. A further announcement on the results of this work will be made in the first quarter of 2013. The Scotia well has proven a working hydrocarbon system in the mid Cretaceous Fan play and has also demonstrated that Scotia is a viable stratigraphic trap. Whilst reservoir quality at this particular location was poor, it should be recognised that the seismic amplitude anomaly that defines Scotia covers an area of approximately 350 square kilometres. As such, further technical work is required to assess just how representative this result is, and whether or not better quality reservoir may exist elsewhere within Scotia. The well data will be invaluable for calibrating the forthcoming 3D seismic programme. The 3D seismic will be used to map sand fairways in the play and, when combined with detailed analysis from the Scotia well, should allow identification of better quality reservoir and differentiation between oil and gas prospects. FOGL now intends to plug and abandon the well and this is expected to take approximately 10 days. On the basis that the well is completed within this timeframe, it is estimated that the Company's cash balance post the 2012 drilling campaign will be approximately USD220 million.
'Leiv Eiriksson' given permission to spud 34/6-3 S well in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 34/6-3 S cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 34/6-3 S will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility at position 61°34'29.55" north and 2°43'48.70" east after completing drilling of well 35/9-11 A for RWE Dea Norge AS in production licence 420. The drilling programme for wellbore 34/6-3 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 554. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Spike Petroleum, Det Norske and Svenska Petroleum, all with 20 per cent each. The area in this licence consists of part of block 34/6. The well will be drilled about 110 kilometres west of Florø. Production licence 554 was awarded on 19 February 2011 in APA 2010 on the Norwegian shelf. This is the third well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
Ocean Rig to follow Transocean and Seadrill by applying for MLP listing
Drilling contractor Ocean Rig is preparing to potentially follow in the footsteps of other drilling contractors including Transocean and Seadrill, with the filing of initial paperwork to form a US master limited partnership (“MLP”). Ocean Rig intends to use top rigs on long-term contracts to provide a source of steady cash flow for potential investors. The MLP will be given the name ‘Ocean Rig Partners LP’ and its fleet will initially be made up of a trio of newbuild drillships, ‘Ocean Rig Athena’, ‘Ocean Rig Mylos’ and ‘Ocean Rig Skyros’. The company did not provide financial details on the proposed offering. Earlier this year Transocean successfully created its own MLP, Transocean Partners LLP which owns and operates three rigs working in the US GoM.
Total completes Garantiana appraisal drilling
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 554, has completed drilling of appraisal well 34/6-3 S on the 34/6-2 S oil discovery and wildcat well 34/6-3 A. The wells were drilled about 30 kilometres northeast of the Visund field in the northern North Sea. Appraisal well 34/6-3 S is located 2 kilometres southwest of the 34/6-2 S discovery well. The objective of the well was to delineate the 34/6-2 S oil discovery made in the Cook formation in the Lower Jurassic in 2012. Before drilling of the appraisal well, the discovery was estimated at 6 million Sm3 recoverable oil. A secondary target was to prove petroleum in the Statfjord group in the Lower Jurassic, higher up on the structure than well 34/6-2 S. Appraisal well 34/6-3 S proved a total gross oil column of 120 metres in the Cook formation. The reservoir quality is very good. The Statfjord group is dry. The oil/water contact was not encountered. Preliminary calculation of the size of the oil discovery is between 6 and 14 million Sm3 of recoverable oil. Extensive data acquisition and sampling were carried out, including a successful formation test in the Cook formation. The well was tested with a stable production rate of 940 standard cubic metres (Sm3) of oil per flow day through a 24/64-inch nozzle opening, and with a maximum production rate of 1100 Sm3 oil per flow day through a 28/64-inch nozzle opening. The test showed good flow properties with stable flow pressure and low pressure decline, and consistent pressure build-up. The well produced oil with a gas-oil ratio of 19m3/m3. Extensive data analyses and studies have been started to confirm the resource estimate and to assess possible development solutions. The objective of wildcat well 34/6-3 A was to prove petroleum in Early Jurassic reservoir rocks in a separate structure right next to the 34/6-2 S discovery. The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in the Statfjord group in the Lower Jurassic. The well encountered a 12-metre net oil column in the Cook formation. The recoverable resources estimate is up to 0.5 million Sm3 oil. The Statfjord group is dry. The well was terminated in the Statfjord group. Sampling and data acquisition were carried out. The well was not formation tested. These are the third and fourth exploration wells in production licence 554, which was awarded in APA 2009. Well 34/6-3 S was drilled to a measured depth of 4462 metres (3791 metres vertical depth below the sea surface) to the Statfjord group in the Early Jurassic. Well 34/6-3 A was drilled to a measured depth of 4019 metres (3724 metres vertical depth) under the sea surface. Water depth is 381 metres. The wells will be permanently plugged and abandoned. The wells were drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling facility, which will now drill wildcat well 35/9-12 S in production licence 420 in the northeastern North Sea, where RWE Dea is the operator.
RWE DEA prepares to drill wildcat in PL 420
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-12 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 35/9-12 S will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 61°15`28.34" north and 3°44`46.61" east after completing the drilling of wildcat wells 34/6-3 S and 34/6-3 A for Total E&P Norge AS in production licence 554. The drilling program for well 35/9-12 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 420. RWE Dea Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 30 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS (40 per cent) and Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS (30 per cent). The area in this licence consists of part of block 35/9. The well will be drilled about 80 kilometres southwest of Florø. Production licence 420 was awarded on 16 February 2007 (APA 2006). This is the fourth well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Maersk set to spud Tvillingen Sor well in Norway
Maersk Oil Norway AS (Maersk) is the operator for production licence 510 in blocks 6406/5 and 6406/6 at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6404/6-4 is to be drilled in a prospect called Tvillingen Sør. The area is around 180 kilometres NNW of Kristiansund. Water depth at the site is approx. 260 metres. The PSA has now given Maersk consent for exploration drilling, which will begin in December 2014 and is estimated to last 120 days. The well is to be drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson mobile drilling facility.
Maersk given go-ahead to spud Tvillingen South prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Maersk Oil Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 6406/6-4, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 6406/6-4 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 64°38'31.62" north and 6°46'02.77" east after completion of drilling wildcat well 35/9-12 S for RWE Dea Norge AS in production licence 420. The drilling programme for wellbore 6406/6-4 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 510. Maersk Oil Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 50 per cent. The other licensees are Edison International Norway Branch (30 per cent) and North Energy ASA (20 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of block 6406/5 and part of block 6406/6. The well will be drilled about 35 kilometres southeast of the Kristin field. Production licence 510 was awarded on 23 January 2009 (APA 2008). This is the first well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
RWE hits dust with North Sea wildcat
RWE Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 420, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-12 S. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres southwest of the Gjøa field in the North Sea and about 80 kilometres southwest of Florø. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (Intra Heather formation sandstone). Well 35/9-12 S encountered reservoir rocks in two sandstone layers in the Heather formation, both of good quality and with traces of petroleum. The well will be classified as dry. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the fourth exploration well in production licence 420. The licence was awarded in APA 2006. Well 35/9-12 S was drilled to vertical and measured depths of 3423 and 3531 metres below sea level, respectively and was terminated in the Rannock formation in the Middle Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 358 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 35/9-12 S was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now drill wildcat well 6406/6-4 in production licence 510 in the Norwegian Sea, where Maersk Oil Norway AS is the operator.
Maersk spuds Tvillinen South prospect
North Energy ASA (“North Energy”) a partner in production licence 510 in the Norwegian Sea has announced that Maersk Oil has begun exploration drilling on the Tvillingen South prospect. The prospect is located on the Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 28 km southeast of the Kristin field. The well, 6406/6-4, will be drilled with Leiv Eiriksson. Partners in the licence are Maersk Oil Norway AS (operator with 50 per cent), Edison International Norway Branch (30 per cent) and North Energy (20 per cent).
Ocean Rig announces full financing for Ocean Rig Apollo
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ:ORIG) ( “Ocean Rig”), a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, announced today that it has received firm commitments from lenders for up to a USD475 million syndicated secured term loan to partially finance the construction costs of the Ocean Rig Apollo. The facility amount is for the lesser of USD475 million and 70% of the fair market value of the drillship. This facility has a five year term, and approximate 12 year repayment profile, and bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin. This financing is led by DNB and the lending syndicate consists of DVB Bank and potentially other commercial lenders as well as the Import-Export Bank of Korea (KEXIM).
PSA carries out audit on 'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub
The PSA has carried out an audit of groups at particular risk and emergency preparedness on Leiv Eiriksson. From 10 to 13 November 2014, the PSA carried out an audit of the efforts of Ocean Rig and RWE Dea to identify and follow up groups at potentially particular risk and emergency preparedness on the Leiv Eiriksson mobile drilling facility. RWE Dea is the operator of production licence PL420 in block 35/9 in the northern North Sea. RWE Dea has a contract with Ocean Rig to use Leiv Eiriksson to drill an exploration well in a prospect named Atlas. The purpose of the audit was to verify that Ocean Rig had established a systematic management system for occupational health and safety and emergency preparedness, and that, as the operator, RWE Dea had followed up its obligations to ensure that Ocean Rig complies with the regulatory requirements in these areas. The audit revealed non-conformities relating to; management system for OHAS and emergency preparedness, roles and clarification of responsibilities in respect of OHAS on the facility, competence and communication in the OHAS domain, information on emergency preparedness analyses and knowledge of performance requirements, assessments in the emergency preparedness analysis, the certificates for the MOB boat and davits, employee participation and the principal's supervisory responsibility.
'Eirik Raude' semisub begins mobilisation to Falkland Islands
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, is pleased to announce that the drilling unit Eirik Raude has begun its mobilisation to the North Falkland Basin ("NFB") from West Africa.
Tvillingen South well abandoned by Maersk
North Energy ASA (“North Energy”) and its fellow licence partners in PL 510 have decided to plug and abandon the Tvillingen South exploration well (6406/6-4) in the PL 510 licence. This follows a period of difficulties in a liner setting covering the intermediate part of the well. The rig, Leiv Eiriksson, will move on to drill Total's well Skirne in PL 627. Licence partners in PL 510 will carefully evaluate new options for the licence work programme, including a potential redrill of the Tvillingen South prospect. Partners in the licence are Maersk Oil Norway AS (operator with 50 per cent), Edison Norge AS (30 per cent) and North Energy (20 per cent).
Total set to spud Skirne Ost prospect in March 2015
Total E&P Norge AS (“TEPN”) has received consent for exploration drilling of wells 25/6-5 S and 25/6-5 A. TEPN is the operator for production licence 627 in block 25/6 in the central North Sea. TEPN is to drill wells 25/6-5 S and 25/6-5 A Skirne Øst, to investigate the find's potential. Expected start-up is March 2015 with a duration of approximately 50 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. Leiv Eiriksson is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the SS Trosvik Bingo 9000 type. The facility is owned by Ocean Rig and will be operated by Rig Management Norway.
Total gets approval to drill 25/6-5 S well in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 25/6-5 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/6-5 S will be drilled from the Leif Eiriksson drilling facility at position 59°35’27.15” north and 02°45’39.46” east, in the central part of the North Sea. The drilling programme for well 25/6-5 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 627. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Centrica Resources (Norge) AS, Det norske oljeselskap ASA and Faroe Petroleum Norge AS, each with 20 per cent. The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 25/5, 25/6, 25/8 and 25/9. Production licence 627 was awarded on 3 February 2012 (APA 2011). This is the first exploration well to be drilled in the licence, but exploration wells have been drilled before within the area covered by this licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
'Eirik Raude' arrives in Falkland Islands
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (“FOGL”), the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive license areas to the North, South and East of the Falklands islands, and Rockhopper Exploration plc (“RKH”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, are pleased to announce that the drilling unit Eirik Raude has arrived in the North Falkland Basin (“NFB”) and will shortly be moving to location to commence the first well, on the Zebedee prospect, of the six well drilling campaign that will see two wells drilled in the NFB then one to the south of the islands, followed by two more in the north and a final slot in the south.
Premier spuds Zebedee prospect
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), has announced that the 14/15-5 well (“Zebedee”) was spudded by Premier Oil on 6th March 2015. The well is located on licence PL004b in which Rockhopper has a 24% working interest and is an exploration well. The Zebedee well will test a total of seven stacked fan bodies with varying geological chances of success (GCoS) of 9 - 52%. Net prospective Pmean resources are estimated at 68 million barrels (mmbbls) in a range of 13 - 178 mmbbls. Drilling, coring and logging operations are expected to take approximately 30 days. A further release will be made when those operations are completed. The well was spudded by the Eirik Raude semisub rig which will drill a further five wells in the Falkland Islands. The current drilling order is, Zebedee in licence PL004b, Isobel Deep in licence PL004a, Humpback in southern licence area, Jayne East in licence PL004c, Chatham in licence PL032 and a sixth well yet to be decided. The North Falkland Basin wells are anticipated to cost approximately USD50 million each.
OMV set to drill Bjaaland prospect
OMV Norge AS (“OMV”) is the operator for production licence 537 in block 7324/8 in the Barents Sea. OMV is to drill well 7324/8-2 Bjaaland, to investigate the find's potential. Expected start-up is April 2015 with a duration of approx. 47 days, depending on the discovery. Leiv Eiriksson is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the SS Trosvik Bingo 9000 type. The facility is owned by Ocean Rig and will be operated by Rig Management Norway. Leiv Eiriksson is registered in the Bahamas and classified by DNV GL. Leiv Eiriksson was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance by the PSA in July 2008.
Shango exploration well commences drilling in the Norwegian North Sea
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, is pleased to announce the spudding of the Shango exploration well 25/6-5S (Faroe 20%). The Shango prospect in Licence PL 627 (named Skirne East by the operator Total E&P Norge AS (“Total”)) is located in the Norwegian North Sea on the northern part of the Utsira High approximately 5 kilometres from the producing Skirne field, which is also operated by Total. Shango is a structural prospect where the primary target is the Middle Jurassic Hugin formation reservoir, which has proved to be of excellent quality in the neighbouring Skirne field. Shango is located on the spill-route from the Skirne field which is producing above expectations and has been interpreted to be filled to spill. A fast-track subsea development to the Skirne field is planned if the prospect is found to contain a similar gas and condensate hydrocarbon type as found in Skirne. Skirne has been developed as a tie-back to the Statoil-operated Heimdal platform approximately 24 kilometres to the west. The Shango exploration well, located in approximately 120 metres of water, is being operated by Total (40%) using the Leif Eriksson drilling rig with partners Centrica Resources Norge AS (20%) and Det norske oljeselskap AS (20%). Results from the well will be announced when drilling operations are complete.
Premier strikes oil and gas with Zebedee-1
Premier Oil Plc (“Premier”) has announced that the Zebedee well (14/15b-5) in PL004b (Premier 36 per cent equity) discovered 81 feet of net oil-bearing reservoir and 55 feet of net gas-bearing reservoir. The well penetrated multiple targets in the Cretaceous F2 and F3 formations with a total hydrocarbon net pay of 136 feet. The reservoir at both the Hector and Zebedee intervals is of good quality and the above results are in line with prognosis. Good oil shows were recorded at the deeper F3 targets but at this location the sands are not well developed. The well will now be plugged and abandoned as a successful exploration well. The Eirik Raude rig will then drill the first exploration test of the Elaine/Isobel fan complex in the southern part of the North Falkland Basin with the Isobel Deep well. The results of this well are expected in late April.
Isobel Deep well spud in Falkland Islands
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, has announced that the 14/20-1 'Isobel Deep' well (the "Well") was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, at 22:20 local time on the 8th April 2015. The Well is located on licence PL004a in which Rockhopper has a 24% working interest and is an exploration well on the Isobel deep prospect. The Isobel Deep Well will be the first test of the F3 fan system entering the basin from the South East margin as a sequence of stacked reservoirs. This well will be targeting the Isobel deep fan in the area of maximum mapped reservoir thickness and has a GCoS of 20%. The well is targeting Gross Pmean resources of 72mmbbls (range 9-207mmbbls) although the complex as a whole in this area has gross Pmean prospective resources of just over 500mmbbls. Drilling operations are expected to take approximately 30 days and no coring or testing is planned for this well. A further release will be made when drilling is completed. The North Falkland Basin wells are anticipated to cost approximately USD50 million each. As a result of the various carry arrangements, the total net cash exposure to Rockhopper of the four wells is estimated at approximately USD25 million.
Total makes minor gas discovery near Skirne field
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 627, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 25/6-5 S. The well was drilled about 7 kilometres east of the Skirne field in the central part of the North Sea, and about 170 kilometres northwest of Stavanger. The objective of well 25/6-5 S was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Hugin formation). The well encountered a 10-metre gas column in the Hugin formation with good to very good reservoir quality. The well was not formation tested, but data acquisition was carried out. Preliminary calculations of the size of the discovery are between 0.4 and 1.5 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents (o.e.). The licensees will evaluate the discovery with regard to development. This is the first exploration well in production licence 627, which was awarded in APA 2011. The well was drilled to a measured and vertical depth of 2520 and 2366 metres beneath the sea surface, respectively, and was terminated in the Dunlin formation in the Lower Jurassic. Water depth is 120 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 25/6-5 S was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility which will now proceed to the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7324/8-2 in production licence 537, where OMV (Norge) AS is the operator.
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited announces change to drilling programme
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited ("FOGL"), the exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the North, South and East of the Falkland Islands, has announced that Noble Energy ("Noble") and its joint venture partners FOGL and Edison International ("Edison") have elected to defer a potential second well in the South and East Falkland basin. The joint venture partners have concluded; having taken into account a number of factors, that the optimum course of action is to defer the drilling of a second well in the southern basin. In these circumstances FOGL was amenable to a proposal from Noble, that in order to fulfil the drilling commitment, they should utilise the contracted drilling slot to drill a well in the North Falklands Basin. Noble, Edison and FOGL remain fully committed to exploration in the South and East basin and still firmly believe in its prospectivity. The well on the Humpback prospect is considered by the joint venture partners to be the prime 'play opening' well. It is an important test of concept, in terms of evaluating the Cretaceous deepwater fan play and the presence of oil within the Fitzroy sub-basin. Humpback is located near a cluster of similar prospects totalling over one billion barrels of oil. The operator estimates that the Humpback prospect contains between 250 and 650 mmbbls of gross prospective resources (un-risked). If the initial drilling results are encouraging, the joint venture partners will look to fully appraise Humpback and drill other similar prospects within the play area. Such further exploration and appraisal drilling would be part of a future campaign, with wells on either Scharnhorst and/or Starfish also possibly forming part of such a programme. This decision does not impact any existing agreements between FOGL and Noble. In the event that another exploration well is drilled after Humpback, within the joint venture's licence area, FOGL would still retain a partial carry of the drilling costs under the terms of the Noble farm out agreement. FOGL is fully funded for the firm four wells and will be left in a stronger and more sustainable financial position as a result of this decision. Following this agreement, the revised drilling schedule is 1. Zebedee, 2. Isobel Deep, 3. Humpback, 4. Jayne East, 5. Chatham, 6. Rhea. The drilling program is currently being carried out by the Eirik Raude semisub which recently spudded the Isobel Deep well.
OMV given approval to spud Wisting prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7324/8-2, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7324/8-2 will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility at position 73 24` 0.63" north and 24 26´ 43.60" east. The drilling programme for well 7324/8-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 537. OMV Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 25 per cent and the licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 20 per cent, Petoro AS with 20 per cent, Tullow Oil Norge AS with 20 per cent and Statoil Petroleum AS with 15 per cent. The production licence consists of blocks 7324/7 and 7324/8. The production licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Wildcat well 7324/8-2 is the fourth exploration well in production licence 537. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Premier runs into trouble whilst drilling Isobel Deep
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, is providing an update on the operations on the 14/20-1 Isobel Deep well ("Well") that was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on 8th April 2015. Following successful setting of the 13 3/8" casing string at a depth of 1273.9m mdrkb, the Well has encountered problems with the BOP stack as a result of equipment malfunction which has required the Well to be suspended and BOP stack recovered for the necessary repairs. The Operator has decided to move the rig and set conductors at the Chatham and Jayne East locations. The rig will return to the Isobel Deep location to continue drilling on completion of BOP repairs and a further operational update will be issued at that time. No spud announcements will be made for the Chatham or Jayne East wells but information on the setting of conductors will be made in the next operational update.
Tullow set to spud Zumba prospect
Tullow Oil Norge AS (“TONAS”) has received consent for exploration drilling of well 6507/11-11. Tullow Oil Norge AS is the operator for production licence 591 in block 6507/11 in the Norwegian Sea. TONAS has applied for consent to drill exploration well 6507/11-11 in a prospect named Zumba. Drilling is scheduled to begin in May/June 2015 and estimated to last 50 days. In the event of a discovery, the activity may last a further 8 days for well testing. Water depth at the site is 272 metres.
Cairn Energy cements Senegal drilling programme
Cairn Energy PLC (“Cairn”) and its joint venture partners have submitted a three year evaluation work plan to the Government of Senegal including an initial programme of three firm and three optional exploration and appraisal wells, with drilling starting in Q4 2015 in Cairn’s new basin play offshore Senegal focused on the acreage around the SNE-1 discovery well. Cairn estimates that the existing two discoveries and the currently identified prospects and leads have an estimated mean risked resource base of more than a billion barrels. The company has selected the Ocean Rig Athena drillship for the drilling programme and is in the final stages of finalising the rig contract. The drillship is currently contracted to ConocoPhillips in Angola until June 2017 and it is not yet clear whether the contract will be a sublet or if Cairn is taking over part of ConocoPhillips’ contract. The firm three well programme is currently planned to include two appraisal wells of the SNE-1 discovery which will core and test the reservoir, as well as one shelf exploration well. There will also be a 2,000km2 3D seismic data acquisition campaign over the Sangomar and Rufisque blocks to help fully map the prospectivity of the contract area. A work programme and budget for the three optional wells will be presented to joint venture partners in Q3 2015. Targets for these wells will be drawn from a combination of further evaluation of the SNE-1 discovery, additional exploration in the shelf region, and exploration in the acreage around FAN-1. Drilling plans for these wells will be subject to ongoing FAN studies and the results of the first three firm wells. Simon Thomson, Chief Executive of Cairn said: “Cairn made two significant discoveries offshore Senegal in 2014 proving a hydrocarbon system in a new and emerging Atlantic Margin Basin. We are excited about the exploration and appraisal opportunity of this world class asset. We have now submitted a three year evaluation work plan to the Government of Senegal which is designed to lay the foundation for a long term multi-field, multi phase exploitation plan. Our focus will be to add value in Senegal within a balanced, well funded company. We are well placed to take advantage of this exciting opportunity as we build on the success of last year.”
'Eirik Raude' restarts Isobel Deep drilling
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, has announced the following operations update. The Erik Raude semisub rig has now completed repairs to its BOP control system and has undergone the subsequent re-testing of the BOP stack following its return to the Isobel Deep well location where drilling re-commenced on 11th May 2015. Since suspending operations on the Isobel Deep (14/20-1) well on 24th April 2015, the rig has spudded and suspended the Jayne East (14/15c-6) well at 541m mdrkb on 29th April 2015 and spudded and suspended the Chatham (14/10-10) well at 1388m mdrkb on 4th May 2015.
NPD approves Zumba prospect drilling
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Tullow Oil Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6507/11-11, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6507/11-11 will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility in position 65° 14' 16.06'' north and 7° 30' 39.31'' east completing wildcat well 7324/8-2 in production licence 537 for OMV (Norge) AS. The drilling programme for well 6507/11-11 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 591. Tullow Oil Norge AS is the operator with an ownership share of 80 per cent. The other licensees are North Energy ASA (15 per cent) and Lime Petroleum Norway AS (5 per cent). The area in this licence consists of part of block 6507/8, part of block 6507/9 and part of block 6507/11. The well will be drilled about 14 kilometres southeast of the Heidrun field and about 220 kilometres west of the Njord field. Production licence 591 was awarded on 4 February 2011 (APA 2010). This is the first well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
OMV drills duster at Bjaaland prospect
OMV (Norge) AS, operator of production licence 537, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 7324/8-2. The well was drilled about 6 kilometres southeast of oil discovery 7324/8-1 "Wisting" in the Barents Sea and 310 km north of Hammerfest. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic to Late Triassic Age (the Stø and Fruholmen formations). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle to Late Triassic Age (the Snadd formation). The well encountered about 15-metre thick reservoir rocks in the Stø formation with good reservoir quality and about 55-metre thick reservoir rocks in the Fruholmen formation with medium to good reservoir quality. The well also encountered about 10-metre thick reservoir rocks in the Snadd formation with good reservoir quality. The well is dry. Data acquisition and sampling has been carried out. This is the fourth exploration well in production licence 537. The licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Well 7324/8-2 was drilled to a vertical depth of 815 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Snadd formation from the Late Triassic Age. Water depth at the site is 394 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7324/8-2 was drilled by the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility, which is now scheduled to drill wildcat well 6507/11-11 in production licence 591 in the Norwegian Sea, operated by Tullow Oil Norge AS.
Ocean Rig and Eni complete drilling contract agreement
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (“Ocean Rig”) today announced that in connection with the previously announced omnibus agreement with Eni Angola S.p.A (“Eni”), all closing connections including approvals by national authorities and signing of definitive documentation has been satisfied. The omnibus agreement was originally announced by Ocean Rig on the 8th January 2015. As a result of the completed agreement, the contract for the Ocean Rig Poseidon has been extended for a full year, until Q2 2017 and the unit now has a total contract backlog of USD367 million. Meanwhile the Eni has entered into a new contract for the Ocean Rig Olympia which is expected to commence drilling in Angola in Q3 2015 for a minimum period of eight months and a total contract value of USD91 million.
Potential oil shows at Isobel Deep
Rockhopper Exploration plc (“Rockhopper”), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, is pleased to provide the following update ahead of the Company's AGM today in relation to the Isobel Deep Well. Following the penetration of a sand interval with suspected elevated formation pressure and oil shows, the operator (Premier Oil) has decided to set a cement plug over this interval and run the contingent 9 5/8" casing string in the shale section above, prior to drilling through the prognosed Isobel reservoir interval to the well TD (“Total Depth”). The contingent casing string will enable additional flexibility while drilling and evaluating the target formation. This scenario had been anticipated and the additional 9 5/8" casing is already on the rig. The presence of oil shows is not necessarily indicative of net pay and conclusive results for the well will not be available until drilling operations have been completed and logging data collected. A further announcement on the results of the well will now be likely in early June.
Premier announces discovery at Isobel Deep
Premier Oil is pleased to announce an oil discovery at the Isobel Deep exploration well 14/20-1 in the North Falkland Basin, approximately 30km south of the Sea Lion field. The Isobel Deep exploration well has been drilled to a depth of 8,289 feet reaching top reservoir on prognosis. The bottom 75 feet of the well consists of oil bearing F3 sands. These sands were at a higher than expected reservoir pressure and this resulted in an influx into the well. As part of the operations to remove the influx, oil was recovered from the well and appears similar in nature to Sea Lion crude. As a result of the new geological information it has been decided to suspend operations on the well and release the rig to drill in the South Falkland Basin. The rig is expected to return to continue operations in the North Falklands Basin in August. Premier is now considering the optimal appraisal programme for the Elaine/Isobel complex in PL004.
Noble Energy spuds Humpback well
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (“FOGL”), the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the North, South and East of the Falklands islands, is pleased to announce that the 'Humpback' exploration well, (the "Well") was spudded on 13th June 2015. The well is located on licence PL012 in which FOGL has a 52.5% working interest and will target the Humpback prospect. Humpback is located within a cluster of similar prospects, in the Fitzroy sub-basin, which have a total, combined, prospective resource of over one billion barrels of oil. The well will test multiple stacked reservoirs within the Cretaceous Diomedea fan complex. The Humpback well is located in a water depth of approximately 1,260 metres and is expected to reach a total depth of 5,350 metres. The well is anticipated to take approximately 65 days to drill. A further release will be issued once logging is completed. FOGL is partially carried through the costs of this well by Noble Energy (Licence Operator) and has a paying interest of 27.5%.
Tullow hits dust with Zumba well
Tullow Oil plc (“Tullow”) has announced that the Zumba exploration well (6507/11-11) in licence area PL 591 in the Norwegian Sea has not encountered hydrocarbons and will now be plugged and abandoned. The primary objective of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Upper Jurassic Rogn Formation with a secondary target in the Mid-Jurassic Garn Formation of the Fangst Group. The well found no reservoir development in the Rogn Formation and, while the Garn Formation had good reservoir quality, no hydrocarbons were present in either target. The well was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semisub rig in 270 metres of water to a total depth of 2,875 metres. Tullow Oil Norge AS is the operator of PL 591 with 40% equity. Lime Petroleum Norway AS (25%), Rocksource (20%*) and North Energy ASA (15%) hold non-operated interests.
North Falkland Basin Exploration Update
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, is pleased to announce that agreement has been reached to drill a further well on the Isobel/Elaine complex. The re-drill well will target the Isobel Deep reservoir which was oil bearing in well 14/20-1, but could not be logged or sampled for mechanical reasons. This new well will be drilled a suitable distance (approximately 4km) from the original well bore and is also expected to encounter additional reservoir targets in the Elaine South and Isobel Shallow Fans. This well will replace the Jayne East well in the current drilling campaign (subject to the final regulatory approvals). As part of the agreement to drill a further well on the Isobel/Elaine complex, Rockhopper has reached agreement with Falkland Oil & Gas Limited ("FOGL") on the terms of compensation for not drilling the Jayne East well. Under the agreement, Rockhopper will pay FOGL $4.0 million ($2.0 million immediately with the balance expected to be paid later in 2016). As per the original farm out agreement, Rockhopper and Premier Oil will carry FOGL on its 40% equity share of the re-drill well costs. The rig, which is currently drilling to the south of the Falkland Islands, is expected to return to the North Falkland Basin in mid to late October 2015.
Maersk find at Tvillingen South is non-commercial
North Energy has announced a non-commercial gas/condensate discovery from the Tvillingen Sør exploration well in PL 510 in the Norwegian Sea. The main objective of well 6406/6-4S was to test the reservoir properties and hydrocarbon potential of the Middle to Lower Jurassic sandstones on the Tvillingen Sør horst structure. The well encountered a hydrocarbon column of up to 30 metres in Garn Formation sandstones with good reservoir quality. The deeper reservoir targets showed high reservoir quality, but were water wet. The well was not formation tested, but data acquisition and sampling were carried out. Maersk Oil Norge AS is the operator of PL 510. Well 6406/6-4S was drilled to a total depth of 4,484 metres in the Tilje Formation by the Leiv Eiriksson rig. North Energy ASA holds a 20 per cent working interest in PL 510. Maersk Oil Norge AS holds 50 per cent and Edison Norge AS holds 30 per cent.
Oceam Rig releases update on current fleet status
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (“Ocean Rig”) has released an update to the current status of the company’s offshore rig fleet. In the release Ocean Rig announced that the Ocean Rig Skyros commenced its new six year contract with Total in Angola on the 1st October 2015 as well as giving updates as to the Leiv Eiriksson, Eirik Raude and Ocean Rig Olympia units. With regards to the latter three units, Ocean Rig announced that upon completion of their current contracts the company will look to cold stack the units if no new contracts can be secured and in the cases of the Eirik Raude and Leiv Eiriksson semisubs the company may choose to dispose of the assets through scrapping. Meanwhile the company also announced that on the 25th September it received a notice from Petrobras of a material breach under the contract for the Ocean Rig Mylos drillship which would enable Petrobras to terminate the contract if the breach is not remedied within 75 days. Ocean Rig announced that it intends to defend its rights under the contract.
Ocean Rig Announces Fleet Update
The Eirik Raude is currently completing its third well in a six-well program in the Falklands and is now expected to remain employed in the Falkland Islands into January of 2016. Currently, there are no further prospects of employment for the rig in the Falkland Islands and if no employment is found the rig will be cold stacked and the Company will consider all its options including disposing or scrapping the unit.
The Leiv Eiriksson is in the process of completing its current well in Norway. As of the date of this press release, there is no further program for the unit under its current contract which is expected to expire in March 2016. Currently, there are few further prospects of employment for the rig and if no employment is found the rig will be cold stacked and the Company will consider all its options including disposing or scrapping the unit.
The Ocean Rig Olympia has successfully started its new contract in Angola as of August 15, 2015. The rig is expected to move to the Ivory Coast for one well in the fourth quarter of 2015 and return to Angola to complete its remaining contract until June 2016. Currently, there are no prospects for further employment and if no employment is found the rig will be cold stacked and the respective SPS will be postponed.
'Ocean Rig Athena' to mobilise to Senegal in the coming days
FAR Limited (“FAR”) and its Senegal joint venture partners have executed contracts for the use of the Ocean Rig Athena drillship for a drilling program in FAR’s highly prospective offshore Senegal Blocks starting in the coming weeks. The Ocean Rig Athena is under long term contract with ConocoPhillips and the ConocoPhillips drilling organisation will play a key role in project managing the drilling program. The drillship is currently in Angola and FAR expects it will commence mobilisation to Senegal in the next few days. The firm drilling program includes three wells including two appraisal wells on the world class SNE-1 oil discovery that will include a coring and testing program, plus one shelf exploration well to further evaluate the shelf area prospectivity. This drilling, logging, coring and testing program is expected to be completed by mid- 2016. The first two wells (SNE-2 and SNE-3) will be drilled to appraise the SNE field and are aimed at progressing towards proving the threshold economic field size which FAR estimates is in the order of 200 mmbbls for a foundation project. The third well (BEL-1) in the drilling program will be the first exploration well to be drilled in the blocks following the discoveries in the FAN-1 and SNE-1 wells. This well will be aimed at building the resource base within tie-back range of a possible future hub development over the SNE field. It will be drilled into the Bellatrix Prospect which has been mapped by FAR to contain 168 mmbbls of oil on a gross, unrisked, prospective resource basis with 25 mmbbls net to FAR. The day rate for drilling for the Senegal joint venture has been adjusted downwards to reflect prevailing market conditions, where day rates have dropped by up to 50% for deep water drilling units offshore Africa. These reduced rates are expected to allow the drilling and testing program to be completed for a heavily reduced cost in comparison to what was envisaged 12 months ago under a higher oil price environment.
'Ocean Rig Athena' enroute to Senegal
FAR Limited (“FAR”) has announced that the Ocean Rig Athena drillship has commenced mobilisation from Luanda, Angola in preparation for the appraisal and exploration drilling program in FAR’s highly prospective blocks, offshore Senegal. The SNE discovery made in late 2014 will be appraised with the first two wells in the three well drilling program. The firm drilling program will include a coring and testing program, two appraisal wells for SNE (SNE-2 and SNE- 3) plus one shelf exploration well (BEL-1) to further evaluate the shelf area prospectivity. The three wells will be drilled, logged, cored and tested in a program expected to be completed by mid-2016. BEL-1 will be the first exploration well to be drilled in the blocks following the discoveries in the FAN-1 and SNE- 1 wells.
53/02-01 Humpback exploration well results
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (AIM:FOGL), the exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the North, South and East of the Falkland Islands, announces the results from the 53/02-01 Humpback exploration well and also, notes the announcement from the Operator, Noble Energy made at 20:30 on 28 October 2015. The Humpback well was drilled to a total depth of 5,136 meters (measured depth). The well encountered non-commercial quantities of oil and gas within a number of sandstone intervals, including the main APX-200 target. All of the pre-drill targets were penetrated close to prognosis in the well. An additional 25 meters of sandstone was encountered below the APX-200 bringing the total in the well to 65 meters. The deeper sandstones, exhibit only moderate porosity (10% to 15%) and low hydrocarbon saturations. For a number of operational reasons, it was not possible to obtain fluid samples from any of the hydrocarbon bearing zones in the well. FOGL will now evaluate these results in more detail and assess the impact on the prospectivity of the Diomedea fan complex and the rest of the southern licences. The results do however demonstrate a working hydrocarbon system and Humpback was only one of a number of geological plays within the Fitzroy sub-basin. Importantly the results will allow calibration of the 3D seismic data and this may facilitate the mapping of higher quality sands elsewhere within the large area covered by 3D seismic. Once operations have been completed on Humpback, the Eirik Raude rig will return to the North Falklands Basin to drill a second well on the Elaine/Isobel fan complex. The Elaine/Isobel fan complex, based on the operator’s estimates, has multiple reservoir targets and gross mean un-risked resources of 400 million barrels of oil. A further announcement will be made on the commencement of this well.
Drilling commences offshore Senegal
Drilling has started on the appraisal program to evaluate the world class SNE oil discovery offshore Senegal. The three wells SNE-2, SNE-3 and BEL-1 will be drilled back to back in a program that is estimated to be completed in mid-2016. Both SNE-2 and SNE-3 appraisal wells will be logged, cored and flow tested. The aim of the appraisal program is to progress towards proving a minimum economic field size for the SNE discovery, which FAR estimates to be approximately 200 million barrels of oil. In addition the BEL-1 well will also evaluate the Bellatrix prospect which lies on the untested Buried Hills exploration play (refer Figures 1, 2). For reasons of operational efficiency, the top hole of SNE-3 will be drilled first by the Ocean Rig Athena. The rig will be then be mobilised to the SNE-2 well location where SNE-2 will then be drilled to total depth (TD). Operations on the top hole of the SNE-3 well and drilling to total depth (TD) on the SNE-2 well are expected to last approximately 6 weeks after which the coring, logging and flow testing program will commence on SNE-2. On completion of the operations on SNE-2, SNE-3 will be re-entered and drilling and evaluation will be carried out before commencement of the BEL-1 well.
SNE-2: First appraisal well starts drilling offshore Senegal
The first appraisal well to be drilled on the SNE oil field located 100km offshore Senegal has been spudded. The SNE-2 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 metres of water and drilled to a TDVSS (total vertical depth subsea) of approximately 2,770 metres before an evaluation program including logging, coring and flow testing is undertaken. Three evaluation wells, SNE-2, SNE-3 and BEL-1, will be drilled back to back in a program that is estimated to be completed in mid-2016. Both SNE-2 and SNE-3 appraisal wells will be logged, cored and flow tested. The aim of the appraisal program is to progress towards proving a minimum economic field size for the SNE discovery, which FAR estimates to be approximately 200 million barrels of oil. In addition, the BEL-1 well will drill the Bellatrix exploration prospect which will evaluate the untested Buried Hills play. BEL1 will also appraise the northern portion of the SNE oil field (refer Figures 1, 2). For reasons of operational efficiency, the top hole of SNE-3 was drilled prior to the spud of SNE-2 (to a depth of 1,750 metres) by the Ocean Rig Athena (refer ASX announcement 2 Nov 2015). Drilling of the SNE-2 well is expected to take approximately 5 weeks after which the logging and flow testing program will commence. On completion of the operations on SNE-2, SNE-3 will be re-entered and drilling and evaluation will be carried out on SNE-3 before commencement of the BEL-1 well. FAR and its joint venture partners will be operating a tight hole policy, and therefore FAR does not anticipate making any further announcements regarding the drilling program until the SNE-2 well has reached TDVSS.
Isobel Deep Re-drill Well Spud
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (AIM:FOGL), the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive license areas to the North, South and East of the Falklands islands, is pleased to announce that the 14/20-2 ‘Isobel 2’ well (the "Well") was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on 21 November 2015. The well is located on licence PL004a , in which FOGL has a 40% working interest, and lies approximately 4 km away from the 14/20-1 Isobel Deep oil discovery. The well will target the Isobel Deep reservoir and is a re-drill of the 14/20-1 well drilled earlier this year, which failed to reach Total Depth owing to operational issues. The well will test the F3 fan systems, which are mapped as entering the basin from the south east margin and comprise a sequence of stacked reservoirs. In addition to Isobel Deep, the well will also penetrate four other fans within the complex, comprising: Elaine South, Isobel, Doreen and Irene. The Elaine/Isobel fan complex, based on the operator’s estimates, has multiple reservoir targets and gross, mean un-risked resources of 400 million barrels of oil. A further release will be issued once the well has been completed and this is expected to be in January 2016. FOGL is fully carried through the costs of this well by Premier Oil and Rockhopper Exploration.
Successful Senegal Appraisal Well
Cairn is pleased to announce the successful testing of the SNE-2 appraisal well offshore Senegal with positive results. Operations have been safely and successfully completed following drilling, coring, logging and drill-stem testing (DST). The well is now being plugged and abandoned. Following this first successful appraisal well, resource estimates for the SNE field will be fully revised and announced after the results of the further appraisal activity. Evaluation of the extensive dataset collected is continuing, with preliminary analysis focused on the DST. The SNE- 2 well is located in 1,200m water depth and is approximately 100 kilometres (km) offshore in the Sangomar Offshore block, reached the planned total depth (TD) of 2,800m below sea level (TVDSS). The well has been appraising the 2014 discovery of high quality oil in the SNE-1 well, some 3 km to the south.
Ocean Rig announces notice of termination for the Ocean Rig Olympia
Ocean Rig, a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, announced today that “due to the dramatic fall of the crude oil price and the volatile market context, ENI has reassessed its drilling activities and taken the decision to exercise its right of terminating” the contract of the Ocean Rig Olympia.
Termination of drilling contract
Premier and Noble Energy entered into a contract with Ocean Rig UDW (“Ocean Rig”) on 3 June 2014, for the provision of the Eirik Raude drilling unit for an exploration drilling campaign in the Falkland Islands. Following a number of material operational issues with the Eirik Raude rig during the term of the contract to date, Premier and Noble Energy issued a termination notice to Ocean Rig on 11 February 2016, terminating the contract with immediate effect. As a result, Premier will no longer be drilling the Chatham exploration well during the current campaign. However, we are in discussions with the Falkland Islands Government regarding the possibility of drilling this prospect in the future.
TOTAL E&P Congo on February 11, 2016 has given notification to terminate for convenience the long-term contract of the 7th generation ultra-deepwater drillship Ocean Rig Apollo. As per the contract Ocean Rig is entitled to a termination fee that varies from 50% to 95% of the operating daily rate that will be payable over the balance of the contract. The Ocean Rig Apollo will demobilize from Congo in due course and is available for alternative employment. In connection with the termination of the drilling contract of the Ocean Rig Apollo, the Company has notified the agent under the respective loan agreement and is currently in discussions with its lenders about the consequences of such termination.
Dry well northeast of the Garantiana discovery in the North Sea - 34/6-4
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 554, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 34/6-4. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 6 kilometres northeast of the 34/6-2 S (Garantiana) oil discovery. The purpose of the well was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks in the the Cook formation. The well encountered about 96 metres of aquiferous sandstone in the Cook formation with poor to moderate reservoir quality. The well is classified as dry. Data acquisition has been carried out. This is the fifth exploration well in production licence 554, awarded in 2010 (APA 2009). Well 34/6-4 was drilled to a vertical depth of 4084 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Lower Jurassic Burton Formation. Water depth in the area is 390 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 34/6-4 was drilled by the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility.
BEL-1 well starts drilling offshore Senegal
Following the successful drilling of the first two appraisal wells offshore Senegal, the third well to be drilled as part of the SNE oil field appraisal program offshore Senegal has been spudded. The BEL-1 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 metres of water and drilled to a TDVSS (total vertical depth subsea) of approximately 2,757 metres before an evaluation program including logging and coring is undertaken (refer figures 1 and 2). The aim of the appraisal program is to progress towards proving a minimum economic field size for the SNE discovery, which FAR estimates to be approximately 200 million barrels of oil. In addition, the BEL-1 well will drill the Bellatrix exploration prospect which will evaluate the untested Buried Hills play. BEL-1 will also be deepened to appraise the northern portion of the SNE oil field (refer figure 3). Drilling of the BEL-1 well will be followed by a wireline logging and coring program before the well is plugged and abandoned according to plans. BEL-1 operations are expected to be completed next month. FAR and its joint venture partners will be operating a tight hole policy, and therefore FAR does not anticipate making any further announcements regarding the drilling program until the BEL- 1 well has reached TDVSS.
Leiv Eiriksson contract to Westcon
Ocean Rig has signed a drilling contract with Lundin Norway for use of Leiv Eiriksson in the Barents Sea. After the completion of the contract with Rig Management Norway, the drilling rig has arrived at Westcon Yards in Olen. «We are very satisfied with winning this project in a demanding market situation. Westcon will prepare the rig for use in the Barents Sea. Among other things, this includes winterization and installation of third party equipment», says Malvin Eide, rig repair manager at Westcon. At the moment, the rig Polar Pioneer and Henry Goodridge are at the quays. Safe Scandinavia and Borgland Dolphin left Westcon Yards earlier this week. “We have thus good capacity and constantly looking for more projects», Eide says.
Total to use 'Leiv Eiriksson' to spud wildcat well on Trell prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 25/5-8, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/5-8 will be drilled from the Leif Eiriksson drilling facility at position 59°37’05.65” north and 02°23’44.48” east. The drilling programme for well 25/5-8 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 102 F. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with a 50 per cent ownership interest. The other licensees are Petoro AS with 30 per cent, Centrica Resources (Norge) AS with 10 per cent and Det norske oljeselskap ASA with 10 per cent. The area in this licence comprises part of block 25/5 in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 102 F was awarded on 10 October 2013 (APA 2011). This is the first exploration well to be drilled in the licence, and within the licence area. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity commences.
OMV set to drill 7324/7-1 S wildcat well with 'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7324/7-1 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. The 7324/7-1 S wellbore will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility at position 73°29` 17.73" N and 24°16´ 48.50" E. The drilling program for wellbore 7324/7-1 S concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 537. OMV Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 25% and the other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 20%, Petoro AS with 20%, Tullow Oil Norge AS with 20% and Statoil Petroleum AS with 15%. The production licence consists of blocks 7324/7 and 7324/8. The production licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Wildcat well 7324/7-1 S will be the second exploration well in production licence 537. The drilling permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub given approval to drill Wisting prospect for OMV in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7324/8-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. The 7324/8-1 wellbore will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility at position 73°27` 6.23" N and 24°24´ 15.43" E. The drilling programme for wellbore 7324/8-1 concerns the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 537. OMV Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 25% and the other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 20%, Petoro AS with 20%, Tullow Oil Norge AS with 20% and Statoil Petroleum AS with 15%. The production licence consists of blocks 7324/7 and 7324/8. The production licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Wildcat well 7324/8-1 is the first exploration well in production licence 537. The drilling permit is contingent upon the operator securing the other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
Total E&P Norge AS set to use 'Leiv Eirkisson' semisub on Norvarg appraisal
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7225/3-2, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 7225/3-2 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72 57` 05.17" north and 25 58´ 23.34" east. The drilling programme for well 7225/3-2 relates to drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 535. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are North Energy ASA with 20 per cent, Det norske oljeselskap ASA with 20 per cent, Valiant Petroleum Norge AS with 13 per cent and Rocksource Exploration Norway AS with 7 per cent. The production licence consists of blocks 7225/3 and 7226/1, and was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Wildcat well 7225/3-2 is the second exploration well in production licence 535. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to starting drilling activities.
OMV drills dry well northeast of Johan Castberg with 'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub
Dry well northeast of the gas/oil discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea – 7324/7-1 S. OMV (Norway) AS, operator of production licence 537, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 7324/7-1 S. The well has been drilled about five kilometres northwest of the oil discovery 7324/8-1 ("Wisting Central") and about 170 kilometres northeast of the gas/oil discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg. The well's primary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (the Kobbe formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Middle to Late Triassic (the Snadd formation). Reservoir rocks were encountered in the Kobbe and Snadd formations, but with poorer than expected reservoir properties. The well was classified as dry, with traces of petroleum. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. This is the second exploration well in production licence 537. The production licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2454 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in The Kobbe formation in rocks from the Middle Triassic age. Sea depth is 413 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7324/7-1 was drilled with the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 040 in the North Sea to drill well 30/40-D, where Total E&P Norge AS is the operator.
'Leiv Eiriksson' completes drilling of Barents sea wildcat
OMV (Norge) AS, operator of production licence 537, is in the process of completing drilling of wildcat well 7324/8-1. The well proved oil. The discovery was made about 170 kilometres northeast of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and about 310 kilometres north of Hammerfest. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle and Early Jurassic reservoir rocks (upper Realgrunnen subgroup). The well encountered a 50-60-metre oil column in the Realgrunnen subgroup with reservoir properties as expected. Preliminary calculations estimate the size of the discovery at between 10-26 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil. The results confirm oil in the play from the Early and Middle Jurassic Age. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling were carried out. Further delineation of the discovery will be considered. This is the first exploration well drilled in production licence 537, which was awarded in the 20th licencing round in 2009. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 905 metres below the sea surface and terminated in the Snadd formation from the Late Triassic. Water depth is 373 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7324/8-1 was drilled by the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility, which will proceed on to drill wildcat well 7324/7-1 on another prospect in the same production licence.
'Leiv Eiriksson' semisub completes delineation well on Norvarg discovery in PL 535
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 535, is about to complete drilling of appraisal well 7225/3-2 on the 7225/3-1 gas discovery (Norvarg discovery). The appraisal well was drilled about 5 km from the discovery well. The discovery was proven in 2011, in reservoir rocks from the Middle Jurassic (Stø formation) and Late and Middle Triassic (Snadd, Kobbe and Havert formations). It was drilled about 275 kilometres north of Hammerfest in the Barents Sea. Before well 7225/3-2 was drilled, the operator’s resource estimate for the discovery was between 10 and 50 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The exploration target for the well was to delineate the 7225/3-1 gas discovery in reservoir rocks from the Middle Triassic (Kobbe formation). The secondary exploration target was to delineate the discovery in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Stø formation). The well encountered gas in the Kobbe formation and with reservoir rocks of varying quality. The reservoir has better porosity than the 7225/3-1 discovery, but similar permeability and productivity. Reservoir rocks in the Stø formation were aquiferous. Two formation tests have been carried out in the upper and lower part of the reservoir. The maximum production rate was 175 000 Sm3 gas per flow day through a 52/64-inch nozzle opening. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Pressure sensors have been installed to observe the pressure development after the well was terminated. The preliminary assessment of results from the appraisal well indicate a possible reduction in the resource estimates for Norvarg, compared with the original estimates that followed from the discovery well. This is the second exploration well in production licence 535. The licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. The appraisal well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2171 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Klappmys formation in the Lower Triassic. Water depth is 383 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. The well was drilled by the "Leiv Eiriksson" drilling facility, which will proceed to production licence 537 in the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7324/7-1 S, where OMV Norge AS is the operator.
Paon-1X exploration well discovers oil in Côte d'Ivoire
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Paon-1X exploration well in the CI-103 licence offshore Côte d'Ivoire has intersected good quality light oil in a Turonian fan system. Paon-1X is the first deepwater exploration well drilled in the CI-103 licence and has encountered 31 metres of net oil pay in a gross interval of 74 metres of turbidite sands. Pressure data indicates that this interval contains a continuous hydrocarbon column and samples show that it is a light oil of 41 degrees API. Further analysis is required to determine reservoir quality and the extent of the fan system. Following completion of logging operations, the well will be suspended for possible future use in appraisal and development operations. The Eirik Raude dynamically positioned semi-submersible rig drilled the Paon-1X well to a final depth of 5,090 metres in water depths of 2,193 metres. Tullow (45%) operates the CI-103 licence and is partnered by Anadarko Petroleum (40%) and the Societé Nationale d'Opérations Pétrolières de Côte D'Ivoire (Petroci) (15%).
Enyenra-4A appraisal well successful
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Enyenra-4A appraisal well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has successfully encountered oil in very good quality sandstone reservoirs. Good evidence of communication with the Owo-1 discovery wells and the Enyenra appraisal wells confirms the significant extent of the Enyenra light oil field. Located just under seven kilometres south west of Enyenra-2A and almost 21km south of the Enyenra-3A well which defined the northern end of the Enyenra oil field, the Enyenra-4A well was drilled to define the southern extent of the field. Results of drilling, wireline logs, samples of reservoir fluids and pressure data show that Enyenra-4A has intersected 32 metres of net oil pay. Pressure data from the oil leg has demonstrated that the oil is in static communication with the oil seen in the other wells in the field and indicate a continuous oil column of approximately 600m. The Ocean Olympia drillship drilled Enyenra-4A to a total depth of 4,174 metres in water depths of 1,878 metres. Wireline logging has been completed and injectivity tests are under way to provide important data for the design of the water injection system. On completion of operations, the well will be suspended for later use. The drillship will return at a later date to the Deepwater Tano block to perform a drill stem test on the oil zone in the Ntomme-2A well. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy (18.00%), Anadarko Petroleum (18.00%), Sabre (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Significant discovery at Tweneboa-1 exploration well offshore Ghana
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Tweneboa-1 exploration well, drilled in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has discovered a significant highly-pressured light hydrocarbon accumulation. The well encountered 21 metres of net pay and was drilled to a depth of 3,593 metres and is currently being deepened to further assess the discovery and the up-dip limit of a potential deeper fan system. The well was optimally located to penetrate multiple targets, including the edge of an undrilled major Turonian fan system. Further drilling will now be required to test core areas within this potentially giant stratigraphic trap where thicker Turonian reservoir sections are mapped. The upside area of approximately 200 square kilometres includes two de-risked prospective parts, Owo and Ntomme. The Tweneboa-1 well was drilled by the Eirik Raude deepwater rig in a water depth of 1,148 metres some 25 kilometres west of the Jubilee Field. Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy (18%), Anadarko Petroleum (18%), Sabre Oil & Gas (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Successful Mahogany-3 appraisal and exploration well
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Mahogany-3 well located in the West Cape Three Points licence offshore Ghana has intersected significant light oil columns in both the Jubilee field appraisal objective and also a deeper exploration target. In total, 33 metres of net pay have been penetrated. The primary objective of Mahogany-3 was to appraise the Jubilee field reservoir section away from the strong seismic amplitudes which have been the main targets to date. Results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluid indicate that 16 metres of high quality stacked oil bearing sandstones have been encountered. This confirms a significant extension of the Jubilee field to the southeast. The secondary objective of the well was to drill Mahogany Deep, an exploration target which has been identified on 3D seismic but lies at a previously untested stratigraphic level. In this section, the well encountered 17 metres of good quality oil bearing reservoir sandstones at levels significantly deeper than the oil water contacts previously intersected on the Jubilee field. This success opens up further potential in the region and is the subject of ongoing evaluation. The well has been drilled by the Eirik Raude semi-submersible rig to a depth of 4,028 metres in a water depth of 1,236 metres. Once wireline logging operations have been completed, casing will be set in advance of further drilling which is being carried out to gain further information on the regional geology. Following the conclusion of activities on Mahogany-3, the rig will move to the Tweneboa-1 exploration well location in the Deepwater Tano block. Drilling activities are expected to commence before the end of January. Tullow has a 22.9% interest in the West Cape Three Points licence. Other partners include Kosmos Energy (Operator 30.875%), Anadarko Petroleum (30.875%), the E.O. Group (3.5%), Sabre Oil & Gas (1.854%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest). Tullow is the Unit Operator of the Jubilee Field and the Technical Operator for this well.
Rig Update
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to note the Borders & Southern Petroleum plc ("B&S") announcement that the Leiv Eiriksson rig has been released by Cairn Energy PLC from drilling operations in Greenland and is now en route to the Falkland Islands for the upcoming B&S and FOGL combined drilling programme. We anticipate that the two B&S wells will take approximately three months to drill and therefore expect to commence our first well on the Loligo prospect in late April or early May 2012 and the second well to spud on completion of Loligo.
Leiv Eiriksson Rig on Contract
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, notes the announcement made today regarding the 'Completion of the 2012 drilling programme' by Borders & Southern Petroleum plc. The Leiv Eiriksson is now under contract to FOGL and its joint venture partner Edison International Spa. The rig has commenced its move to the Loligo well location. A further update will be provided once the well has spudded.
Commencement of Loligo well operations
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to announce the Loligo exploration well 42/07-01 was spudded on Friday 3 August 2012. The well is located approximately 200 km east of the Falkland Islands. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 75% interest, together with its joint venture partner Edison International Spa, who hold the remaining 25% interest in licence PL028. It is the first of a two well exploration programme using the Leiv Eriksson semi submersible drilling rig. The well is designed to test the Loligo Complex, which is a large Tertiary aged stratigraphic trap with multiple reservoir objectives. It is anticipated that the well operations will be around 60 days.
Scotia - Fl 31/12-01 Well Spud
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, is pleased to announce that the Scotia exploration well FI 31/12-01 was spudded on 25 September 2012. The well is located 315 km east - northeast of Stanley, Falkland Islands and 114 km from the Loligo prospect. FOGL is the operator of the well, holding a 75% interest, together with its partner Edison International Spa, which holds the remaining 25% interest. Under a farmout agreement announced on 6 August 2012, Noble Energy Inc. will also participate in this well for a 35% interest, thereby reducing FOGL's interest to 40%. The farmout agreement has been approved by the Falkland Islands Government and the changes to the licences will be formally executed in the near future. Scotia is the second of FOGL's two well exploration programme using the Leiv Eriksson semi submersible drilling rig. The well is designed to test the Scotia prospect within the mid Cretaceous fan play. It is anticipated that the well operations will be around 75 days with a total depth of approximately 5,000 metres.
BP makes fifth oil discovery in the ultra-deepwater Block 31 Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the ‘Palas-1’ oil discovery in deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. Palas-1 is the fifth successful discovery BP has drilled in Block 31, following Plutão, Saturno, Marte and Venus. It is located 62 kilometres to the southeast of the Plutão discovery,and in a potentially new development area in the southeast of the block. Palas-1 was drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, in 1,602 metres water depth some 325 kilometres north west of Luanda, Angola and reached a total depth of 3,745 metres below sea level. The well was tested at a maximum rate of 5,330 barrels of oil a day (b/d) through a 40/64ths inch choke. Further work will be needed to evaluate the full extent of the Palas discovery. Sonangol is the concessionaire of Block 31. BP as operator holds 26.67 per cent. Partners in Block 31 are Esso Exploration and Production Angola (Block 31) Limited. (25 per cent), Sonangol E.P. (20 per cent), Statoil Angola A.S. (13.33 per cent), Marathon Petroleum Angola, Limited (10 per cent) and TEPA (BLOCK 31) Limited, (a subsidiary of the Total Group) with 5 per cent.
BP makes sixth oil discovery in the ultra-deepwater Block 31 Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the ‘Ceres-1’ oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. Ceres-1 is the sixth successful discovery BP has drilled in Block 31, following Plutão, Saturno, Marte, Venus and Palas. It is located 32 kilometres south east of the Plutão discovery, and 31 kilometres north west of the Palas discovery announced earlier in 2005. Ceres-1 was drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, in 1,633 metres water depth some 360 kilometres north west of Luanda, Angola and reached a total depth 4,334 meters below sea level. The well tested at a maximum rate of 5,844 barrels of oil a day through a 44/64 inch choke. Further work is ongoing to evaluate the size of the discovery. Sonangol is the concessionaire of Block 31. BP as Operator holds 26.67 per cent. Partners in Block 31 are Esso Exploration and Production Angola (Block 31) Limited. (25 per cent), Sonangol E.P. (20 per cent), Statoil Angola A.S. (13.33 per cent), Marathon Petroleum Angola, Limited (10 per cent) and TEPA (BLOCK 31), Limited, (a subsidiary of the Total Group) with 5 per cent.
BP announces Chumbo discovery in deepwater Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the Chumbo 1 oil discovery in the deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola. This was the second discovery in 2003 and eighth overall in the block. The Chumbo-1 well was drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, in 1,600 metres water depth some 200 kilometres off the Angolan coast. The well flowed at a rate of 1,080 barrels per day in a test undertaken to evaluate the oil formation. Further work will be needed to evaluate the full extent of the Chumbo 1 discovery, that lies some 10 kilometres to the south south- west of the Platina–1 oil discovery in the same block. Block 18 was awarded in the middle of 1996 by Sonangol to Amoco as Operator and Shell, with a 50 per cent equity each. Following the merger between BP and Amoco in 1999, BP now manages the interest formerly held by Amoco.
BP makes seventh discovery in Angola's Block 18
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the ‘Cesio 1’ oil discovery in the deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola. This was the first of two exploration wells which BP drilled in Block 18 in 2003. The Cesio-1 well was drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, in 1600 metres water depth some 170 kilometres off the Angolan coast. Further work will be needed to evaluate the full extent of the Cesio 1 discovery. It lies some 25 kilometres to the south-west of the planned Greater Plutonio development. Block 18 was awarded in the middle of 1996 by Sonangol to Amoco as Operator and Shell, with a 50 per cent equity each. Following the merger between BP and Amoco in 1999, BP now manages the interest formerly held by Amoco.
BP announces second ultra-deepwater discovery off Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the Saturno oil discovery in the ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. This is the third exploration well BP has drilled in Block 31, and the second successful discovery following the Plutao discovery announced last September. The Saturno-1 was drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, in 1,804 metres water depth some 170 kilometres off the Angolan coast and reached a total depth of 4,707 metres below sea level. Further work will be needed to evaluate the full extent of the Saturno discovery. It lies some 14 kilometres to the north-east of the Plutão discovery. Saturno flowed at 5,000 barrels a day during tests. Block 31 and its operatorship was awarded in 1999 by Angola's state oil company Sonangol to BP with a 26.67% equity together with its partners Esso Exploration and Production Angola (Block 31) Limited 25%, Sonangol, E.P. 20%, Statoil Angola A.S.13.33%, Marathon Petroleum Angola Block 31 Limited 10% and EPA (Block 31) Ltd (a member of the Total group of companies) 5%.
BP announces third ultra-deepwater discovery off Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP today announced the 'Marte' oil discovery in the ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. This is the fourth exploration well BP has drilled in Block 31, and the third successful discovery following the Plutão and Saturno discoveries, which lie some 20 to 25 kilometres from Marte. BP plans to drill one further exploration well, Vénus-1, in this area this year. BP is currently exploring various development concepts. The proximity of Marte to Plutão and Saturno makes a joint development likely, however, further work will be required to define the scope of any subsequent development. The Marte-1 well was drilled in a water depth of 2,000 metres some 175 kilometres off the Angolan coast, and reached a total depth of 4,193 metres below sea level. It flowed at 5,200 barrels a day during testing. Block 31 and its operatorship was awarded in 1999 by Angola's state oil company Sonangol to BP with a 26.67% equity together with its partners Esso Exploration and Production Angola (Block 31) Limited 25%, Sonangol, E.P. 20%, Statoil Angola A.S.13.33%, Marathon Petroleum Angola Block 31 Limited 10% and EPA (Block 31) Ltd (a member of the Total group of companies) 5%.
Total E&P Norge AS use make oil discovery with 25/5-9 wildcat well in Norway
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 102 F, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 25/5-9. The well was drilled about 10 kilometres east of the Heimdal field in the central part of the North Sea, and about 200 kilometres northwest of Stavanger. The objective of well 25/5-9 was to prove petroleum in Paleocene reservoir rocks (the Heimdal formation). The well encountered a 21-metre gross oil column in the Heimdal formation, of which 19 metres were of good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was encountered. Preliminary estimations of the size of the discovery are between 0.5 and 2 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil. The licensees will assess the discovery together with nearby prospects with regard to further follow-up. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. As expected, the sampling and pressure readings indicate very good production properties. This is the first exploration well in production licence 102 F. The licence, which was recently carved out of another production licence, 102 D, was awarded on 10 October 2013. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2240 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in Palaeocene rocks in the Heimdal formation. Water depth is 121 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 25/5-9 was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 420 in the northern North Sea to drill appraisal well 35/9-11 S, where RWE Dea Norge AS is the operator.
'Leiv Eirkisson' spuds appraisal well on Titan discovery in Norway
RWE Dea Norge commenced drilling a well at production license (PL) 420, to appraise the Titan discovery. Recoverable volumes are estimated at approximately 12 million standard cubic metres oil equivalents. It is the first of two wells to be drilled on PL420 this year. RWE Dea Norge has contracted the semi-submersible rig Leiv Eiriksson to drill well 35/9-11 S on Titan (PL420) in the North Sea. A promising discovery was made on the license in 2010. The complexity of the reservoir necessitated the collection of new 3D seismic data in 2012. Following interpretation of the data, the decision to drill was made. The appraisal well will be drilled at a water depth of 370 meters and is expected to be completed in 60 to 120 days, depending on results. The primary target is the Brent Group at approximately 3,770 meters below sea level, with secondary targets in the Heather and Cook formations. “Everything is in place to ensure that the drilling will be completed without incidents, and hopefully with good results”, says Hugo Sandal, Managing Director of RWE Dea Norge. “We discovered oil and gas resources in this prospect in 2010, and are now eager to explore the size of the discovery. We have accumulated a comprehensive geological understanding of this area of the North Sea, which is one of our core areas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf”, Sandal continues. Titan is located about 16 kilometers west of the Gjøa field in the North Sea. In 2010, RWE Dea Norge discovered both oil and gas in well 35/9-6 S in a 435 meter hydrocarbon column in the Heather, Cook, and Drake Formations and in the Brent Group. Current estimates are in the range of 12 million standard cubic metres recoverable oil equivalents.
Total makes discovery at Saphir-1XB well
The Total-operated Saphir-1XB exploration well on Block CI-514 proved the presence of liquid hydrocarbons in the deep offshore west of Ivory Coast. “Drilled in an abrupt margin play, this first well is the first discovery in the San Pedro Basin, a frontier exploration area in Ivory Coast,” commented Marc Blaizot, Senior Vice President, Exploration at Total. "Having confirmed the presence of a petroleum system containing light oil, we will next evaluate this very promising find and focus on its extension to the north and east." Lying in 2,300 meters of water, Saphir-1XB is the first well in Block CI-514. It was drilled to a total depth of 4,655 meters, encountering around 40 meters of net pay containing light 34° API oil, in a series of 350 meters of reservoirs. The data acquired during drilling are being analyzed and will be used to determine the area’s potential and design the delineation program. Total is pursuing its intensive exploration program in the area, with plans to drill two wells in Blocks CI-515 and CI-516 by year-end. Total E&P Côte d’Ivoire operates Block CI-514 with a 54% interest, alongside CNR International (36%) and PETROCI Holding (10%).
Lukoil completes first exploration well in Sierra Leone
LUKOIL Overseas, operator of international upstream projects and a 100% subsidiary of LUKOIL, completed drilling of the first exploration well on Savannah structure (SL-5-11 deepwater block) offshore Sierra Leone. The well depth is more than 4,700 m, water depth at the drilling site exceeds 2,000 m. Drilling was accomplished using Ocean Rig Eirik Raude, world's largest self-propelled offshore platform of the 5th generation. Platform's height is 122 m, length is 119 m, width is 85 m, and displacement is 53 thousand tons, velocity is 7 knots, crew is 120 persons. Drilling was completed according to the schedule, with no violations of safety or environmental requirements, in strict adherence to the contractual obligations. The set objectives were achieved: targeted prospects were penetrated, oil saturated reservoirs were identified; oil samples were taken from the Turonian sands. Currently, the appraisal of potential hydrocarbon deposits is being performed. The results of this appraisal, as well as other data obtained while drilling, will undergo comprehensive analysis and classification. This work scheduled to be completed by the end of this year is aimed to expand the information available on the geological structure and petroleum potential of Sierra-Leonian - Liberian basin. In 2011, LUKOIL Overseas as the Operator with a 49% share entered the PSA for exploration and development of SL-5-11 block. This block, covering an area of 4,022 square kilometers, is located on the shelf and continental slope of the Atlantic Ocean at a water depth ranging from 100 to 3,300 meters. A standard contract for exploration and development of the block was concluded for the term of 30 years by project participants, including Oranto (30%) and PanAtlantic (21%). The minimum exploration program includes re-interpretation of historical seismic data, an electric exploration survey and drilling of one exploration well. Due to the importance of this program as an organic part of LUKOIL broad-scale drilling campaign in West Africa, the ceremonial launch of drilling in SL-5-11 block in September 2013 was attended by Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone, Guennady Gatilov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Andrey Kuzyaev, President of LUKOIL Overseas.
Lukoil begins exploration drilling in Sierra Leone
Official events attended by Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Gennady Gatilov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Andrey Kuzyaev, President of LUKOIL Overseas, have been held today in Sierra Leone on the occasion of the launch of drilling on the SL-5-11 block in the deepwater shelf of the West Africa. The official launch took place at the Eirik Raude drilling rig which started with spudding a deepwater well in the Savannah prospect. The target depth of the wildcat to be drilled within, will exceed 4,700 meters, the water depth at the drilling location is more than 2,000 meters. Eirik Raude is the largest 5th generation self-propelled offshore drilling rig in the world. The rig has a height of 122 m, width of 85 m, deadweight of 52,500 tons and transit speed of 7 knots, crew - 120 people. LUKOIL Overseas, operator of LUKOIL's international upstream projects, has entered into the PSA for exploration and development of block SL-5-11 in June 2011 as an operator with a 49% share. The other project partners are Oranto (30%) and PanAtlantic (21%). Block SL-5-11 covers an area of 4,022 square kilometers on the shelf and continental slope of the Atlantic Ocean with water depth ranging from 100 to 3,300 meters. 2D and 3D seismic data was acquired on 1,500 square kilometers leading to the identification of several prospects. From the geological point of view, the block belongs to the Sierra Leone-Liberia basin where a number of sizable oil discoveries have recently been made. A standard contract for exploration and development of the block was concluded for the term of 30 years. The exploration program for the block includes re-interpretation of historical seismic data, an electric exploration survey and drilling of one exploration well. The current exploration period will expire on December 31, 2013. Obligations of the next exploration period will depend on the drilling results.
Lukoil completes first exploration well in Ivory Coast
LUKOIL Overseas (operator of LUKOIL Group's overseas upstream projects) has completed drilling its first offshore exploration well, Capitaine East-1x, at block CI-101 in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. The well penetrated through 140 meters of sandstone from a Turonian formation. The survey confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons, indicating the oil potential of the area. The Capitaine East-1X well target depth exceeds 5,200 m; the water depth at the well location exceeds 2,000 m. Drilling was conducted using the Eirik Raude, a 5th generation self-propelled semi-submersible drilling rig. At the end of 2013 LUKOIL completed drilling an appraisal well at the Independance field, located north-east of block CI-101 (at the adjacent CI-401 block). Currently, a survey is in progress to determine the block's resource potential. A proposal to drill another appraisal well at the Independance field will be considered soon. LUKOIL entered a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) for the exploration, appraisal, development and production of hydrocarbons in blocks CI-101 and CI-401 in 2006. Shares in the project are distributed as follows: LUKOIL: – 56.66% (operator since 2012), PanAtlantic (formerly Vanco) – 28.34%, state-owned PETROCI Holding – 15%.
RWE granted permission to drill new appraisal well in Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 35/9-11 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 35/9-11 A will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 61°21’25.60” north and 3°40’44.56” east. The drilling programme for wellbore 35/9-11 A relates to drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 420. RWE Dea Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 30 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS (40 per cent) and Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS (30 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of block 35/9. The well will be drilled about 14 kilometres west of the Gjøa field. Production licence 420 was awarded on 16 February 2007 (APA 2006). This is the third well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Cairn secures rigs for 2011 Greenland Exploration
Cairn has secured two state of the art dynamically positioned drilling vessels for its 2011 dual rig exploration programme offshore Greenland. The “Leiv Eiriksson”, a fifth generation semi-submersible drilling rig and the “Ocean Rig Corcovado”, a sixth generation drillship, have been contracted to operate in the 2011 drilling season on Cairn’s offshore Greenland exploration programme. Both drilling vessels are operated by Ocean Rig. Subject to approval from the Government of Greenland, Cairn intends to drill up to four wells in 2011. Further details on the exploration programme will be provided in Cairn’s next operational update. To provide the immediate liquidity required to enable the group to agree these contracts, Cairn has entered into a stand-by secured revolving debt facility of US $900 million that will also provide funding for general corporate purposes. The facility is provided by Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of Scotland Plc, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Bank PLC and Société Générale.
Eirik Raude for the Barents Sea
A charter worth around NOK 340 million covering use of the Eirik Raude drilling rig in the Barents Sea has been awarded by Statoil to owner Ocean Rig. Due to run for an estimated 155 days, this contract has been placed on behalf of the licensees in three exploration areas. Statoil plans to operate one well each in areas G and F, while Hydro intends to drill one in area C. ”We’ve opted for Eirik Raude because it’s among the most suitable vessels for the job,” explains Tor Gunnar Gloppen in the rig management unit of Exploration & Production Norway. ”It’s big, new and built to work in environmentally-sensitive arctic waters. Over the past couple of years, it’s operated off Canada in areas with weather just as tough as in the Barents Sea.” Statoil and Hydro signed a letter of intent with Ocean Rig in April on drilling the three wells, but the rig to be used has only now been clarified. Plans call for the first well to be spudded in late autumn. Eirik Raude will also do a minor job for Hydro on the Troll field in the North Sea before moving to the Barents Sea. The Troll work is included in the charter’s overall value.
Barents Sea permit sought
An application for an emission permit to drill on the Uranus prospect in the Barents Sea has been submitted by Statoil to the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT). This exploration well will be second in the most environment-friendly drilling campaign ever conducted on the Norwegian continental shelf. Statoil’s request for a permit is accompanied by an environmental risk analysis and emergency response plan for the operation. The application is based on the principles enshrined in the recent impact assessment for offshore operations in the northern Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These require the well to be planned with no discharges to the sea except with the hole section for surface casing – in other words, the topmost 400 metres. Discharges in the latter case will consist largely of natural substances such as salt and clay. But it will be necessary to emit about two kilograms of pipe dope, a small portion of which is characterised as environmentally harmful. Since the amount is so small, this is considered acceptable. The well will utilise water-based mud, and drill cuttings are to be shipped to land. Statoil’s application relates to the 7227/11-1S wildcat in production licence 202, which is due to be spudded in early 2005 after Norsk Hydro has finished a wildcat on the Obelix prospect. Both operators will use Eirik Raude in the Barents Sea. One of the world’s most modern and advanced drilling rigs, it is designed for safe operation in harsh-weather areas. Statoil has devoted considerable efforts, in cooperation with other players in the region, to reaching the goal of zero discharges.
Drilling on Eirik Raude halted
Statoil has decided to stop all drilling from the Eirik Raude rig, which is drilling the Guovca exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. Hydraulic oil was accidentally spilled from the rig yesterday, 12 April, probably caused by a leak from a hydraulic hose. “We take a very serious view of the incident and are now setting up a working group with participants from the rig operator Ocean Rig,” says Tim Dodson, Statoil’s senior vice president for exploration on the Norwegian continental shelf. "This group will identify short and long-term measures to avoid similar leaks in the future." "The progress of the drilling activity is of secondary importance, and we will take the time we need before we start up again." The Guovca well was spudded on 2 April.
Barents Sea wildcat spudded
A wildcat in the Guovca prospect operated by Statoil in the Barents Sea was spudded on 2 April from the Eirik Raude rig. Statoil had planned to drill the Uranus exploration well in the Barents Sea before Guovca, but had to reprioritise the drilling programme as handover of the rig from Hydro was delayed. Work on drilling and completing the well is expected to take 20-30 days. Once Guovca is completed, Eirik Raude will move to the Norwegian Sea for a well on Statoil’s Tulipan prospect in block 6302/6. The rig is then due to return to the Barents Sea during the autumn to drill the Uranus wildcat. “We’ve adopted a number of measures to ensure safety and protect the environment while drilling this well,” explains Ørjan Birkeland, Statoil’s Barents Sea exploration manager. “These include detailed planning and training of personnel in cooperation with the rig contractor and other suppliers.”
Completing Tulipan wildcat
A small gas find has been made by Statoil on its Tulipan prospect in the Norwegian Sea. As operator for production licence 251, which covers this structure, the group is currently completing the 6302/6-1 wildcat there. Small quantities of gas were encountered in early Tertiary sandstones at a depth of just over 2,600 metres beneath the seabed. Statoil is currently completing a very extensive logging programme in the well, which will form the basis for further analyses. The wildcat terminated in late Cretaceous rocks about 2,950 metres beneath the seabed. “This represents a new play model on the Norwegian continental shelf,” reports Knut Chr Grindstad, exploration manager for the deepwater part of the Norwegian Sea. “The well accordingly opens exciting perspectives in a completely new area. Unfortunately, however, it yielded only a small discovery.” Drilled by Eirik Raude, the well is located in 1,260 metres of water roughly 130 kilometres west of Hydro’s Ormen Lange gas development. Statoil has a 90 per cent interest in Tulipan, with Norske Shell holding the remaining 10 per cent. BG Norge is acquiring 20 per cent of Statoil’s share, subject to government approval. Eirik Raude will now move to the Barents Sea to drill on Eni’s Goliat discovery before spudding an exploration well on Statoil’s Uranus prospect.
Eirik Raude resumes exploration drilling
The drilling rig, "Eirik Raude," was able to resume exploration drilling in the Barents Sea on Monday afternoon after getting the green light from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Ocean Rig, the company that owns "Eirik Raude," was ordered on 17 February to evaluate the quality of all the rig's emergency barriers against accidental spills into the sea. As operator of the exploration drilling operation, Hydro was ordered to ensure that the evaluation was adequately conducted. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate concluded on Monday that the order had been fulfilled and that exploration drilling could resume. The order to halt drilling was issued on Thursday, in the wake of two accidental spills into the sea, respectively, on 8 and 16 February.
Barents Sea drilling concluded
Hydro has concluded its drilling operation of exploration well 7220/6-1 at the Obelix prospect in the Barents Sea. The well was drilled with the exploration rig 'Eirik Raude' to evaluate a limestone prospect of Carbon and Permian age. Drilling was concluded 1,515 metres below the sea bed. Traces of hydrocarbons were found at the expected reservoir level. Attempts to test the samples showed that the hydrocarbons were not producible, and the well will not be tested. 'Eirik Raude' will now move on to drill a further two exploration wells further east in the Barents Sea. The drilling operations in the Barents Sea are being carried out in accordance with stringent environmental requirements imposed by the authorities for oil activities in the area. In spite of two accidental emissions during drilling, the operations at Obelix have not had any damaging effect on the environment.
Accidental spill from Eirik Raude
An accidental emission from the drilling rig "Eirik Raude" on Wednesday, 16 February, has resulted in four cubic meters of drilling fluid being spilled into the sea. The drilling fluid contains mostly clay and brine. Hydro has informed the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority about the incident, despite the fact the emission is not harmful to the environment. Hydro and the company Ocean Rig, Eirik Raude's owner, have done substantial work to avoid spills that can be harmful to the natural environment during current exploration drilling in the Barents Sea. During exploration drilling, a drilling fluid is used consisting mainly of water, clay, salt and other biodegradable components. This emission of four cubic meters of drilling fluid also included approximately 160 kilos of glycol, which is classified as a "yellow" chemical. The company regrets the incident and will work to avoid new episodes. The incident occurred when a large wave disconnected a rubber hose from a riser under the rig. Hydro is now investigating the accident and, together with Ocean Rig, will implement necessary measures to avoid any new spills into the sea.
Drilling resumes on Guovca
Eirik Raude has today, 3 May, resumed drilling a wildcat on Statoil’s Guovca prospect in the Barents Sea after a three-week halt, in agreement with the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. Together with contactor Ocean Rig, Statoil has completed a detailed investigation relating to the accidental discharge of hydraulic oil on 12 April. This incident prompted the group to halt drilling by Eirik Raude on its own initiative. The authorities also initiated an inquiry and refused to allow new operations before the discharge and compensatory measures had been reviewed in detail. According to the official investigation, the direct reason why about one cubic metre of hydraulic oil leaked out was the rupture of a hose. The latter should have been replaced, and the inquiry revealed failures in the monitoring system on the rig. Statoil takes a serious view of this incident, which exposed weaknesses in routines and systems, and has initiated a series of measures with Ocean Rig to prevent such incidents in the future. In the review after 12 April, all hoses and systems have been thoroughly checked and the damaged hydraulic hose replaced. Although Statoil believes that the requirement for two barriers was met when the discharge occurred, supply hoses beneath the rig’s cellar deck have been moved up to the deck. To ensure closer monitoring of operations on board, Statoil has reinforced the crew with an additional drilling engineer. The group has also carried out an impact assessment of the discharge, which shows that this limited leak of hydraulic oil has had no effect on the marine environment. “Everyone working for us has an obligation in relation to health, safety and the environment,” says Tim Dodson, senior vice president for exploration on the Norwegian continental shelf. “We set very high environmental and safety standards, and it’s up to us to demonstrate that we comply with these.” Statoil has been in close touch with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway and the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority over the discharge and its investigation. “The measures implemented before drilling resumed have been adopted in close consultation with the authorities,” says Mr Dodson. “By taking these steps, we’re minimising the possibility of future undesirable incidents.”
Rig leak posed no threat
A discharge of hydraulic oil from the Eirik Raude drilling rig in the Barents Sea on 12 April posed no environmental threat, according to an official inquiry report. This document has been drawn up by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) and the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT). Eirik Raude was drilling the Guovca wildcat for Statoil when the accident happened. Work stopped at once, and contractor Ocean Rig and Statoil sought to clarify the background for the leak. This internal investigation also concluded that the discharge of about one cubic metre of hydraulic oil had no impact on the marine environment. “The official report is in line with our own assessment of the causes of the accident,” says Ørjan Birkeland, Statoil’s exploration manager for the Barents Sea. “We’re glad it confirms that no environmental damage was done. It also supports the view that, despite the leak, this was one of Norway’s most environment-friendly drilling operations.” The internal inquiry found that the direct cause of the leak was a split hose. After the hose had been replaced, drilling resumed following a three-week shutdown.
Tulipan wildcat spudded
The first exploration well on Statoil’s Tulipan prospect in the Norwegian Sea has been spudded by the Eirik Raude drilling rig. Located in block 6302/6 west of Hydro’s Ormen Lange gas field, this operation is being conducted in 1,250 metres of water and should last for two-three months. Plans call for the wildcat to be drilled to a total measured depth of just over 3,000 metres beneath the seabed. “Only 10 deepwater wells have been drilled off Norway until now, so the area is little explored,” says Knut Chr Grindstad, exploration manager for the Norwegian Sea. Statoil intends to drill two more exploration wells in this part of the Norwegian continental shelf during 2005.
Will ensure "Eirik Raude" meets demands
Hydro supports and will follow up the Norwegian Petroleum Directorates order and ensure that rig company Ocean Rig conduct a thorough evaluation of spill barriers on the rig "Eirik Raude" before drilling resumes in the Barents Sea. Exploration drilling on the "Eirik Raude" rig was stopped on Wednesday, February 16, after an accidental spill of drilling fluids into the sea. ”Hydro will ensure that the drilling rig, "Eirik Raude", meets the authorities and the company’s technical and environmental demands concerning the present drilling operation in the Barents Sea. The company supports the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s wish for an additional inspection of the rig’s spill barriers and will ensure that a thorough evaluation will be carried out before drilling resumes,” says Hydro Oil & Energy, Operations head, Øystein Michelsen. There have been two minor spills from "Eirik Raude" during the present drilling operation in the Barents Sea during the past two weeks. Both discharges consisted mainly of organic, biodegradable matter, and were reported to the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The spills did not result in any environmental consequences.
Exploration well in Barents Sea
Drilling began on an exploration well on Statoil's Uranus prospect in the Barents Sea from the Eirik Raude rig on 13 January. Expected to take about 70 days, the well is to be drilled to a total depth of about 4,000 metres. Statoil has previously made a small discovery in the same area. "This well is part of our work to investigate the further potential in this area," says Ørjan Birkeland, Statoil's Barents Sea exploration manager. The Uranus prospect is located 120 kilometres from land in block 7227/11 in production licence 202. Once Uranus is completed, Eirik Raude will move to the Norwegian Sea where it will drill an exploration well on the Statoil-operated Edvarda prospect.
Dry Edvarda well
The drilling of exploration well 6403/6-1 in the Edvarda structure in the Norwegian Sea is completed. No gas or oil was found. ”It is of course disappointing that we did not strike hydrocarbons, but the deep-sea areas in the Norwegian Sea are rather unexplored. This new data point will be an important contribution in the efforts to find more oil and gas in the region,” say Kjersti Seim, exploration manager for the Norwegian Sea deep-sea area. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4095 metres below sea level. The drilling rig Eirik Raude performed the drilling in 1720 metres of water. The purpose was to examine the potential for oil and gas in possible sandstones from the Cretaceous period in the Edvarda prospect. Edvarda is located some 100 kilometres north-west of the gas field Ormen Lange in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea, some 230 kilometres northwest of Kristiansund. Statoil is operator for production licence 322, with an interest of 90%., whereas 10% is owned by Shell.
Norvarg appraisal well update
Ithaca Energy Inc. ("Ithaca" or the "Company") announces that the appraisal well (7225/3-2) being drilled on the Norvarg discovery, located in PL535 in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea, has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in the Kobbe formation based on the results of wire line logs and formation tests and cores. The partnership has decided to perform a drill stem test (DST) on the well to assess the quality of the Kobbe reservoir and the volume potential in the northeastern part of the Norvarg closure. Appraisal drilling operations commenced on 25 April 2013. The well is being drilled using Ocean's Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible rig. The well is located in 377 metres of water, approximately 275 kilometres north of the Hammerfest LNG plant on Melkøya. The partners in the licence are Total E&P Norge (operator - 40 per cent interest), North Energy (20 per cent), Ithaca Petroleum Norge (13 per cent), Statoil (10 per cent*), Det Norske (10 per cent*), and Rocksource Exploration Norway (7 per cent).
Norvarg appraisal well results
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces that the appraisal well (7225/3-2) test programme on the Norvarg discovery located in licence PL535 in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea has been completed. The appraisal well was drilled approximately 275 km north of the Hammerfest LNG plant on Melkøya, in a water depth of 377 metres, to delineate the Triassic Kobbe Formation of the Norvarg gas discovery. Two formation tests were carried out in the upper and lower parts of the Kobbe Formation, with the well flowing at a maximum gross production rate of 175,000 standard cubic metres of gas per day (approximately 6.2 million standard cubic feet per day) on a 52/64-inch choke. Extensive data acquisition, wire line logging, coring and sampling has been carried out. The well has also been completed with down hole gauges capable of transmitting data after abandonment, which will give further information about the extent of the reservoir. The Norvarg appraisal well was drilled to test the eastern segment of the structure and to assess the quality and productivity of the Kobbe reservoir. The results of the appraisal well have confirmed the extensive nature of the Norvarg discovery and the presence of movable gas throughout the Kobbe reservoir, with no water contacts seen. As predicted the quality of the Kobbe reservoir is variable and further analysis is required to confirm the productivity of some of the reservoir intervals. Work will now be undertaken by the partnership to analyse and interpret the acquired data and evaluate the estimated recoverable hydrocarbons on the structure and potential future development options. Moveable gas identified in the deeper levels of the reservoir than those in the exploration well will be taken into account in the evaluation of the potential reserves. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2171 metres below sea level and terminated in the Klappmyss Formation in the Early Triassic. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. This is the second well on PL535. The licence was awarded in the 20th Licensing Round in 2009. Well 7225/3-2 was drilled using Ocean's Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible rig.
RWE Dea secures rig capacity in Norway
RWE Dea Norge AS has secured rig capacity for drilling three wells in in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea during the years 2013 to 2015. The wells will be drilled with the Leiv Eiriksson rig, owned by Ocean Rig UDW Inc. RWE Dea is participating in a rig consortium which is coordinated by Rig Management Norway AS. The consortium has signed a new contract for the fifth-generation semi-submersible drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson with Ocean Rig UDW Inc. The contract is for a firm period of three years with options for extensions. The rig will commence its operations in Norwegian waters late 2012. “We are very pleased to have contracted an excellent rig with a good track record” says Hans-Joachim Polk, Managing Director of RWE Dea Norge. He explains: “We will use it to drill exploration wells on acreage with very promising hydrocarbon potential, and appraise our recent discoveries. The contract constitutes an important step in our plan to strengthen RWE Dea’s position as an operator in Norway”.
RWE completes three appraisal wells in Norway
RWE Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 420, has completed drilling of appraisal wells 35/9-11 S and 35/9-11 A on the 35/9-6 S oil, gas and condensate discovery. The discovery was proven in Jurassic reservoir rocks in the winter of 2010. Appraisal wells 35/9-11 S and 35/9-11 A were drilled 1.7 kilometres southwest of the 35/9-6 S discovery well. Before wells 35/9-11 S and A were drilled, the operator’s resource estimate for the discovery was between 2 and 10 million Sm3 recoverable oil equivalents. Well 35/9-11 A was drilled 30 metres from 35/9-11 S for optimal core samples. The objective of the wells was delineating the 35/9-6 S discovery to the southwest by proving additional resources and reducing the uncertainty regarding reservoir thicknesses and properties. Wells 35/9-11 S and 35/9-11 A encountered oil in the Heather formation, Brent Group, Drake formation and top part of the Cook formation and Statfjord Group in Jurassic reservoir rocks. The reservoirs have different pressure regimes. Formation water was encountered in the lower part of the Cook formation, but no oil/water contact was encountered in the other formations. The reservoir quality in the Heather, Tarbert, Etive, Cook formations and Statfjord Group is poor. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Pressure data indicates that there is no communication with the northern part of the 35/9-6 S discovery. The resources in the discovery will now be evaluated based on the results from the new wells. These are the second and third exploration wells in production licence 420. The licence was awarded in February 2007 (APA 2006). Appraisal wells 35/9-11 S and 35/9-11 A were drilled to respective vertical depths of 3733 and 3795 metres below the sea surface with associated measured depths of 3800 and 3860 metres below the sea surface. 35/9-11 S was terminated in the Dunlin Group and 35/9-11 A in the Statfjord Group, both in Lower Jurassic. Water depth is 368 metres. The wells were temporarily plugged and abandoned. The wells were drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 554 in the northern North Sea to drill appraisal well 34/6-3 S, where Total E&P Norge AS is the operator.
Total set to drill third well in PL554
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 34/6-3S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 34/6-3S will be drilled from the Leiv Eriksson drilling facility in position 61° 34’ 29.55" north and 2°, 43’, 48.70" east, after concluding drilling of wildcat well 35/9-6 S for RWE Dea Norge AS in production licence 420. The drilling programme for well 34/6-3 S relates to the drilling of a third well in production licence 554. Total E&P is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Spike Petroleum (20 per cent), Det Norske (20 per cent) and Svenska Petroleum (20 per cent). The area in this licence consists of 156.15 square kilometres, all in block 34/6. The well will be drilled about 120 kilometres west of Florø. Production licence 554 was awarded on 10 February 2010 (APA 2009). This is the third well drilled in the licence. The objective of the well was primarily to delineate the oil discovery in the Cook formation, made in well 34/6-2 S. The secondary objective of the well was to explore the upside potential of the Statfjord formation. A sidetrack is also planned in order to prove potential hydrocarbons in the Statfjord and Cook formations. The permit is contingent upon the operator having secured all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling starts.
Total spuds Garantiana
Total E&P Norge AS began drilling on the Garantiana prospect (34/6-2S) at 21.30 on 30th May 2014. The drilling is performed by the semi-submersible ‘Leiv Eiriksson’ rig, which is owned and operated by Ocean Rig. Garantiana is an oil prospect that was discovered in 2012. It is located in the North Sea, 128 kilometres west of Florø, which is base for the operation. Total E&P Norge AS is operator and has a 40% share in the license.
RWE-DEA given approval to use 'Leiv Eiriksson' to drill Atlas prospect
RWE-DEA Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 35/9-X S Atlas in production licence 420 in the North Sea using the ‘Leiv Eiriksson’ mobile drilling facility. Water depth at the site is around 358 metres and it is around 81 kilometres south-west of Florø. Drilling is planned to begin in mid-August 2014, with a duration of approx. 66 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. ‘Leiv Eiriksson’ is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the SS Trosvik Bingo 9000 type. ‘Leiv Eiriksson’ received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in July 2008.
African Petroleum contracts 'Eirik Raude' for two wells in Liberia
Following its Narina -1 discovery in Liberia, West African focused oil and gas exploration company, African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum), is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with Ocean Rig UDW, for a two well programme with the option for a third well, to continue its drilling program in Blocks 8 & 9, Liberia West Africa, and within the Company’s other West Africa Blocks. The programme will be completed using the ‘Eirik Raude’, a deepwater 5th generation semi-submersible, drilling rig and it is expected to commence operations in Q3 or Q4 2012.African Petroleum’s contracting of the ‘Eirik Raude’ demonstrates the Company’s ability to secure deep water drilling rigs in a very tight rig market and ensures that it can deliver its extensive exploration programme.
African Petroleum spuds Bee Eater-1 well
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) started drilling the Bee Eater-1 well in Block LB-09 offshore Liberia on the 4th January 2013 with Ocean Rig’s semi-submersible rig, the ‘Eirik Raude’. The Bee Eater-1 well is located 9.5 km north west of the 2012 Narina discovery which discovered high quality oil in Turonian reservoirs. The Bee Eater - 1 well will test a potentially westerly extension of the Narina-1 Turonian oil discovery in an axial position of the fan for improved reservoir quality and is located up dip of the postulated Narina -1 OWC. Mean recoverable un-risked prospective resources for the Bee Eater/Narina fan system, which extends over an area of 300 sq km, are estimated as 840 MMstb and 2396 MMstb for the additional prospects identified on Blocks LB-08 & LB-09 (3236 MMstb in total). ERC Equipoise have provided a recent update on the prospective resources for Liberia Blocks LB-08 & LB-09 which is available on the company website www.africanpetroleum.com.au.The second well in this drilling program will be drilled with the ‘Eirik Raude’ in Liberia following on immediately after completion of the Bee Eater-1 well. A number of potential well locations in Blocks LB-08 & LB-09 are under consideration dependent on the outcome of the Bee Eater-1 well. Karl Thompson CEO comments "2012 has been a very successful year for the company with the Narina-1 discovery in Liberia and the expansion of the exploration portfolio with the addition of 5 more exploration blocks in Senegal, Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire. Extensive 3D seismic surveys have been acquired on the blocks in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire with very encouraging results and are being evaluated to include in our forward drilling program. We are looking forward to a very active exploration program in 2013 starting with the drilling of the high potential Bee Eater prospect in Liberia LB-09 and follow on drilling in Liberia plus Cote d’Ivoire and The Gambia/Senegal coast.”
Lukoil and Vanco announce discovery in Ivory Coast
LUKOIL Overseas Cote d’Ivoire Ltd. together with Vanco Cote d’Ivoire Ltd. (Vanco) and PETROCI Holding, announces a discovery in Block CI-401. The Independance-1X exploration well drilled on Block CI-401 has penetrated the targeted objective and found a series of good-quality sandstones containing light oil and gas condensate. Full analysis of well results, including wireline logs, reservoir pressures and fluid samples, confirms that the well penetrated 8 meters (26 feet) of hydrocarbon pay in two good-quality Turonian-aged sand packages. Hydrocarbon samples recovered from the Independance-1X well indicate 40 degrees API gravity. The well will be temporarily abandoned at a total depth of 4,132 meters. Independance-1X was drilled in a water depth of 1,689 meters, approximately 93 kilometers (58 miles) southeast of Abidjan. The Independance -1X is the second exploration well to be drilled in Block CI-401, which encompasses an area of 619 square kilometers (152,948 acres) in water depths ranging from 950 to 2,100 meters. On September 30th, 2005, the Government of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Vanco Cote d’Ivoire Ltd. and PETROCI Holding signed a Production Sharing Contract covering Block CI-401. LUKOIL Overseas Cote d’Ivoire Ltd. joined the block in 2007. Vanco (Operator) holds a 28.34% participating interest with LUKOIL holding 56.66%. PETROCI Holding, the state oil company, holds a 5% participating interest together with 10% carried interest. LUKOIL will continue the analysis of the discovery, its scale and development prospects in order to make further investment decision for commercialization of the project.
Spud of SNE-4 appraisal well
The SNE 4 well, which is 5 km south-east of the SNE-1 discovery well, was spudded over the weekend to appraise the eastern extent of the field. The SNE-4 well is located in 940m water depth and will be drilled to a total depth of 3,020m TVD. It will be drilled and logged and is expected to take approximately four weeks to complete. This further appraisal well in the SNE field will assist in progressing towards confirming the commercial viability of the field.
Ocean Rig Announces Acquisition of Ultra Deepwater Drillship
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ:ORIG) (“Ocean Rig” or the “Company”), a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, announced today that one of its subsidiaries has acquired the 6th generation ultra deepwater drillship Cerrado, being sold through an auction, for a purchase price of $65 million, which will be funded with available cash on hand. The drillship was built at Samsung Heavy Industries in 2011 to similar design specifications as the Company’s existing 6 th generation drillships built at Samsung, and will be renamed the Ocean Rig Paros upon its delivery to Ocean Rig. Another subsidiary of the Company has been acting as the manager of the drillship for its previous owners. The transaction is expected to close upon completion of the judicial auction procedure.
Senegal Drilling Update: Successful SNE-4 appraisal well
The SNE-4 appraisal well offshore Senegal has been safely drilled, cored and logged ahead of schedule and under budget. Well results have successfully demonstrated the extension of the SNE oil field upper reservoir units in the eastern portion of the SNE field. The Operator, Cairn Energy PLC, has provided notice to release the Ocean Rig Athena drill ship after completion of SNE-4 operations. Evaluation of the extensive data set acquired from the highly successful SNE-2, SNE-3, BEL-1 and SNE-4 appraisal wells is continuing. The JV is evaluating development options and will determine the most effective way to further appraise this world class oil accumulation. Drilling is expected to resume in H2 2016.
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. announces amendment to agreement with Jurong
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. ("NADL" or "the Company") refers to the press release on December 3, 2015 which announced a standstill agreement to defer delivery of the semi-submersible West Rigel ("the Unit"). Today the Company announces an amendment has been agreed with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd ("Jurong"), which extends the delivery deferral period by a further three months to September 2, 2016. The extension allows the parties to continue to explore commercial opportunities for the Unit. As previously agreed, in the event no employment is secured for the Unit and no alternative transaction is completed, the Company and Jurong will form a Joint Asset Holding Company for joint ownership of the Unit, to be owned 23% by the Company and 77% by Jurong.
Drilling permit for well 7220/11-3 AR in production licence 609
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/11-3 AR, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7220/11-3 AR will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72°56'45,94" north and 22°19'26,18" east in production licence 609. The drilling programme for well 7220/11-3 AR relates to the deepening of appraisal well 7220/11-3 A, which was temporarily plugged and abandoned in 2015 in production licence 609. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS and DEA Norge AS, each with 30 per cent. The area in this licence consists of blocks/parts of blocks 7220/6, 7220/9, 7220/11, 7220/12 and 7221/4. The well will be drilled about four kilometres south of the 7220/11-1 discovery well. Production licence 609 was awarded on 13 May 2011 in the 21st licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. The permit is contingent on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activities.
Lundin Petroleum commences the 2016 southern Barents Sea drilling campaign
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has commenced the 2016 exploration and appraisal campaign in the Loppa High area in the southern Barents Sea with the winterised Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The 2016 drilling campaign consists of three wells commencing with the re-entry of the Alta-3 appraisal well 7220/11-3A in PL609 which was successfully drilled last year on the eastern flank of the Alta discovery. The objective of the Alta-3 re-entry is to deepen the well to further assess the quality of the Permian carbonate reservoir section as well as to conduct a production test. The original Alta-3 well encountered a gross hydrocarbon column of 120 metres and all three Alta wells drilled to date have proven pressure communication. The Alta discovery is estimated to contain gross contingent resources of between 125 and 400 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe). Following the completion of the Alta-3 well the rig will move further north on PL609 to re-enter the suspended Neiden exploration well 7220/6-2 which was partially drilled last year. The Neiden well was suspended immediately above prognosed reservoir section in October last year due to winter restrictions for the drilling rig (Island Innovator). The Neiden prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 204 MMboe. The third well to be drilled in the 2016 campaign is an exploration well targeting the Filicudi prospect on PL533 to the northwest of the Alta discovery and south of the Statoil operated Johan Castberg discovery. The Filicudi prospect is expected to contain Jurassic sandstone reservoir analogous to the Johan Castberg discovery. The Filicudi prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 258 MMboe. Lundin Norway is the operator of both PL609 and PL533 and holds a 40 percent and 35 percent working interest in these respective licences. The Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig has been contracted for three firm well slots with an additional six optional well slots.
Drilling permit for well 7220/6-2 R in production licence 609
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/6-2 R, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7220/6-2 R will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72° 34' 13.1" north and 20° 58' 19.66" east. The drilling programme for well 7220/6-2 R relates to an extension of previous wildcat well 7220/6-2, drilled in 2015 in production licence 609. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with a 40 per cent ownership interest, and the licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 30 per cent and DEA Norge AS with 30 per cent. The production licence consists of blocks/parts of blocks 7220/6, 7220/9, 7220/11, 7220/12 and 7221/4. The production licence was awarded in the 21st licensing round in 2011. Wildcat well 7220/6-2 R will be an extension of the sixth exploration well in production licence 609. The permit is contingent on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
Lundin receives consent for exploration drilling
Lundin Norway AS has received consent for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea. Lundin Norway AS (Lundin) is the operator for production licence 533, comprising blocks 7219/12 and 7220/10 in the Barents Sea. The PSA has given Lundin consent to drill exploration well 7219/12-1 in a prospect named Filicudi. The drilling site is 218 kilometres north-west of Hammerfest. Water depth is around 320 metres. Drilling is scheduled to begin in early September and will last 59 days, with an addition for a potential well test. The well is to be drilled using the Leiv Eiriksson mobile facility, which is owned and operated by Ocean Rig. The facility is a BINGO 9000 type, built in 2001. It is classified by DNV GL and registered in the Bahamas. Ocean Rig received Acknowledgement of Compliance for Leiv Eiriksson from the PSA in July 2008.
Drilling permit for well 7219/12-1 in production licence 533
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7219/12-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7219/12-1 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72°12' 44.2" north and 19°46' 38.3" east. The drilling programme for well 7219/12-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 533. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 35 per cent. The other licensees are Det norske oljeselskap ASA with 35 per cent and DEA Norge AS with 30 per cent. The area in this licence consists of blocks 7219/12 and 7220/10. The well will be drilled about 24 kilometres south of the discovery well 7220/10-1 in production licence 533. Production licence 533 was awarded on 15 May 2009 in the 20th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Deepening of appraisal well 7220/11-3 A in the Barents Sea – 7220/11-3 AR
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 609, has completed drilling the deepening 7220/11-3 AR on the 7220/11-1 (Alta) oil and gas discovery. The well was drilled about four kilometres south of the 7220/11-1 discovery well. The 7220/11-1 discovery was proven in October 2014 in carbonate rocks dating from the Early Triassic to the Carboniferous. The operator’s resource estimate after drilling the discovery well was between 14 and 50 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil and between 5 and 17 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. Well 7220/11-3 AR is a deepening of the 7220/11-3 A appraisal well, which was temporarily plugged and abandoned in September 2015. 7220/11-3 A was drilled to a measured depth of 2105 metres and a vertical depth of 1962 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in the Gipsdalen Group in the Permian. The objective of well 7220/11-3 AR was to continue exploring the reservoir properties in the Ørn and Falk Formations under the oil-water contact in the discovery. The well encountered several zones with very good reservoir properties. Two injection tests have been completed, with injection rates of 800 and 2900 Sm3 of seawater per flow day in the Falk and Ørn Formations, respectively. A production test was also carried out in the gas zone in the Lower Triassic, with a production rate of 595 000 Sm3 gas per flow day through a 64/64 inch nozzle opening. Pressure data from the 7220/11-3, 7220/11-3 A appraisal wells and deepening 7220/11-3 AR indicate communication with the 7220/11-1 discovery well. Extensive data and samples have been collected from all wells. The results from the appraisal wells are important with regard to the further work on mapping the eastern flank of the discovery. The resource estimate will be reassessed based on the new data. This is a deepening of the fifth well in production licence 609. The licence was awarded in the 21st licensing round in 2011. The 7220/11-3 AR deepening was drilled to a measured depth of 2575 metres and a vertical depth of 2389 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in Carboniferous sandstone in the Gipsdalen Group. Water depth is 397 metres. The well was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill wildcat well 7220/6-2 R in the same production licence.
Oil and gas discovery east of Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea - 7220/6-2 R
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 609, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7220/6-2 R. The well proved oil and gas. Well 7220/6-2 R is a deepening of well 7220/6-2, which was temporarily plugged and abandoned in November 2015. The well was drilled about 60 kilometres northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/11-1 (Alta) and about 20 kilometres east of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg. The primary targets for the well were to prove petroleum in Middle Triassic sandstone rocks (Snadd formation) and in Permian to Carboniferous carbonate rocks (Ørn formation). The well encountered a total oil column of about 20 metres with an overlying gas column of about 10 metres in carbonate rocks in the Ørn formation, with good to moderate reservoir properties. In the Snadd formation, the well encountered aquiferous sandstone with moderate to good reservoir properties. Preliminary estimations of the size of the discovery range between 3 and 7 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil and between 1 and 2 billion standard cubic metres of recoverable gas. The well was not production tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling were carried out. The well is the sixth exploration well in production licence 609. The licence was awarded in the 21st licensing round in 2011. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 1293 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in basement rocks. Water depth is 387 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7220/6-2 R was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 533 in the Barents Sea to drill wildcat well 7219/12-1 where Lundin Norway AS is the operator.
Drilling permit for wellbore 7120/1-5 in production licence 492
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7120/1-5, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 7120/1-5 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, at position 71°56' 15.97" north and 20°14' 57.37" east. The drilling programme for wellbore 7120/1-5 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 492. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensee is Aker BP ASA with 60 per cent. The area in this licence consists of the blocks 7120/1 and 7120/2. The well will be drilled about four kilometres north of the 7120/1-3 discovery well in production licence 492. Production licence 492 was awarded on 29 February 2008 in APA 2007. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing the drilling activities.
Lundin Norway AS (Lundin) has received consent to drill exploration well 7120/1-5 in the Barents Sea. Lundin is the operator for production licence 492, comprising blocks 7120/1 and 7120/2 in the Barents Sea. The PSA has given Lundin consent to drill exploration well 7120/1-5 in a prospect named Gohta. The drilling location is around 185 kilometres north-west of Hammerfest. Water depth at the site is 368 metres. Drilling is scheduled to begin in late December 2016 and estimated to last 73 days. There will also be a potential well test. The well is to be drilled using the Leiv Eiriksson mobile drilling facility, which is owned and operated by Ocean Rig. The facility is a BINGO 9000 type, built in 2001. It is classified by DNV GL and registered in the Bahamas. Ocean Rig received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for Leiv Eiriksson from the PSA in July 2008.
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. announces amendment to agreement with Jurong Shipyard
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. ("NADL" or "the Company") refers to the press release on December 3, 2015, June 7, 2016, August 25, 2016, and October 4, 2016 which announced a standstill agreement and subsequent amendments to defer delivery of the semi-submersible West Rigel ("the Unit"). Today the Company announces an amendment has been agreed with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd ("Jurong"), which extends the delivery deferral period to July 6, 2017. The extension allows the parties to continue to explore commercial opportunities for the Unit. As previously agreed, in the event no employment is secured for the Unit and no alternative transaction is completed, the Company and Jurong will form a Joint Asset Holding Company for joint ownership of the Unit, to be owned 23% by the Company and 77% by Jurong.
Drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-1 A in production licence 533
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-1 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 7219/12-1 A will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72°12' 44.2" north and 19°46' 38.3" east. The drilling programme for wellbore 7219/12-1 A relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 533. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 35 per cent. The other licensees are Aker BP ASA with 35 per cent and DEA Norge AS with 30 per cent. The area in this licence consists of the blocks 7219/12 and 7220/10. The well will be drilled about 24 kilometres north of the discovery well 7220/10-1 in production licence 533. Production licence 533 was awarded on 15 May 2009 in the 20th licensing round. The permit is contingent on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Oil discovery in the Filicudi prospect in the southern Barents Sea
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has made an oil and gas discovery in the main well 7219/12-1 and is presently drilling a sidetrack 7219/12-1A on the Filicudi prospect. The wells are located in PL533 approximately 40 km southwest of Johan Castberg and 30 km northwest of the Alta and Gohta discoveries on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The main objective of the well was to prove oil in Jurassic and Triassic sandstone reservoirs. The well encountered a gross 129 metres hydrocarbon column of high quality sandstone reservoir characteristics, with 63 metres of oil and 66 metres gas in the Jurassic and Triassic targets. Extensive data acquisition and sampling has been carried out including coring, logging and oil and gas sampled from the wireline tools. The sidetrack well has reached total depth and has confirmed the reservoir and hydrocarbon column. The gross resource estimate for the Filicudi discovery is between 35 and 100 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe). Well results indicate significant upside potential that require further appraisal drilling. Filicudi is on trend with the Johan Castberg discovery, with resources of approximately 500 MMboe, in similar reservoir intervals. Multiple additional prospects have been identified on the Filicudi trend within PL533 with total gross unrisked prospective resource potential for the trend of up to 700 MMboe. The partnership is considering the drilling of up to two additional prospects in 2017. There are two independent high graded prospects within PL533, Hufsa containing gross unrisked prospective resources of 285 MMboe and Hurri with gross unrisked prospective resources of 218 MMboe. The success at Filicudi has reduced the risk and both prospects carry a 25 percent chance of success. The semisubmersible drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson will after completion of the well on the Filicudi prospect in PL533 move to the Gohta discovery in PL492 to drill a second delineation well on this discovery. Lundin Norway is the operator of both PL533 and PL492 and holds a 35 percent and 40 percent working interest in these respective licences.
Oil and gas discovery northwest of 7220/11-1 (Alta) in the Barents Sea - 7219/12-1 and 7219/12-1 A
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 533, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7219/12-1 and appraisal well 7219/12-1 A. The well proved oil and gas. The wells were drilled about 32 kilometres northwest of discovery well 7220/11-1 (Alta) and about 37 kilometres southwest of discovery well 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg. The primary and secondary exploration targets for wildcat well 7219/12-1 were to prove petroleum in two Early Jurassic and Late/Middle Triassic reservoir levels (Tubåen and Fruholmen formations). The primary exploration target for appraisal well 7219/12-1 A was to collect geological data in Early Jurassic/Late Triassic sandstone rocks (Nordmela and Tubåen formations). Well 7219/12-1 proved a total oil column of about 60 metres and an overlying total gas column of about 60 metres, of which 55 metres and 45 metres, respectively, were in sandstone with good reservoir properties in the Tubåen formation. Well 7219/12-1 A confirmed a mostly equivalent gas and oil column in the Nordmela and Tubåen formations with good reservoir properties. Preliminary estimations of the size of the discovery are between 5.5 and 16 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. Further delineation and production testing of the discovery will be assessed. The wells were not production tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. These are the second and third exploration wells in production licence 533. The licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009. Well 7219/12-1 was drilled to a vertical depth of 2475 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Snadd formation in Late Triassic. Well 7219/12-1 A was drilled to a vertical depth of 1800 metres below the sea surface and terminated in the Fruholmen formation in Late Triassic. Water depth is 323 metres. The wells will now be temporarily plugged and abandoned. Wells 7219/12-1 and 7219/12-1 A were drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence 492 in the Barents Sea to drill appraisal well 7120/1-5 where Lundin Norway AS is the operator.
Ocean Rig Athena On Route to Greece
Ocean rig has reached an agreement with ConocoPhillips to terminate the contract on the Ocean Rig Athena. ConocoPhillips will pay a termination fee as part of the termination agreement. The Ocean Rig Athena has now left Las Palmas and is on route to Greece where the rig will be cold stacked.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/11-4, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7220/11-4 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility at position 72°2' 27.56" north and 20°33' 8.1" east. The drilling programme for well 7220/11-4 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 609. Lundin Norway AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent, the other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS with 30 per cent and DEA Norge AS with 30 per cent. The area in this licence consists of the blocks/part of blocks 7220/6, 7220/9, 7220/11, 7220/12 and 7221/4. The well will be drilled about two kilometres south of the discovery well 7220/11-1 in production licence 609. Production licence 609 was awarded in the 21st licensing round in 2011. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
Delineation of oil and gas discovery 7120/1-3 (Gohta) in the Barents Sea – 7120/1-5
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 492, is about to complete the drilling of appraisal well 7120/1-5 on the oil and gas discovery 7120/1-3 (Gohta). The well was drilled about four kilometres north of the discovery well, about three kilometres east of appraisal well 7120/1-4 S, which was drilled in 2014, and about 17 kilometres southwest of the discovery 7220/11-1 (Alta). The discovery was proven in 2013 in Permian carbonate rocks . Before well 7120/1-5 was drilled, the resource estimate for the discovery was between 10 and 21 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil and between 5 and 8 billion standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable gas. The objective of the well was to delineate the northern part of the discovery 7120/1-3 (Gohta) and to investigate the reservoir quality in Permian carbonate rocks and Permian-Triassic conglomerates. Well 7120/1-5 encountered about 300 metres of carbonates in the Røye formation with poor reservoir quality. Pressure gradients were not established and the forecasted Permian-Triassic conglomerates were not encountered. The well is classified as dry, with traces of hydrocarbons. The well has not been formation tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been conducted. The resource estimate for the discovery will be reduced as a result of the well. An updated resource estimate will be prepared during the year based on all new data. Development of the Gohta discovery is being considered along with the 7220/11-1 (Alta) discovery. The well result will not have any impact on the operator’s plans for further delineation of the Alta discovery. This is the third exploration well in production licence 492. The licence was awarded in APA 2007. Well 7120/1-5 was drilled to a vertical depth of 2502 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Røye formation in Permian. Water depth is 344 metres. The well will be permanently plugged and abandoned. The well was drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill appraisal well 7220/11-4 in production licence 609 in the Barents Sea, where Lundin Norway AS is the operator.
Lundin receives consent for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea
Lundin has received consent to drill an exploration well in block 7220 in the Barents Sea. Lundin is the operator for production licence 609 in the Barents Sea. We have given the company consent to drill exploration well 7220/11-4 in a prospect named Alta. Drilling is scheduled to begin in May 2017 and will last 65 days. Possible well testing will be in addition. Water depth at the site is 402 metres. The well is to be drilled by Leiv Eiriksson, which is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the BINGO 9000 type, owned and operated by Ocean Rig ASA. It was built in China in 2001 and fitted out in the USA. Leiv Eiriksson was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance by the PSA in July 2008.
Alta Appraisal Well Spudded
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has commenced drilling of appraisal well 7220/11-4 (Alta-4) on the Alta discovery in PL609, located on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The Alta-4 well is located approximately 2 km south of the original discovery well 7220/11-1 and is the fourth well to be drilled on the Alta discovery. The main objective of the Alta-4 well is to further appraise the Alta discovery and to provide a calibration point for the drilling of a horizontal well for a possible extended well test that is being planned for 2018. The Alta discovery is estimated to contain gross contingent resources of between 125 and 400 million barrels of oil equivalents (MMboe). The Alta-4 well will be drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson and is expected to take approximately 65 days. Lundin Norway is the operator of PL609 with a 40 percent working interest.
Consent for exploration drilling using Leiv Eiriksson
Lundin is the operator of production licence 609. The licence covers block 7220/6 which is around 190 km from Bjørnøya. Drilling will begin in July 2017 and last approx. 34 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. The well is to be drilled by Leiv Eiriksson, which is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the SS Trosvik Bingo 9000 type, owned by Ocean Rig and operated by Rig Management Norway. Leiv Eiriksson was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in July 2008.
Delivery Delay for the West Rigel
North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) has amended an agreement with Jurong Shipyard which will see delivery date for the West Rigel semisub pushed back to 6 January 2018. Both parties will continue to explore commercial opportunities for the rig during the deferral period. In the event that no contract is secured and no alternative transaction is executed, NADL and Jurong will form a joint ownership company for the rig, owned 23% by NADL and 77% by Jurong.
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Westcon preparing for arrival of 'Maersk Intrepid'
Maersk Intrepid (Maersk Drilling) (Jackup)
The world’s largest jackup rig, the ‘Maersk Intrepid’ is expected to arrive in the Westcon shipyard in Norway on the 6th June 2014. The shipyard has gone under a number of improvements in recent years; among them is the preparation of the seabed outside the quay to provide jackups with safe moorings. The ‘Maersk Intrepid’ will be the first jackup to use this when it arrives at the shipyard. The unit is planning to stay at the Westcon yard for 50-60 days to train the crew, install third party equipment and test on board systems before drilling for Total on the Martin Linge field.
Source: http://en.westcon.no/News/The-worlds-largest-jack-up-rig-to-Westcon/B51A1069-EC4C-479D-ACD0-E5E0034E5E44/1
More News for Operator: Maersk Drilling
'Maersk Intrepid' given permission to work in Norway
The ‘Maersk Intrepid’ jack-up drilling facility has received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). An Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) is a statement from the PSA indicating that a mobile facility is considered to be in compliance with relevant requirements in the petroleum activities regulations. After the AoC has been granted, the facility owner is responsible for ensuring that the organisation, management system and facility’s technical condition always comply with the regulations.
Statoil fails to make commercial discovery with Martin prospect
Statoil announces a small discovery in its Martin prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Statoil does not consider this to be a commercial discovery. The well has been drilled efficiently and plug and abandonment operations (P&A) are now ongoing. The Martin prospect was spudded in May 2014, in Mississippi Canyon Block 718 where water depths were 2,918 feet. Once P&A operations are completed the 'Maersk Developer' rig will move to the impact Perseus prospect in De Soto Canyon (DC) 231.
Maersk Drilling names fourth UDW drillship
Maersk Drilling’s fourth ultra-deepwater drillship was named Thursday morning in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Lene Berg, wife of Gregers Kudsk, Vice President in Maersk Drilling, had the honour of naming the drillship ‘Maersk Voyager’. ‘Maersk Voyager’ is the fourth in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships. The four drillships were ordered in 2011 and represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion. ‘Maersk Voyager’ is scheduled to be delivered from SHI in Q4 2014. ‘Maersk Voyager’ remains without a first contract. “The short term floater market is challenged, but we remain in discussions with several oil companies regarding short term as well as long term drilling campaigns for the ‘Maersk Voyager’ ,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Chevron extends 'Maersk Deliverer' contract in Angola
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, a Chevron subsidiary in Angola, has extended the current contract for the ultra deepwater semi-submersible ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ expiring in June 2015 by two years. ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ has been working for Chevron since 2012 and its partners on the Tombua Landana field offshore Angola. With the contract extension the rig will be on contract until June 2017. The estimated revenue potential from the two-year contract extension is USD 387 million plus compensation for cost escalations over the contract period. “We are very pleased to be able to extend our relationship with Chevron on this project, and look forward to a continued successful drilling operation. With its high growth potential Angola is a focus market of Maersk Drilling, and our ambition is to further build our position in this market over the coming years,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Short term contract for 'Maersk Venturer'
Maersk Drilling’s third drillship, Maersk Venturer, which was delivered 25th September 2014 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea, has secured a short term contract with oil major Total. Maersk Venturer will commence a one well programme offshore Malaysia with an estimated duration of 45 days with potential extension up to 40 days. The drilling programme is expected to start in December 2014 following acceptance testing. The estimated revenue from the firm 45 days period is USD 17 million. “Total is a highly valued customer of Maersk Drilling and we see the contract award as a reflection of our long and good collaboration over the years. We are happy to get the Maersk Venturer out working, especially with the short term challenges in the floater market, and we remain confident that we can secure another good contract for the drillship, when this short term contracts ends,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group.
Maersk Drilling confirm extension for 'Maersk Resolute'
Hess has exercised the four one-well options included in the current contract for the jack-up rig ‘Maersk Resolute’. Each of the four additional wells has an estimated duration of around 90 days implying an extension of the current contract by approximately 1 year. The current seven firm wells programme is expected to end by April 2015. With the exercising of the four one-well options, the rig will be employed until April 2016. The estimated value of the extension is app. USD75 million. ‘Maersk Resolute’ is the second in a series of four high efficiency 350ft jack-ups delivered in 2008-2009.
Statoil set to spud Julius prospect using 'Maersk Gallant'
Statoil is the operator for exploration licences 146 and 333 in block 2/4 in the southern part of the North Sea. Exploration well 2/4-23 is to be drilled in a prospect called Julius. The site is 15 km north of the Ekofisk field and around 260 km from Lista, the closest land. Water depth at the site is approx. 68 metres. Drilling is scheduled to begin in late December 2014 and estimated to last 154 days. A possible sidetrack, designated 2/4-23 A, will take a further 67 days.
'Maersk Interceptor' jackup recieves AOC
Maersk Drilling has received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Maersk Interceptor jackup drilling facility. Maersk Interceptor is a jackup drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and will be operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The unit is contracted for operations in Norway by Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA (DNO) until December 2019
Det Norske to spud Ivar Aasen appraisal wells with 'Maersk Interceptor'
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility from the joint position 58°55’41.704’’ north, 02°13’23.042’’ east in production licence 001 B. 16/1-21 S will be drilled first in the reservoir to the north, while 16/1-21 A will subsequently be drilled in the reservoir to the southeast. The drilling programme for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A relates to appraisal wells on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The wells will be drilled in the eastern part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. On 1 September 1999, production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). These are the fifth and sixth exploration wells to be drilled within the licence area and the seventh and eighth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
PSA approves 'Maersk Interceptor' for Ivar Aasen drilling
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) is the operator on the Ivar Aasen field, in block 16/1 in the central North Sea. The field is around 175 kilometres west of Karmøy in Rogaland county. Det norske will be drilling three appraisal wells, designated 16/1-21 S, 16/1-21 A and 16/1-22. The first two consist of a main bore and a sidetrack, meaning that the three wells will be drilled from two different locations.The combined duration of the drilling activities will be 153 days. The water depth at the two locations is 113 and 111 metres. The wells will be drilled using the Maersk Interceptor mobile drilling facility, operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The facility was delivered by the Keppel FELS Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. It is registered in Singapore and classified by DNV GL.
'Maersk Interceptor' begins Ivar Aasen drilling
The drilling rig Maersk Interceptor has commenced the drilling programme on the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea. The campaign has a duration of three years and comprises a total of 15 wells in addition to three pilot wells. Det norske oljeselskap (“Det norske”) is the operator of the Ivar Aasen field (production licenses 001B, 028B, 242, 338 and 457). The drilling programme for the Ivar Aasen field kicks off with the drilling of three pilot wells for further mapping of the underground. The drilling of pilot wells will be concluded by the summer of 2015. The three upcoming pilot wells are important to the licensees. They will enable us to retrieve important reservoir information at an earlier stage. This will create added value for the Ivar Aasen licence, says Inge Sundet, the drilling manager for Ivar Aasen. The drilling campaign on Ivar Aasen will be carried out by the drilling rig Maersk Interceptor, the world’s largest jack-up rig. The rig has been contracted by Det norske for a period of five years, with an option of additional two years. The Ivar Aasen field is planned developed with a total of 15 wells; eight production wells and seven water injection wells. The Ivar Aasen field comprises three deposits: Ivar Aasen, West Cable and Hanz. Ivar Aasen is located west of the Johan Sverdrup field and contains 210 million barrels of oil equivalents. Production start-up is planned for the fourth quarter of 2016. The economic life of the field may be 20 years, depending on oil price and production trends. Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator for the Ivar Aasen development, holding a 34.7862 per cent interest in the field. Partners are Statoil, Bayerngas, Wintershall, VNG, Lundin and OMV.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of third XLE jackup rig
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its third ultra harsh environment jack-up, XLE-3, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore ahead of schedule. The rig will start her mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in late February, where she after arrival, will commence a contract of four years firm with 2x1 year options with Statoil for development drilling on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea. The rig, which will be named at a ceremony in Singapore in February, is the third in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs have now been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016.
Statoil discovers oil at Romeo prospect
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 146, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-22 S. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field and 2.3 kilometres northeast of the 2/4-21 discovery in the southern part of the North Sea. The primary exploration target for well 2/4-22 S was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Permian (in the Rotliegend group). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the Middle Jurassic (the Bryne formation). In its primary exploration target, the well encountered a 27-metre total oil column in the Rotliegend group, 24 metres of which was sandstone of good reservoir quality. In its secondary exploration target, the well encountered oil columns in two intervals in the Bryne formation, where the top interval also extends into the overlying Ula formation in the Upper Jurassic. No oil/water contact was encountered in either of the intervals in the Jurassic. The Bryne formation has a 46-metre total oil column, about 30 metres of which is sandstone of good to poor reservoir quality. The Bryne and Ula formations have a 49-metre total oil column, about 15 metres of which are from multiple thin sandstone layers with good to poor reservoir quality. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery range between 0.7 and 2 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalents. Further studies are needed in order to determine whether the discovery can be included as part of a future development of the area. This is the ninth exploration well in production licence 146. The license was awarded in the 12th licensing round in 1988. Well 2/4-22 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 4834 metres below sea level and was terminated in the Rotliegend group. Water depth at the site is 67 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 2/4-22 S was drilled by the Maersk Gallant drilling facility, which will now move on to drill exploration well 2/4-23 in the same production licence.
Maersk Drilling names third XLE jackup in Singapore
Maersk Drilling’s third XL Enhanced ultra-harsh environment jack-up was named Saturday morning at a ceremony held at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. Mrs. Margareth Øvrum, Executive Vice President in Statoil, honoured Maersk Drilling by naming the rig Maersk Integrator. Maersk Integrator is the third in a series of four ultra-harsh environment jackup rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD2.6bn. The first three jackup rigs, including Maersk Intregrator, have now all been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard. The fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Intregator will mobilise to the North Sea and commence a four year firm contract with Statoil for drilling on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD620 million.
Maersk Drilling secures contract for 'Maersk Voyager'
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Ltd., a subsidiary of Eni, for employment of the newbuild drillship Maersk Voyager. The firm contract period is 3.5 years with an option to extend by one year. The total estimated revenue from the firm contract is USD545 million including mobilisation and cost escalations. Maersk Voyager will work on the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Project offshore Ghana with expected commencement in July 2015. “We are very pleased to be chosen by Eni and its partners Vitol and GNPC for this project offshore Ghana and we look forward to working together with the OCTP JV over the next 3.5 years. West Africa has been a strategic focus area for Maersk Drilling, since we embarked on our deepwater expansion, and with this contract we expand our presence in the promising West African deepwater market,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Maersk Voyager is the last in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships in Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The rig was delivered on 6 February 2015 from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si in South-Korea. The four drillships represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion.
Statoil granted drilling permit for Julius prospect
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 2/4-23. Well 2/4-23 will be drilled from the Mærsk Gallant drilling facility in position 56°41’42.70’’ north and 03°06’18.10” east. The drilling programme for well 2/4-23 relates to the drilling of an exploration well in production licence 146. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with a 77.8 per cent ownership interest. Total E&P Norge AS is the licensee with 22.2 per cent. Production licence 146 was awarded to Saga Petroleum in 1988 in the 12th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. The area in this production licence is located in the southern part of the North Sea and encompasses parts of block 2/4. The well will be drilled about 18 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. There has been previous drilling activity in the production licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity commences.
'Maersk Guardian' prepares to drill final well on Brynhild
The Brynhild oil field commenced production on the 25th December 2014 with an initial production rate confirming that the field was capable of producing at the previously announced plateau rate of 12,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). However due to certain operational issues in relation to the Haewene Brim FPSO, the field has been shut-in since the middle of January 2015. The operational issues which have caused the shut-in relate mainly to a leak identified in the gas injection flexible line and to a damaged connection point between one of the mooring chains and the riser buoy. The gas injection line has been successfully repaired and the damage to the mooring line connection point has been inspected and the process of rectifying the connection point has commenced. Production has now re-commenced with the ramp-up to plateau production expected to continue over the next few weeks. The drilling of the third well of a four well campaign has now been completed. The Maersk Guardian jack up rig has now skidded to the fourth slot and the final well will be drilled before the rig begins simultaneous completion operations.
BP makes gas discovery with Atoll-1
BP Egypt announced today another important gas discovery in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta. The “Atoll-1” deepwater exploration well, currently being drilled using the 6th generation semi-submersible rig “Maersk Discoverer,” has reached 6,400 metres depth and penetrated approximately 50 metres of gas pay in high quality Oligocene sandstones. Expected to be the deepest well ever drilled in Egypt, the Atoll well still has another 1 kilometre to drill to test the same reservoir section found to be gas bearing in BP’s significant 2013 Salamat discovery, 15 kilometres to the south. Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive, commented: “Success in Atoll further increases our confidence in the quality of the Nile Delta as a world class gas basin. This is the second significant discovery in the licence after Salamat. The estimated potential in the concession exceeds 5 trillion cubic feet (tcf) and we now have a positive starting point for the next possible major project in Egypt after BP’s West Nile Delta project.” Commenting on the discovery, Hesham Mekawi, BP North Africa Regional President said: “The Atoll discovery is a great outcome for our second well in this core exploration programme in the East Nile Delta. It demonstrates BP’s continuous efforts to help in meeting Egypt’s energy demands by exploring the potential in the offshore Nile Delta. We are proud of our commitment to unlock Egypt’s exploration potential that requires large investments to utilise using the latest drilling and seismic technologies.” Atoll-1 was drilled in 923m water depth around 80km north of Damietta city, 15km north of Salamat and only 45 km to the north west of Temsah offshore facilities. BP has 100% equity in the discovery.
Det Norske given approval to drill appraisal well on Ivar Aasen
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-22 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°54’23.1’’ north 02°09’43.2’’ east in production licence 001 B, after completing the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A. The drilling programme for well 16/1-22 S relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the south-western part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. On 1 September 1999, production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the seventh exploration well to be drilled within the licence area and the ninth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Det Norske completes two Ivar Aasen appraisal wells
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 001 B, has completed drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A on the Ivar Aasen field. The field is located in the central part of the North Sea and was proven in 2008. The size of the field prior to drilling of these two appraisal wells was 24 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil, 1 million Sm3 of recoverable condensate and 4.5 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The primary target for wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A was to investigate reservoir rocks and reservoir quality, as well as the extent of an overlying gas cap in the eastern part of the field in Middle Jurassic to upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin, Sleipner and Skagerrak formations, as well as the Statfjord group). In addition, 16/1-21 S had a secondary exploration target in overlying Paleocene reservoir rocks (the Heimdal formation). 16/1-21 S encountered a total oil column of 54 metres, of which 25 metres were of good to very good reservoir quality in the Skagerrak formation. The oil is undersaturated, which is also the case in the eastern part of the field (16/1-16 and 16/1-16 A). The gas/oil ratio (GOR) in the oil zone is 130-145 Sm3/Sm3. The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was calculated at approx. 2436 metres, which is 2 metres deeper than previously assumed in the Skagerrak formation. Gas was not encountered in the well. In the Heimdal formation, the well encountered 27 metres of aquiferous sandstone of good to very good quality. 16/1-21 A encountered a total oil column of 41 metres and a 4-metre gas column, of which a total of 29 metres was of very good reservoir quality in the Sleipner and Skagerrak formations. The oil in the Sleipner formation is saturated, while the oil in the Skagerrak formation is largely undersaturated. The oil/water contact was not encountered. The well results have yielded valuable information as regards the final location of production and injection wells. Further work going forward will integrate the new data and contribute to increased field understanding. The Ivar Aase field field consists of production licences 001 B, 028 B, 242, 338 BS and 457. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 21 December 2012. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. These are the fourth and fifth appraisal wells in production licence 001 B. This production licence was carved out of production licence 001 on 15 December 1999. PL001 was originally awarded on 1 September 1965 (round 1-A). Wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A were drilled to measured depths of 2630 and 3313 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2530 and 2463 metres below the sea surface. Both were terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 113 metres. The wells were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue drilling appraisal well 16/1-22 S in the western part of the Ivar Aasen field.
Otto Energy contracts 'Maersk Venturer' for Philippines drilling
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) has announced that it has signed a contract to secure the Maersk Venturer drillship for its Hawkeye-1 exploration well in the Philippines. The window of commencement for mobilisation to the Hawkeye-1 drilling location is between 17th July and 15th August 2015. Otto is in the process of securing key services and equipment in the build up to mobilisation. Once it has reached the drilling location, the Maersk Venturer is expected to take 23 days to drill the well until rig release. The unit is currently ready stacked in Labuan, Malaysia.
Det Norske set to drill new appraisal at Ivar Aasen field
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-22 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility in position 58°54’23.1’’ north and 02°09’43.2’’ east in production licence 001 B, after completing drilling of appraisal well 16/1-22 S. The drilling programme for well 16/1-22 A relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS (41.4730 per cent), Bayerngas Norge AS (12.3173 per cent), Wintershall Norge AS (6.4615 per cent), VNG Norge AS (3.0230 per cent), Lundin Norway AS (1.3850 per cent) and OMV (Norge) AS (0.5540 per cent). The area in this licence is part of block 16/1. The well will be drilled in the south-western part of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out on 1 September 1999 from production licence 001, which was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Licensing Round 1-A). This is the eighth exploration well to be drilled within the licence area, and the tenth on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is conditional upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
PSA gives AOC to 'Maersk Integrator'
Maersk Drilling has received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance (“AoC”) for the Maersk Integrator jack-up drilling facility. Maersk Integrator is a jack-up drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility will be operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. In total, 57 mobile facilities have received an Acknowledgement of Compliance from the PSA. It is the PSA's assessment that petroleum activities may be carried out using the Maersk Integrator facility within the regulatory framework. The validity of the Acknowledgement of Compliance assumes that Maersk Drilling Norge AS ensures that the facility and relevant parts of the company’s organisation and management systems are maintained, to fulfil the terms and conditions set out in the PSA’s decision.
PSA approves 'Maersk Integrator' for Gina Krog drilling
Statoil has received consent to use the Maersk Integrator jackup for production drilling and completion of fourteen wells at the Gina Krog field in Norway. Gina Krog is an oil and gas discovery situated around 250 kilometres west of Stavanger and 30 kilometres north-west of the Sleipner A facility. Water depth at the site is approximately 110 metres. The development concept is a new steel platform and an oil storage vessel with a capacity of 850,000 barrels. The field was proven in 1974. The reservoir contains oil and gas in Middle Jurassic sandstone in the Hugin formation. Statoil has now received consent from the PSA to use Maersk Integrator to drill and complete new production wells on the field.
PSA approves use of 'Maersk Gallant' for P&A at Eldfisk
The PSA has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant jackup drilling rig for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A. Eldfisk is an oil field lying due south of Ekofisk in 70-75 metres of water in the southern North Sea. Production began in 1979. Mærsk Gallant is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002. The Petroleum Safety Authority (“PSA”) Norway has now granted consent to use Maersk Gallant at Eldfisk in accordance with ConocoPhillips's application.
Lundin to plug former appraisal well with 'Maersk Guardian'
Lundin has received consent to use the Maersk Guardian jackup to permanently plug well 7/8-5 S. The work is expected to take around 18 days. Well 7/8-5 S was an appraisal well for the Krabbe discovery, it was drilled in April 2006, but it turned out to be a dry well.
PSA performs audit of 'Maersk Gallant'
Between 16th and 20th March 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority (“PSA”) carried out an audit of Statoil and Maersk Drilling concerning HPHT drilling operations at the 2/4-22 Romeo and 2/4-23 Julius exploration wells using the Maersk Gallant jackup. The objective of the audit was to verify Statoil and Maersk Drilling's planning, experience transfer and execution of high pressure, high temperature exploration drilling of the Romeo and Julius exploration wells. The results of the audit found that non-conformities were identified in connection with; working environment committee and working environment measures. The PSA has issued additional improvement points and have given Statoil and Maersk Drilling a dealing of the August 1st 2015 to report on how it plans to deal with the points raised.
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of the Ivar Aasen field, has completed the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-22 S, 16/1-22 A and 16/1-22 B. The field is located in the central part of the North Sea and was proven in 2008. The size of the field prior to drilling the appraisal wells was 24 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil, 1 million Sm3 of recoverable condensate and 4.5 billion Sm3 of recoverable gas. The objective of well 16/1-22 S was to investigate reservoir rocks and reservoir quality, as well as secure depth control along the west flank of the field in Middle Jurassic to Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin, Sleipner and Skagerrak formations) in order to optimise well sites with a view to the drainage strategy. Sidetracks 16/1-22 A and 16/1-22 B were drilled 1000 metres northeast and 1350 metres north, respectively, of 16/1-22 S in order to investigate reservoir rocks and perform additional data acquisition. 16/1-22 A also aimed to investigate an underlying seismic anomaly. 16/1-22 S encountered a 3-metre oil column in sandstone of good to very good reservoir quality in the Skagerrak formation. The oil is saturated with a gas/oil ratio of about 160 Sm3/Sm3, as is the case otherwise in the western part of the field (16/1-11, 16/1-11 A and 16/1-9). The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was calculated at about 2435 metres, which is deeper than the previously calculated oil/water contact for the Skagerrak formation (16/1-11 A). 16/1-22 A encountered a total oil column of about 55 metres in the Skagerrak formation, 30 metres of which was in sandstone of varying reservoir quality, from moderate to very good. The oil/water contact was not encountered. The seismic anomaly is linked to the top of a total oil column of about 25 metres in underlying sandstone (alluvial fan), 15 metres of which had moderate reservoir properties. The oily part of the alluvial fan is not included in the field's previously reported reserves. 16/1-22 B encountered a total oil column of about 45 metres in the Skagerrak formation, 25 metres of which was in sandstone of good to very good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was not encountered. None of the wells were formation-tested, but comprehensive data collection and sampling was conducted. The results have yielded valuable information as regards the final location of production and water injection wells. Gas was not encountered in the wells. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the Ivar Aasen field was submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on 21 December 2012. Wells 16/1-22 S, 16/1-22 A 16/1-22 B were drilled to measured depths of 2640, 2896 and 3215 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2562, 2468 and 2501 metres below the sea surface. They were all terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 113 metres. The wells were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue production drilling on the Ivar Aasen field once the platform's jacket has been installed.
Premier receives approval to drill Myrhauk prospect
Premier Oil Norge AS (“Premier”) has received consent to drill exploration well 3/7-10 S in the southern part of the North Sea. Premier is the operator of production licence 539 in block 3/7 in the North Sea. The formation to be drilled into is called Myrhauk and is around 240 kilometres from the nearest mainland at Lista. Drilling is scheduled to begin in August 2015 and estimated to last 62 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. The well will be drilled by Mærsk Guardian which is a jack-up mobile drilling facility. It is owned and operated by the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group. It was built in Japan by Hitachi and completed in 1986.
Otto Energy to mobilise 'Maersk Venturer' towards end of July
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) is pleased to announce it has issued Maersk Drilling with formal notice in respect of the mobilisation of the Maersk Venturer drillship to the Hawkeye-1 exploration well location. Mobilisation to the drilling location will commence on 31st July 2015 and is expected to take around 1 to 2 days, with drilling operations to commence upon arrival of the rig on location. Drilling is expected to take around 23 days at the location.
NPD approves Myrhauk prospect drilling
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Premier Oil Norge AS a drilling permit for well 3/7-10 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. The well will be drilled from the Mærsk Guardian drilling facility in position 56°27’10.62’’ north and 4°04’46.18’’ east. The drilling programme for well 3/7-10 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 539. Premier Oil Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 40 per cent. The other licensees are Suncor Energy Norge AS (20 per cent), DEA Norge AS (12 per cent) and Ithaca Petroleum Norge AS (eight per cent). Production licence 539 was awarded in APA 2009. The area in the production license is located in the southern part of the North Sea, in the western part of the border block 3/7. Well 3/7-10 S is the first exploration well in this production licence. The permit is contingent on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before the drilling activity commences.
'Maersk Discoverer' finished well 62 days ahead of time
At the beginning of May 2015, the crew on-board the Maersk Discoverer reached a great milestone when they finalised their latest well two months ahead of time. The well was another East Nile Delta success for BP, discovering 50 m of gas pay in high-quality Oligocene sandstones. On 5th May, Maersk Discoverer completed the deepest well ever drilled in Egypt and the longest ever drilled in the Mediterranean Sea. What makes the well an even greater success is that it was drilled in 234 days, which was a staggering 62 days ahead of BP’s AFE target, thus creating a substantial cost saving.
Maersk Drilling retires 'Maersk Endurer'
Maersk Drilling has decided to decommission the Maersk Endurer rig from its operational fleet and recycle the rig at Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling in China. “Given the current market situation and the oversupply of drilling rigs in the offshore market, there is a strong need to retire older rigs. Therefore, Maersk Drilling has decided to decommission its oldest rig in the fleet, Maersk Endurer,” says Morten Pilnov, Head of Global Sales in Maersk Drilling. The rig will be transported to Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling in mid-July 2015, and it will take approximately 15 weeks to recycle the rig. “It is Maersk Drilling’s ambition to decommission Maersk Endurer in a safe and responsible way with minimal environmental impact. Therefore, Maersk Drilling has chosen Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling to recycle Maersk Endurer. Maersk Drilling has furthermore engaged Sea2Cradle to carry out inspections and supervise the entire process,” Morten Pilnov explains and continues: “We chose this option because we consider it to be the safest and most cost-effective approach, with the lowest environmental risks. Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling is a state-of-the-art rig recycling facility, and the facility complies with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships and the European Union Ship Recycling Regulation.” The Maersk Endurer is Maersk Drilling’s oldest rig in the fleet. The rig is a jack-up rig, and it was built in 1984, and has latest been working offshore Cameroon.
Maersk Drilling secures five year extension in Azerbaijan
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a five-year contract extension for the semi-submersible Heydar Aliyev (Maersk Explorer) rig with BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) Limited acting as Operator of the Shah Deniz field . The rig will continue working on the development of the Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan. The extension is in direct continuation of the current contract ending May 2016 and extends the contract until May 2021. The estimated value of the contract extension is up to USD523m. “We are very pleased with the extension for the Heydar Aliyev rig and look forward to continue our long standing cooperation with BP,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group, and continues: “With this contract we continue to build our contract backlog providing further revenue visibility. It is very encouraging that we continue to build backlog in this very challenging market.”
Statoil announces discovery at Julius
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 146, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-23 S. The well was drilled about 17 kilometres northeast of the Ekofisk field, near the 2/4-21 (King Lear) discovery in the southern part of the North Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Ula formation) and Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Bryne formation), as well as to delineate the 2/4-21 discovery (King Lear), which was proven in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Farsund formation) in the summer of 2012. Before well 2/4-23 S was drilled, the operator's resource estimate for King Lear was between 11 and 32 million standard cubic metres of recoverable oil equivalents. The secondary exploration target for 2/4-23 S was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Skagerrak formation). In the primary exploration target, the well encountered 41 metres of gas/condensate-filled sandstone rocks in the Ula formation, with moderate reservoir quality. The petroleum/water contact was not encountered. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery at between 2.5 and 12 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalents. The well also encountered 30 gross metres of water-filled sandstone with poor reservoir quality in the Bryne formation. In addition, the well encountered a 20-metre thick gas/condensate column in the Farsund formation, in two zones of five metre thick reservoir rocks with moderate/good reservoir quality, which confirmed pressure communication with the 2/4-21 King Lear discovery. Delineation of the 2/4-21 discovery will not lead to any change in the resource estimates. The Skagerrak formation had poor reservoir quality and was water-filled. The well was not formation-tested, but extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The licensees will assess the discoveries together, with a view toward an optimal development. This is the fourteenth exploration well in production licence 146, which was awarded in the 12th licensing round. Well 2/4-23 S was drilled to a vertical depth of 5548 metres below the sea surface, and was terminated in sandstone in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. Water depth at the site is 68 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 2/4-23 S was drilled by the Mærsk Gallant, which will now proceed to PL 018 to do well work on the Eldfisk field in the North Sea.
Maersk Drilling announces contract extension in Norway
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the jackup rig Mærsk Innovator with ConocoPhillips Norway for work on the Eldfisk field, part of the greater Ekofisk area, offshore Norway. The duration of the contract extension is 16 months. The extension is in direct continuation of the current contract expiring in February 2017, thus keeping the rig continuously contracted until June 2018. The estimated value of the contract extension is USD142m. “We are very pleased to see the Mærsk Innovator continue to work for ConocoPhillips,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Mærsk Innovator has been working for ConocoPhillips since 2010.
'Maersk Venturer' arrives at Philippines drilling location
Red Emperor Resources NL (“Red Emperor”) is pleased to announce that the load-out of the Maersk Venturer drilling rig has been completed with the vessel now at the Hawkeye drilling location. Drilling will commence over the coming weekend once the rig has been accurately secured over the required drilling location. As one of the most modern and advanced drillships in the world, the Maersk Venturer has the required capability to drill the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, with the drilling program expected to last 23 days. The exploration well has been designed to reach the top of target reservoir approximately 1,000m below the sea bed floor and intersect the gas oil contact to prove or otherwise the presence of the oil leg. Red Emperor intends to update the market weekly on the progress of operations.
Otto spuds Hawkeye-1
Otto Energy Ltd (“Otto”) has provided the following update on the drilling of the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan Basin in the Philippines as at 0600 hours (AWST) on 3rd August 2015. Progress The Hawkeye-1 exploration well was spud at 1610 hours (AWST) on 31st July 2015. The 36” conductor was run to 1,906 metres and the 26” hole subsequently drilled to 2,449 metres. Current operations are to cement the 20” casing string. Forward Plan The forward plan is to connect the blow-out preventer to the wellhead and pressure test before commencing to drill the 17 ½” hole to just above the primary target reservoir. The next update will be provided once the 12 ?” section is drilled into the primary target reservoir, anticipated to occur about two weeks from now. The Hawkeye-1 exploration well will be plugged and abandoned upon completion of drilling and logging. All measurements are from the rig rotary table.
Otto Energy makes sub-commercial find at Hawkeye-1
Red Emperor Resources NL (“Red Emperor”) has provided the following update with respect to the drilling of the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan Basin in the Philippines. The Hawkeye-1 exploration well was drilled to the planned total depth of 2,920m with the top reservoir intersected at 2,710m. Hydrocarbons were logged between 2,710m – 2,737m in reservoir of variable quality. The upper reservoir section between 2,710m – 2,724m is interpreted to be gas bearing at sub-commercial volumes. The second, poorer quality reservoir (2,724m – 2,737m) provided evidence of fluorescence, usually an indicator of liquid hydrocarbons, from hand cutting returns. Unfortunately, even if confirmed oil bearing, the combination of poor reservoir and low net pay would render the potential oil leg sub-commercial. Below 2,737m water was inferred from log observations in a reservoir sequence of good quality. While the Hawkeye-1 exploration well has proven the existence of hydrocarbons in SC55, the hydrocarbon size discovered appears to be at the low end of expectations and not likely economic to develop. Hawkeye-1 will now be plugged and abandoned with results from the well to be analysed with respect to other prospects, including Cinco, in the license that potentially share the same charge source.
Premier comes up dry at Myrhauk prospect
Premier Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 539, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 3/7-10 S. The well has been drilled about 45 kilometres northeast of the Valhall field in the southern section of the North Sea and 300 kilometres southwest of Stavanger. The purpose with the well was to prove petroleum in the Upper and Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Ula and Bryne formations). The well did not encounter the Ula formation. The Bryne formation was encountered with a thickness of about 110 metres, of which 45 metres with moderate reservoir quality. The well is dry. Data acquisition and sampling were carried out. The well is the first exploration well in production licence 539, awarded in APA 2009. Well 3/7-10 S was drilled to a measured and vertical depth of 3511 and 3464 metres below sea level, respectively, and was terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic. The water depth at the site is 68.5 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. The well was drilled by the drilling facility Mærsk Guardian, which now will proceed to Fredrikshavn to be laid up.
Maersk Oil contracts 'Maersk Resilient' jackup for Denmark drilling
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract for the jackup rig Maersk Resilient with Danish oil company Maersk Oil. The firm contract is for three years with an estimated contract value of USD110m. Commencement is expected in October 2015, and Maersk Resilient will do work at various fields in the Danish sector of the North Sea. “We are very pleased with this new contract for Maersk Resilient with Maersk Oil, a key customer in the North Sea,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group. Maersk Resilient has since May 2015 been stacked at Invergordon in Scotland, where the rig has undergone various maintenance works. “Maersk Drilling has to continue its excellent performance and continue to build our already strong backlog in order to navigate the low visibility in the market. Therefore, it is also very rewarding that a rig that has been stacked since May 2015 can now return to where she belongs and bring value to our client, Maersk Oil,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen.
Mærsk Deliverer back on the job
Mærsk Deliverer has successfully completed her five-yearly special periodic survey (SPS) yard stay ahead of time. The scope for the yard stay was extensive, with more than 210 job packages and 584 work orders that needed to be completed within 35 days along keyside - which makes for a very efficient and successful SPS yard stay. The scope, among others, involved Class recertification, BOP upgrade & overhaul and overhaul of the entire drilling package. Deliverer has now successfully resumed drilling operations offshore Angola. Ahead of the Mærsk Deliverer yard stay, a tremendous amount of planning and scheduling has been carried out. This was done across different departments and teams both onshore and offshore, and according to Project Manager Morten Svanholt, part of the success is due to the increased focus on teamwork. “We could not have carried out such a successful yard stay without involving the many different stakeholders from across the company. Knowledge sharing and teamwork have been essential elements in planning this project, and we will put even more emphasis on this in future projects”. CTO in Maersk Drilling, Frederik Smidth, agrees, and stresses that this achievement is no small matter to him either. “I am really proud of the team of both offshore and onshore colleagues, who have worked very hard to make this project such a success. The team has managed to complete more than 210 activities on board the Mærsk Deliverer over a very short period of time. Every minute counts in our line of business, and when we work together we can optimise the impact that these yard stays have.” says Frederik Smidth, Chief Technical Officer, Maersk Drilling. From the outset, planning has been a crucial part of the Mærsk Deliverer project and has contributed significantly to the success of the yard stay as a whole. Going forward, optimisation of the yard stay process will be a key focus area for Technical Organization and Operations in Maersk Drilling. “A yard stay equals time where the rig does not earn any money, but rather spend them instead. When we can optimise and make these yard stays more efficient, we can drive down the cost. The team has done a tremendous job in making this yard stay efficient, while still maintaining a safe environment for everyone working on the rig. That is no easy job – well done! This is a great start, but we will need to work even harder to limit the impact that yard stays have on our daily operations,” says Claus Bachmann, Asset Manager for Deepwater in Maersk Drilling.
Maersk Drilling secures contract for Maersk Venturer with Total
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the drillship Maersk Venturer with oil major Total. The contract covers one exploration well (estimated duration 120 days) in block 14 offshore Uruguay. The estimated contract value for the programme is USD 44m excluding mobilisation. The drilling programme is expected to commence in March 2016. “We have collaborated and partnered with Total many times over the years. Total is a highly valued customer of Maersk Drilling, and we are very pleased with being selected by Total to drill their first exploration well offshore Uruguay,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group and continues: “With this contract, we continue to build our contract backlog and secure work for our rigs and people, which is very encouraging in this challenging market.” Maersk Venturer is the third in a series of four ultra deepwater drillships in Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The other three drillships have all secured long-term contracts.
Maersk Drilling secures 5-year accommodation contract for jack-up Maersk Guardian
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with Maersk Oil for the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian for accommodation on various fields in the Danish part of the North Sea. The firm contract duration is 5 years with commencement in September 2016. The contract includes two 1-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract period is USD 142m. “We are pleased that we will get Maersk Guardian back on the water. In this market, it is important to seek out new ideas in order to keep our rigs employed. An accommodation contract like this is a good example of that and it adds to our contract backlog,” says Morten Pilnov, Head of Global Sales in Maersk Drilling. The Maersk Guardian is currently stacked in Frederikshavn where it will be located throughout the refurbishment period until contract commencement. The work entails decommissioning of the cantilever including drilling package, overhaul of auxiliary systems to support accommodation units, overhaul of existing accommodation block on the rig and installation of new accommodation modules. Built in 1986 in Japan, the Maersk Guardian is designed for year-round operation in the North Sea with a leg length of 132 meters.
Expansion of Maersk Guardian
Semco Maritime has entered into an agreement with Maersk Drilling for the expansion of accommodation rig Maersk Guardian, which will be inserted at various fields in the Danish part of the North Sea from September 2016 The DKK three-digit million order for Semco Maritime comprises installation of new accommodation blocks as a supplement to existing quarters on the jack-up rig. Semco Maritime won the order in an open tender with several Danish and foreign participants. Head of Semco Maritime’s rig division, Senior Vice President Lars Skov Christensen, is very pleased with the order for Maersk Guardian, which is strategically important in a market under pressure. - It is very encouraging that an internationally respected operator such as Maersk Drilling chooses us. That confirms that our strategy is competitive in a challenged rig market. Lars Skov Christensen to a large extent ascribes the win to Semco Maritime’s shipyard-in-a-box concept. - Our shipyard-in-a-box concept is a figurative concept of flexibility, which allows us to swiftly relocate our rig engineers to where the work is. We can move out in a matter of a few hours or days, depending on the type of the assignment or the geographical location of where we are going. The concept simultaneously minimizes our fixed costs without compromising quality, Lars Skov Christensen states. Maersk Guardian is currently located in Frederikshavn, where the rig will be situated during the entire refurbishing period. The largest part of the Semco order – construction of the new accommodation blocks – is performed in Gdansk in Poland. The entire accommodation block unit is then sailed to Frederikshavn and installed on the rig, Vice President and main responsible for the project Nikolaj Vejlgaard explains: - We have never constructed an accommodation block this size before. The sheer size makes it impossible for us to perform the work at our own facilities in Esbjerg, and we have therefore placed the assignment with our skilled collaboration partners in Poland, said Nikolaj Vejlgaard. The 142-room accommodation block weighs 560 ton and is set to arrive at Frederikshavn in August with subsequent final installation of the entire block a couple of weeks later. Maersk Guardian has a leg length of 157 meters and was constructed in Japan in 1986. It is designed for all-year operation in the North Sea.
Consent for exploration drilling
Total E&P (Total) is the operator for production licence 618 and has received consent to drill exploration well 1/5-5 using Mærsk Gallant. Mærsk Gallant is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has now granted consent for the use of Maersk Gallant in accordance with Total's application.
Maersk Developer to be Stacked
Following the completion of a six year long contract with Statoil, Mærsk Developer has now arrived for stacking just outside Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and will stay put until a new contract is in place. Unfortunately a new contract has not yet been secured for Mærsk Developer, which means that Maersk Drilling USA have had to say goodbye to 80 valued employees. "It goes without saying that I am very saddened by the fact that we had to say goodbye to so many good colleagues. I thank everyone for all of the great work they have done on board the Developer and as part of the rig team in Houston, and I wish them all the best in the future," says Lars Kasueske, Unit Director on Mærsk Developer.
Total E&P Norge A/S takes over jack-up Mærsk Gallant from Statoil
Statoil has cancelled the contract for the harsh environment jack-up rig Mærsk Gallant. A cancellation fee is due to Maersk Drilling, and will be handled in accordance with the contract. Concurrently, Maersk Drilling has signed a new contract with Total E&P Norge A/S for Mærsk Gallant in direct continuation of the cancelled contract. The contract cancellation and new contract will be financially neutral to Maersk Drilling. Mærsk Gallant has been on contract with Statoil since August 2014, and has since October 2015 been sub-chartered to ConocoPhillips. From February 2016 until August 2016, Mærsk Gallant will undertake the new contract with Total E&P Norge A/S.
Drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S in production licence 001 B
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°55’20.15’’ north, 02°11’53.03’’ east in production licence 001 B. The drilling programme for the 16/1-26 S well relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the 16/1-7 oil discovery, which is part of the Ivar Aasen field where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norske AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of a part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the eastern part of the 16/1-7 discovery in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001 on 1 September 1999. Production licence 001 was awarded on 1 September 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the eleventh exploration well to be drilled within the licence area and the fifteenth well on the Ivar Aasen field. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Mærsk Deliverer contract cancelled
Maersk Drilling has received a notice of early contract termination from Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), Chevron Corporation’s affiliate in Angola, for the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible Mærsk Deliverer. The contract was due to end in December 2016, and as per the contract, Maersk Drilling is entitled to receive compensation for the remaining part of the contract. The contract cancellation will be financially neutral to Maersk Drilling. With regret we take note of the contract termination, and it is a reminder of the very challenging conditions in the offshore rig market with oil companies restraining activities and capital spending in response to the lower oil price environment. We expect to base the rig in West Africa, and will continue to explore opportunities with our customers in primarily West and East Africa, which remain strategic markets for us,” says Head of Global Sales, Michael Reimer Mortensen. Mærsk Deliverer has been on contract with CABGOC since May 2012. Mærsk Deliverer was built in 2009 and is designed for year-round operation in areas such as Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, West and East Africa and Asia Pacific at water depths of up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft.).
Det Norske extends XL Enhanced 2 contract with Maersk Drilling
Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) has extended the company’s contract for Maersk Drilling’s ‘XL Enhanced 2’ jackup rig that is currently under construction at Keppel Fels in Singapore with delivery expected in 2014. Det Norske contracted the unit to work on the Ivar Aasen project in Norway initially for a firm 3 year period with that period now being extended to 5 years, adding around US$280 million to the contract. Det Norske has further options to extend the contract for the jackup for an additional 7 years. The ‘XL Enhanced 2’ jackup is one of three XL Enhanced jackup rigs that Maersk Drilling ordered in 2011 and 2012 and are enhanced versions of the Maersk Innovator and Inspirer units.
DONG Energy contracts 'Maersk Resolve' for further Danish drilling operations
DONG Energy has inked a new deal to contract the ‘Maersk Resolve’ jackup for drilling activities in the Danish North Sea commencing in August 2013 in direct continuation from the units current contract with E.On. DONG Energy has contracted the unit for a period of nine months running until June 2013, with an expected contract value of US$58 million. Upon completion of its new nine month contract the ‘Maersk Resolve is due to enter a shipyard for two months, before beginning a two year contract with DONG Energy that was signed in March 2012.
Petronas exercises one year option for 'Maersk Convincer' jackup
Petronas Carigali has exercised an existing contractual option to extend the contract of the ‘Maersk Convincer’ jackup rig currently operating for the company in Malaysia. The contract extension means that the ‘Maersk Convincer’ will now be working off the coast of Malaysia for Petronas until mid-November 2014, with the unit performing high-pressure-high-temperature and under balanced drilling operations. The value of the one year contract extension is US$54 million and means that the unit will have been constantly working for Petronas for a firm period of three years upon completion of the new extension.
Maersk Drilling orders fourth XL Enhanced jackup rig
Maersk Drilling has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea for a fourth ultra-harsh environment jackup rig named the ‘XL Enhanced 4’. The rig will be built to Gusto MSC’s CJ70-X150MD design, the same as Maersk’s other three XL Enhanced jackup orders which are currently under construction in Singapore at Keppel FELS shipyard. The ‘XL Enhanced 4’ is expected to be delivered in mid-2016 at a cost of up to US$650 million with options for two additional units. Maersk has ordered the rig on the back of a five year contract with BP for plug and abandonment work on the operators Valhall field in Norway which will begin once the unit has been successfully delivered from the yard and mobilised to Norway.
Maersk names first of four newbuild drillships
Maersk Drilling has named the first of the company’s four newbuild drillships at a naming ceremony at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The unit previously referred to as Deepwater Advanced 1 has been officially named the ‘Maersk Viking’ and is due to be delivered in the next couple of months. Once delivered the unit will mobilise to the US GoM for its initial contract with ExxonMobil, the contract is for a two year period and is valued at US$610 million including the mobilisation fee. The delivery of the unit will further enhance Maersk Drilling’s position as a deepwater drilling operator with the company due to have a total of four drillships delivered over the next year all of which are being constructed by SHI in South Korea.
Statoil completes drilling of additional Volve field wells using 'Maersk Inspirer' jackup
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licences 046 and 046 BS, has completed the drilling of wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A on the Volve field, located between the Sleipner West and Sleipner East fields in the central North Sea. The purpose of the wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A was to determine higher additional resources for the Volve field by proving petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin formation) in the northwestern part of the field. Well 15/9-F-1 did not encounter the Hugin formation as expected, but the Smith Bank formation in Triassic due to a fault in the rock. A decision was therefore made to drill sidetrack well 15/9-F-1 A. The well encountered the Hugin formation with a reservoir thickness of approx. 47 metres, with poorer than anticipated reservoir quality. The Smith Bank and Hugin formation are aquiferous, and the wells have accordingly been classified as dry. Data was collected in the wells. The licences were awarded in the 3rd licensing round in 1975 production licence 046 and production licence 046 BS. Wells 15/9-1 and 15/9-1 A were drilled to vertical depths of 3275 and 3185 metres below sea level, respectively, with total depths of 3577 and 3627 metres below sea level, respectively. 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A were concluded in the Smith Bank formation in Triassic and the Sleipner formation in Middle Jurassic, respectively. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth at the site is 91 metres. Wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A were drilled by the drilling and production facility Maersk Inspirer.
Premier Oil secures 'Maersk Guardian' jackup for Norwegian exploration well
Maersk Drilling has announced the signing of a charter contract for the ‘Maersk Guardian’ jackup with Premier Oil Norge AS (Premier). Premier and Maersk have signed a 62 day drilling contract for the drilling of a single exploration well that will target the Myrhauk prospect on block 3/7 in the Norwegian North Sea. The ’Maersk Guardian’ will begin the contract in direct continuation of the unit contract with Lundin Norway AS which is due to finish in Q3 2014.
BP exercise option for 'Maersk Reacher' jackup
Maersk Drilling (Maersk) has announced that BP Norway (BP) has extended the contract for the company’s ‘Maersk Reacher’ jackup rig for an additional two years, beginning in September 2014. The two year contract extension is valued at US$222 million and comes with four additional options for extension which if exercised would contract the rig until September 2020. BP originally contracted the ‘Maersk Reacher’ in September 2011 after it had been upgraded to comply with operating requirements on the Norwegian shelf.
Kosmos sublet 'Maersk Discoverer' from BP for Morocco drilling
Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) has announced that it has agreed to a single well rig share agreement with BP for use of the ‘Maersk Discoverer’ semisub rig. BP currently has the ‘Maersk Discoverer’ under contract until April 2016 in Egypt and is allowing Kosmos to use the unit to drill the FA-1 exploration well in the Forum Assaka Offshore block in Morocco during 1H 2014. The well is expected to take up to three months to drill and BP will fund Kosmos’ share of the well costs.
Maersk Drilling names two more of its newbuild drillships
Maersk Drilling (Maersk) has announced the naming of two of the company’s newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships following on from the naming of the ‘Maersk Viking’ back in October 2013. Maersk has named its second drillship the ‘Maersk Valiant’ whilst the third unit will be called the ‘Maersk Venturer’. Both the ‘Maersk Valiant’ and ‘Maersk Venturer’ are due to be delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea during 2014, with the ‘Maersk Valiant’ going to work for ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil in the US GoM upon delivery. The ‘Maersk Venturer’ is yet to secure a contract.
Kora-1 exploration well drilling completion announced
Ophir Energy plc ("Ophir") announces the completion of drilling operations on the Kora-1 well in the AGC Profond Production Sharing Contract (PSC)*. Final wireline logging is now being carried out and the well will be plugged and abandoned as an unsuccessful exploration well. Kora-1 was a frontier exploration well drilled by the Maersk Deliverer semisubmersible in 2,600m of water and targeting a salt-cored, dip-closed anticline. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4447.5m subsea. Formation Evaluation While Drilling (FEWD) data shows that the primary (Albian) and secondary (Coniacian and Barremian) reservoir intervals were penetrated close to their anticipated depths, but the well encountered a predominantly claystone and thinly-bedded limestone sequence rather than the prognosed sandstone reservoir facies. In the absence of reservoir facies it is difficult to immediately assess the potential presence of hydrocarbons on the available FEWD data. A fuller analysis of the data will be required before the wider implications for the prospectivity of the Senegal-Guinea Bissau portion of the MSGBC Basin can be determined. In June 2011, Ophir completed the last of a series of farm outs on the asset. After the farm outs, Ophir's costs on the Kora-1 well have effectively been carried by the other partners. The beneficial interests in the AGC Profond PSC and the Kora-1 well are as follows:
Successful Cormoran-1 exploration well offshore Mauritania
Dana Petroleum, the operator of the Cormoran-1 exploration well in Mauritania, in which Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is a 16.20% partner, today issued the following press release: Dana Petroleum advises that the Cormoran-1 exploration well has been drilled to a total depth of 4,695 metres below sea level and has been plugged and abandoned as a gas discovery. Stabilised gas flow rates of between 22 and 24 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfpd) were obtained during a test of one of the four separate gas columns encountered by the well. The Cormoran-1 exploration well is located in Block 7, offshore Mauritania. It lies approximately 2km to the south of the Pelican-1 gas discovery well, which was drilled in late 2003. The well was drilled by Dana Petroleum, as Operator of Block 7, using the Maersk Deliverer deep water semi-submersible drilling rig. Water depth at the well location is approximately 1,630m. The primary purpose of the Cormoran-1 well was to test the Cormoran prospect, which adjoins but lies at a greater depth than the Pelican discovery. A secondary exploration objective was the Petronia prospect, which lies beneath the Cormoran prospect. A further objective of the well was to provide appraisal information on the Pelican gas discovery. The Cormoran-1 well encountered generally thin but good quality, gas-bearing, sands within the Pelican Group at depths between 3,376m and 3,711m true vertical depth subsea (TVDSS). This interval comprised two gas columns, one in the Upper Pelican Group (3,376 to 3,420m TVDSS) and one in the Lower Pelican Group (3,691 to 3,711m TVDSS). Good quality, gas-bearing, sands were also encountered within the Cormoran prospect, in the gross interval from 4,351 to 4,471m TVDSS, and at the top of the Petronia prospect, in the gross interval from 4,660m to 4,695m TVDSS. Drilling was stopped at a depth of 4,695m TVDSS for operational reasons (elevated pore pressures). The well was still in gas-bearing reservoir section at this depth. A drill stem test was carried out across a 33m interval in the Lower Pelican Group (3,679 to 3,712 TVDSS). Stabilised flow rates of up to 22 to 24 MMscfpd were obtained on a 32/64" choke, the flow rate being constrained by the need to avoid sand production. Substantially higher flow rates could have been achieved were it not for this operational constraint. Following the DST, the Cormoran-1 well was plugged and abandoned, this being done in such a way that the well could be re-entered in the future.
EXPLORATION WELL ORANGE COMPLETED
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that BG Norge AS, operator of Production Licence (PL) 335, has completed drilling of wildcat (exploration) well 7/7-4. The well is located close to the Norway/UK international border, about 50 km north of the Ula field in the North Sea. The water depth at the well location is 83 m. The purpose of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Paleocene Forties unit. Forties reservoir sands were encountered in the well but they were water bearing. The well is the first exploration well drilled in PL 335. The licence was awarded in APA 2004 (Awards in Predefined Areas). The well was drilled to a depth of approximately 3,000 m MD, and was terminated in the top Ekofisk Formation. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 7/7-4 was drilled using the Mærsk Guardian drilling rig. Lundin Petroleum has a licence interest of 18 percent, BG Norge (operator) has 52 percent, Bridge Energy AS has 18 percent and RWE Dea Norge AS has 12 percent.
EXPLORATION WELL PL 292 SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of the exploration well 15/12-19 on the Phi-North prospect located in Block 6/3 and 15/12, production license PL 292, in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has commenced. The exploration well 15/12-19 with a planned depth of approximately 3,100 metres mean sea level will target the middle Jurassic and the Triassic/lower Jurassic reservoir by using the jack up rig Mærsk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately two months. The operator is BG Norge AS. Lundin Petroleum is a partner with 40 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM COMPLETES EXPLORATION WELL IN NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces the completion of the exploration well 2/5-14S in PL 006C, in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The exploration well 2/5-14S was targeting the Hyme prospect. The Hyme prospect showed no commercial hydrocarbons and as a result, no coring or testing was performed and the well has now been plugged and abandoned. The jack-up rig Mærsk Gallant was used for drilling. The South East Tor chalk discovery made in 1972 is also located in PL006C and has estimated resources of 22.5 million barrels of oil equivalent.The decision was taken not to proceed at this time with the drilling of the side track 2/5-14A as an appraisal well on the South East Tor discovery, pending further technical and economic analysis. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL 006C with a 75 percent interest.Partners are Noreco ASA with a 15 percent interest and Faroe Petroleum AS with a 10 percent interest.
EXPLORATION WELL IN PL400 SPUDDED, OFFSHORE NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 3/8-1 on the Barchan prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL400 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL400 is located some 12 km east of the Trym Discovery in the Southern North Sea, close to the boundary between the Norwegian and Danish sectors. The well will target sandstones of Permian age in a four way dip and fault bounded structural closure. The Barchan prospect is estimated to contain gross unrisked prospective resources of 150 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is approximately 4,000 metres below mean sea level. The well will be drilled from the jack-up drilling rig Maersk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 60 days. Lundin Petroleum is the operator of PL400 with 50 percent interest. Partners are Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) with 30 percent and Petoro AS with 20 percent interest.
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS CLAPTON EXPLORATION WELL IN SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 2/8-18S in PL440S has commenced. The well will target the Clapton prospect, which is situated 10 km north of the Valhall Field, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 2/8-18S is to test the hydrocarbon potential in the Ekofisk, Tor and Hod formations. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Clapton prospect to contain unrisked, gross, prospective resources of 65 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is 2,718 meters below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the jackup drilling rig Maersk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 60 days. Lundin Petroleum is a partner in PL440S with 18 percent interest. The Operator is Faroe Petroleum with 40 percent. The other partners are Dana (20%), Noreco (12%) and Det norske (10%).
LUNDIN PETROLEUM COMPLETES CLAPTON EXPLORATION WELL IN SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB's (Lundin Petroleum) wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Clapton exploration well 2/8-18S in PL440S. The well is located about 5 km east of the Eldfisk Øst Field and 10 km north of the Valhall Field in the North Sea. The primary exploration target was to prove hydrocarbons in chalks of the Shetland Group. The well encountered reservoir rocks as expected in the Shetland Group. The reservoir properties were poorer than expected. Data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,619 m below the sea surface and was terminated in Creatceous rocks of the Hidra Formation. Water depth at the site is 69 metres and the well was drilled by the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned as a dry well. Lundin Norway is a partner in PL440S with 18 percent interest. The Operator is Faeroe Petroleum with 40 percent. The other partners are Dana (20%), Noreco (12%) and Det norske (10%).
LUNDIN PETROLEUM SPUDS EXPLORATION WELL ON THE OGNA PROSPECT IN THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 8/5-1 in PL453S has commenced. The well will target the Ogna prospect, which is located some 65 km from the Ula Field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 8/5-1 is to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in Upper to Middle Jurassic reservoirs. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Ogna prospect to contain unrisked, gross, prospective resources of 156 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe). The planned total depth is 2,444 metres below mean sea level and the well will be drilled using the jack-up rig Mærsk Guardian. Drilling is expected to take approximately 50 days. Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, is the operator and has a 35 percent working interest in PL453. Partners are Det norske oljeselskap with 25 percent, Noreco with 25 percent and VNG Norge with 15 percent interest.
LUNDIN NORWAY COMPLETES EXPLORATION WELL 7/4-3 ON THE CARLSBERG PROSPECT IN NORWAY
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), completed the drilling of wildcat well 7/4-3. The well was drilled 24 km north of the Lundin Petroleum operated Brynhild field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, and approximately 22 km east of the UK Everest field. The exploration well 7/4-3 was targeting the Upper Triassic and Upper Cretaceous reservoirs of the Carlsberg prospect. The well encountered no hydrocarbons and is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The primary exploration target of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Skagerrak Formation). The Skagerrak Formation sands were not encountered. The second exploration target of the well was to prove petroleum in the Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir. The reservoir was found at the predicted depth but was water bearing with no presence of hydrocarbons. The well is the first exploration well in PL495 and PL495B. The licenses were awarded in APA 2008 and APA 2011. The well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,957 metres below mean sea level, and was terminated in the Smith Bank Formation in the Triassic. The well was drilled in water depth of 82 metres by the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian. Following the plugging and abandonment of well 7/4-3 the Maersk Guardian rig will move to the Brynhild field to commence the drilling of the development wells. The costs of the exploration well 7/4-3 and associated license costs will most likely be expensed during the second quarter of 2013. Lundin Norway is the operator and has a 60 percent working interest in PL495 and PL495B. The partner is Tullow Oil Norge AS with a 40 percent working interest.
BP discovers gas in the Salamat well in Egypt
BP Egypt today announced a significant gas discovery in the East Nile Delta. The deepwater exploration well, named Salamat, is the deepest well ever drilled in the Nile Delta. It is the first well in the North Damietta Offshore concession granted in February 2010 and operated by BP. The well was drilled using the sixth generation semi-submersible rig “Maersk Discoverer”, owned by Maersk Drilling, in water depth of 649 metres and reaching a total depth of around 7,000 metres. The wireline logs, fluid samples and pressure data confirmed the presence of gas and condensate in 38m net of Oligocene sands in Salamat. Further appraisal will be required to better define the field resources and to evaluate the options for developing the discovery. Mike Daly, Executive Vice President Exploration at BP, commented: “Success with Salamat proves hydrocarbons in the centre of a 50-km long structure. With a hydrocarbon column in excess of 180 metres, the discovery increases our confidence in the materiality of the deep Oligocene play in the East Nile Delta.” Hesham Mekawi, BP Egypt Regional President said: “The Salamat discovery is a great outcome for our first well in this core exploration programme in the East Nile Delta. It shows our commitment to meeting Egypt’s energy needs by exploring the deep potential offshore the Nile Delta. Standalone and tie-back to the nearby Temsah infrastructure development options are currently being evaluated.” The Salamat discovery is located around 75 kilometres north of Damietta city and only 35 kilometres to the North West of the Temsah offshore facilities. BP has 100% equity in the discovery.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of 'Maersk Viking' drillship
Today Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its first ultra deepwater drillship, 'Maersk Viking', from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The 'Maersk Viking' has started its voyage to the US Gulf of Mexico where it will commence a three year contract with ExxonMobil. 'Maersk Viking' is the first in a series of four ultra deepwater drillships that will enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion and will be delivered from the SHI shipyard in 2014. Featuring dual derrick and large subsea work and storage areas, the drillship design allows for efficient well construction and field development activities through offline activities. With their advanced positioning control system, the ships automatically maintain a fixed position in severe weather conditions with waves of up to 11 metres and wind speeds of up to 26 metres per second. Special attention has been given to safety on board the drillships. Equipped with Multi Machine Control on the drill floor, the high degree of automation ensures safe operation and consistent performance. Higher transit speeds and increased capacity will reduce the overall logistics costs for oil companies.
Kosmos Energy spuds FA-1 well offshore Morocco
Kosmos Energy Ltd’s (Kosmos) partner in the Forum Assaka area in Morocco Fastnet Oil & Gas Plc (Fastnet) has confirmed the spudding of the FA-1 well on the 16th March 2014. The FA-1 well is being drilled by Maersk Drilling’s ‘Maersk Discoverer’ semisub rig, has a planned target depth of 4,000m and is being drilled in water depths of approximately 600m. The well is expected to take up to three months to reach its total depth and test multiple objectives. The FA-1 well is estimated by Kosmos, to contain 360 mmboe of Pmean resources in its primary deepwater Lower Cretaceous reservoir objective. Fastnet is carried through its share of the drilling costs, subject to a gross maximum well cost of US$100 million, following the previously announced farm-out to SK Innovation, retaining a 9.375% net interest in the licence.
Maersk Drilling names the first of its giant jackup rigs
In a ceremony held at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore, Karen Tiffen, wife of Martin Tiffen, Managing Director of Total E&P Norge AS, had the honour of naming the ultra harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid in the presence of the Guest of Honour Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Minister for Transport in Singapore. Maersk Intrepid is the first in a series of four ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs, including Maersk Intrepid, will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Intrepid will mobilize to the North Sea and commence a four year firm contract with Total E&P Norge AS for drilling the demanding and complex wells on the Martin Linge field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract includes four one-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD 550 million. “With the naming of the Maersk Intrepid, we are opening a new chapter in Maersk Drilling’s Norwegian history. We have invested in the Maersk Intrepid and its three sister rigs in order to continue to grow and leverage our market leading position in Norway. The Maersk Intrepid is the first of the four rigs being delivered and I am very pleased that it is going to Norway to work for one of our key customers, Total E&P Norge AS,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of 'Maersk Intrepid' jackup
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its first ultra harsh environment jack-up, 'Maersk Intrepid', from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore on time. 'Maersk Intrepid' will start its mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will commence a four year contract with Total E&P Norge AS. Maersk Intrepid is the first in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion. The first three jack-up rigs, including 'Maersk Intrepid', will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. The 'Maersk Intrepid' will be drilling the demanding and complex wells on the Martin Linge field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract includes four one-year options. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is US$550 million.
'Maersk Valiant' drillship is successfully delivered to Maersk Drilling
Maersk Drilling has successfully taken delivery of the company’s second newbuild drillship, ‘Maersk Valiant’. The ‘Maersk Valiant’ was delivered on the 16th April 2014 from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. ‘Maersk Valiant’ is the second in a series of four ultra-deepwater drillships to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four drillships represent a total investment of US$2.6 billion and will be delivered from the SHI shipyard in 2014. ‘Maersk Valiant’ has begun its voyage towards the US Gulf of Mexico via Singapore to commence a two year contract with ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corporation. Maersk Drilling has been active in the US Gulf of Mexico since 2009 with the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible ‘Maersk Developer’. With ‘Maersk Viking’ and ‘Maersk Valiant’ entering the US Gulf of Mexico, Maersk Drilling is becoming a significant drilling contractor in the US Gulf of Mexico, which together with West Africa, are the target regions for Maersk Drilling’s deepwater activities. The estimated contract value with ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corporation for ‘Maersk Valiant’ is US$694m including mobilisation, but excluding cost escalation.
Kosmos Energy's FA-1 well is plugged and abandoned
Kosmos Energy (Kosmos) has announced that the company’s FA-1 well being drilled in Morocco, in the Foum Assaka Offshore block has reached a total depth of 3,830 meters and will be plugged and abandoned after failing to encounter commercial hydrocarbons. The well, which is the first in a series of play-opening wells designed to unlock the Agadir Basin, was drilled to test the salt diapir play concept targeting the Cretaceous interval in a combined structural-stratigraphic trap. This is one of several independent play types and fairways present in the Agadir Basin. Importantly, FA-1 encountered oil and gas shows while drilling and in sidewall cores suggesting the presence of a working petroleum system. The well has also provided key seismic calibration information and the well results will now be integrated into Kosmos’ ongoing petroleum system analysis; in particular, the assessment of charge and reservoir play risks, as well as the evaluation and ranking of trap types ahead of the next tests of this petroleum system in 2015 and beyond.
'Maersk Innovator' to drill development wells on Ekofisk
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (COPSAS) has received consent to use the ‘Mærsk Innovator’ jack-up drilling rig for drilling and completion of two wells at Ekofisk 2/4-M. The Ekofisk field was discovered in 1969 and is the oldest of the oil and gas fields in production on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The field is situated around 280 km south-west of Stavanger. Water depth at the site is approx. 73 metres. Drilling is planned to begin in June 2014, with a total duration of approximately 30 days. ‘Mærsk Innovator’ is a jack-up drilling facility built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea in 2002. The unit received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in May 2003. It is owned by Mærsk Contractors and operated by Mærsk Drilling Norway AS. The facility is registered in Denmark with Det norske Veritas as the classification society.
PSA carries out audit on 'Maersk Reacher' jackup
On the 18th and 27th March 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Maersk Drilling's follow-up of the alarm system in the drilling control room on ‘Maersk Reacher’ jackup. The objective of the audit was to monitor how Maersk Drilling is ensuring that alarm systems comply with relevant statutory requirements, recognised international standards and guidelines and the company's own requirements and policies. The result was, one non-conformity was identified in connection with alarm rates and follow-up of the alarm system. In addition, an improvement point was identified in connection with ICT security.
Chartering rig in Gulf of Mexico
Statoil has entered into an agreement with Maersk Contractors USA for the chartering of a drilling rig capable of exploration drilling in ultra-deep waters. Worth USD 696 million, the agreement spans four years. The agreement has been concluded through Statoil's subsidiary, Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC. The semi-submersible rig is under construction at the Keppel FELS yard in Singapore and delivery is expected in April 2008. It can operate in water depths down to 3,000 metres and will be one of the most sophisticated units on the market. The rig will mainly be used for wildcat drilling in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, but can also be used in Statoil’s other international focus locations. The charter agreement comes into force as soon as the rig arrives in the Gulf of Mexico in June 2008. “This long-term contract will secure drilling capability in the Gulf of Mexico,” says Bill Maloney, senior vice president for global exploration (GEX) in International Exploration & Production. “It underpins our determination to build a role as exploration operator beyond Norwegian waters.” Statoil has also entered into an agreement with Woodside Energy (USA), the American affiliate of the Australian energy company Woodside Energy, regarding sharing of the newly-built rig. Woodside Energy (USA) will use the rig for a total of 18 months of the contract period.
Volve rig en route
The Maersk Inspirer, the world's biggest jack-up drilling rig is now being towed out to one of the Norwegian continental shelf's (NCS) smallest oil fields, Volve, in the North Sea. Statoil is consolidating its position as the largest small field operator on the NCS. "An independent development of Volve means that additional resources can be phased in later," says Bente Aleksandersen, operations vice president for the Sleipner, Volve and Glitne fields. "We will drill further exploration wells from the platform in the next few years. These can be converted into production wells." The Volve field alone has an expected life span of six years but if oil prices remain high that life span can be prolonged. There are possible additional reserves in the Volve area. "Exploration and development of smaller fields is important for us achieving our ambition of producing one million barrels of oil equivalent per day on the NCS until 2015," says Ms Aleksandersen. Operator Statoil is hiring the Maersk Inspirer rig, with processing facilities. Maersk Contractors Norge will manage production at the Volve field. The rig has been berthed at Haugesund north of Stavanger in recent months for installation and testing of the process facilities. "A tight schedule in a very tough market means that we are slightly behind with the Volve project," says Ole Jacob Næss, project manager. "We have prioritised safety over reaching our target on time." Oil from Volve will be temporarily stored on the Navion Saga vessel before being transported to market. Gas will be sent via pipeline to the Sleipner area. There, wet gas will be separated out and piped to Kårstø, with dry gas being piped to the European market. Total development and operation costs for Volve are estimated at around NOK 7 billion. Maersk Inspirer will drill eight wells in the first phase - three production wells, three water injection wells and two water production wells. Plans call for start-up to begin in the third quarter of 2007. Recoverable reserves are estimated to be 70 million barrels of oil and 1.5 billion standard cubic metres of gas. The field is expected to produce 50,000 barrels per day at plateau production. Statoil is operator with a 49.6% share. The other licensees are ExxonMobil (30.4%), PA Resources (10%) and Hydro (10%).
Hercules Offshore announces construction of newbuild jackup
Hercules Offshore, Inc. (Hercules) has announced that it has signed a five year drilling contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited for a newbuild jackup rig to be owned and operated by Hercules Offshore. Total contract value is approximately USD420 million, which includes approximately USD9 million of mobilization fees. Contract commencement is expected in mid-2016, upon arrival of the unit in the North Sea from Singapore. Hercules has also signed a rig construction contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSL) in Singapore. The rig is based on the Friede & Goldman JU-2000E design, with enhancements that will provide for greater load-bearing capabilities and operational flexibility. These enhancements are based on collaborative efforts between Maersk Oil, JSL and Hercules. In addition, this High Specification, Harsh Environment (HSHE) rig will feature a 400 foot water depth rating, 30,000 foot drilling capacity, two million pounds of static hook load, 75 foot cantilever reach, off-line pipe handling capability, 15,000 psi blowout preventer systems, high pressure/high temperature rating and accommodations capacity for up to 150 personnel. The shipyard cost of the rig is estimated at approximately USD236 million. Including project management, spares, commissioning and other costs, total delivery cost is estimated at approximately USD270 million. Hercules initially pays 10% of the shipyard cost, or approximately USD24 million to JSL, followed by a second 10% payment one year after the initial payment. The final 80% of the shipyard payment is due upon delivery of the rig, estimated in April 2016. John T. Rynd, Chief Executive Officer and President of Hercules Offshore stated, "The contract with Maersk Oil is a great achievement for our organization and marks another significant milestone in the development of our Company. Strategically, this opportunity further demonstrates our worldwide capabilities and expands our operational footprint to the North Sea with a leading operator in the region. The rig will operate in the Central North Sea to develop Maersk Oil's high profile Culzean Field. The decision by Maersk Oil to contract a newbuild rig with specific enhancements was driven by the unique challenges to develop this field. Given these enhancements, we expect demand for this rig in the North Sea to extend well beyond the initial five year fixed contract term, with two (2) one-year unpriced options. The newbuild unit is the first jackup order placed solely by Hercules for a number of years. The rig manager was involved in the construction of the ‘Hercules Resilience’ and ‘Hercules Triumph’ both of which were launched in 2013 and will manage the ‘Perisai Pacific 101’ unit upon its delivery from the shipyard in Singapore in 2014.
Volve on stream
The StatoilHydro-operated Volve field in the North Sea came on stream on 12 February. The Volve field is located around 200 kilometres west of Stavanger in the southern section of the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). StatoilHydro has a 59.6% interest in the field. Oil from the field will be produced by using the Mærsk Inspirer jackup rig, while Navion Saga will be used as a storage vessel for further transport. The gas will be sent to the Sleipner A platform for final processing and export. Recoverable reserves are estimated at 78.6 million barrels of oil and 1.5 billion standard cubic metres of gas. Production from Volve is expected to reach plateau production of 50,000 barrels per day by the end of the first quarter of 2009. StatoilHydro is operator of the field and has assigned the operations activities to Maersk. Maersk Inspirer is the world’s largest jackup rig and the only one of its kind used for production purposes on the NCS. Mærsk Inspirer started drilling in the summer of 2007 and has also completed the processing plant during this period. It has been decided to develop the field with eight wells but another five wells are already being planned and matured.
Maersk Drilling's releases Q1 2014 results
Maersk Drilling delivered a profit of USD116m (USD146m) in the first quarter of 2014. The result was negatively impacted with USD30m compared to the first quarter result last year mainly due to planned yard stays and the intake of two new rigs. “2014 is a year of execution in progressing on Maersk Drilling’s ambitious growth strategy. As expected our first quarter result is negatively impacted by planned yard stays and the intake of two new rigs in our fleet. However, it is positive to see that we still deliver a stellar operational performance with 97% uptime for the fifth consecutive quarter in a row, which proves the strength of our business and our ability to deliver on our long-term goal of USD 1bn by 2018,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Maersk Drilling’s ambitious growth strategy includes investments of USD5.2bn in eight new rigs being delivered between 2014 and 2016. In the first quarter in 2014, Maersk Drilling took delivery of its first drillship, the ‘Maersk Viking’, and the first ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig, the ‘Maersk Intrepid’. Contracts have been secured for six of the eight newbuilds. Maersk Drilling is in discussions with oil companies for employment on both short and longer term contracts for the last two drillships, which have not yet achieved a contract. “We are currently seeing a slowdown in the deepwater market due to oil companies postponing several drilling programmes. We expect intensified competition in especially 2014 and 2015 for longer term jobs. However, there are still many short-term jobs, which will help absorb the supply. Despite the short term challenges, we maintain our positive long term view on the deepwater market, and our strong contract coverage shows that we are in the right markets, and that our services offered resonate well with our customers,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen. Maersk Drilling’s forward contract coverage is 93% for the remaining part of 2014, 70% for 2015 and 50% for 2016. The total revenue backlog for Maersk Drilling at the end of Q1 2014 amounted to USD7.4bn (USD6.5bn). Maersk Drilling expects a result for 2014 below the result for 2013 (US 528m) due to an extensive yard stay programme, one-time costs associated with training and start-up of operation of six new rigs and delays in the delivery of newbuilds due to interruptions in the delivery of certain equipment and services from sub-supplier.
Keppel to deliver new generation semi-submersible rig to Maersk
Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) will deliver a new generation semi-submersible rig to Maersk Contractors two weeks ahead of schedule in mid August 2003. The rig was named LIDER in a ceremony that was attended by more that 1000 guests at Caspian Shipyard Company (CSC) in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday. Mr Tage Bundgaard, President of Maersk Contractors, said, “We are proud of this new highly advanced rig. We fully expect LIDER to prove its state-of-the-art capabilities during the upcoming contract with Exxon Azerbaijan and other operators in the Caspain region. Caspian Shipyard Company has proved to be a very proficient rig constructor and we hope that this will be the first of many Maersk rigs to be working in the Caspian Sea.” LIDER will be contracted to Exxon Azerbaijan Operating Company LLC and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Azerbaijan Limited for a three-year drilling programme.
Keppel delivers 1st jackup rig of 2009 to Maersk Drilling on time
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered the third of four high efficiency jackup rigs to Maersk Drilling (previously Maersk Contractors), on time and incident-free. The rig was named Mærsk Resolve, by Mrs Sun-hee Madsen, spouse of Mr Erik Madsen, Maersk Drilling’s Site Manager (Overall Projects), at a ceremony today.
Keppel delivers second Maersk DSS 21 semisubmersible
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) delivered the second of three DSS 21 deepwater rigs to Maersk Drilling on 22 August 2009. Maersk Discoverer has been contracted by Woodside Energy for drilling operations in Australia for three years. She was named by Lady Sponsor, Mrs Julie Fitzpatrick, spouse of Mr Ken Fitzpatrick, Senior Vice President, Woodside Energy. Mr Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling, said, “Maersk Discoverer, our second DSS 21 rig, is another outstanding example of the winning collaboration between Maersk Drilling and Keppel FELS. “Optimised for field development work, the new generation DSS 21 series is derived from the experiences gained from our highly successful DSS 20 Maersk Explorer semisubmersible built in 2003. These deepwater units are among the most technically advanced in the world, and we are confident that they will position Maersk Drilling as the foremost provider of robust offshore solutions in the industry.”
Significant gas and condensate discovery in the North Sea
Statoil has made a significant gas and condensate discovery in the King Lear prospect in the southern part of the Norwegian North Sea along with its partner Total E&P Norge. Exploration well 2/4-21 drilled by the jack-up rig Maersk Gallant in production licences 146 and 333, has proven a 48-metre gas/condensate column in the main bore 2/4-21 and an additional 70-metre gas/condensate column in the side-track 2/4-21A. Statoil estimates the total volumes in King Lear to be between 70 and 200 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent (o.e.). “Statoil had earlier defined King Lear as a potential high-impact prospect. The drill results confirm our expectations and show once again that the Norwegian continental shelf still delivers high value barrels,” says Gro Gunleiksrud Haatvedt , senior vice president exploration Norway in Statoil. Data acquisition is currently being finalised in the sidetrack. As King Lear is a high-pressure, high-temperature well, special attention is given to ensuring safe drilling operations. The King Lear discovery is an important contribution to Statoil’s corporate strategy of revitalising the NCS with high-value barrels. “King Lear lies approximately 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. It is encouraging to see that this part of the Norwegian continental shelf – home to the first commercial oil find in Norway – is still delivering significant discoveries,” says Haatvedt. “This reinforces our faith in the exploration potential of the Norwegian continental shelf. Not only does it have a proud past, but also an exciting future,” she adds. Statoil will plan for appraisal drilling of the discovery as well as exploration drilling on other interesting prospects in the licences. Going forward, Statoil as operator will look into an optimal development solution for King Lear and evaluate if the discovery should be developed as a stand-alone or as a tie-in to infrastructure in the area. This area, normally considered an oil province, may on the basis of this discovery and other gas resources form the basis for future gas development. Wells 2/4-21 and 2/4-21 A are the eleventh and twelfth wells drilled in production licence PL146. Well 2/4-21 was drilled to a vertical depth of 5,344 metres below sea level in 67 metres of water, while well 2/4-21 A was drilled to a vertical depth of 5,237 metres below sea level. Statoil is operator for production licences PL146 and PL333 with an ownership share of 77.8%. The licence partner is Total E&P Norge (22.2%). The King Lear discovery is the eighth high-impact* discovery made by Statoil over the last 15 months. The other high-impact discoveries are Zafarani and Lavani in Tanzania, Skrugard and Havis in the Barents Sea, Johan Sverdrup (formerly Aldous/Avaldsnes) in the North Sea, and Peregrino South and Pão de Açúcar (non-operated) in Brazil.
'Maersk Intrepid' arrives at Westcon shipyard in Norway
The world’s largest jack-up rig has arrived Westcon in Olen, Norway. The unit has sailed from Singapore with the heavy lift vessel Hawk. With a leg length of 206.8 meters ‘Maersk Intrepid’ is the world’s largest jack-up rig. The rig is planning to stay at Westcon Yards for 50-60 days to train the crew, install third part equipment and to test the systems on board”, says Malvin Eide, rig manager at Westcon Yards. These days it is 20 years since Safe Britannia entered Westcon as the first rig project of the yard. Westcon has since invested more than NOK600 million in developing the yard and the organization, and more than 100 rig projects have been completed.
Key Largo prospect to be spudded by 'Maersk Valiant'
Maersk Drilling recently dedicated their second and third ultra-deepwater drillships, one of which, the ‘Maersk Valiant’, will begin a three year contract with Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips for drilling programs in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The ‘Maersk Valiant’ and ‘Maersk Venturer’ were officially named during a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea on January 23rd. Annell Bay, Marathon Oil Vice President of Global Exploration, had the honor of serving as sponsor of the ‘Maersk Venturer’ during the ceremony. The first well scheduled to be drilled by the ‘Maersk Valiant’ will be at Marathon Oil’s Key Largo prospect in the GoM during the fourth quarter of 2014. “The delivery of the Maersk Valiant later this year will mark an exciting period of time for Marathon Oil. This drillship provides us with a dedicated deep-water asset to undertake exploration on the leases our Company has purchased in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Bryan J. Roy, vice president of Worldwide Drilling & Completions. “We all look forward to spudding the Key Largo well using this state-of-the art drillship that has been engineered for maximum safety and efficiency.
'Maersk Gallant' set to drill in PL146 in Norway
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent for exploration drilling using the ‘Mærsk Gallant’ mobile drilling facility to drill wells 2/4-22 S and 2/4-22 A in production licence 146. The wells are in the southern part of the North Sea, 15 km north of the Ekofisk field and around 260 km from the nearest land at Lista. Water depth at the site is approximately 67 metres. Drilling is planned to begin in June/July 2014 and is expected to take around 189 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. ‘Mærsk Gallant’ is a jack-up drilling facility, built at Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (FELS) in Singapore in 1993. The facility is operated by Maersk Contractors Norge A/S. It received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in August 2002.
DSM to provide mooring services for 'Maersk Discoverer'
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has won the contract to provide a comprehensive range of mooring services to Maersk Drilling for its sixth generation, semi-submersible drilling rig ‘Maersk Discoverer’. DSM will now design, engineer and install the mooring system for the advanced rig. “This is the first time we’ve worked with Maersk Drilling and the first time we’ve undertaken operations in Egypt,” comments Åge Straume, CEO of Deep Sea Mooring. “So, it’s a very significant contract for us and allows us to demonstrate how our extensive experience of installing mooring systems in the harsh environment of the North Sea can be transferred to new territories.” DSM will take the project from conception to completion – designing the complete mooring spread, defining operational procedures, mobilising and demobilising all equipment in both Norway and Egypt, pre-installing the anchors prior to rig arrival, and hooking up the rig when it arrives on location. “This is a complex assignment,” he states, “with water depths of 930m entailing high loads and a need to design a robust, high-quality and streamlined mooring solution. It’s the kind of challenge our experienced team thrive on and one we’ve successfully tackled for leading players in the energy industry, such as Statoil, in the North Sea, and Husky Energy, off the coast of Newfoundland. It’s exciting to be given the opportunity to showcase our expertise with a new client of A.P Moeller-Maersk’s standing.” In addition, Bergen-headquartered DSM will provide all base operations and personnel for the mooring and hook-up task. Once in place, ‘Maersk Discoverer’, a GustoMSC DSS 21 rig capable of drilling to 10,000m, will work the BP prospect.
'Maersk Deliverer' spuds Tapir South well in Namibia
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (AIM: CHAR), the independent Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Enigma Oil & Gas Exploration (Pty) Limited, has commenced drilling the first well, 1811/5-1, of its 4 to 5 well drilling programme offshore Namibia. Drilling operations began this morning on the Tapir South prospect using the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ semi-submersible drilling rig, with Chariot as Operator. The prospect has a 25% Chance of Success and a mean un-risked prospective resource potential of 604 million barrels of oil. In the event of success, the results of this well will significantly increase the Chance of Success on certain of the Company’s other prospects within the Tapir Trend. Tapir South (1811/5-1) will be only the second well ever to be drilled in the Namibe Basin. It is located 80km offshore Namibia in the Company’s northern block 1811A, in which Chariot has a 100% equity interest. The well is being drilled to an estimated total vertical depth subsea of 5,100m and, as announced following the Placing of 20 March 2012, this will now include extended drilling time to ensure that one of the deeper identified targets is drilled and fully evaluated. This deeper target is believed to be a carbonate section, age equivalent to the reservoir in recent sub-salt discoveries in the on-trend Kwanza basin offshore Angola. The drilling and logging operations are expected to take approximately 70 days and a further announcement will be made when the well results are known. The Tapir South prospect is part of the Tapir Trend where three prospects have been identified on a large ridge formed by a rotated fault block containing the potential carbonate target, draped by deep marine sediments with turbidite sandstone levels forming a stack of overlying targets. Tapir South is the southernmost of three culminations on the ridge and forms a focal point for charge migration from an adjacent basin in which excellent oil prone source rocks are believed to be present and currently generating oil. The second well to be drilled in the Chariot exploration programme, Kabeljou (2714/6-1), targeting the Nimrod prospect is now likely to spud earlier than previously reported. The Operator has informed Chariot that it now expects to secure a drilling unit in Q3 2012.
Chariot fails to find commercial discovery at Tapir South
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (Chariot), the Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, confirms that the Tapir South (1811/5-1) exploration well in Northern Block 1811A in the Namibe basin offshore Namibia has reached a total depth of 4,879 metres TVDss. The well was drilled by the ‘Mærsk Deliverer’ semi-submersible drillship in 2,134 metres of water and operated by Chariot’s wholly owned Namibian subsidiary, Enigma Oil & Gas (Pty) Limited. Preliminary logging results indicate that, although excellent reservoirs were penetrated, no commercial hydrocarbons were found and the well will be plugged and abandoned. The well encountered 173 metres of net reservoir sand of Cretaceous age, including two zones in excess of 30 metres with average porosities of 24% and evidence of good permeabilities. Carbonate intervals were also penetrated with porosities up to 18% over a net interval of 28 metres; these results exceeded our pre-drill estimates. Detailed analyses will be conducted on the data collected during the drilling of Tapir South. This information will be used to calibrate the existing data set and a resource update of the remaining prospectivity in the block will be provided once this evaluation has been completed.
African Petroleum contracts 'Maersk Deliverer' for Liberia drilling
West African focused oil and gas exploration company, African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum), is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with Maersk Drilling for a two well programme, with the option to test both wells, at Blocks 8 and 9, located offshore Liberia, West Africa (Liberian Blocks). The two well programme will be completed using the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible, ‘Maersk Deliverer’ drilling rig. The programme is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2011. ‘Maersk Deliverer’ is the third in a series of three state-of-the-art newbuild ultra deepwater development semi-submersibles in Maersk Drilling’s fleet.
Delivery of 'Maersk Deliverer' delayed
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) holds 100% of Blocks LB-08 and LB-09, located offshore Liberia, West Africa. Further to the Company’s announcement dated 11th March 2011 (11th March Announcement), the Company advises that due to operational delays being encountered by the existing operator, its 2011 two well deepwater offshore drilling programme in West Africa, using the ‘Maersk Deliverer’, is now expected to commence in relation to the first well in Block LB-09 in June 2011 (rather than May 2011 as previously contemplated in the 11th March Announcement).
Delivery of 'Maersk Deliverer' rig again delayed
African Petroleum (APCL) entered into a contract with Maersk Drilling in September 2010 for a two well programme using the Maersk Deliverer drilling rig. The ‘Maersk Deliverer’ is the third in a series of three state-of-the-art newbuild ultra deepwater development semi-submersibles in Maersk Drilling’s fleet and is capable of drilling in water depths of up to 3,000 metres.As mentioned in the March 2011 Quarterly Report, the Company was due to take delivery of the drilling rig in June 2011. However, Maersk Drilling has now advised that its current contractual drilling commitments with Amerada Hess Corporation for the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ rig has been extended due to that company making a discovery offshore Ghana. As a consequence, the Company now expects to take delivery of the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ in August 2011.
African Petroleum spuds Apalis-1 prospect in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) commenced drilling its first exploration well in Liberia on 8th August 2011 with the ‘Maersk Deliverer’semi-submersible deepwater drilling rig. The Company has a 100% interest in Blocks LB-08 and LB-09 and is fully funded for a further 5 additional exploration wells. African Petroleum will be drilling the Apalis Prospect on Block LB-09 in Liberia with estimated prospective recoverable oil resources of 500 (mean case) to 1,000 (upside) million barrels. Detailed technical analysis of the 3D seismic data acquired in 2010 has shown that the Apalis Prospect may contain multiple sand reservoirs in the Upper Cretaceous Maastrichtian and Turonian as well as in the Aptian and Albian. Some of the potential reservoirs in the Apalis Prospect have a well-developed 3D seismic class 3/4 AVO response, similar to those reported for nearby discoveries in Sierra Leone and Ghana. Due to the tightening rig market and limited availability of deepwater 5th generation drilling rigs in the West African region, African Petroleum has entered into agreements with Lukoil Overseas Cote d’Ivoire E&P Ltd (Lukoil), Vanco Cote d’Ivoire Ltd (Vanco) and AP Moller-Maersk (Maersk) that the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ will be released to Vanco and Lukoil for two wells after the drilling of the Apalis Prospect and will then be returned to African Petroleum for one additional well. The agreement to swap drilling slots with Lukoil and Vanco enhances the flexibility of the Company’s 2-3 well drilling program planned for 2012 as it allows the Maersk Deliverer to be reserved for the deepest water exploration drilling targets. Additionally, the planned interval between the “Apalis” well and the second well allows for the integration of both the geological and operational information to be better utilized in planning the 2012 wells. African Petroleum is currently planning to contract a second deepwater rig in 2012 to accelerate drilling plans in the West African Transform Margin.
Apalis-1 well deemed non-commercial by African Petroleum
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (African Petroleum) has completed drilling the first well (Apalis-1) in deepwater offshore Liberia Block LB-09. The results of Apalis-1 confirm Blocks LB-08 and LB-09 (100% owned by African Petroleum) are located in a prospective oil basin, which is a major step forward. The geological and geophysical data have confirmed the critical components of a working hydrocarbon system are present and functioning. African Petroleum is now accelerating a multi well drilling program on the 25+ exploration prospects identified in both blocks offshore Liberia and plans to spud the next well during Q4 2011 and Q1 2012. Apalis-1 was drilled to a depth of 3,665 meters and encountered oil shows in several geological units including the shallower (Tertiary) and deeper (Cretaceous) and petrophysical analysis indicates the presence of hydrocarbons. No commercial quality reservoir with hydrocarbons was encountered and consequently no well production test was undertaken.
Narina-1 well spudded in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limitied (APCL) has commenced drilling of the Narina-1 exploration well on Block LB-09, offshore Liberia where the company has a 100% interest. APCL drilled the first well (Apalis-1) in 2011 with encouraging results. The Narina-1 well will primarily target a Turonian prospect similar to discoveries like Jubilee in Ghana and Mercury/Venus in Sierra Leone. APCL estimates the targeted prospect has potential recoverable oil resources 500 mmbbls (Mean) to 1,200 mmbbls (Upside) for the Turonian reservoir plus additional potential resources in both shallower and deeper reservoirs. The Narina-1 well will be drilled by the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ semisub.
African Petroleum announces discovery with Narina-1 well in Liberia
African Petroleum Corporation Limited (APCL) announces that the Narina-1 well, offshore block LB-09, Liberia, has made a significant oil discovery. The discovery confirms the prospectivity of both of these highly successful West African exploration plays on APCL’s Blocks LB-08 and LB-09. Oil was found in good quality reservoirs in a Turonian submarine fan system extending across a prospective are of 250 sq km. The Narina-1 well was drilled by the ‘Maersk Deliverer’ to a total depth of 4,850 metres (15,912 feet), in a water depth of 1,143 metres (3,750 feet) taking 43 days for completion.
Statoil given go ahead to spud 2/4-22 S well in PL 146
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for wellbore 2/4-22 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 2/4-22 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Gallant drilling facility at position 56°42' 58.12'' north and 3°10' 3.11'' east. The drilling programme for wellbore 2/4-22 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 146. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 77.8 per cent. The other licensee is Total E&P Norge AS (22.2 per cent). The area in this licence consists of parts of the 2/4 block. The well will be drilled about 20 kilometres north of the Ekofisk field. Production licence 146 was awarded on 8 July 1988 (12th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf). This is the thirteenth well to be drilled in the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities before commencing drilling activities.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of second giant jackup
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its second ultra-harsh environment jack-up, ‘XL Enhanced 2’, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore on time. The rig will start its mobilisation to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will commence a five year contract with Det norske oljeselskap ASA (Det norske) The rig, which will be named at a ceremony in Norway in October, is the second in a series of four newbuild ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet in 2014-16. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD2.6 billion. The first three jack-up rigs, including ‘XL Enhanced 2’, will be delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard in 2014-2015, and the fourth will be delivered from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea in 2016. The total estimated contract value is approximately USD 700 million. Det norske has options to extend the contract up to a total of seven years. The rig will be working on the Ivar Aasen field, which contains approximately 150 million barrels of oil equivalents.
Drilling permit for well 16/1-26 A in production licence 001 B
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/1-26 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°55’20.15’’ north 02°11’53.03’’ east in production licence 001 B. The drilling programme for the 16/1-26 A well relates to the drilling of an appraisal well on the 16/1-7 oil discovery, which is part of the Ivar Aasen field, where Det norske is the operator with an ownership interest of 34.7862 per cent. The other licensees are Statoil Petroleum AS with 41.4730 per cent, Bayerngas Norge AS with 12.3173 per cent, Wintershall Norge AS with 6.4615 per cent, VNG Norge AS with 3.0230 per cent, Lundin Norway AS with 1.3850 per cent and OMV (Norge) AS with 0.5540 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 16/1. The well was drilled in the eastern part of the 16/1-7 discovery in the central part of the North Sea. Production licence 001 B was carved out of production licence 001 on 1 Sept. 1999. PL 001 was awarded on 1 Sept. 1965 (Round 1-A). This is the 11th exploration well to be drilled within the licence area. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Drilling permit for well 30/4-3 S in production licence 040/043
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 30/4-3 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 30/4-3 S will be drilled with the Mærsk Intrepid rig at position 60°30'22.44"N and 2°0'53.37"E in production licence 040/043. The drilling programme for well 30/4-3 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well. Total E&P Norge AS is the operator with an ownership interest of 51 per cent, Petoro has 30 per cent and Statoil Petroleum AS has 19 per cent. The area in this licence consists of a part of block 30/4. Production licence PL 040 was awarded in the 3rd licensing round on 1 April 1975, and PL 043 was awarded on 31 Dec. 1975. This is the third exploration well to be drilled within the licence area. A total of 16 wells, including sidetracks, have been drilled in the Martin Linge area. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Dana begins drilling the Cormoran exploration well, offshore Mauritania
Dana Petroleum plc is pleased to report that the Dana operated Cormoran-1 exploration well has begun drilling offshore Mauritania, West Africa, just 2 kilometres southeast of Dana’s existing Pelican-1 discovery. The conductor has been run and Dana has already drilled the 26 inch hole section down to approximately 2,226 metres. The current operation is preparing to run 20 inch casing, before drilling ahead. Cormoran-1 is being drilled by the Maersk Deliverer drilling rig and is located in Block 7 offshore Mauritania. The planned total depth of the Cormoran well is approximately 4,600 metres and the well is being drilled in a water depth of 1,632 metres. Cormoran is the largest prospect in Dana’s 2010 exploration programme and, based on 3D seismic mapping, has a target reserves range of between 400 million barrels and 780 million barrels of oil equivalent. Dana holds the largest working interest in this Block 7 Production Sharing Contract area with 36%. The well is expected to encounter three discrete zones of interest between approximately 2,890 metres and 4,600 metres.
Maersk Drilling acquires newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig with a five-year drilling contract
Maersk Drilling has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig, formerly named Hercules Highlander, from a subsidiary of Hercules Offshore (Nasdaq: HERO) and with immediate delivery from Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (Jurong) in Singapore. According to the agreement, Maersk Drilling assumes the right to take delivery of the rig and Maersk Drilling settles the final payment of approx. USD 190m with Jurong. After delivery, the rig will be mobilised to the North Sea to commence a five-year drilling contract with Maersk Oil and its partners, BP and JX Nippon, on the Culzean gas field offshore UK. The value of the five-year drilling contract is approx. USD 420m, including a mobilisation fee of USD 9m. “This agreement represents an opportunity for Maersk Drilling to acquire a newbuild harsh environment jack-up backed by a firm long-term contract. We look forward to working with Maersk Oil and its partners on the Culzean gas field,” says CEO in Maersk Drilling and member of the Executive Board in the Maersk Group, Claus V. Hemmingsen. The rig design is Friede & Goldman JU2000E, categorised as a 400ft rig, with 30,000ft drilling depth and HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) capabilities. The rig has accommodation capacity for up to 150 personnel. The rig will enter the Maersk Drilling fleet under the name Maersk Highlander, and after the acquisition, Maersk Drilling’s rig fleet counts 23 rigs with an additional harsh environment jack-up rig under construction.
Delineation of the 16/1-7 oil discovery in the North Sea – 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 001 B, has concluded the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A. The wells were drilled about 1.5 kilometres southeast of the 16/1-7 discovery well in the central part of the North Sea. The 16/1-7 (West Cable) oil discovery was proven in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sleipner formation) in 2004 and is part of the Ivar Aasen field. The size of the discovery prior to drilling the appraisal wells was 2.1 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The objective of appraisal wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A was to prove additional recoverable oil resources in the southern part of the 16/1-7 discovery, in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Sleipner formation) closer to the main structure on the Ivar Aasen field. The appraisal wells were drilled from a production well being drilled from the Ivar Aasen platform. 16/1-26 S encountered a gas/oil column of about 25 metres in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Hugin formation), of which 15 metres were sandstone of moderate to good reservoir quality. The oil/water contact was not encountered, but was estimated to be at approximately 2700 metres vertical depth. This is shallower than the previously estimated oil/water contact for the 16/1-7-discovery. 16/1-26 A encountered about 75 metres of sandstone in the Sleipner formation with moderate to good reservoir quality, but is dry. Preliminary estimates place the additional resources at between 0.5 and 2 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The licensees will assess recovery of the additional resources. The results have yielded valuable information as regards final placement of the development well on the 16/1-7 discovery. None of the wells were formation-tested, but data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Wells 16/1-26 S and 16/1-26 A were drilled to measured depths of 5309 and 4888 metres, respectively, and vertical depths of 2912 and 3044 metres below the sea surface. The wells were terminated in the Skagerrak formation in the Upper Triassic and the Sleipner formation in the Middle Jurassic, respectively. The wells have been permanently plugged and abandoned. Water depth is 113 metres. The wells were drilled using the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now continue with the pre-drilling programme on the Ivar Aasen field, which has a planned production start-up date of 1 December 2016.
Sembcorp Marine delivers jack-up rig Maersk Highlander
Sembcorp Marine, a global leader in offshore and marine engineering solutions, has delivered the high-specification jack-up rig Maersk Highlander (formerly known as Hercules Highlander) to Maersk Highlander UK Ltd. The Maersk Highlander is constructed based on the Friede & Goldman JU 2000E design and is fully compliant with UK HSE standards. It is well suited for harsh-environment operations and will be deployed in the Culzean Field Development, located in the UK sector of the North Sea. As a heavy-duty offshore drilling asset, the Maersk Highlander can operate in water depths of up to 400 feet and drill to 30,000 feet deep. Its notable capabilities include a 2-million-pound drilling capacity, 6,000 barrels of mud capacity, 28,000-kip preload capacity for the legs, and an accommodation facility that houses up to 150 workers. The rig’s construction started in September 2014 and was completed on schedule with an excellent safety record of zero near-misses and reportable cases. This is testament to the high standard of workplace safety and health upheld by all personnel involved in the project, including Sembcorp Marine’s vendor partners. Sembcorp Marine President and CEO Wong Weng Sun said: “Other than an outstanding safety record, the successful Maersk Highlander project reinforces Sembcorp Marine’s solid reputation as an efficient and reliable rig builder, supported by strong production capabilities as well as highly competent project management and technical personnel. As a technology-driven company, we are constantly seeking ways to innovate and offer the most effective solutions to our customers.”
Drilling permit for well 25/10-15 S in production licence 626
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/10-15 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/10-15 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 59°05’14.49’’ north 02°14’13.78’’ east. The drilling programme for well 25/10-15 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 626, where Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 50 per cent. The other licensees are Tullow Oil Norge AS with 30 per cent, MOL Norge AS with 10 per cent and Fortis Petroleum Norway AS with 10 per cent. The area in this licence consists of part of block 25/10. The well will be drilled in the northeastern part of the licence, which is located in the central North Sea. Production licence 626 was awarded on 3 February 2012 (APA 2011). This is the first exploration well to be drilled in the licence, but the third well within the area in which the licence is located. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Consent for exploration drilling for Det norske oljeselskap
Det norske oljeselskap (Det norske) has received consent to drill an exploration well in block 25/10. Det norske is the operator for production licence 626 in the North Sea. The well will be drilled in a prospect named Rovarkula, with the designation 25/10-15 S. Drilling will begin in July and estimated to last 25 days, depending on whether a discovery is made. Drilling will be performed by Maersk Interceptor, which is a jack-up drilling facility, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014. The PSA has now granted Det norske consent for exploration drilling.
Maersk Valiant contract cancelled
An early termination agreement for the deepwater unit Maersk Valiant has been signed by Maersk Drilling and ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil with effect from mid-September 2016. Maersk Valiant has been on a joint contract with Marathon Oil Corporation and ConocoPhillips since June 2014. The original contract was scheduled to end September 2017. The compensation under the early termination agreement leaves Maersk Drilling financially neutral to the original contract. “With the termination of Maersk Valiant, we are reminded of the extremely challenging conditions in the offshore oil and gas market. It is with regret that we will see a high performing rig such as the Maersk Valiant without work, but we will continue to explore opportunities with our customers and seek ways to create innovative solutions to enable project viability,” says Head of Global Sales, Michael Reimer Mortensen. Maersk Valiant was built in 2014 and is equipped with dual BOPs as well as an integrated MPD system. The Rig is designed for year-round operation in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, West and East Africa and Asia Pacific at water depths of up to 3,600 m (12,000 ft.).
Drilling permit for well 25/2-18 S in production licence 442
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/2-18 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/2-18 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 59°49’30.03’’ north, 02°37’54.14’’ east. The drilling programme for well 25/2-18 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 442, where Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90 per cent. The other licensee is Lotos Exploration and Production Norge AS with 10 per cent. The area in this licence consists of parts of blocks 25/2 and 25/3. The well will be drilled in the south-eastern part of the licence, which is located in the central North Sea. Production licence 442 was awarded on 15 June 2007 (APA 2006). This is the second exploration well to be drilled in the licence, but the fourth within the area where the licence is situated. The permit is conditional on the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing the drilling activity.
Det norske receives consent for exploration drilling
Det norske has received consent for exploration drilling in production licence 442 in the North Sea. Det norske has taken over the operatorship for production licence 442 from Centrica. The PSA has given Det norske consent to drill an exploration well in a prospect named Langfjellet. The location is around 134 kilometres west of Austevoll in Hordaland county. Water depth is 122 metres. The activity is scheduled to begin in August 2016 and will last between 31 and 80 days depending on whether a discovery is made. The well will be drilled using the Maersk Interceptor mobile drilling facility, operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. The facility was delivered by the Keppel FELS Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. It is registered in Singapore and classified by DNV GL. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014.
Dry well north of the Hanz discovery in the North Sea - 25/10-15 S
Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 626, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/10-15 S. The well is dry. The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about six kilometres north of the Hanz discovery and 200 kilometres northwest of Stavanger. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (intra Draupne sandstone). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Hugin formation). The well encountered a 36.5-metre thick sandstone in the Upper Jurassic with moderate to poor reservoir quality and an 11-metre thick Middle Jurassic sandstone with good to moderate reservoir quality. The well also encountered a 65-metre thick Skagerrak formation with moderate reservoir quality. The well is dry. Data acquisition has been carried out. Well 25/10-15 S was drilled to a measured depth of 2696 metres (MD RT) and a vertical depth of 2629 metres below the sea surface. The well was terminated in basement of unknown age. This is the first exploration well in production licence 626. The licence was awarded in APA 2011. Water depth is 117 metres. The well will now be permanently plugged and abandoned. Well 25/10-15 S was drilled by the Mærsk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now proceed to drill wildcat well 25/2-18 S in production licence 442, where Det norske oljeselskapet AS is the operator.
Heavy lift completes Semco Maritime rebuilding of Maersk Guardian
A 147-room complete hotel module will today be lifted on board the Maersk Guardian to finalize a major conversion of the upcoming hotel rig. Following design and construction of a turnkey accommodation module with 147 chambers and appertaining facilities for accommodation rig Maersk Guardian, Semco Maritime is now preparing the final installation just 8 months after the order was placed. The module, which has been built and outfitted by Semco Maritime and its collaboration partners in Gdynia, Poland, was loaded onto a barge last week to be sailed to Frederikshavn, Denmark. Here the 1,200-ton module will be lifted and installed on board Maersk Guardian today and tomorrow by a floating crane, which arrived from Kiel Tuesday. According to Vice President Nikolaj Vejlgaard, Semco Martime has never constructed an accommodation block this size before. "The heavy lifting marks the final and intense part of the project, where the modules are to be installed and hooked-up on the rig. Combined with additional modifications of the rig performed simultaneously with the module construction, the former jack-up rig can now be approved and used as a hotel rig", says Vejlgaard.
Consent to use Maersk Interceptor at Ivar Aasen
Det norske has received consent to use Maersk Interceptor to drill production wells at Ivar Aasen. 15.08.2016 Print Tip someone Register for news Ivar Aasen is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175 kilometres west-south-west of Karmøy in Rogaland county. Water depth in the area is approximately 110 metres. Det norske is the field's operator. The field has been developed using a Production/Drilling/Quarters (PDQ) facility with a steel jacket. Drilling of the wells for the PDQ is being done from a jack-up facility with a cantilever drilling rig. Det norske has received consent from the PSA to use the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig to drill production wells for Ivar Aasen PDQ. Wells have previously been drilled using another rig. It is provisionally planned for Maersk Interceptor to drill a further three wells. Drilling is scheduled to start in late November and estimated to last until 1 July 2017. Maersk Interceptor was delivered by the Keppel Shipyard of Singapore in 2014. The facility is owned by Maersk AS and operated by Maersk Drilling Norge AS. Maersk Interceptor was issued with an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) by the PSA in December 2014.
Maersk Highlander Named
Lady Sponsor Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil, has named Maersk Drilling’s newest asset at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Maersk Highlander is now ready for the job. Maersk Highlander was named yesterday at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland. Maersk Drilling CEO and member of the Executive Board of The Maersk Group, Claus V. Hemmingsen, gave the commemorative speech in front of prominent guests from Maersk Oil, BP, JX Nippon, Jurong Shipyard and the local community. Maersk Highlander will soon start operations in the Culzean gas field in the North Sea where it will work for Maersk Oil and partners JX Nippon and BP. "I think we have acquired a very fine piece of equipment, a little sister to our XLE rigs," Said Claus. V. Hemmingsen in front of the large crowd. The 400ft newbuild has been at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Invergorden, Scotland, since she was transported from the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The harsh environment jack-up rig was acquired from a subsidiary of Hercules Offshore before delivery from the yard. Lady sponsor was Gretchen H. Watkins, COO at Maersk Oil. She stated that the contract stands testimony to the strong ties between Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling: "Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling share constant care as a core value and we have a tightly aligned approach to safety and employee welfare. We are confident we have a drilling partner which will meet our expectations for industry leading operational performance, and do it whilst putting safety first." Said Gretchen Watkins. Claus V. Hemmingsen highlighted recent years' significant fleet growth within Maersk Drilling: the acquisition of four deepwater drillships and four ultra-harsh environment jack-ups in response to the increasing demand for new rigs in an ever-evolving industry. Now the tide has turned and a new oil reality has arrived. However, opportunities can emerge even when facing adverse market conditions. "This rig was not originally part of our growth plans, nor was she ours from the outset. However, the opportunity of acquiring this rig and adding her to our fleet seemed obvious to us as she came with a firm long-term contract with a well-known customer and partners," Said Claus V. Hemmingsen. He admitted that it might seem a difficult challenge to take in a brand new rig in the middle of a severe industry downturn. "But in the 40+ year history of Maersk Drilling, it is far from an unknown challenge to take a new, state-of-the-art piece of drilling equipment into operation," Said Claus. V. Hemmingsen. Maersk Highlander will work on a five-yeacontract valued at approx. USD 420m, including a mobilization fee of USD 9m.
Arrival of jackup rigs
Semco Maritime is pleased to welcome the recent arrival of two Maersk Drilling high specification jack-up rigs to our Invergordon ship-yard facility. Maersk Reacher will be berthed in our Queens Dock facility for an undisclosed duration, carrying out necessary upgrades and modifications, whilst the recently constructed Maersk Highlander, following arrival by heavy lift from Singapore, will be at quayside for a short time, carrying out various commissioning tasks prior to naming ceremony and thereafter, mobilization out to the CULZEAN development in the UK sector North Sea, on long term contract. Semco Maritime Rig Projects have provided support for various disciplines, including electrical, mechanical and construction, with a number of safety instrumented systems provided by Semco Maritime as original equipment during the construction of the rig being commissioned, prior to departure. The Cromarty Firth and Invergordon Service Base was chosen as most suitable for both of these assets due to its strategic location in the North sea, with deep water shelter, the facilities offered by Port of Cromarty Firth and a long standing relationship with Semco Maritime as main contractor, providing full project management support to Maersk Drilling. Semco Maritime are also nearing completion of a number of scopes of work for the semi-submersible rig, Paragon MSS1, prior to departing Cromarty Firth on a drilling contract.
Mærsk Gallant drills to record depths on Norwegian shelf
With a total depth of 5,941 metres, Mærsk Gallant has beaten the record for deepest well ever drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. On 31 July, Mærsk Gallant drilled the Solaris ultra HPHT (high-pressure, high-temperature) well to a total depth of 5,941 metres TVD (True Vertical Depth). This means that Mærsk Gallant has beaten the record for deepest well ever drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. "We have broken a number of records during the Solaris operation. But this achievement is second to none. There was a lot of cheering in the driller's cabin that day," says Sadi Ozturk, Assistant Rig Manager on Mærsk Gallant. He continues: "The Solaris exploration well is one of the most challenging wells in the North Sea. All crew members are very excited about this achievement." In the Solaris project – together with the customer, Total E&P Norge – Maersk Drilling has taken a 15,000 psi rig and adapted the equipment and procedures in order to drill a reservoir section where predicted pore pressures are well in excess of 15,000 psi. The demanding requirements of the customer have led to a wide variety of modifications on the rig.
Drilling permit for wellbore 25/2-18 A in production licence 442
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for well 25/2-18 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/2-18 A will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, at position 59°49'30.11"N and 2°37'54.1"E in production licence 442. The drilling programme for well 25/2-18 A relates to the drilling of an appraisal well. Det norske oljeselskap ASA is the operator with an ownership interest of 90 per cent and LOTOS Exploration and Production Norge AS is a licensee with a 10 per cent ownership interest. The area in this licence constitutes a part of block 25/2 and 25/3. Production licence 442 was awarded in APA 2006, on 15 June 2007. This is the second well to be drilled within the licence. The permit is contingent upon the operator securing all other permits and consents required by other authorities prior to commencing drilling activities.
Dry well northwest of the Ekofisk field in the North Sea - 1/5-5
Total Norge AS, operator of production licence 618, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 1/5-5. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 40 kilometres northwest of the Ekofisk field and 320 kilometres southwest of Stavanger. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (Ula formation). The secondary exploration target was to prove petroleum in Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (Skagerrak formation). The well encountered about 80-metre thick sandstone in the Ula formation with moderate to poor reservoir quality. The reservoir only contains traces of gas. The well is classified as dry. Data acquisition was carried out. This is the first exploration well in production licence 618. The licence was awarded in APA 2011. Well 1/5-5 was drilled to a vertical depth of 5942 metres below the sea surface and was terminated in the Bryne formation in the Middle Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 70 metres. The well will now be plugged and abandoned. Well 1/5-5 was drilled with the Maersk Gallant drilling rig.
Maersk Drilling names fourth and final XLE jack-up rig
Maersk Drilling’s fourth XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jack-up was named Friday morning at a ceremony held at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. Mrs. Bente Norheim, wife of Jan Norheim, Managing Director of BP Norge, honoured Maersk Drilling by naming the rig Maersk Invincible. Maersk Invincible is the fourth and final rig in a series of four ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of USD 2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs have been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard, while the Maersk Invincible will be delivered from DSME later in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Invincible will mobilise to the North Sea and commence a five year firm contract with BP Norge for plug and abandonment work on the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea. The estimated contract value for the firm contract is USD 812 million, including mobilisation from South Korea to Norway, but excluding cost escalation. “With the naming of our fourth XLE jack-up, we are nearing the end of a newbuilding era for Maersk Drilling. Maersk Invincible will be the final XLE rig to enter our fleet. These highly advanced drilling rigs enable us to provide safe and efficient drilling operations to our customers on the Norwegian market and with the addition of Maersk Invincible, we will further strengthen our market leading position in Norway,” says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling and Vice CEO of the Maersk Group, and continues: “We look forward to working closely together with BP Norge on the Valhall field. I am confident that Maersk Invincible will live up to her name when she commences operation.”
Gas/condensate discovery northeast of the Martin Linge field in the North Sea - 30/4-3 S
Total E & P Norge, operator of production licence 043, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 30/4-3 S. The well was drilled in the northeast part of the Martin Linge field. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Brent group). The well encountered gas and condensate in the Tarbert, Ness and Etive formations in the Brent group. Reservoir quality was good. Preliminary estimations of the size of the discovery are between 2 and 11 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. The well was formation-tested. The maximum production rate was 2.4 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of gas/flow day through a 48/64-inch nozzle opening. The well has added additional resources to the Martin Linge development and was completed with the objective of putting the well into production at start-up of the field. 30/4-3 S is the fourth exploration well in production licence 043. The licence was awarded in 1976. The well was drilled to a vertical and measured depth of 4134 metres and 4581 metres below the sea surface, respectively, and was terminated in the Dunlin group in the Early Jurassic. Water depth is 115 metres. The well was drilled with the Mærsk Intrepid drilling facility.
Oil discovery east of the Frigg field in the North Sea - 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 442, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 25/2-18 S and appraisal wells 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C. The wells were drilled four kilometres south of the 25/2-10 S (Frigg Gamma Delta) oil/gas discovery and eight kilometres north of the shut down Frøy field in the North Sea. The objective of well 25/2-18 S was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks belonging to the Vestland Group (the Hugin and Sleipner formation). The other three wells were drilled to delineate the discovery. 25/2-18 S encountered two oil columns in the Hugin formation, 30 and 86 metres in total, both of which had about 20 metres of sandstones with moderate to good reservoir quality. Appraisal well 25/2-18 A, which was drilled one kilometre toward the southeast in relation to 25/2-18 S, also encountered two oil columns in the Hugin formation, 34 and 27 metres in total, both with about 25 metres of sandstones with moderate to good reservoir quality. Appraisal well 25/2-18 B, which was drilled 1.4 kilometres north of 25/2-18 S to test the northern segment, encountered the Hugin formation with aquiferous sandstones of about 15 and 75 metres, both with moderate reservoir quality. The well is classified as dry. Appraisal well 25/2-18 C, which was drilled one kilometre west of 25/2-18 S, encountered three oil columns in the Hugin formation totalling 27, 23 and 55 metres, of which 15, 11 and 10 metres of sandstones of moderate to good reservoir quality. A 7-metre condensate column was also encountered, of which 3 metres in sandstones of moderate reservoir quality. Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 4 and 12 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents. The licensees are assessing the discovery along with other nearby discoveries with a view towards potential development. Extensive data acquisition and sampling have been carried out. Two successful formation tests (DST) were conducted in 25/2-18 A. The maximum production rate was 600 Sm3 of oil per flow day through a 40/64-inch nozzle opening in the lowermost oil zone. The gas-oil ratio is 140 Sm3/Sm3. The production rate in the uppermost oil zone was 210 Sm3 of oil per flow day through a 24/64-inch nozzle opening. The gas-oil ratio was 164 Sm3/Sm3. The formation tests showed moderate flow properties. The wells are the second, third, fourth and fifth exploration wells in production licence 442. The licence was awarded in APA 2006. Wells 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C were drilled to respective measured depths of 3870, 4066, 4335 and 4369 metres below the sea surface, and vertical depths of 3813, 3723, 3803 and 4029 metres below the sea surface. All of the wells were terminated in the Dunlin Group in the Lower Jurassic. Water depth at the site is 121 metres. The wells will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Wells 25/2-18 S, 25/2-18 A, 25/2-18 B and 25/2-18 C were drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility, which will now proceed to production licence PL 001B - Ivar Aasen, where the plan is for the rig to drill three water injector wells and one oil producer.
Maersk Drilling takes delivery of newbuild Maersk Invincible
Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its fourth XLE jack-up rig, the Maersk Invincible, from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea. Maersk Invincible will now mobilise to the North Sea and will in the second quarter of 2017 commence a five year firm contract with Aker BP for plug and abandonment work on the Valhall field. Maersk Invincible is the fourth and final rig in a series of four ultra-harsh environment jack-up rigs to enter Maersk Drilling’s fleet. The first three jack-up rigs have been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard.
Third Deepwater Semi-submersible delivered
On 15 April Maersk Drilling took delivery of the third unit in a series of three identical ultra deepwater development semi-submersible drilling rigs constructed at Keppel FELS in Singapore. "The demand for modern drillings rigs has increased over the past years concurrently with the growing technical challenges we are faced with in the drilling industry. The search for new finds is moving to deeper waters and areas with complex soil conditions and more advanced drilling rigs are needed to meet those challenges. Our ultra deepwater semi-submersibles are well equipped to meet this demand”, says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling. “Although the activity in the deepwater market was not unaffected by the economic slowdown in 2008 and 2009, the favourable long term oil price outlook will be supportive for exploration and development drilling in the deepwater segment, and we expect to see high demand for deepwater rigs going forward." With its large capacities and highly efficient drilling equipment the new rig is capable of drilling 10,000 m (30,000 ft) into the subsoil measured from the seabed. This makes the rig particularly well suited to drill deep and technically complicated wells as seen among others offshore West Africa, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia. The rig is able to operate in water depths up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft) and can maintain its station either in dynamic positioning (DP) mode or with a pre-laid mooring system. As tradition bids the name of the rig will be revealed at a ceremony at the yard on Sunday 16 May 2010.
Third Deepwater Semi-submersible named
On Sunday 16 May Maersk Drilling named the latest addition to the fleet, a Deepwater Development Semi-submersible constructed at Keppel FELS in Singapore. Mrs. Merete Våge, wife of Steinar Våge, President of ConocoPhillips Norway, honoured Maersk Drilling and the yard by naming the newbuilding MÆRSK DELIVERER at a ceremony offshore Singapore. “These rigs are probably the most outstanding and complex deepwater rigs ever built. A number of innovative features have been implemented in the design, which will increase the safety of our crew and make the rigs considerably more efficient”, says Claus V. Hemmingsen, CEO of Maersk Drilling. “We are pleased that our third deepwater semi-submersible in this series is going to start up operations in West Africa, a prosperous deepwater area with much activity. The new rig is the third and final unit in a series of three highly advanced Ultra Deepwater Development Semi-submersibles. With its large capacities and highly efficient drilling equipment the new rig is capable of drilling 10,000 m (30,000 ft) into the subsoil measured from the seabed. This makes the rig particularly well suited to drill deep and technically complicated wells as seen among others offshore West Africa, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia. The rig is able to operate in water depths up to 3,000 m (10,000 ft) and can maintain its station either in dynamic positioning (DP) mode or with a pre-laid mooring system. The initial programme for MÆRSK DELIVERER is for Dana Petroleum for drilling offshore Mauretania, West Africa. The contract has a duration of 90 days and commences upon final completion of the deepwater tests and mobilisation to Mauretania.
Consent to use Mærsk Inspirer on the Volve field
Statoil ASA has secured consent to use the Mærsk Inspirer for production drilling on Volve during the period up to production start-up on the field. In April 2005, the Plan for development and operation (PDO) for Volve was approved by the Prince Regent in Council. The Volve oil field is situated about 200 km west of Stavanger. There are several gas and condensate fields in the area surrounding Volve. None of these fields have infrastructures that are suitable for phasing in Volve. Therefore, Volve is planned as a stand-alone development. The development concept includes use of a jack-up drilling and production facility (Mærsk Inspirer) and a storage facility (Navion Saga) for storage of stabilized oil. Our consent relates to use of the Mærsk Inspirer to carry out production drilling on the field prior to production start-up. According to the plan, production will commence in May 2007. Statoil will then require a new consent for use of the Mærsk Inspirer for drilling and production, as well as use of the Navion Saga for storage. The Mærsk Inspirer currently has an (AoC) as a mobile drilling facility. An application for AoC for the Mærsk Inspirer as a drilling and production facility is currently being processed in the PSA.
Acknowledgement of Compliance for Maersk Invincible
On 11 April 2017, Maersk Drilling Norge AS received the PSA's Acknowledgement of Compliance for Maersk Invincible. Maersk Invincible is a jack-up drilling facility of the XLE type, built at the DSME yard in Busan, South Korea in 2016.
Consent to use Mærsk Invincible at Valhall
Aker BP has received consent to use Mærsk Invincible for plugging wells at Valhall. The consent applies to the use of Maersk Invincible for permanent plugging of wells drilled from the DP. Production from Valhall DP is scheduled to end in the next few years. Three of the wells are still in production, while 18 have been shut down. Of these, 13 have been permanently plugged and abandoned, and Maersk Invincible will be used for plugging the other five. Maersk Invincible is a jack-up drilling facility owned by Maersk Drilling, Denmark. It was delivered by the Daewoo yard in South Korea in 2016, is classified by DNV GL and registered in Singapore.
Maersk Convincer takes over contract from Maersk Completer
Jack-up Maersk Convincer, currently finalising its five-yearly Special Period Survey (SPS) yard stay in Singapore, will be taking over a contract from its sister rig, the Maersk Completer, currently operating offshore Brunei. The Maersk Completer is on contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum, and has been since November 2008. Before long, the Rig is scheduled to have its five-yearly Special Periodic Survey (SPS) yard stay, which means that operations for Brunei Shell Petroleum would have to be suspended while Maersk Completer conducts the yard stay, resulting in a delay in the drilling programme of about 45-60 days. In order to limit impact to the customer’s drilling programme, and to reduce cost for both parties, Maersk Drilling is re-activating the warm-stacked Maersk Convincer, an identical Baker Marine 375ft jack-up. Maersk Convincer is currently finalising its own five-yearly SPS yard stay, and will be ready to leave for the field and take on the remainder of the work scope in August 2017. “Our number one priority is to deliver the safest and most efficient drilling operations to our customers. This also means limiting any interruptions to their programmes, resulting in costly delays. Therefore, following a close dialogue with Brunei Shell Petroleum, we have agreed to put Maersk Convincer in operation for the remainder of the contract,” says Peter Dansen, Vice President and Asset Manager for International Jack-Ups in Maersk Drilling. The current contract is scheduled to end in October 2018, however, Brunei Shell Petroleum have options to extend the contract up to a total of three years. Maersk Convincer will take over operations once Maersk Completer has finalised current batch drilling operations.
Maersk Interceptor to drill on the Hyrokkin Prospect
Aker BP has received consent from Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill two wells on the Hyrokkin prospect. The wells, designated 25/4-11 and 25/4-12 will be drilled by the Maersk Interceptor harsh environment jackup.
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Is it possible to claim maintenance work injury compensation to recover medical expenses and lost earnings? Can my employer terminate my employment for making a claim for maintenance work injury compensation?
Eoin P. Campbell, LL.B., Solicitor
If you have genuinely been injured completing maintenance work and the accident in which you sustained your injury was directly or indirectly caused by negligence of your employer, you are within your rights to make a claim for maintenance work injury compensation. Even if you have been injured performing maintenance work by using faulty equipment, you are within your rights to make a claim. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act (2005) an employer must ensure that the workplace is safe, and that employees can perform their work duties without being placed at an excessive risk of sustaining an injury.
Many employers do not pay sick pay to staff in Ireland and are under no obligation to do so. However when injuries prevent an employee from working which have been suffered due to an accident at work, lost earnings can be recovered from an employer through his liability insurance policy. When you make a claim for maintenance work injury compensation you will be entitled to claim for your injuries in addition to lost earnings, medical expenses and any other costs which have been incurred as a direct result of your injury. The purpose of claiming maintenance work injury compensation should be to ensure that you are in no worse a financial position than you would have been, were it not for your maintenance work accident.
No employer would want an employee to make a claim for compensation for a maintenance work injury against a liability insurance policy, as there will almost certainly be financial implications for them by doing so. Insurance costs are high in Ireland and there is often an excess on an insurance policy which must be covered by an employer. However very few employers would hold a grudge against a member of staff for making a valid claim, provided that the level of compensation that is claimed is justifiable and reasonable. Victimisation in the workplace for making a claim for personal injury compensation is fortunately rare in the case of a genuine injury being sustained in the workplace.
Termination of your employment on the grounds of making a claim against an employer would infringe your employee rights, and if this were to happen you would be within your rights to make a separate claim against your employer through the Labour Court for unfair dismissal. It is unlikely that an employer would risk this course of action, even if disgruntled about your claim for maintenance work injury compensation.
In order not to rock the boat at work unnecessarily, we recommend you speak with a personal injury solicitor about your case. It is important to confirm that you are eligible to claim maintenance work injury compensation, and to have the claim assessed to determine the likelihood of its success. Using a personal injury solicitor to purse a claim can also help to reduce awkward confrontations with an employer and can help to speed up the claims process.
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Hedge Fund Consensus Stocks vs. Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) In 2019
Published on January 13, 2020 at 9:39 am by Reymerlyn Martin in Hedge Funds,News
2018’s fourth quarter was a rough one for investors and many hedge funds, which were naturally unable to overcome the big dip in the broad market, as the S&P 500 fell by about 4.8% during 2018 and average hedge fund losing about 1%. The Russell 2000, composed of smaller companies, performed even worse, trailing the S&P by more than 6 percentage points, as investors fled less-known quantities for safe havens. Luckily hedge funds were shifting their holdings into large-cap stocks. The 20 most popular hedge fund stocks actually generated an average return of 41.3% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF by more than 10 percentage points. In this article we will study how hedge fund sentiment towards Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO) changed during the third quarter and how the stock performed in comparison to hedge fund consensus stocks.
Is Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO) a cheap stock to buy now? Investors who are in the know are getting more bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund positions improved by 1 recently. Our calculations also showed that APO isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video at the end of this article for Q2 rankings). APO was in 24 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 23 hedge funds in our database with APO holdings at the end of the previous quarter.
In today’s marketplace there are tons of signals stock traders have at their disposal to grade their stock investments. Some of the most useful signals are hedge fund and insider trading activity. Our researchers have shown that, historically, those who follow the top picks of the top fund managers can trounce the S&P 500 by a superb amount (see the details here).
Chase Coleman of Tiger Global
We leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Europe is set to become the world’s largest cannabis market, so we check out this European marijuana stock pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. This December, we recommended Adams Energy as a one-way bet based on an under-the-radar fund manager’s investor letter and the stock is still extremely cheap despite already gaining 20 percent. Now let’s take a look at the key hedge fund action encompassing Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO).
What does smart money think about Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 24 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 4% from the previous quarter. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in APO over the last 17 quarters. So, let’s find out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, Tiger Global Management, managed by Chase Coleman, holds the largest position in Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO). Tiger Global Management has a $1.4244 billion position in the stock, comprising 7.5% of its 13F portfolio. The second largest stake is held by Robert Pohly of Samlyn Capital, with a $56.3 million position; 1.4% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the stock. Remaining peers with similar optimism encompass Louis Bacon’s Moore Global Investments, Tom Gayner’s Markel Gayner Asset Management and Robert Joseph Caruso’s Select Equity Group. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Tiger Global Management allocated the biggest weight to Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO), around 7.54% of its 13F portfolio. Concourse Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 6.57 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to APO.
As industrywide interest jumped, specific money managers have been driving this bullishness. Samlyn Capital, managed by Robert Pohly, created the most valuable position in Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO). Samlyn Capital had $56.3 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Louis Bacon’s Moore Global Investments also made a $42.8 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Clint Carlson’s Carlson Capital, Joe DiMenna’s ZWEIG DIMENNA PARTNERS, and Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management.
Let’s also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO). These stocks are TransUnion (NYSE:TRU), PagSeguro Digital Ltd. (NYSE:PAGS), CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CNP), and Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE:MMP). This group of stocks’ market caps are closest to APO’s market cap.
TRU 34 1040934 4
PAGS 35 1381252 5
CNP 27 1089888 -2
MMP 12 55553 2
Average 27 891907 2.25
As you can see these stocks had an average of 27 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $892 million. That figure was $1733 million in APO’s case. PagSeguro Digital Ltd. (NYSE:PAGS) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE:MMP) is the least popular one with only 12 bullish hedge fund positions. Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.3% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on APO as the stock returned 106.5% in 2019 and outclassed the market by an even larger margin.
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Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish On NIC Inc. (EGOV)
Published on December 9, 2019 at 1:12 pm by Nina Todic in Hedge Funds,News
We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 41.7% this year and beat the S&P 500 ETFs by 14 percentage points. Investing in index funds guarantees you average returns, not superior returns. We are looking to generate superior returns for our readers. That’s why we believe it isn’t a waste of time to check out hedge fund sentiment before you invest in a stock like NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV).
Is NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV) a buy here? The smart money is taking a bullish view. The number of bullish hedge fund bets increased by 3 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that EGOV isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). EGOV was in 20 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of September. There were 17 hedge funds in our database with EGOV holdings at the end of the previous quarter.
Hedge funds’ reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn’t keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds’ small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the Russell 2000 ETFs by 40 percentage points since May 2014 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.
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Unlike the largest US hedge funds that are convinced Dow will soar past 40,000 or the world’s most bearish hedge fund that’s more convinced than ever that a crash is coming, our long-short investment strategy doesn’t rely on bull or bear markets to deliver double digit returns. We only rely on the best performing hedge funds‘ buy/sell signals. Let’s take a gander at the recent hedge fund action surrounding NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV).
What have hedge funds been doing with NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 20 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 18% from the second quarter of 2019. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards EGOV over the last 17 quarters. With the smart money’s capital changing hands, there exists an “upper tier” of notable hedge fund managers who were adding to their holdings meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
The largest stake in NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV) was held by Renaissance Technologies, which reported holding $29.6 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by D E Shaw with a $19.6 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Arrowstreet Capital, GLG Partners, and Columbus Circle Investors. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Zebra Capital Management allocated the biggest weight to NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV), around 0.47% of its 13F portfolio. Columbus Circle Investors is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 0.35 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to EGOV.
Consequently, some big names were leading the bulls’ herd. Columbus Circle Investors, managed by Principal Global Investors, assembled the most outsized position in NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV). Columbus Circle Investors had $9.6 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Gavin Saitowitz and Cisco J. del Valle’s Springbok Capital also initiated a $0.7 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new EGOV investors: Matthew Hulsizer’s PEAK6 Capital Management, Donald Sussman’s Paloma Partners, and Brandon Haley’s Holocene Advisors.
Let’s now review hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV) but similarly valued. These stocks are Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (NYSE:ARCO), Universal Corporation (NYSE:UVV), Cardtronics plc (NASDAQ:CATM), and Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG). All of these stocks’ market caps are similar to EGOV’s market cap.
ARCO 14 118648 0
UVV 15 110979 -3
CATM 19 351967 0
KRG 10 60361 4
Average 14.5 160489 0.25
As you can see these stocks had an average of 14.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $160 million. That figure was $113 million in EGOV’s case. Cardtronics plc (NASDAQ:CATM) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) is the least popular one with only 10 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks NIC Inc. (NASDAQ:EGOV) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on EGOV, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 9.9% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and outperformed the market as well.
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Animal remains routinely found at Miami-Dade County courthouse
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MIAMI – It's become a common occurrence at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building. Lawyers and employees on their way to work stumble to upon bags and cardboard boxes filled with dead animals.
"I've seen this several times before," attorney Carlos Gonzalez told Local 10 News. "I see chicken parts. I see tongues."
Those who work at the courthouse know it's typically not a case of animal cruelty, but rather an act of religious expression. Many believe it was left by a Santeria practitioner or voodooist.
"For people who are in need for a good judgment, they are going to turn to rituals that they believe hold some sort of power," Barry University assistant professor of practical theology Marc Lavallee told Local 10.
Lavalle said those leaving animal parts at the courthouse is really just a mark of popular religious practice.
Voodoo priestess Amelia Ingrid Llerria said those who are seeking favor with certain spirits might use animal offerings. She actually performs these ceremonies, but only after she gets a permit from the city of Miami.
"What we may call animal sacrifice -- killing goats, it is so horrible to everyone," she said. "Then again, if I go to a slaughter house, I can see thousand being slaughter. Is it good or bad? Depends on the society."
Llerria said negative stereotypes have created a dark cloud over her religion. She is working to redefine the public's opinion on voodoo.
Sacrificial animal offerings were challenged by animal advocates in 1993, but the United States Supreme Court ruled animal sacrifices are legal for religious purposes.
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Deputy Kari Pallotto, a crime prevention practitioner with the Broward Sheriff's Office, said families with Christmas trees should not put pricey gifts underneath it, especially if it's near a window.
"They're able to see everything you have underneath it, and then you're a target for them wanting to burglarize your home," Pallotto said.
Parents might think keeping presents in the garage is a great way to hide them from the kids, but Pallotto said that can invite curious crooks, too.
"Everybody can see when you open your garage. In case they're casing the neighborhood, they can tell what you have hidden in your garage," she said. "We say keep them in the house, in a closet, underneath a bed, things like that, so nobody can see them."
Pallotto also advised people to break down the boxes after gifts have been removed.
"Break them down, put them in a garbage bag and put them in a receptacle. You don't want them hanging out, showing that you just bought a brand new TV or a computer for your house," she said.
Since it's getting dark much earlier, experts also said that now is a good time to put lights on timers. Burglars don't like it if it looks like someone's home.
Also, keep all doors and windows locked. It seems like common sense, but Pallotto said this time of year, people are more easily distracted than usual.
"If you're coming in and out with gifts, you tend to forget to lock the door behind you," Pallotto said.
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European LNB - Long-term follow-up (Norway)
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Post by RitaA » Sun 8 Jul 2012 3:36
Original Link: http://www.uib.no/info/dr_grad/2012/Eikeland_Randi.html (in Norwegian)
Translated below to English:
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl ... CG0Q7gEwCQ
Long-term health problems after the tick bite
Randi Eikeland defends Friday, June 2012 for the PhD degree at South Coast Hospital / University of Bergen on:
"European neuroborreliosis-long term follow-up".
Although very few people get sick after a tick bite, there are some who get Borrelia bacteria in the blood and develops borreliosis, or Lyme disease. In approximately 10 percent occur spread to organs, most commonly the nervous system, and the condition neuroborreliosis may develop. Lyme disease is treated with antibiotics, and most are cured, but some are long-term ailments. The scope and significance of such long-term pain is controversial.
In our study, 50 patients examined and treated neuroborreliosis followed up for 30 months and examined by lumbar puncture, neurological examination, neuropsychological assessment and questionnaires regarding quality of life, fatigue and depression. Fifty Southerners without evidence of neuroborreliosis were used as controls.
We found that the first in Europe, that some of the patients had impaired quality of life, fatigue, and minor neurological outcomes after neuroborreliosis, and that a small group had cognitive problems that can cause problems with everyday life. Depression and pain or continued infection of the nervous system does not seem to be able to explain this. More severe signs and symptoms prior to treatment, lack of recovery 4 months after infection, and delayed initiation of therapy increases the risk of long-term ailments.
Randi Eikeland (f.1966) grew up in Birkeland in Aust-Agder and took medical degree at the Rhein-Westfälische Technische Hochscule in Aachen, Germany. She is a neurologist specialist since 2002 and has since 1997 worked as a researcher and neurologist at the Southern Hospital in Arendal. Doctoral work emanates from a collaboration between the Clinical Medical Institute at the University of Bergen, the South-East and South Coast Hospitals, neurologic department. Dr. Treat Ljøstad has been the main supervisor, Professor Annie Mygland and Dr. Karen Herlofson has been bi-supervisors.
Here's a related Norwegian article:
http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/06/09/nyhe ... /22008018/
http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl ... CGEQ7gEwBA
[Photo] NEW FINDINGS: Neurologist Specialist Randi Eikeland found in his [actually her] doctoral thesis, which is the first in Europe, that some Borrelia patients do not recover, even after being treated with antibiotics for two weeks - a treatment in line with European guidelines.
MORE misdiagnosed: According to Public Health will be between 200 and 300 people seriously ill after being infected with the bacterium Borrelia by ticks each year. They estimate that between 2000 and 3000 have transmitted the disease each year, and they have long warned that the risk of getting sick increases. Ten percent of those who have received treatment for Lyme disease after being bitten by ticks, is disabled as a result of the disease.
(Dagbladet): Ten percent of those who have received treatment for Lyme disease after being bitten by ticks, is disabled as a result of the disease.
These people believe that the disease is the only reason why they can not continue in their jobs, according to neurologist specialist Randi Eikeland (46), which is part of a Borrelia-expert at the Southern Hospital.
As the first in Europe, she has her doctorate demonstrated that some Borrelia patients do not recover, even after being treated with antibiotics for two weeks - a treatment in line with European guidelines.
Read the story of Oddvar Skarbø that after eleven months of "hell pain" and several false tests had proven Lyme disease. Maj-Britt Hovland Grevstad was sick for 14 years before she was diagnosed the same disease, and doctors ticks sick Madeleine thought that something was wrong with the girl mentally , and sent her to therapy in BUP.
Surprised researchers
Half of the 50 southern patients in the study reported that they were still sick 30 months after treatment. They struggled mainly with neuro-cognitive problems such as poor concentration and fatigue, according to Eikeland. 50 Southerners with Lyme disease were used as controls.
- 50 percent said they were not fresh, and 16 percent of them said they were so sick that they had problems in everyday life. There were more than expected. It's okay that we have ascertained that there are long-term ailments, the study is an important piece of the puzzle, she says to Dagbladet.
Patients in the study were on average 53 years when they were diagnosed, and Eikeland think it is typical that the disease affects men in this age group. Ten percent said they were so sick that they are no longer able to work.
She therefore believes that the bacterium must now be taken seriously. The previous studies from the United States demonstrated long-term problems in Borrelia patients, but this is a different type of Borrelia than in Norway.
- Ticks are in progress throughout Europe, and it is clear that the risk of becoming ill increases , said Public Health.
- Do not hypochondriac group
Of the 50 subjects, only seven pieces, which were now afraid to walk in the woods.
- This was not a hypochondriac group, and they were no more depressed or had more psychological distress than the control group, she said.
Eikeland emphasizes that there is no good cure for Lyme patients with long-term ailments, and she believes it is useless to give a longer course of antibiotics.
-Borreliaen is sensitive to antibiotics, and according to four major American studies go further rebehandling greater side effects than efficacy. On this basis, we can not recommend further treatment.
60 percent remembered that they had been bitten by ticks, and 22 percent said they had the characteristic red ring on the skin.
Disagree guidelines
Managing Director of Norwegian Center borreliosis, Rolf Luneng, said Dr. task match his experience with many patients.
He disagrees with the European guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease, and provide their patients antibiotics up to 6 to 12 months, if necessary to get the patients recover completely.
He is critical of the four American studies, and believes that they are between 40 and 50 studies showing that long-term therapy required to enable more patients to be healthy.
- Research reports may diverge, and if side effects are worse with prolonged antibiotics, my patients were getting worse and worse treatment. Over 50 percent of our patients are much better or completely healthy, he says, and continues:
-Many of these have been long term sick leave and resume work again. But there are a few patients who can not tolerate antibiotics, and these can not carry out such treatment.
At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, researchers have found that every fourth child in the emergency room with diffuse neurological symptoms had Borrelia or TBE.
Remains of disability
Luneng think the reason why some do not recover from a long-term antibiotics, because they have developed lasting health effects of chronic Borrelia disease, and that they will always have symptoms.
- Tuberculosis is a chronic infection, which is given antibiotics for six months to two years. Even those who have a positive tuberculin skin test, but who are healthy and symptom free, have in case automatic three to six months of antibiotic treatment to avoid getting sick. Why do you do it, if it is as dangerous to long-term treatment?
He tells of patients who for years has been work disability, and who can not get back to work despite the fact that they have been cured with prolonged antibiotic therapy.
- They are too old to work after many years of illness and is no longer competitive in today's professional life. This is a great paradox.
Difficult Disease
Director Ingeborg Aaberge of Public Health emphasizes the importance of good studies because Lyme disease in some cases difficult to diagnose.
- Clinical picture is different, and it is important to study to gain insight into the problems of Lyme disease.
Preben Ottesen of Public Health report that normal ticks summer so far this year. He has already collected ticks at three sites, and believes that the number of ticks is "almost stable".
- It is early summer, and most cases of Lyme are enrolled in September and October. It is only the most serious cases are reported to us.
In Norway, researchers at Bioforsk looking at Hillsborough to set out the fungus to combat ticks . On the South Coast, scientists have started a project in which they will determine if the sheep tick, cleanse the Borrelia, such as the blood of elk and deer are doing.
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Re: European LNB - Long-term follow-up (Norway)
Here are a few published articles from Norway:
Eur J Neurol. 2010 Jan;17(1):118-23. Epub 2009 Jul 23.
Remaining complaints 1 year after treatment for acute Lyme neuroborreliosis; frequency, pattern and risk factors.
Ljøstad U, Mygland A.
Department of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital HF, Kristiansand, Norway.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
To chart remaining complaints 1 year after treatment for neuroborreliosis, and to identify risk factors for a non-favorable outcome.
We followed patients treated for neuroborreliosis prospectively, and assessed outcome by a composite clinical score. The impact on outcome of clinical, demographic and laboratory factors were analyzed by univariate analyses and logistic regression.
Out of 85 patients 41 (48%) had remaining complaints; 14 had objective findings and 27 subjective symptoms. Remaining complaints were associated with pre-treatment symptom duration >or=6 weeks (OR = 4.062, P = 0.044), high pre-treatment cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cell count (OR = 1.005, P = 0.001), and female gender (OR = 3.218, P = 0.025). Presence of CSF oligoclonal bands (OCBs) was not analyzed in the logistic regression model due to many missing observations, but was found to be more frequent both pre-treatment (P = 0.004) and after 12 months (P = 0.015) among patients with remaining complaints as compared to patients with complete recovery. Further evaluation showed that objective remaining findings, and not subjective symptoms, were associated with pre-treatment symptom duration >or=6 weeks. No difference in outcome was observed between patients treated with IV ceftriaxone and patients treated with oral doxycycline.
Remaining complaints are common after neuroborreliosis. The majority of the complaints are subjective. Pre-treatment symptom duration >or=6 weeks, high pre-treatment CSF cell count, and female gender seem to be risk factors for remaining complaints. Presence of CSF OCBs may also predict a non-favorable outcome, but this should be further studied. Whether subjective and objective complaints are associated with different risk factors is also an issue for future studies.
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Acta Neurol Scand. 2011 Nov;124(5):349-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2010.01482.x. Epub 2011 Feb 9.
European neuroborreliosis: quality of life 30 months after treatment.
Eikeland R, Mygland A, Herlofson K, Ljøstad U.
Department of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway.
The prognosis after Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is debated. The aim of this study was to assess health-related Quality of Life (QoL) and neurological symptoms 30 months after treatment in European patients with LNB.
In a prospective case-control designed study, we investigated 50 well-characterized patients with LNB who had participated in a treatment trial for LNB 30 months earlier and 50 matched control persons with the health QoL questionnaire Short-Form 36 (SF-36), the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), the Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), the Starkstein Apathy Scale (SAS), and the Mini Mental State (MMS). Clinical and demographic data were collected by semi-structured interviews and clinical neurological examination.
Lyme neuroborreliosis-treated patients scored lower than control persons in the SF-36 domains physical component summary (PCS) (44 vs 51 P < 0.001) and mental component summary (MCS) (49 vs 54 P = 0.010). They also scored lower than control persons in all the SF-36 subscales, except for bodily pain, and on FSS (3.5 vs 2.1 P < 0.001), but not on MMS (28 vs 29 P = 0.106). There was a difference in MADRS (3.1 vs 0. 8 P = 0.003) and SAS (13 vs 11 P = 0.016), but the scores were low in both groups. Fatigue was the most frequently reported symptom among LNB-treated patients (50%). Patients who reported complete recovery (56%) after LNB had similar QoL scores as the controls.
European persons treated for LNB have poorer health-related QoL and have more fatigue than persons without LNB.
© 2011 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
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Eur J Neurol. 2012 Mar;19(3):480-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03563.x. Epub 2011 Oct 15.
European neuroborreliosis: neuropsychological findings 30 months post-treatment.
Eikeland R, Ljøstad U, Mygland A, Herlofson K, Løhaugen GC.
Department of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal Department of Neurology, Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. randi.eikeland@sshf.no
The aim of this study was to compare neuropsychological (NP) functioning in patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) 30months after treatment to matched controls.
We tested 50 patients with LNB and 50 controls with the trail-making test (TMT), Stroop test, digit symbol test, and California Verbal Learning test (CVLT). A global NP sumscore was calculated to express the number of low scores on 23 NP subtasks.
Mean scores were lower amongst LNB-treated patients than amongst controls on tasks assessing attention/executive functions: (Stroop test 4: 77.6 vs. 67.0, P=0.015), response/processing speed (TMT 5: 23.4 vs. 19.2, P=0.004), visual memory (digit symbol recall: 6.6 vs. 7.2, P=0.038), and verbal memory (CVLT list B: 4.68 vs. 5.50, P=0.003). The proportion of patients and controls with NP sumscores within one SD from the mean in the control group (defined as normal) and between one and two SD (defined as deficit) were similar, but more LNB-treated patients than controls had a sumscore more than two SD from the mean (defined as impairment) (8 vs. 1, P=0.014).
As a group, LNB-treated patients scored lower on four NP subtasks assessing processing speed, visual and verbal memory, and executive/attention functions, as compared to matched controls. The distribution of NP dysfunctions indicates that most LNB-treated patients perform comparable to controls, whilst a small subgroup have a debilitating long-term course with cognitive problems.
© 2011 The Author(s). European Journal of Neurology © 2011 EFNS.
Acta Neurol Scand. 2012 Jun 12. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2012.01690.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Risk factors for a non-favorable outcome after treated European neuroborreliosis.
To identify possible risk factors for reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and fatigue after treated Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB).
We included 50 patients with LNB and analyzed associations between their demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics at baseline and outcome at 30 months assessed by the self-report questionnaires Short Form-36 (SF-36) and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS).
Lower scores in the SF-36 domain Physical Component Summary were associated with pretreatment symptom duration >6 weeks (B = -11.0, P = 0.001) and non-complete recovery at 4 months (B = -5.5, P = 0.037) (R(2) = 0.35). Lower scores in the SF-36 domain Mental Component Summary were associated with non-complete recovery at 4 months (B = -8.9, P = 0.01 (R(2) = 0.14). Higher FSS scores were associated with pretreatment symptom duration >6 weeks (B = 1.4, P = 0.006), high scores on the composite clinical score pretreatment (B = 0.1, P = 0.003), and non-complete recovery at 4 months (B = 1.6, P = 0.005) (R(2) = 0.46). No laboratory test results were associated with these predefined outcomes.
Delayed treatment start, more symptoms and findings before treatment, and non-complete recovery at 4 months after treatment are possible predictors of a poorer HRQoL and more fatigue 30 months after treated LNB. We did not find age, gender, educational level, involvement of the central nervous system, coexisting diseases, or cerebrospinal fluid findings to be associated with reduced HRQoL or fatigue. Our findings should be replicated in future studies before any conclusions can be drawn.
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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Post by X-member » Thu 1 Oct 2015 0:56
I activate this thread since the numbers of patients with symptoms after treatment for neuroborreliosis is discussed in the thread/topic below:
Quality of life: the same all around
http://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/view ... f=6&t=5962
Maybe this also belong in this thread?
Scand J Infect Dis. 2005;37(6-7):449-54.
Intravenous ceftriaxone compared with oral doxycycline for the treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis.
Borg R1, Dotevall L, Hagberg L, Maraspin V, Lotric-Furlan S, Cimperman J, Strle F.
This prospective, open-label, non-randomized trial at the University Departments of Infectious Diseases in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Göteborg, Sweden, was conducted to compare the kinetics of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) mononuclear cell count after 10-14 d of ceftriaxone or doxycycline for treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis. 29 patients were treated with intravenous ceftriaxone 2 g daily in Ljubljana and 36 patients with oral doxycycline 400 mg daily in Göteborg. The study protocol included lumbar puncture before and 6-8 weeks after treatment initiation. There was a marked decrease (1.2 log10 x 10(6)/l) of the median CSF mononuclear cell count following treatment. With the assumption of a linear regression of the logarithmic mononuclear cell counts between the 2 lumbar punctures, no significant difference between the 2 antibiotic treatments could be found. All patients were clinically much improved after treatment. At 6 months follow-up 23 (79%) of the ceftriaxone- and 26 (72%) of the doxycycline-treated patients were completely recovered. Intravenous ceftriaxone or oral doxycycline was found to be effective, safe, and convenient for treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis.
And maybe this also belong in this thread?
Lancet Neurol. 2008 Aug;7(8):690-5. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70119-4. Epub 2008 Jun 21.
Oral doxycycline versus intravenous ceftriaxone for European Lyme neuroborreliosis: a multicentre, non-inferiority, double-blind, randomised trial.
Ljøstad U1, Skogvoll E, Eikeland R, Midgard R, Skarpaas T, Berg A, Mygland A.
Use of intravenous penicillin and ceftriaxone to treat Lyme neuroborreliosis is well documented, although oral doxycycline could be a cost-effective alternative. We aimed to compare the efficacy of oral doxycycline with intravenous ceftriaxone for the treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis.
From April, 2004, to October, 2007, we recruited consecutive adult patients from nine hospitals in southern Norway into a non-inferiority trial. Inclusion criteria were neurological symptoms suggestive of Lyme neuroborreliosis without other obvious causes, and presence of any of the following: a CSF white-cell count of more than five per mL; intrathecal production of specific Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies; or acrodermatitis chronicum atrophicans. Patients were randomly allocated to receive 200 mg oral doxycycline or 2 g intravenous ceftriaxone once per day for 14 days, in a double-blind, double-dummy design. A composite clinical score (range 0 to 64, 0=best) was based on standardised interviews and clinical neurological examination. The primary outcome was reduction in clinical score at 4 months after the start of treatment. Analysis was per protocol. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00138801.
Of 118 patients who underwent randomisation, 102 completed the study (mean clinical score at baseline 8.5 [SD 4.1]). 4 months after the start of treatment, mean score improvement in the doxycycline group (n=54) was 4.5 (95% CI 3.6 to 5.5) points and that in the ceftriaxone group (n=48) was 4.4 (3.4 to 5.4) points (95% CI for difference between groups -0.9 to 1.1; p=0.84). 26 (48%) patients in the doxycycline group and 16 (33%) in the ceftriaxone group had total recovery (95% CI for difference between groups -4% to 34%; p=0.13). Side-effects possibly related to treatment were reported in 21 (37%) and 26 (46%) patients in these groups, respectively (-28% to 9%; p=0.30). Three patients discontinued ceftriaxone treatment owing to adverse events.
Oral doxycycline is as efficient as intravenous ceftriaxone for the treatment of European adults with Lyme neuroborreliosis.
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Post by duncan » Thu 1 Oct 2015 1:43
There are lots of good data and insights in this thread, X-member. Thank you for "resurrecting" it. Also, I think you are right: it is clearly relevant to the hv808ct Quality of Life thread we are discussing.
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Post by Lorima » Thu 1 Oct 2015 2:44
Very relevant to QoL thread. Thanks X-member.
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Post by X-member » Thu 1 Oct 2015 18:39
Europeisk nevroborreliose - hvordan går det etter behandling? (Eikeland, Norway)
http://www.lyme.no/index.php/component/ ... behandling
A (not perfect) translated quote:
Most people with NB notice a rapid improvement of outcomes and symptoms weeks to a few months after antibiotic therapy, but 10-50% report fatigue, cognitive problems such as memory, attention and mental speed, or musculoskeletal ailments even years after treatment . If one has a clear NB diagnosis that is treated with the appropriate guidelines, can not be explained by any other condition and is severe enough to give disability, the condition is proposed called Post Lyme Disease Syndrome (PLDS). This expression is better than chronic Lyme, which rather brings to mind an active infection, which we do not find at PLDS.
Post by X-member » Fri 2 Oct 2015 18:55
And perhaps this also belong in this thread?
Scand J Infect Dis. 2002;34(6):421-5.
5-y Follow-up study of patients with neuroborreliosis.
Berglund J1, Stjernberg L, Ornstein K, Tykesson-Joelsson K, Walter H.
The objective of this follow-up study was to determine the long-term outcome of strictly classified cases of neuroborreliosis treated with antibiotics. A 1-y prospective population-based survey of Lyme borreliosis was conducted in southern Sweden between 1992 and 1993. A total of 349 identified cases with suspected neuroborreliosis were followed up 5 y later. Medical records were reviewed and all participants filled in a questionnaire. Of those patients classified with definite neuroborreliosis, 114/130 completed the follow-up, of whom 111 had completed the initial antibiotic treatment. Of the 114 patients followed up, 86 (75%) had recovered completely and 70 (61%) had recovered within 6 months. Residual neurological symptoms, such as facial palsy, concentration disorder, paresthesia and/or neuropathy, were reported by 28/114 patients. No significant differences between different antibiotic treatments were observed in terms of the occurrence of sequelae. To conclude, we found that 25% (95% confidence interval 17-33%) of the patients suffered from residual neurological symptoms 5 y post-treatment. However, the clinical outcome of treated neuroborreliosis is favorable as only 14/114 (12%) patients had sequelae that influenced their daily activities post-treatment. Early diagnosis and treatment would seem to be of great importance in order to avoid such sequelae.
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Maxx Buy This Song
About Get-A-Way
"Get-A-Way" is a European hit single by the German Eurodance project Maxx. The song was first released on October 1993 as the debut single from the project. In Germany, the single reached Gold status for selling over 250,000 units. It peaked within the top 10 in 11 countries; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Get-A-Way" reached number 10. By mid-1994, it sold over 1.1 million in Europe. Outside Europe, the song peaked at number 3 on the dance music chart in Canada and number 11 in Israel. more »
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Come with me did you feel so fully irate
Me put under arrest in a new york city
In a dance hall in a dance hall on a dance floor
We do a rum dance man
Raggaman yes it's a raggaman jump
People drinking champagne up
Mum-do-lafasha
Pump it up start to swing about day
While you listen to the music jump up and party.
Ragga this ragga that and a rub-a-dub style
Feeling okay yeah feeling so irate
I'm a white man I'm a white man
Ragga with me and get ready to dance man
Boom-shug-a-lug girl open your mind
I'm a white raggaman maybe one of a kind
I'm a raggaman yes gonna make my day
Open your mind I'm your get away.
Get away get away you're my get away
Get away baby I want to break out
Get away get away.
Brl brl bey me feeling irate
Come back again with a sound of karate
On the party I'm the danceman
Flipping around to a rock about style
Drinking champagne up full a fashion
Party people do the wrong dance manner
In the club man on the dance floor
Everybody do the wrong dance manner.
I need you night and day baby I need you
You're still my get away
Take you night night and day
I want to break out now you're my get away
I need you night and day
Do it do it baby do it night and day
Do it do it baby you're my get away.
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Little Church in the Pines
We are an Interdenominational Christian Church
Reflections by Pastor Tom
75th Anniversary Photo
Contact info. & Membership Form
Steering Committee Meeting Agendas & Minutes
Little Church in the Pines was built as a house of
worship in 1941 by Chick Kennedy with the backing
of Doc Mack, both residents of Island Park.
Since 1968, the Regional Council for Christian Ministries
of Idaho Falls has sponsored an interdenominational
Christian Ministry which adheres to the historical faith
of Christian Churches.
Dedication Services
Macks Inn, Idaho
"A Little Church in the Pines"
Dedicate to the physical and spiritual peace that comes with
solitude in the forest, close to Nature that is God,
was built by the W.H. Mack Family. Its dedication today
commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the
establishment of Macks Inn.
In Dedication to:
A Little Peaceful World Within a Bigger World at War
Twenty years ago this simmer, Mack's Inn Among the Pines, close to the spring-fed
headwaters of the North Fork of Snake River, came into being.
Today Mack's Inn is a little world, a place of peace in the forest. In that twenty years, the little world has grown. Today it is a summer camp with a post office, store, café, gift shop, dance pavilion, and garage ___ all of the things
that mark a living, growing American community.
"All" of these things is true today for the first time. We are met here to make that "all" truly inclusive.
Today at Mack's Inn Among the Pines, we dedicate this simple, rustic structure . . .
Long ago a young poet once wrote that "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." There is beauty in simplicity; there is beauty in mountain and river and tree. There is beauty here today. There is peace and rest..
Without reference to creed, "A Little Church in the Pines" is dedicated to the high purpose for which it is intended.
At Mack's Inn, it makes a little world of peace complete.
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Why Do We Suffer? Job’s Answer
Article by LiveReal Agents Mary and Thomas
Kafka, in The Trial, offers his explanation of suffering, which we mention here.
(Spoiler alert(?)) Kafka’s answer to suffering is that, well, we’re born, we struggle and suffer, we go through all kinds of confusing, absurd stuff that we don’t understand, and then we do the mortal coil shuffle and take the dirt nap.
All, it seems, for no apparent reason.
Or even worse, it does happen for certain reasons – but those reasons make no sense. The reasons are, it turns out, the unexplained, un-articulated whims of some unseen, faceless bureaucrat, who has his own reasons that we’re never informed of.
This, in so many words, is just about the only conclusion we can reach within a worldview that negates any form of spirituality.
Sure, we can soften the blow a little around the edges. Automatic doors, for example, that liberate us from the burden of opening doors for ourselves. Which is nice.
But in regards to the Big Stuff, well, there’s just not much we can do about that. The answer, in Kafka’s view, is to suffer through absurdity as comfortably as we can.
But there’s another answer for suffering in life besides Kafka’s.
It’s been around for thousands of years, and its message is one of stark contrast to Kafka’s.
The explanation comes, of course, from Job.
There have been plenty of interpretations of Job, and we aren’t going to offer much that’s new here.
That said, we want to briefly explain why we think it’s worth mentioning.
First, a quick recap.
Job, the story goes, is a decent guy.
He starts suffering a lot.
It doesn’t seem fair. He asks why. After all, hey, he’s been a decent guy. He hasn’t done anything really wrong. He tries to treat people well, and so on. He’s not guilty of any great crime – not, at least, that he knows of. He’s innocent, as far as he knows. In this sense, he’s like Kafka’s hero.
So then, why the suffering?
He gets no good answer. His genius buddies come up with plenty of genius answers, of course. He’s suffering because of this, or that, or the other thing. Some of their reasoning might not seem entirely off base.
But none of those answers are right, or satisfying.
Job suffers even more.
And he starts questioning even more.
Why the heck is going on? Why?
Eventually (this is the abridged version), something breaks.
Job has a conversation with The Almighty.
Or, to be accurate: it’s not really much of a conversation. God does pretty much all the talking. Job does pretty much all the listening.
Part of it goes something like this;
“Gird up your loins now, like a man;
I will question you, and you tell me the answers!
Where were you when I founded the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its size; do you know?
Who stretched out the measuring line for it?
Into what were its pedestals sunk,
and who laid the cornerstone,
While the morning stars sang in chorus
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
And who shut within doors the sea
when it burst forth from the womb;
When I made the clouds its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling bands?”
(Job 38 3-9)
There’s much more than that, of course, but that’s a small sample.
And in that conversation is “The Answer.”
It might not seem like it to us.
We can read through that conversation hundreds of times and still not get it.
Nowadays, we often want logical, rational, linear, mathematically sound, verbal sound-bite bumper-sticker answers to just about everything.
But some questions – especially Big Questions – don’t necessarily work like that.
If we’re asking what 5+4 is or the price of peas, we can get straight, logical, verbal answers that we’re all satisfied with.
But when we’re asking Bigger Questions like Why Do We Suffer? – well, there are plenty of logical, verbal, sound-bite answers. But none of those would satisfy us. Any answer we’d get like that, we’d question, pick apart, deconstruct, doubt, misinterpret, and so on.
But Job, apparently, did get an answer to his question about suffering.
The answer came in the form of a spiritual experience.
Many folks are so literal-minded these days, they tend to imagine that what’s being described here was a literal conversation with a big, booming voice out of the sky. And that seems irrational to rational, literal-thinking minds, and so, the entire thing gets rejected. Folks misinterpret, caricature, and then reject that caricature. It would be like rejecting Star Wars because it’s not about one star getting into a fistfight with another star. It’s silly, and it’s approaching certain situations in entirely the wrong way.
But the problem there might not be the passage itself, but certain sticky-minded interpretations of it.
The entire passage might be an effort to put something into words that’s much bigger than those words. Those words are like fingers trying to point to the moon, and we shouldn’t get hung up on the finger. We should look at what it’s trying to point to.
It’s trying to point to a spiritual experience.
Job is a story of experiential spirituality.
Job, it seems, got an answer to his question.
That answer satisfied him.
What he came away with from that experience isn’t a phrase we can Google, or a piece of data we can pass around, or anything we can slap on a bumper sticker. You can’t Google an experience. The only way to really understand the experience of eating chocolate ice cream is to actually experience eating chocolate ice cream.
Part of Job’s response:
“I had heard of you by word of mouth, but now my eye has seen you.” (Job 42: 5)
Before, he had only secondhand knowledge. But now, he knows directly.
If we want an answer, too, and we’re serious about it, maybe the best route for us is the same.
To see for ourselves.
If you liked this, check out:
Why Soft Nihilism Is So Popular These Days
10 Existential Riddles Life Asks Each Of Us
Experiential Spirituality: A User's Guide
Does Human Nature Have a Spiritual Component? 50 Pieces of Evidence
Spirituality for Skeptics
7 Practical Spiritual Experiments You Can Run To "See For Yourself"
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Microsoft just announced that it is discontinuing Windows Live OneCare from 2009, replacing it with a free lightweight alternative, codenamed “Morro”. The new product will be available towards the end of 2009, and provide complete malware protection to consumers, at no cost.
This is in contrast to Windows Live Onecare, which currently offers malware protection, backup, online photo backup, multiple machine monitoring and a firewall. However these features come with a price tag of around $30 for 3 machines. Windows Live OneCare subscriptions will stop being sold via retail channels from 30 June 2009, though direct sales via Microsoft will stop only when “Morro” is available.
A Q&A with Amy Barzdukas from Microsoft, highlights the following key points:
“The decision to offer a new anti-malware solution, code-named “Morro,” at no additional cost to consumers is driven by our commitment to provide a trustworthy computing experience. We know that there are still some 60 percent of consumers in developed markets, and even more in emerging markets, that don’t have up-to-date security protection on their PCs, and we want to help provide that core level of protection.”
“This offering is not a free version of Windows Live OneCare. “Morro” represents a new offering that is designed in response to market changes and consumer needs. We hear from consumers that they need core malware protection in low-bandwidth scenarios, or that will run on less powerful machines. That’s why we will design “Morro” to have a smaller footprint and to use fewer computing resources. This new solution will not offer or support multi-PC “circle” management, printer sharing, performance-enhancing tools such as disk defragmenting, or any of the backup and restore capabilities that make up the Windows Live OneCare suite.”
The Windows Live OneCare team just posted too. They confirm that updates to virus definitions will continue to the end of OneCare subscriptions. However they also say that the online backup functionality will continue to be available. I would assume however that once the subscription ends, users will be encouraged to switch to the new Wave 3 offerings, using Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Sync and Windows Live Photos instead.
This move comes as somewhat of a surprise, with talk about OneCare 3.0 being currently in development. Hell we may have even caught a sneak peek. Given the lack of press around this as its breaking, this was clearly not one of those stories under embargo, so it’ll be interesting to see what coverage this gets over the next few days.
Update: Ina Fried is reporting that Microsoft Equipt, the bundled version of Office and OneCare will now be discontinued also.
Ryan Naraine also mentions the obvious anti-trust implications, however given that “Morro” won’t be bundled with Windows 7, it seems as though a court outcome may not be clear cut.
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Stage It, See It, Read It: Opera Modesto’s Story into Song Literacy Initiative
Written by Hillari DeSchane
Photos Provided by Opera Modesto
‘If you build it, they will come’ is a popular idea borrowed from the movie Field of Dreams. Opera Modesto has turned that challenge into, ‘If you stage it, they will read it.’
photo (Left) by David Schroeder, courtesy Opera Modesto: Opera Modesto’s SOI graduates share the stage with internationally known tenor Christopher Bengochea in the company’s 2019’s ‘Carmen.’
On January 11 and 12, 2020, Opera Modesto debuts its first ‘Story Into Song Literacy Initiative’ production, Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park,based on Jane Austen’s novel of the same name. The opera is the centerpiece of a weekend JaneAustenCon featuring lectures and classes on the works of Jane Austen and the culture of Regency England.
The connection between opera and literacy may not be obvious. But the company founded thirty six years ago by Modesto native Buck Townsend has always seen education as a key part of its mission. In 2018 Opera Modesto honored its roots by inaugurating its Summer Opera Institute [SOI] for teens. The course exposes students to intensive study and training under nationally known experts in foreign languages, literature, voice, music, stagecraft, public speaking, and more. “Almost none of the students will go on to become opera singers,” acknowledges Stevens. “But each one will take that experience with them.” This is no ivory tower endeavor: SOI participants are drawn from all backgrounds, some students excelling despite battling homelessness and serious physical and emotional challenges.
Local government and non-profit agencies battling low literacy and achievement rates have been quick to join in the effort. The Stanislaus County Library, Stanislaus County Schools, Modesto City Schools and Learning Quest are just a few of the early visionaries. “Opera Modesto is engaged in extensive, unexpected community engagement that…promotes our shared interest in the health of the community,” Stevens says.
photo courtesy Opera Modesto: Opera Modesto artistic consultant and international soprano Annalisa Winberg coaches students in dramatic interpretation.
ModestoJaneCon featuring Opera Modesto’s Mansfield Park:
“The connection between music education and improved achievement in other subjects is well documented,” says Hillari DeSchane, an Opera Modesto Board member and drama critic. With California’s Central Valley impacted by perennially low literacy levels, “we’re just offering one more tool to the folks who have been working in the trenches for years. Stanislaus County has so many people who are quietly working for the good of the community. Opera Modesto is proud to partner with them in the Story Into Song Literacy Initiative.”
For more information: January 11-12, 2020 Visit ModestoJaneCon.com or @modestojanecon on Facebook and Instagram Tickets available at thestate.org
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From Valli of Trentino
Masè was born in 1870 from the passion of the spouses Miradio and Diomira, who, starting from Strembo, moved to Trieste and started the production of the first artisan salami. One of the most widespread traditions tells that service women from Bohemia brought dishes such as sausages, sausages, roasted and smoked sausages (then preservation techniques) to Trieste tables, then reinterpreted in an original way by the skilled artisans of Trieste.
Reaching Trieste
Once in Trieste, the Miradio Masè buffet soon became one of the most popular places in the city. A true point of reference in which to be able to find the products that, a little later, would have become pieces of Trieste history. In fact, in the back room of Via Carlo Ghega 9, the first Masè store, which the spouses make their first typical hams
First Cotto Praga and CottoTrieste®
The Masé family, specialized in cooked meat of Central European taste, thus produces the first Prague Cooked Ham, CottoTrieste®, the original cooked ham in the bread crust and the Speck Cotto. The three key products of the Trieste tradition that are reflected in the quality and tradition of Masè
Product expansion
Over time the Masé family specializes in cooked meats of Central European taste: it is the Masè family, who moved to Trieste from Trentino, to have developed the tastes of the Mitteleuropean tradition and to have produced the first Prague Cooked Ham and CottoTrieste® , the original ham cooked in the bread crust.
Innovative recipes and packaging
The evolution and the constant search for cutting-edge products that are able to mix tradition and continuous innovation are today one of Masè's strong points. One of the latest successes signed by Masè is the exclusive packaging of the single portions: the 100 gr Pulled Pork was also awarded at the World Food in Warsaw after being evaluated for the innovativeness of the product, the revolutionary packaging, marketing and quality of the raw materials used.
The Masè World
Food, territory, manufacturing, craftsmanship come together in the "Mondo Masè". In addition to working with pork, beef, turkey and veal products, it also offers a range of products such as pickles, sauces, cheeses, coffee, oil, tuna and many others that still today respect the culture of craftsmanship. Not forgetting the line of kitchen accessories and merchandising accessories.
During his activity, Masè received various awards for his excellent products and was nominated by famous magazines and guides of the food world
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Rock, paper, petals @ william morris gallery
I am excited to be part of Waltham Forest first London Borough of Culture 2019 by presenting my new work at William Morris Gallery in the beautiful Story Lounge, accessible by ascending the grand 18th century staircase, made of Spanish sweet chestnut.
The choreography has been developed following the success of the community project 'Women's dance' and my visual art work.
'Rock, paper, petals' celebrates nature, women's identity and diversity by bringing together, through dance and creativity, women from different walks of life, age and abilities in the performing and visual arts.
Dance students from Idea Store Learning and the University of East London (third year BA (Hons) Dance: Urban Practice) will also work alongside professional dancers and female members of the public.
My aims for this piece have been to:
- Co-create an approx. 15-minutes long choreography and up to five pieces of visual art with women of different age, abilities and nationalities. The visual art work will be displayed in the 8 local libraries in Waltham Forest during the year of culture.
- Empower women through engaging in the creation and delivery of the choreography.
- Nurture women's relationships through developing trust and understanding while engaging in dance and visual art activities.
The project is important and timely in its delivery and scope because firstly, it combines visual art with dance and secondly, considering the recent debates on gender inequalities and women’s abuse, it gives women of different background a safe space to voice their views and be creative through dance and the arts.
The playful and game-like nature of the choreography’s structure gives participants the freedom to move with confidence alongside professional and training dancers.
It is important to be able to perform at William Morris Gallery because my visual art stylises, similarly to Morris’ textile work, natural and human forms. I use this to celebrate women co-existence in our world and to connect to my own interpretation of womanhood as I see flowers as symbolically feminine. Ultimately both the choreography and visual art work are a celebration of women taking part in the project, their own personal views on womanhood and their engagement in creative processes, performances and visual arts. Annarita Mazzilli
3rd March 2019 - 11.30am, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm (Free)
William Morris Gallery (1st floor Story Lounge)
Lloyd Park, Forest Rd, London E17 4PP
Part of Waltham Forest first London Borough of Culture 2019
Here some of the participants' testimony from 'women's dance' project also taking part in 'Rock, paper, petals:
"It felt empowering and freeing to be able to do a performance like this - where you could be yourself but also be a part of something bigger than yourself. And that is why it is was valuable to be amongst women in the dance; telling some of my story as a woman, and sharing the stories of other women." (Rita - Project participant)
"It was great being with other women! I felt connected to them, empowered by them, supported by them...Taking part in the dance project has made me feel more comfortable in my own skin"
(Lucilia - Project participant)
" It was as a tremendously surprising experience, fun and simply pleasant, a bit like group meditation followed by a party...!"
(Kasia - Project participant)
"The whole experience was uplifting while still having deep meaning and gravity. Annarita did an amazing job bringing together people from different backgrounds and making us look like accomplished dancers!" (Anusha- Project participant)
Annarita Mazzilli
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Want to take pictures from your Apple Watch? Here's how
Apple How to
How to take photos with an Apple Watch
We show how to take pictures or videos directly from your wrist, using your Apple Watch, using a paired iPhone or a dedicated camera strap
By David Price | 27 Nov 17
There have been rumours for years that Apple is going to add a selfie camera to the Apple Watch, but we're still waiting. (It may finally arrive with the Series 4 in 2018.) However, it is possible to take a photo with an Apple Watch using various workarounds.
Before explain these various methods, let's quickly check that you're not looking for how to take a screenshot on an Apple Watch, which is different; that captures a static image of whatever is on the watch's screen at that moment, rather than anything out in the real world. No? Okay then.
Use the Apple Watch as a remote viewfinder
The main way to take photos with an Apple Watch is to piggyback on the camera on a paired iPhone. The iPhone redirects whatever it can see through its camera to the Apple Watch's screen, and you can trigger the shutter from the watch as well.
This can be really handy for triggering group-shot selfies from further than arm's length - prop up the phone on a table (or use a tripod), walk back while checking the composition on your watch, and then snap when ready. The feature is also useful in situations where you don't want to take a photo, but just want to see on one device what another device can see, such as when checking the tops of cupboards for lost items or contorting yourself around the back of the TV trying to take a shot of its serial number.
Open the Camera app on your Apple Watch and it will automatically open the Camera app on the paired iPhone. When you're happy, either tap the white circle on the watch screen to take the photo, or hit the '3s' button to set a three-second delay. The delay feature is useful when you want to take - and be in - one of those group family photos we were talking about just now: it means you're not looking down at your watch when the shutter goes off.
This is one of the methods we discuss in our Apple Watch tips article.
Use a camera strap
Instead of piggybacking on your iPhone's camera, your Apple Watch can use a dedicated camera built into a watch strap. Unfortunately we've seen only one option, and it's not cheap (or easy to get hold of).
CMRA
Glide, the makers behind CMRA, have created an Apple Watch strap that features not one, but two cameras.
The CMRA was announced with the following specs:
Cameras: 8Mp outward-facing & 2Mp front-facing
Storage: 8GB internal memory
Connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 (it's likely to ship with a newer Bluetooth standard - potentially Bluetooth 5.0)
Charges through the dual charging dock and is splash resistant
Compatibility: All Apple Watches running watchOS 3 or later, and iPhone 5 or later running iOS 10 or later
As you can see, you won't be able to take your (water-resistant) Series 2 or 3 watch on a swim with the bundled CMRA strap. However, you do get an additional 8GB of internal storage - useful for taking photos and videos.
We expect the strap to be popular among those who are looking to add an extra edge with their Apple Watch. However, the CMRA is a mysterious product at the moment and not easy to obtain.
When we first wrote about it in autumn 2016 it was available to pre-order/back (with an estimated shipping in spring 2017) for $149, or roughly £110, via the CMRA website. The site indicated that the MSRP would be $249. But when we checked out and selected the UK as a shipping address, we were greeted with: "Sorry, CMRA isn't available in your country just yet. Please include your email and we'll notify you when we ship to your country."
And there have been significant delays since then. In an October 2017 video to backers, the company announced that shipping would be pushed back yet again, saying that it wanted to incorporate compatibility with the new features announced with the Apple Watch Series 3. Visitors to the CMRA Facebook page are unhappy, to say the least.
We've got in touch with Glide to see where things stand with availability now, and if the company has set up European distribution. But it appears that right now, if you want to purchase the CMRA, you have to be a US or Canadian resident or able to arrange for import, and very patient.
Note also that if you manage to pre-order the CMRA, you will also receive a $60 dual charging dock with your order. The strap comes in four separate colours: white, black, grey and blue.
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Epson Expression Premium XP-6100 printer review: Excellent results, compact...
Epson Expression Premium XP-6100 review
We test and rate the Epson Expression Premium XP-6100 for print speed, print quality, running costs and features, to see if it's a suitable printer for a Mac and/or iPhone owner
by Cliff Joseph | 26 Feb 19
Should I buy the Epson Expression Premium XP-6100?
We can't fault the XP-6100's quality - it produces excellent results with everything from simple text to high-quality portrait photos - and we also like its compact design and useful range of features. However, its running costs are a little high, which means the XP-6100 is best suited to occasional use.
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Epson Expression Premium XP-6100 full review
Epson makes an attractive range of 'small-in-one' printers that squeeze a multifunction printer, scanner and copier into a smart, compact design that's ideal for use at home. And, as its name implies, the Expression Premium XP-6100 is a top-of-the-range model providing an impressive range of features, along with an emphasis on high-quality photo printing.
The RRP listed on Epson's website is £120, but we've actually seen the XP-6100 on sale at various online retailers for as little as £79.95. That's a bit of a bargain for such a versatile, high-quality printer - and also helps to compensate for the relatively high cost of Epson's replacement ink cartridges.
In this article we review the Epson Expression Premium XP-6100 for design, features, print speed and quality, running costs and features, to help Mac (and to a lesser extent iPhone) owners decide if it's the right printer for them. For more general buying advice, see Best printers for Mac.
(US readers should note that this model is designed for the UK market. The equivalent model for the US is the XP-6000, which is also available from Amazon.)
Available in either black or white, the XP-6100 measures just 349mm wide, 340mm deep and 142mm high, so it's a good option for a home office or bedroom where space is tight.
Even so, Epson manages to include an impressive range of features, including a 1440 x 5760dpi colour printer and 1200 x 4800dpi scanner and copier. The printer provides both USB and Wi-Fi connectivity, along with support for Apple's AirPrint, making it a good option if you like printing selfies or other photos from your iPhone or iPad.
There are two paper trays built into the body of the printer, with the main tray holding 100 sheets of A4 paper, while the second tray is designed for glossy photo paper. It supports duplex (two-sided printing), and there's also a special tray that allows you to print on CDs and DVDs, so the XP-6100 really is suitable for a wide range of printing tasks.
Like most inkjet printers, the XP-6100 uses just four standard ink colours for printing photos and colour graphics - cyan, magenta, yellow and black - but it does take a slightly different approach here, as the printer actually includes two separate black ink cartridges. There's a standard black ink that's used for simple text documents, plus a special 'photo black' which is used to add crispness and contrast to, well, photos.
The photo black ink does seem to add definition, producing very bright, sharp images with our selection of test photos. It doesn't quite have the subtle graduated tones of a 5-colour printer such as Canon's TS8250, but our postcard prints definitely had stronger contrast than most conventional 4-colour devices. The XP-6100 is a good choice if you want to print high-quality photos, or maybe some eye-catching graphics for a school report.
Simple text documents look good too, with smooth, finely detailed text that can give a more expensive laser printer a run for its money.
The Epson won't keep you hanging around either. Epson quotes speeds of 16 pages per minute for mono printing, 11ppm for colour, and around 16 seconds for a 4x6in postcard print. We actually got 13ppm for mono printing and 9ppm for colour, but those speeds are still fast enough for most home users or small offices.
Our postcard prints were a little slower, taking around 35 seconds, but that's still pretty good for such high-quality prints.
Like many inkjet printers, the XP-6100 has a highly competitive up-front purchase price, but it stings you a bit with the cost of the replacement ink cartridges - especially as it uses that extra fifth ink for printing photos.
Calculating running costs is complicated, as all five inks are sold in both standard and 'XL' sizes. The black ink cartridges for text documents cost £14.49 and £22.99 for the standard and XL cartridges, but even with the 550 pages provided by the XL cartridge you're still paying around 4p per page for simple text documents, which is slightly above average.
The costs for colour and photo printing are a little better - but only if you buy the larger XL cartridges. The standard cartridges cost £11 each (so £44 for all four), which adds up to a hefty 13.7p per page. The XL cartridges are a whopping £73.46 for all four, but they last more than twice as long, bringing the overall cost per page for colour printing down to around 10.5p. That's on the high side of average, but still acceptable for a versatile, high-quality printer such as this.
Epson sells multi-packs containing all five ink cartridges, but the savings on these multi-packs are pretty small compared to the cost of buying individual ink cartridges. It's worth shopping around (try CartridgeShop or Printerland) to see if you can find better prices on the replacement inks.
We can't fault the quality of the Epson Expression Premium XP-6100, as it produces excellent results with everything from simple text documents to high-quality portrait photography. Its compact design is well suited for use at home, yet still manages to include a wide range of useful printing features (such as AirPrint), and it's pleasingly fast too.
However, its running costs are a little higher than average, which means that the XP-6100 is best suited to occasional use at home, rather than for churning out lots of documents every day.
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Maplewood Toyota Incentives
Current 2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid SUV Special offers
Get $500 finance cash when you buy RAV4 Hybrid!
Applies to select new 2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid.
Price does not include dealer doc fee of $100.00. The College Grad and Military Rebates are not included in these rebate offers.
$500 Finance cash from Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. for qualified, non-subvened finance contracts through Toyota Financial Services on the purchase of a new 2020 RAV4 Hybrid. Finance Cash must be applied toward the down payment on a qualified TFS finance agreement up to 72 months. Limit one Finance Cash per finance transaction. Customer must take delivery from dealer stock by 02-03-2020. Not all customers will qualify. Offer available only through participating Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Toyota dealers. Offer void where prohibited. Finance Cash offer may not be combined with any other offers except qualifying College Grad or Military Rebate. Toyota Certified Used Vehicles are not eligible for this Finance Cash offer. No cash payment will be made to consumer. See your participating Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin dealer for details.
College Grad Rebate: $500 rebate on select new untitled Toyota models when you finance or lease through a Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Plus, enjoy competitive APRs on all new untitled Toyota vehicles as well as Toyota Certified Used Vehicles and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles!
* College Graduate Rebate is available on all new and unlicensed Toyota vehicles. Toyota Certified UsedVehicles (TCUVs) and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles are not eligible for the Rebate Program.College Graduate Finance Program (which is not a rebate and instead offers competitive APRs andlease terms) is available on the lease or finance (including preferred option) of all new and unlicensedToyota models or on TCUVs or Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. Subject to the foregoing limits andrequirements below, the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program areavailable upon credit approval from and execution of a finance or lease contract through a participatingToyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all applicants will qualify. To qualify for theCollege Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program, customers must be currentlyenrolled in a graduate degree program from an eligible school (as defined below), or enrolled in or be agraduate from an eligible school and provide proof of graduation (showing an upcoming graduation withinsix months OR a recent graduation within two calendar years from the date of signing your vehicle leaseor finance contract) from one of the following eligible schools located in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico,or U.S. Virgin Islands: (a) an accredited four-year college, university or registered nursing program; OR(b) an accredited two-year college associate degree or an undergraduate academic degree as awardedby community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges and universities; OR (c) an accredited two-yeartrade or vocational school; OR (d) an accredited graduate school. In all cases, the student will have twocalendar years from receipt of their degree to take advantage of the program. Must provide proof ofqualification and any one of the following documents will be accepted: (a) copy of diploma; OR (b) letterfrom the college/university/trade school registrar’s office stating graduation date and type of degree orcertification earned; OR (c) copy of the final transcript confirming graduation date and type of degreeearned; OR (d) copy of current transcript (or letter from college/university registrar’s office) confirmingcurrent enrollment in a graduate degree program. Eligible customers must also meet credit approvalrequirements and furnish proof of present or future employment (which will begin within 120 days of creditapproval) when submitting credit application. Rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America. Rebate willbe applied on TFS lease agreements toward the amount due at lease signing or delivery or capitalizedcost reduction or the down payment on TFS finance contracts. Limit one rebate per lease or financetransaction. College Graduate Rebate Program may not be combined with the Toyota Military RebateProgram or iFi Program. Rebate valid on contracts executed between January 7, 2020 and March 31,2020 . College Graduate Programs are subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictionsapply. Programs are not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous inyour local area. Ask your participating dealer about the college graduate rebate terms in your area. Underthe College Graduate Finance Program, competitive APRs and lease terms are available on eligiblefinance contracts with terms up to specified number of months for retail and lease and preferred optionfinancing on new vehicles. See dealer for details. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Notredeemable for cash.©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved.Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC).TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust.
Military Personnel can get a $500 Rebate on new Toyota models.
$500 rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America and may be applied toward finance or lease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from January 3, 2018 through April 2, 2018. To qualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active duty status in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and active Reserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individual Ready Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a military veteran or retiree of the U.S. military within one year of their discharge/retirement date; OR a household member of an eligible U.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof of military status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses and payment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants will qualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or toward the Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment. Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible household member. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and the Lease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash.* $500 rebate offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and may be applied toward finance orlease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from January 7, 2020 through March 31, 2020. Toqualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active dutystatus in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and activeReserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individualReady Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a retiree of the U.S. military, OR a military veteran within two years of their discharge date; OR a household member of an eligibleU.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof ofmilitary status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses andpayment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or leasecontract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants willqualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or towardthe Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment.Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible householdmember. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and theLease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictionsapply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous inyour local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay salestax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. Toyota Financial Services is a service markof Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer forToyota Lease Trust.©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved. Toyota Financial Services is a service markof Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer forToyota Lease Trust.
Lease a new 2020 RAV4 Hybrid for only $289 per month for 36 months.
Price does not include dealer doc fee of $75.00. The College Grad and Military Rebates are not included in these rebate offers.
Lease a new 2020 RAV4 Hybrid (RAV4 LE Electronic-AWD 2.5L 4-Cyl. Hybrid) for $289 a month for 36 months with $2,999 due at signing, which includes first month's payment, $2,060 down payment, $0 security deposit and $650 acquisition fee. Does not include, taxes, license, title fees, insurance and dealer charges. Closed-end lease. Example based on model #4435 with FE, 2T. Total Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price $29,489. Monthly payments of $289 total $10,404. Capitalized cost of $26,283 based on down payment and dealer participation, which may vary by dealer. Payment may vary depending on model, equipment choice, and final transaction price. Lease-end purchase option is $19,758. Customer responsible for maintenance, excess wear and tear and $0.15 per mile over 12000 miles per year. To qualified Tier 1+ customers through Toyota Financial Services. $350 disposition fee due at lease end unless customer purchases vehicle or decides to re-finance through Toyota Financial Services. Subject to availability. See participating dealer for details. Offer ends 02-03-2020. Does not include College Grad or Military Rebate. ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled service for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. Offer valid in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Cannot exceed 12000 miles per year.
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NASDAQ:VRNS - Varonis Systems Stock Price, Forecast & News
Adding Varonis Systems Inc
Varonis Systems, Inc provides software products and services that allow enterprises to manage, analyze, and secure enterprise data. Its software allows enterprises to protect data stored on premises and in the cloud, including sensitive files and emails; confidential customer, and patient and employee data; financial records; strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. Read More…
Industry Prepackaged software
Current SymbolNASDAQ:VRNS
Webhttp://www.varonis.com/
Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A
Trailing P/E RatioN/A
Forward P/E RatioN/A
P/E GrowthN/A
Cash FlowN/A
Price / Cash FlowN/A
Price / Book20.06
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)($0.98)
Net Income$-28,570,000.00
Net Margins-21.42%
Return on Equity-49.47%
Return on Assets-17.97%
Market Cap$2.60 billion
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Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Varonis Systems' stock symbol?
Varonis Systems trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "VRNS."
How were Varonis Systems' earnings last quarter?
Varonis Systems Inc (NASDAQ:VRNS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 28th. The technology company reported ($0.16) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.34) by $0.18. The technology company had revenue of $65.65 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $61.61 million. Varonis Systems had a negative net margin of 21.42% and a negative return on equity of 49.47%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 2.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.06 EPS. View Varonis Systems' Earnings History.
When is Varonis Systems' next earnings date?
Varonis Systems is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 10th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Varonis Systems.
How can I listen to Varonis Systems' earnings call?
Varonis Systems will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 10th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.
What guidance has Varonis Systems issued on next quarter's earnings?
Varonis Systems updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Monday, October, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of (0.013-0.07) for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.09. The company issued revenue guidance of $70.5-73.5 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $79.62 million.
What price target have analysts set for VRNS?
15 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Varonis Systems' stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $97.00. On average, they expect Varonis Systems' share price to reach $79.08 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Varonis Systems.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Varonis Systems?
15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Varonis Systems in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Varonis Systems.
What are Wall Street analysts saying about Varonis Systems stock?
Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Varonis Systems stock:
1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Varonis Systems Inc. provides an innovative software platform that allows enterprises to map, analyze, manage and migrate their unstructured data. Its products include DatAdvantage, DataPrivilege, IDU Classification Framework, Data Transport Engine and DatAnywhere. The company sells its products to small and medium businesses, and large multinational enterprises in financial services, consumer and retail, industrial, healthcare, and energy and utilities industries. Varonis Systems Inc. is headquartered in New York. " (12/10/2019)
2. Robert W. Baird analysts commented, "We maintain our Outperform rating and increase our price target to $80. Varonis reported a significant acceleration in subscription mix in 2Q19 to 56% of license revenue from guidance of 25%. While this contributed to weak reported results, a faster-than-anticipated shift to subscription and greater adoption of the Varonis platform validates the new pricing model, drives a broader value proposition to customers and increases value to shareholders long term." (7/30/2019)
Has Varonis Systems been receiving favorable news coverage?
News stories about VRNS stock have been trending positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Varonis Systems earned a media sentiment score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Varonis Systems.
Are investors shorting Varonis Systems?
Varonis Systems saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,120,000 shares, an increase of 36.8% from the December 15th total of 2,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 249,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 12.5 days. Approximately 10.7% of the company's shares are short sold. View Varonis Systems' Current Options Chain.
Who are some of Varonis Systems' key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Varonis Systems include Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Black Knight (BKI), Guidewire Software (GWRE), PTC (PTC), UBISOFT ENTMT S/ADR (UBSFY), Mongodb (MDB), Alteryx (AYX), Momo (MOMO), HubSpot (HUBS), Dynatrace (DT), Anaplan (PLAN), Dropbox (DBX), Paylocity (PCTY), Trend Micro (TMICY) and Nutanix (NTNX).
What other stocks do shareholders of Varonis Systems own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Varonis Systems investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Okta (OKTA), Shopify (SHOP), Arista Networks (ANET), Square (SQ), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Paypal (PYPL), Micron Technology (MU) and salesforce.com (CRM).
Who are Varonis Systems' key executives?
Varonis Systems' management team includes the folowing people:
Mr. Yakov Faitelson, Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO & Pres (Age 44)
Mr. Guy Melamed, CFO & COO (Age 39)
Mr. James O'Boyle, Sr. VP of Worldwide Sales (Age 55)
Mr. Ohad Korkus, Co-Founder & Director (Age 40)
Mr. David Bass, Exec. VP of Engineering & CTO (Age 41)
Who are Varonis Systems' major shareholders?
Varonis Systems' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Kopion Asset Management LLC (0.38%), Mirador Capital Partners LP (0.02%) and Carroll Financial Associates Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Varonis Systems stock include David Bass, Gili Iohan, Guy Melamed, James O'boyle, Kevin E Comolli, Ohad Korkus, Thomas F Mendoza and Yakov Faitelson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Varonis Systems.
Which major investors are selling Varonis Systems stock?
VRNS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mirador Capital Partners LP. Company insiders that have sold Varonis Systems company stock in the last year include David Bass, Gili Iohan, James O'boyle, Ohad Korkus and Yakov Faitelson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Varonis Systems.
Which major investors are buying Varonis Systems stock?
VRNS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Kopion Asset Management LLC and Carroll Financial Associates Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Varonis Systems.
How do I buy shares of Varonis Systems?
Shares of VRNS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Varonis Systems' stock price today?
One share of VRNS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $85.26.
How big of a company is Varonis Systems?
Varonis Systems has a market capitalization of $2.60 billion and generates $270.29 million in revenue each year. The technology company earns $-28,570,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.98) on an earnings per share basis. Varonis Systems employs 1,460 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Varonis Systems.
What is Varonis Systems' official website?
The official website for Varonis Systems is http://www.varonis.com/.
How can I contact Varonis Systems?
Varonis Systems' mailing address is 1250 Broadway 29th Floor, New York NY, 10001. The technology company can be reached via phone at 877-292-8789 or via email at [email protected]
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Fear of France driving global markets
Jeff Horwich Aug 11, 2011
STEVE CHIOTAKIS: Major banks in France — the world’s fifth largest economy — are driving European markets lower this morning. With reports of possible bank runs and even an Asian bank cutting off lending to French financial institutions. What does that mean for Wall Street? And if European debt is what American investors are worrying about, who’s leading the global herd?
Here’s Marketplace’s Jeff Horwich.
JEFF HORWICH: As Americans, it’s tempting to think of the relationship between our stock market and its global counterparts in Asia and Europe like a dog wagging its tail. In truth it’s more like a dog chasing its tail: we watch them, they watch us, round and round we all go. Arturo Bris is a finance professor at IMD in Switzerland. He says most big invetors own shares everywhere. And tend to make the same moves around the globe.
ARTURO BRIS: That’s why we should expect the U.S. market to follow the European market and the reverse. However, in the current situation, we have already seen in the last days that this is not the case.
Well it may look like all of us around the world are freaking out as one global chorus, Bris believes the markets are acting volatile for their own reasons. In the U.S. it’s the S&P downgrade, in Europe, Bris says markets tanked yesterday when the French president called off his vacation.
BRIS: These volatilities are difficult to explain, because its driven only by investor sentiment, even when there is no news.
Historically, the U.S. stock market day sets the tone for the rest of the world. But Rob Carnell, chief international economist at ING, says important news about what’s debt issues in France and Italy, is shifting who’s influencing whom.
ROB CARNELL: The news flow is going to be increasingly driven by what’s happening in Europe. That should be reflected in U.S. markets later today.
Carnell says global markets tend to move over time. But on any given day, the dog can quit chasing its tail and start chasing the latest distraction thrown out by the news cycle.
TV CLIP: He is a good and strong master, and he made me this collar so I can talk — squirrel!
I’m Jeff Horwich for Marketplace.
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“The fact that you can see the words doesn’t make it a book,” argues Audible’s lawyer
by Athena Bryan
The saga of Audible’s Captions program continues! You can read up on our coverage of the debacle here and here.
Basically, the Big Five alongside Chronicle Books and Scholastic have joined forces in a lawsuit against Amazon’s audio imprint, Audible, citing that their new program, which runs text captions of audiobooks as readers listen, constitutes a copyright infringement to the publishers.
Publishers Weekly reports that the first hearing was held on Wednesday. Federal judge Valerie Caproni heard from Audible and the publishers’ attorneys over the course of a 90-minute session.
As we’ve covered previously, Amazon’s defense comes down to the fact that the captions only reveal themselves as the audiobook proceeds, and not stored in a way that readers can revisit them.
This was dispensed with quickly by the publishers’ lawyer, who argued that the issue was not whether or not the captions were a full substitute for a book, but that they provided a “reading experience.” Which sort of throws a wrench in all of the snarky jokes about “audiobook captions” being a fun and circular way of describing a “book” that we had prepared for this blog post, but let’s just keep going.
Andrew Albanese reports for PW that Judge Caproni was “mostly receptive” to the publishers’ case, which were not limited to the semantics about how one “reads” and “book,” but also included the arguments that Amazon was “seizing what should be a negotiated right to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors” and that the Captions program would “harm the market for books, e-books, and immersion reading; weaken rightsholders’ ability to license works in other markets; “devalue and cheapen” those rights by offering the feature as a free add-on; and finally “cause reputational harm to authors and publishers” with their shoddy transcriptions.
We really thought that last one was just a potshot that got tacked on for emphasis, but apparently Judge Caproni found it especially salient, particularly on the issue of granting a preliminary injunction (that is making Audible stop the program immediately).
Audible’s lawyers countered by noting “the product is good,” which only increases our suspicion that that last point was a personal dig that Amazon didn’t appreciate.
Audible’s lawyer then started getting into the weeds about what constituted “reading a book.” As you can probably tell, I particularly love covering that side of the case (“’What do you mean it’s not a reading experience?’ Caproni interjected. ‘It’s words.’”—no, I didn’t make that up.) But it seems that right now, the argument has come down to a decidedly less fun and meta question of if this should be a copyright or breach of contract case.
Basically, Audible is arguing that they have valid licenses with the relevant publishers, and those licenses are not being evaluated before the court right now, because it is being tried as a copyright case. Without evaluating those, this case is being pled and adjudicated improperly.
Like all things legal, this is a sneaky and devious argument that, at the end of the day, is also pretty boring, but it got some play from Judge Caproni, who was also thrown for a loop when she realized that not only has the program not yet launched, but it doesn’t even have an official launch date.
Why file a preliminary injunction and order someone to immediately cease doing something that they haven’t done yet? The publishers’ lawyer argued that if no preliminary injunction was on the table, this would translate to a “get of jail free card” for Amazon.
“I don’t have any get out of jail free cards. What I have is a chance card,” said Judge Caproni, who, frankly, seems pretty fun.
Caproni will deliver her ruling at a later date.
Athena Bryan is an editor at Melville House.
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'Overwatch' Developer Update: New maps, heroes and customization options coming in 2017
By Alex Perry
Overwatch shot its way into our hearts as one of the best FPS games of 2016 with its addictive character-based action and endearing characters, and the cast might get even more lovable in 2017 if those Terry Crews rumors pan out! But for more concrete information about the future of Overwatch, Blizzard posted a new Developer Update video to the game's official YouTube channel.
Much of the information in the video is vague and non-committal, but there's still some interesting information to be found. Here are the major new features coming to Overwatch next year.
Overwatch Developer Update: New heroes
More new heroes are coming to Overwatch! Game director Jeff Kaplan addressed the addition of new playable characters in the vaguest terms, promising that fresh ideas are being played with internally at Blizzard but there's nothing to report right now.
Kaplan did give some interesting insight into the process, mentioning that the development team is working on things that likely won't make their way into the game. He cites the cyborg ninja Genji as an example, as Genji was brought together from the remains of multiple characters who were cut before release.
Hopefully, the leadup to the next hero is less exhausting than it was last time.
Overwatch Developer Update: New maps
The new Oasis map has been in the Public Test Realm for weeks, but Kaplan confirmed it's on track for an early 2017 official release.
Other than that, there isn't much more to say about the state of the game's map rotation than there was about the state of its cast of heroes. Kaplan says the team is working on multiple maps (they feel pretty good about one of them) and even some more experimental game modes, but there's nothing concrete to report just yet.
Overwatch Developer Update: Customize the communication wheel
One of the smaller persistent problems Overwatch has had since launch is that the communication wheel (where players can activate emotes and voice lines) has had zero customization options. It's certainly not game-breaking for anyone, but a little flexibility is always welcome.
Kaplan confirmed in the developer update that more options are coming, and actually gave us firm details! Players will be able to set up to four voice lines and four emotes to the new communication wheel. They'll also be able to customize a spray wheel for the unlockable in-game graffiti. Up until now, players could only bring one of each of those things into battle with them.
Like everything else addressed in this video, this feature will come in 2017.
Overwatch Developer Update: Other minor changes
Kaplan addresses a few smaller things coming to the game in the video. First, he mentioned the need for more "surprising" seasonal events. Hopefully, we get some great Arbor Day skins out of it.
The developers won't make any grand balance changes to Sombra until the player base as a whole seems to have gotten a better handle on how to play as the toe shoes-clad hacker. Kaplan says the "mastery curve" for Sombra is a little high, so huge changes can't be made yet.
On the eSports side of things, Kaplan acknowledges the action can be a little tough to follow for spectators. One of the improvements he suggested was on its way is a map that will hopefully clearly outline what's going on in a match.
Finally, Kaplan hinted at a forthcoming server browser for custom games. This will help you find servers running matches with unique rules and restrictions as chosen by the server host, rather than forcing you to group up with your friends to do it.
You can watch the entire developer update video below.
More Overwatch news, updates, tips and tricks
For more on Overwatch, read Blizzard's response to the outcry over Mei's winter skin, read up on the latest rumors of a Terry Crews-voiced Overwatch character, check out all the updates in patch 2.01, read the fandom's reactions to that Zenyatta Nutcracker skin, uncover the hidden details in the Winter Wonderland event and check out all the other unlockable goodies you can earn for Overwatch's other characters.
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Findings confirm link between methimazole and risk for acute pancreatitis
Publish date: November 22, 2019
Kari Oakes
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REPORTING FROM ATA 2019
CHICAGO – A large Danish registry-based study has confirmed an increased risk of acute pancreatitis for patients taking certain antithyroid drugs.
After 6 months of methimazole use, the odds ratio for acute pancreatitis was 2.02, with a nonsignificant risk elevation for propylthiouracil use after a similar duration, Laszlo Hegedüs, MD, reported at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association.
“Ongoing methimazole, but not propylthiouracil, use is associated with an increased risk of acute pancreatitis,” he said.
Dr. Hegedüs, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Odense (Denmark), said that the European Medicines Association has noted postmarketing reports of acute pancreatitis in patients who received the antithyroid drug methimazole, as well as its prodrug, carbimazole. The agency has accordingly contraindicated antithyroid drug use for patients who previously experienced acute pancreatitis after receiving one of these drugs, advising that methimazole should be “discontinued immediately” should a patient develop acute pancreatitis.
However, investigation of the antithyroid drug–pancreatitis association had been limited to aggregating those case reports, so Dr. Hegedüs and colleagues decided to use Danish medical record and registry data to investigate the association in a nationwide, controlled study that looked at both duration of therapy and total antithyroid drug use.
During the period from 1995-2018, a total of 118,649 patients who used antithyroid drugs were found in the 5.5 million individuals in the Statistics Denmark registry. Dr. Hegedüs and his colleagues also pulled in patient registry and national prescription registry data, as well as civil vital statistics data.
Of those who used antithyroid drugs, 103,825 patients used methimazole, and 14,824 used propylthiouracil. The researchers found 43,580 instances of hospitalization for first-time acute pancreatitis in the pooled antithyroid drug data. Of those, however, just 226 (0.5%) occurred in patients using methimazole, and 19 (0.04%) in those using propylthiouracil at the time of pancreatitis onset.
To ascertain the risk of acute pancreatitis in patients using antithyroid drugs for various durations, Dr. Hegedüs and his colleagues used a case-crossover study design. In the case-crossover technique, patients served as their own controls, because each patient was both exposed and not exposed to antithyroid drugs at some point during the study period. Antithyroid drugs are well suited to this study design, explained Dr. Hegedüs, because they are given for a limited time. A case-crossover design can be used with a small sample size and effectively controls for potentially confounding variables.
The odds ratio for acute pancreatitis in methimazole users after 3 months of exposure was 1.51, with a 95% confidence interval of 1.12-2.02. After 3 months of propylthiouracil exposure, the odds ratio for acute pancreatitis was 1.16 (95% CI 0.46-2.3). At 6 months, the odds ratio of 2.02 for methimazole was similarly statistically significant (95% CI, 1.50-2.78), whereas the odds ratio of 1.40 for propylthiouracil use was not significant (95% CI, 0.58-3.34).
The researchers also wanted to find out whether the cumulative drug dose affected the risk of acute pancreatitis, so they drew from the antithyroid drug population to conduct a case-control study. Here, the investigators matched data from four control patients to each case of acute pancreatitis. The researchers also controlled for sex, age, comorbidities, and prior use of drugs associated with pancreatitis.
Overall, 20% of the 692 methimazole users and their controls were men, as were 16% of the 108 propylthiouracil users, in the case-control study.
Just more than half of patients overall had a total dose exposure of 200 to 1,200 defined daily dose (DDD) – a measure developed by the World Health Organization to denote the assumed average adult dose per day of a medication – with about a quarter of patients receiving a total antithyroid drug dose more than 1,200 DDD and about 20% receiving a dose exposure of less than 200 DDD. The risk of acute pancreatitis did not increase with increased total exposure to antithyroid drugs.
“There is no evidence of a cumulative dose effect of either methimazole or propylthiouracil on the risk of acute pancreatitis,” said Dr. Hegedüs. However, “the warning of the European Medicines Agency seems justified,” he added. “The frequency of acute pancreatitis in acute methimazole users is of a similar magnitude [to that] reported for agranulocytosis,” a known, dire complication of antithyroid drug use. Patients should be advised of the potential complication and informed of signs and symptoms of acute pancreatitis, he said.
Dr. Hegedüs noted that the study had the advantage of using validated epidemiologic methods to look at drug exposure and outcomes at a nationwide scale. However, the registries from which the data were drawn also have limitations. The investigators could not determine the severity of hyperthyroidism, he said, and the relatively rare occurrence of acute pancreatitis meant that there was not sufficient statistical power to look at the subgroup of individuals who had Grave’s disease and to compare them with those with nodular toxic goiter.
He advised conducting a confirmatory study in an independent cohort, as well as further investigating the yet unknown mechanism of action for the link between the antithyroid drug and acute pancreatitis.
Dr. Hegedüs reported that he had no relevant conflicts of interest and reported no outside sources of funding.
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SOURCE: Hegedüs, L. et al. ATA 2019, Short Call Oral Abstract 6 .
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Substrate-Related Factors Affecting Cellulosome-Induced Hydrolysis for Lignocellulose Valorization
PTO-QuickStep: A Fast and Efficient Method for Cloning Random Mutagenesis Libraries
Quantifying the Potential for Future Gene Therapy to Lower Lifetime Risk of Polygenic Late-Onset Diseases
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Directed Evolution of P450 BM3 towards Functionalization of Aromatic O-Heterocycles
by Gustavo de Almeida Santos 1, Gaurao V. Dhoke 1, Mehdi D. Davari 1 , Anna Joëlle Ruff 1 and Ulrich Schwaneberg 1,2,*
Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074 Aachen, Germany
DWI-Leibniz-Institut für Interaktive Materialien e.V., Forckenbeckstraße 50, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20(13), 3353; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20133353
Received: 5 June 2019 / Revised: 28 June 2019 / Accepted: 1 July 2019 / Published: 8 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Commemorative Issue to Celebrate the Nobel Success of Prof. Frances H. Arnold: Directed Evolution)
The O-heterocycles, benzo-1,4-dioxane, phthalan, isochroman, 2,3-dihydrobenzofuran, benzofuran, and dibenzofuran are important building blocks with considerable medical application for the production of pharmaceuticals. Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (P450) Bacillus megaterium 3 (BM3) wild type (WT) from Bacillus megaterium has low to no conversion of the six O-heterocycles. Screening of in-house libraries for active variants yielded P450 BM3 CM1 (R255P/P329H), which was subjected to directed evolution and site saturation mutagenesis of four positions. The latter led to the identification of position R255, which when introduced in the P450 BM3 WT, outperformed all other variants. The initial oxidation rate of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) consumption increased ≈140-fold (WT: 8.3 ± 1.3 min−1; R255L: 1168 ± 163 min−1), total turnover number (TTN) increased ≈21-fold (WT: 40 ± 3; R255L: 860 ± 15), and coupling efficiency, ≈2.9-fold (WT: 8.8 ± 0.1%; R255L: 25.7 ± 1.0%). Computational analysis showed that substitution R255L (distant from the heme-cofactor) does not have the salt bridge formed with D217 in WT, which introduces flexibility into the I-helix and leads to a heme rearrangement allowing for efficient hydroxylation. View Full-Text
Keywords: protein engineering; directed evolution; P450; monooxygenases aromatic heterocycles; hydroxylation; molecular modeling protein engineering; directed evolution; P450; monooxygenases aromatic heterocycles; hydroxylation; molecular modeling
Santos, G.A.; Dhoke, G.V.; Davari, M.D.; Ruff, A.J.; Schwaneberg, U. Directed Evolution of P450 BM3 towards Functionalization of Aromatic O-Heterocycles. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20, 3353.
Santos GA, Dhoke GV, Davari MD, Ruff AJ, Schwaneberg U. Directed Evolution of P450 BM3 towards Functionalization of Aromatic O-Heterocycles. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2019; 20(13):3353.
Santos, Gustavo A.; Dhoke, Gaurao V.; Davari, Mehdi D.; Ruff, Anna J.; Schwaneberg, Ulrich. 2019. "Directed Evolution of P450 BM3 towards Functionalization of Aromatic O-Heterocycles." Int. J. Mol. Sci. 20, no. 13: 3353.
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Recent Developments in Aortic Valve Replacement
Policymakers try to balance access, quality in TAVR
by Nicole Lou, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today August 08, 2019
A new era in aortic stenosis treatment is off to a messy start as debate continues over just how dispersed transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) should be throughout the U.S., following June's final ruling by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement new volume requirements for TAVR centers seeking reimbursement.
The urgency now to ensure access for everyone who needs TAVR without sacrificing quality by spreading cases too thin (in an area where operator experience matters) was renewed when March's PARTNER 3 and CoreValve Low Risk trials established the transcatheter approach as a safe and effective alternative to surgery for patients with aortic stenosis who are at low surgical risk.
June's CMS decision "ensures improved access to care for beneficiaries while supporting the continued evolution of this important technology in light of emerging evidence," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma in a press release announcing the new National Coverage Determination for TAVR.
Surgery is still the only means of aortic valve replacement at hundreds of hospitals.
One way the updated CMS requirements make it easier for institutions to take up or maintain a TAVR program is by cutting back on the number of procedures they need to do each year. Also eliminated is the old rule that two surgeons had to approve each TAVR case; this is to be replaced by heart-team decision-making.
But it's not all good news for small centers. Major professional societies -- including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons -- have proposed to organize valvular heart disease treatment throughout the country into a tiered system, similar to that of stroke and trauma treatment.
Level I centers are expected to perform all interventional and surgical procedures (including MitraClip and left atrial appendage closure) and house advanced imaging modalities, whereas Level II hospitals can offer at least transfemoral TAVR and SAVR.
This plan was seen by some as shutting out the competition from smaller hospitals and potentially exacerbating the touchy issue of access for people in certain geographic locations.
Nevertheless, "[w]ith the coverage decision and a green light for low-risk patients, the floodgates will soon open as more hospitals, especially smaller community hospitals, begin to perform TAVR," an interventional cardiologist and two surgeons from Banner-University Medicine Heart Institute in Phoenix, noted in a MedPage Today opinion article.
"While this is amazing news that will provide better options for patients, we have some concerns about the rapid growth of TAVR," they wrote.
"Better access to TAVR should not mean poorer quality. A strategy for better access and sustained quality is pairing new centers with sister organizations. Rather than going back to 2011 and reinventing an effective process, new centers can partner with sister organizations to consult and refer difficult cases to the higher-volume center," the group added.
In the meantime, operators and researchers continue trying to iron out the kinks in TAVR with new techniques (such as leaflet laceration to split valve leaflets) and redesigned devices.
Many already want to take things further by expanding the procedure to a wider population: Some are interested in whether TAVR works for aortic stenosis patients with bicuspid valves, while others ask the same question of those with aortic regurgitation.
Notably, though, TAVR devices for use in low-risk patients with aortic stenosis have yet to be approved by the FDA.
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Pizza Brain: Food, memorabilia and culture in Philadelphia
– December 31, 2012Posted in: Food, The Americas, Travel, Visual Arts
“Once in a generation comes a food that defines a generation…”
– The opening quote from a video screened at Pizza Brain in Philadelphia.
One visitor loomed large in the queues on opening day at Pizza Brain in Philadelphia.
(photo by Scott Miller / Meniscus Magazine)
Pizza is one of the most beloved foods on the planet. It displays remarkable versatility, pleasing kids and adults alike, ranging from simple and plain to fancy with any topping you can imagine. The rise in pizza’s prominence has been greatly helped by its surge in popularity in the United States, particularly over the last 50 years. Aided not only by its convenience and flexibility but also its wonderful melding of foods we love, pizza has become a part of the greater culture. In fact, you’ve probably had a slice this month. More than nine out of 10 Americans have. As it has grown in popularity it has continued to evolve and become more available — everywhere. Whatever your favorite type of pizza, be it Chicago deep dish, brick oven pizza, apizza, a more classic Italian style or an adventurous Korean bulgogi and sweet potato pizza, you surely have experienced or at least witnessed the craze. But although pizza has been around for more than a century in the U.S. and has many many fans, there hasn’t been a place to celebrate it. . .until now.
Pizza Brain is not just another one of the 70,000 or so pizzerias in the States, it also is the home to a museum of pizza culture. In fact, Guinness World Records recently certified that Pizza Brain has the largest collection of pizza-related memorabilia in the world. In anticipation of Pizza Brain’s opening in September, the previously unasked question became, ‘How has there not been something like this until now?’
In the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, four friends made the dream of a pizza museum a reality. As the opening ribbon cutting ceremony approached, crowds waited in the streets, hoping to get the museum’s first pizza slices fresh from the oven. Someone in a large pizza costume greeted those in line. Inside, all sorts of exhibits lined the wall, featuring items such as pizza-themed products, records with pizza on the cover and movie posters including pizza. Sharing the space, Little Baby’s Ice Cream even had pizza ice cream for the occasion (not bad, if you like the combination of sweet and salty flavors).
And things were just getting started. Soon a pizza-crazed flash mob blocked the street as angry city bus drivers watched on, unamused by the cardboard pizza slices held high. Although I know not everyone is this crazy about pizza…and that to some people it has become perhaps too common, overly available thus diluting the quality, one thing is clear– pizza does hold a special place in the hearts of many and pizza mania now has a place to call home.
The one theme that these record covers share? Pizza, of course.
The best accessory to listen to those pizza record tracks converted to MP3s? Why, with these retro Pizza Hut headphones.
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rick·ety | \ ˈri-kə-tē \
Definition of rickety
1 : affected with rickets
2a : lacking stability or firmness : shaky sense 2a a rickety coalition
b : in unsound physical condition rickety veterans rickety stairs
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Recent Examples on the Web Director Alexandre Aja and screenwriters Michael and Shawn Rasmussen jump into the action almost immediately, then keep escalating the danger in a rickety old house gradually being torn apart by wind, water and snapping beasties. — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, "Ravenous alligators are loose in a flooded basement in ‘Crawl’: What could possibly go wrong?," 12 Oct. 2019 Reaching the area required a two-hour plane ride on a rickety aircraft, which landed in an empty meadow. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, "SpaceX launches satellite that will bring internet to isolated island nations," 16 Dec. 2019 Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman to earn a pilot’s license, thrilling crowds by performing dangerous maneuvers in a rickety airplane and representing, literally, the heights that African-Americans could attain. — New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Bessie Coleman, Pioneering African-American Aviatrix," 11 Dec. 2019 This in turn may demand new laws that reboot America’s rickety antitrust regulators. — The Economist, "Tackling America’s giant hospital bill," 23 Nov. 2019 By the end of the evening, people had abandoned their rickety folding chairs and little plastic cups of wine to boogie with abandon. — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "The Heavy, Meditative, and Tender Music of Les Filles de Illighadad," 11 Nov. 2019 The place was filled with rickety antiques, Victorian tapestry settees, heavy draperies, Civil War memorabilia and lamps converted from the kind that once burned oil. — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, "‘French Refreshed’ offers lessons in pared-down sophistication," 14 Nov. 2019 With no proper emergency response plan for natural disasters, local rescuers used rickety wooden dhows to reach trapped people while helicopters provided by the U.N. plucked people from rooftops. — Abdi Guled, Twin Cities, "Somalia struggles after worst flooding in recent history," 14 Nov. 2019 There always seemed to be a group of boys and girls hanging out on the rickety porch or front yard. — oregonlive, "Beatings, burglaries, murder: Teens terrorized N. Portland for months, neighbors say," 2 Nov. 2019
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: in poor condition and likely to break Just below them, hugging the shore, rose a village of thatched huts, with a small, rickety pier, boats on the sand, and nets spread for mending.— Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat
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Bestial Holocaust – Into the Goat Vulva
In the last little while, Latin America has adopted the thrash metal genre more than any other area in the world. Sure, there’s a slew of new thrash metal bands from America like Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Bonded by Blood, but the adopting of thrash metal in South America has spawned a real cultural underground movement especially in Brazil and Colombia, where our band in question hails from. Bestial Holocaust is a blackened thrash band from Cochabamba that aims to throw its own name into the mix. The problem is, with all the new names popping left, right, and center, a half mediocre album like Into the Goat Vulva may easily get lost in the mix
The album kicks off strong enough, a great riff plods on and the heads starts banging, but after a little while you realize it’s the same riff is going on…and on. It’s not even part way through the first song and I can already foresee problems: repetitive riffs and indecisive genre switching. Every time I see a multi-genre band I shudder thinking about what crucial elements they ditched in order to get their particular mix of sounds. Not all bands can do it, but it’s clear by looking at bands like Eluveitie, Burn to Black, and Amon Amarth that it is possible to take the best from one genre and infuse it with another. However, since the results are so rarely successful it leads me to believe that most times they are better left apart, such as in the case of Into the Goat Vulva. While it may sound like a case of musical eugenics (and I’m not about to argue it’s not) it’s really about preserving the best traits of strong musical genres and keep them from being watered down attempts that in the end harm the artist’s product.
I can only assume that Bestial Holocaust was aiming for somewhere grand, like an extreme version of Show No Mercy. But, instead they landed somewhere near Possessed‘s Beyond the Gates and all its muddy horror. Unfortunately, Bestial Holocaust dropped the ball on most of the occasions. The riffs on this album are for the most part generic thrash riffs muddied up so that they sound blackened. And while I don’t believe it’s indicative of the Bestial Holocaust‘s skill, the sub par guitar playing does nothing for the songs and actually hinders the somewhat decent songwriting by the rest of the band. Unfortunately, there’s not that much that a listener can take away from this album; the riffs are bland, the bass is absent, and the drums disappear as soon as thing get fast. If it’s thrash they’re after, I need to hear the double bass, I need to hear definition. Otherwise, go with straight black metal.
On the off time though, Into the Goat Vulva displays that it can work as an album; there are times in tracks like “Sacrificio” that the band gets into a mid tempo groove reminiscent of Hell Awaits. “Virgin Lust” is one of the few stand out tracks and showcases a band that isn’t all bad, but either uninspired or not yet matured in their abilities.
There’s clearly several things on this album that did not work and unfortunately, until Bestial Holocaust can concentrate on creating a more solid and moving sound, all future releases will be marred by the same mistakes. And in the end, while the intent was wholehearted, the poor execution for one reason or another kept Into the Goat Vulva from being a success.
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Sports games are games in which players control either players or managers of a real or fictional sports.
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Virtua Tennis Challenge
iPhone (2012), Android (2012) and iPad (2012)
Virtua Tennis: World Tour
PSP (2005)
In the PSP entry of SEGA's arcade tennis series, you can play tournaments against professional players, practice in exhibition matches...
VirZoom Arcade
Windows (2016) and PlayStation 4 (2016)
Visiomatic 101
Dedicated console (1977)
Visiomatic 101 is a dedicated console with the appearance of a plastic suitcase. The suitcase houses the console's electronics and...
Viva Soccer
Windows (1998) and PlayStation (1999)
Viva Soccer is the first game to allow a player to take part and re-write history in all Football World...
VMU Football
Dreamcast (1999)
The first exclusively-downloadable Dreamcast VMU game, made available on the Dreamcast Network in September 1999, is a remake of the...
CD-i (1994)
Voetbal is an encyclopedia about soccer and its statistics that includes two games.The encyclopedic part narrates the history of soccer,...
Volley is a sports game loosely based on volleyball. Two blob teams (either consisting of one or two blobs) try...
Apple II (1981) and Atari 8-bit (1981)
Volleyball is a 2-player arcade volleyball game for the Apple II.There are two servers on the far sides of the...
Odyssey (1972)
Volleyball is one of six add-on games released for the Odyssey in 1972. It comes with game card #7, which...
NES (1986), Wii (2007), Wii U (2014), Arcade (1986) and Nintendo Switch (2019)
Volleyball is an action game for one or two players. Choose a country to represent, choose a men's or women's...
Volleyball!
Odyssey 2 (1979)
While the packaging promises "an electronic simulation so real you can even spike a shot", this is in fact a...
Volleyball Simulator
DOS (1988), Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989), Commodore 64 (1987) and Amstrad CPC (1989)
Volleyball Simulator is, probably not entirely surprising, a game about the sport volleyball. The game features full six-athlete teams and...
Volleyball Unbound: Pro Beach Volleyball
Windows (2016)
Volleyball Xciting
Volleyball Xciting is a very arcade-like and light volleyball experience for those not looking for that ultra realistic feeling many...
Volleying
Linux (2018) and Windows (2018)
Volly is a Pong variant for two players, simulating a game of tennis. Two players bounce a ball back and...
Volly: Power-Play
Volly: Power-Play is a Pong variant for two players, simulating a game of ice hockey. Two players bounce a ball...
Volo Airsport
Linux (2014), Windows (2014) and Macintosh (2014)
VR Baseball
VR Baseball 2000
VR Baseball 2000 is an MLB-licensed baseball sports game. It includes the official 1999 MLB rosters and stadiums for each...
VR Baseball '97
PlayStation (1997)
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VRFC: Virtual Reality Football Club
VR Golf '97
PlayStation (1996) and SEGA Saturn (1996)
Actua Golf is a golf simulation with full 3D terrain and characters. It comes with two courses to play at...
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Critic Score
Top games by as rated by the press:
94 NFL 2K1
94 International Superstar Soccer 64
93 Trials Evolution
93 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
93 Tecmo Super Bowl
93 NFL 2K
93 Links 386 Pro
92 World Soccer: Winning Eleven 7 International
92 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Games must have at least a Critic Score of 80 to be considered.
MobyScore
Top games as rated by our users:
4.83 ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)
4.73 Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium (1996)
4.51 Action Soccer (1995)
4.50 Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Simulator (2006)
4.46 Smart Games Puzzle Challenge 2 (1997)
4.43 Backyard Hockey (2002)
4.42 Punch-Out!! (2009)
4.39 Links LS: 1998 Edition (1997)
4.38 Mario Tennis: Power Tour (2005)
4.33 Mario Tennis (2000)
Games must have at least 5 votes and a User Score of 4.0 to be considered.
Basic Genres
Sports is part of Basic Genres. This group of genres contain:
DLC / add-on
Strategy / tactics
"Reticulating splines."
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Bee plant
Ox's tongue
Borage may be helpful for rheumatoid arthritis, but there is no evidence that it can treat menopausal symptoms, depression, dermatitis, or other serious medical conditions.
Borage seed oil contains the omega-6 fatty acid known as gamma-linolenic acid. GLA is also produced naturally in the body and thought to have anti-inflammatory activity. Borage also contains mucilage, a sticky mixture of plant sugars, which can act as an expectorant to produce phlegm in patients with coughs. Borage has been promoted for rheumatoid arthritis, skin inflammation, diabetic nerve pain, menopausal symptoms, and gastrointestinal issues, but research shows only moderate support for its use to relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.
Although it has been suggested as an alternative source of GLA to evening primrose oil, borage seed oil can have toxic effects on the liver and its chronic use should be avoided, especially by patients with liver disease or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
To reduce inflammation and pain associated with arthritis
Some clinical trials support this use.
As an expectorant and to treat coughs
In a small study, a borage extract improved some asthma symptoms, including cough. Additional studies are needed.
To treat depression
No scientific evidence supports this use.
To treat dermatitis
Two clinical trials do not support its use for skin inflammation such as atopic dermatitis.
To ease menopausal symptoms
Borage oil products should be certified free of toxic compounds called unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (UPAs), at least no more than 0.5-1 microgram of UPAs per gram of borage oil. The German Federal Health Agency recommends that consumption of UPAs should be limited to no more than 1 microgram daily.
You are pregnant or breastfeeding: Borage may cause birth defects, premature labor, or a blood disorder in infants known as blue baby syndrome.
You have liver disease: Borage oil may have small amounts of a compound that causes toxic liver effects.
You are taking drugs that can cause liver toxicity (eg, anabolic steroids, ketoconazole): Borage contains small amounts of compounds also known to be toxic to the liver.
You are taking blood thinners (eg, warfarin): Borage may increase bleeding risk or the effects of these drugs.
You are regularly taking NSAIDs (aspirin, AdvilTM, or cox-2 inhibitors): In theory, NSAIDs can reduce the effects of borage oil.
Occasional headache, abdominal pain, nausea, belching, and loose stools.
Possible liver damage may occur if taking borage oil for prolonged periods of time.
Continuous seizure activity: In an otherwise previously healthy 41-year-old woman, with short-term use (1 week) of borage oil.
Near-fatal poisoning, caused by mistaken plant identity: Borage was confused with the toxic plant foxglove, causing accidental poisoning in an otherwise healthy 58-year-old woman.
Blue baby syndrome: Multiple cases in Spain clearly linked this infant blood disorder to ingestion of borage, which was tested as a purée and is high in nitrates. Other factors that caused this syndrome included breastfeeding. Infants are unable to process large amounts of nitrates.
Borage oil products should not be used unless they are certified free of unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (UPAs) such as amabiline, which can damage the liver. Risk of liver damage increases with length of exposure and cumulative dose.
Borage plants during non-flowering seasons can be easily confused with foxglove, which is toxic.
Borage oil, derived from the seeds of the plant, is a rich source of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and linoleic acid (LA). In herbal and traditional medicine, borage oil has been used to induce sweating, as an expectorant and anti-inflammatory, to promote lactation, to stimulate adrenal function, and as an alternative source to evening primrose oil for obtaining GLA (13). It has also been promoted to treat rheumatoid arthritis, atopic dermatitis, diabetic neuropathy, menopause-related symptoms, and gastrointestinal disease (14) (15).
In vitro and in vivo studies suggest antimutagenic, cytotoxic, and chemopreventive effects (16) (33). In an animal model of senile osteoporosis, a diet rich in borage or fish oils reduced inflammation and improved bone parameters (17). Borage extract consumption improved markers of disease-induced cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s models (18).
In humans, studies show that GLA from borage seed oil has some benefits in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (7) (9). A long-term study evaluating fish and borage seed oils in RA patients at increased risk for cardiovascular disease suggest these may be useful to correct dyslipidemia when used either alone or in combination (19). Other analyses suggest moderate evidence of GLA-containing oils including borage oil for the relief of RA symptoms such as pain intensity and disability without increased adverse events, but adequate dose and treatment duration are unknown (20), and there was not enough available evidence to support their current use in RA management (21).
In a preliminary double-blind trial, a borage extract improved the clinical findings of moderate asthma, but not related inflammation (34). In patients with mild asthma, a combination of seed oils from borage and echium (a plant rich in linolenic acid) produced anti-inflammatory effects (24). In patients with early-stage type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome, this combined supplementation significantly lowered total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels (25).
Studies are mixed on the effect of borage oil for skin conditions such as atopic eczema (11) (12) and infantile seborrheic dermatitis (5). Several analyses indicate that neither evening primrose oil nor borage oil are effective in treating atopic eczema, with improvements being similar to respective placebos (22) (23).
Borage oil contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are hepatotoxic (26). Risk of hepatic damage increases with length of exposure and cumulative dose consumed. Patients should use borage oil certified free of unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Borage should not be used during pregnancy or when breastfeeding (27) (36).
Chest congestion
The anti-inflammatory properties of borage oil have been attributed to its high GLA content (16). It also contains other fatty acids including linoleic, oleic, palmitic, stearic, eicosenoic, and erucic acids (28). GLA can be converted to the prostaglandin precursor dihomo-gama-linolenic acid (DGLA). DGLA can block the transformation of arachidonic acid to leukotrienes and other prostaglandins (10). GLA can increase cAMP levels which suppress the synthesis of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, an inflammatory mediator linked to rheumatoid arthritis (9). The mucilage constituent has an expectorant-like action and malic acid has a mild diuretic effect. The tannin constituent may have mild astringent and constipating actions (3).
In vitro, a borage oil formulation demonstrated inhibitory effects on alpha-amylase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes 1,4-alpha-glucoside bonds in oligo- and polysaccharides, which is the first step in digestion of dietary starch and glycogen (29). In animal models, borage oil improved amyloid-beta-induced long-term potentiation disruption in the hippocampal dentate gyrus, providing a neuroprotective effect attributed to the scavenging of free radicals (18). Borage-enriched sunflower oil counteracted pro-inflammatory mechanisms and prevented senile osteoporosis, by inhibiting osteoblast-induced osteoclast formation (17).
In human studies, dietary supplementation with borage and echium seed oils produced anti-inflammatory effects in mild asthmatics by altering polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) levels and by attenuating leukotriene production (24).
Although aerial parts of borage demonstrate affinity for the serotonin transporter, its toxicity profile precludes its further development as an herbal drug (30). Borage contains several minor constituents known as pyrrolizidine alkaloids which are hepatotoxic, including amabiline, supinine, lycopsamine, intermedine, acetyllycopsamine and acetylintermedine (26) (31). Borage oil also has teratogenic effects, and its prostaglandin E agonist action may cause premature labor (9).
Borage contains small amounts of unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (UPAs) that are hepatotoxic. Consumption of 1–2 g of borage seed oil daily can result in a UPA intake approaching 10 ug. The German Federal Health Agency specified consumption of such products should be limited to no more than 1 ug of UPA daily. Borage oil products should be certified free of UPAs (meeting the criterion of no more than 0.5-1 ug/g) (2).
Liver disease: Patients with liver problems should avoid this product.
Pregnancy or breastfeeding: Borage may have teratogenic effects, or cause premature labor (9) or infant methemoglobinemia (36).
Occasional headache, abdominal pain, nausea, belching, and loose stools (20) (21).
Possible hepatotoxicity following chronic administration.
Status epilepticus: In an otherwise previously healthy 41-year-old woman with no family history of epilepsy, associated with borage oil ingested over 1 week (14).
Near-fatal poisoning, caused by mistaken plant identity: In an otherwise healthy 58-year-old woman. Borage was confused with foxglove (Digitalis spp.), which is toxic, causing this case of accidental ingested poisoning (35).
Diet-induced infant methemoglobinemia: Multiple cases from a long-term case-control study in Spain were clearly linked to borage, which are high in nitrates, and was tested as a purée. Other factors included breastfeeding and proximity between time of preparation and use (36).
Hepatotoxic drugs (eg, anabolic steroids, ketoconazole): Borage contains low concentrations of unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids also known to cause hepatotoxic effects (13).
Anticoagulants (eg, warfarin): In a small study of humans on several months of supplementation with y-linoleic acid from evening primrose oil, a significant increase in bleeding time was observed in 9 of 12 patients (37). By extension, caution should be taken with borage for a potential interaction, as borage oil is approximately 25% GLA, while evening primrose oil is about 10% GLA (38).
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): Theoretically, concomitant use would decrease the effects of borage oil, as NSAIDs interfere with prostaglandin E synthesis (9).
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Pullman-Mooar S, et al. Alteration of the cellular fatty acid profile and the production of eicosanoids in human monocytes by gamma-linolenic acid. Arthritis Rheum 1990;22:1526-33.
Kast RE. Borage oil reduction of rheumatoid arthritis activity may be medicated by increased cAMP that suppresses tumor necrosis factor-alpha. International Immunopharmacol 2001;2197-99.
Belch JJ, Hill A. Evening primrose oil and borage oil in rheumatologic conditions. Am J Clin Nutr 2000;71(suppl):352S-6S.
Henz BM, et al. Double-blind, multicentre analysis of the efficacy of borage oil in patients with atopic eczema. Br J Dermatology 1999;140:685-8.
Takwale A, Tan E, Agarwal S, et al. Efficacy and tolerability of borage oil in adults and children with atopic eczema: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group trial. BMJ. 2003 Dec 13;327(7428):1385.
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Tasset-Cuevas I, Fernandez-Bedmar Z, Lozano-Baena MD, et al. Protective effect of borage seed oil and gamma linolenic acid on DNA: in vivo and in vitro studies. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56986.
Wauquier F, Barquissau V, Leotoing L, et al. Borage and fish oils lifelong supplementation decreases inflammation and improves bone health in a murine model of senile osteoporosis. Bone. Feb 2012;50(2):553-561.
Zargooshnia S, Shahidi S, Ghahremanitamadon F, et al. The protective effect of Borago Officinalis extract on amyloid beta (25-35)-induced long term potentiation disruption in the dentate gyrus of male rats. Metab Brain Dis. Feb 2015;30(1):151-156.
Olendzki BC, Leung K, Van Buskirk S, et al. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with marine and botanical oils: influence on serum lipids. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011;2011:827286.
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Ogemaw
Ogemaw County NEMCSA Services & Programs
Services pregnant women and children 0 - 3 and their families
Comprehensive child development and early educational services (health, nutrition, family support services)
Head Start / Great Start Readiness Programs (GSRP)
Preschool education program for children 3 - 5 who come from low income families
Provides education, social services, health / dental, nutrition, mental health, and disability services to participating families
School Success Partnership
What Does the School Success Program Do?
A School Success Liaison will meet with the parent(s)/guardian, child, teachers, and school administrators to develop and create a plan for student success. These plans address all areas of concern and include intervention strategies for school and home. School Success Liaisons make weekly student contacts and bi-weekly contacts with parent(s)/guardian, teachers and other community resources. The program is designed to link families with resources and coordinate services when needed. Click here to find out more.
What is the Purpose of the Area Agency on Aging?
The purpose of the Region 9 Area Agency on Aging is to plan, coordinate and develop a comprehensive service delivery system for the elderly within its planning and service area. Some of the many programs under Region 9 are Community Based Care Services, Evidence Based Disease Prevention Services, Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, The Medicare/Medicaid Assistance Program (MMAP), Volunteer Services and many more. Click here to find out more.
Housing & Client Services
What Does the Housing & Client Services Division Do?
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) provides food to low-income families. Distributions are in February, May, August & November.
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) provides food to low-income seniors age 60 or older. Distributions are monthly.
Home Weatherization
The Weatherization Program can install energy efficient measures to help reduce the energy usage of households. Households must income qualify.
The Rental Housing Assistance Programs can provide case management and financial assistance (rent, security deposit and other supportive services) to homeless households and households at risk of homelessness.
Utility or Deliverable Fuel Assistance
The Crisis Prevention Program assists with paying shut off notices or paying for deliverable fuels (such as wood, fuel oil & propane). The program is available to households that income qualify and meets the program guidelines.
Foreclosure & Homebuyer Programs
Forclosure Assistance
Financial Capability Program
Self Sufficiency Program for Northeast Michigan
Family Self-Sufficiency
In addition to the many services and programs that NEMCSA provides to Ogemaw County residents, there are a multitude of other resources available. You can view additional resources here.
Michigan 2-1-1 connects people with community resources and information.
CLICK HERE for access to Michigan 2-1-1.
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Tech Mahindra commits to sustainability to drive business profitability
Aims to leverage technology-enabled green solutions to tread on the path of responsible growth
Tech Mahindra has announced its commitment to sustainability to drive business profitability. The company has undertaken a thoughtful and comprehensive program to reduce its absolute scopes 1 and 2 GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions 22% by 2030 and 50% by 2050, from a 2016 base-year.
Tech Mahindra aims to leverage technology-enabled green solutions to tread on the path of responsible growth and is actively engaged in various smart cities projects to undertake a modernisation drive.
CP Gurnani, managing director and chief executive officer, Tech Mahindra, said, “Sustainability is a long-term issue that will require decades of persistence. At Tech Mahindra, we are committed to pursuing plans that will have long-term impacts on the communities and will lead to a balance between sustainability and overall business profitability”.
As a responsible business entity, Tech Mahindra concentrates on integrating sustainability into all aspects of the business and develops strategies for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Governance.
Tech Mahindra was acclaimed a Leader in Dow Jones Sustainability World Index 2019 for the fifth consecutive year. It is one of only 3 companies from India to be included in the DJSI World Index, one of the twelve Indian companies in the Emerging markets category and amongst the top 6 companies globally in the “IT services & Internet Software and Services” segment. S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) is the gold standard for corporate sustainability and the first global index to track sustainability efforts among corporates.
Sandeep Chandna, chief sustainability officer, Tech Mahindra, said, “We, at Tech Mahindra, take great pride in driving measures that focus on managing social and environmental impacts, improving operational efficiency while ensuring that corporate decisions lead to equitable growth. Our inclusion in the DJSI World Index ranking for the fifth consecutive year is a validation of our continued efforts to make sustainability not just a business case, but an imperative for long term growth.”
Tech Mahindra also secured 94 percentile score, the highest Gold CSR Rating – 2019 by EcoVadis for Sustainability. EcoVadis is a globally trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools.
Tech Mahindra has taken ambitious emission targets, which have been approved by the SBTI (Science based Targets Initiative) . Some of the other sustainability initiatives include reducing water and energy consumption across buildings, waste reduction, using renewable sources of energy for power generation, achieving carbon neutrality, making supply chains sustainable, and employee and customer engagement.
With a structured stakeholder programme, Tech Mahindra has been able to design strategies and initiatives to build solutions, which not just improve its sustainability credentials but reinforce the overall business philosophy too.
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The 10 best free Twitter apps for Android
Sigh…I miss TweetDeck. Nevertheless, these apps are still very good indeed.
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Ever since Twitter capped the number of users any third-party Android app at 100,000, it seems unwise to commit actual money toward a Twitter app whose future is so uncertain. So if you’re unhappy with the official software – and plenty of people are – you’re probably best off with one of these free options.
Formerly “Touiteur,” before Twitter cracked down on naming rights, Plume is a pleasant, functional and reasonably attractive Twitter client that offers a generally more pleasant experience than the clunky official app.
Carbon routinely wins praise for being the prettiest Android Twitter client out there, and the visual design is, indeed, striking. A recent overhaul fixed some of the problems with what could be, at times, a somewhat unintuitive UI, but beware – Carbon has apparently run up against the dreaded 100,000-user limit, so you’ll either have to find some way around the problem.
Seesmic has been around for quite some time, and it remains a solid choice, particularly if you’d like some Facebook with your Twitter. The interface is a little dated, but the core functionality is responsive and easy to use.
Ubersocial is a lot like its fellow oldie-but-goodie Seesmic, only more so – the interface is even more bare-bones, but the functionality is great, with in-built Facebook and Gchat integration and lots of other third-party stuff. There’s even a fairly extensive photo editor buried in there.
The choice of the power user, Falcon Pro is the most prominent app yet to run afoul of Twitter’s token policy. Rather than sit back and shut down, however, developer Joaquim Vergès offered an ingenious, if shady and complicated work-around, detailed here by Android Police. It’s pretty great, across the board, if you’re willing to do the dance.
This one’s for the open-source crowd – Twidere is that too-rare free app that doesn’t pack in the ads and in-app purchases or skimp on functionality. It’s not half bad to look at, either, although the UI still seems grounded in the Ice Cream Sandwich era.
This is a little bit more of a specialized inclusion, but the serious-business social media users out there should look no further. Hootsuite is designed with a lot of features to cater to the professional Twitter crowd, like tweet scheduling and analytics.
In contrast to Hootsuite, Tweedle is aiming for the slimmed-down, simplified end of the market – users that just want an attractive UI that lets them handle the basics in an intuitive way. At this, it succeeds completely.
The venerable Echofon doesn’t really stand out from the crowd any more these days, but that’s OK – it’s still a completely workable alternative to something like Plume or the official app. Plus, it’s got cross-platform sync, so you can stay up to date on the same platform, if you’re a Mac or iOS user as well.
Branches is a sort of Zen Twitter app, with a highly simplified interface and an innovative system that groups “noisy” users’ tweets together into a single entry, resulting in a “quieter” timeline. For a certain school of Twitter user, Branches might prove highly attractive.
Email Jon Gold at jgold@nww.com and follow him on Twitter at @NWWJonGold.
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Historians seek missing prison gas chamber keys
Keys made by prison locksmith in 1930s disappeared during private tour
Historians seek missing prison gas chamber keys Keys made by prison locksmith in 1930s disappeared during private tour Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/missouri/2014/06/08/historians-seek-missing-prison-gas-chamber-keys/10211095/
Jefferson City News Tribune Published 7:58 p.m. CT June 8, 2014
A housing unit at the Missouri State Penitentiary is shown June 26, 2003, in Jefferson City. The prison closed in 2004 but is now open seasonally for public tours.(Photo: AP file photo)
JEFFERSON CITY – During a private tour not long after the Missouri State Penitentiary closed its doors a decade ago, the original keys to the prison’s gas chamber mysteriously disappeared.
Prison historians hope that by taking their search for the keys public — along with details about why they are important — someone will come forward with them.
The keys, individually cut by the prison’s locksmith in the 1930s, were present at all 39 executions at MSP, the Jefferson City News Tribune reported Sunday.
Based on information from a former prison locksmith, no back-up sets were made, said Mark Schreiber, a prison historian and former deputy warden.
The prison closed in September 2004. The keys were last seen during a private tour hosted by local historians in 2005, the newspaper reported. A group of more than 100 was divided into two groups, and the first tour guide left the keys in the door for the second guide.
Within a few minutes, the keys disappeared. Schreiber said he and another tour guide searched the gas chamber’s roof and grounds and surrounding buildings without finding them.
“Somebody has the keys somewhere,” Schreiber said.
More than a piece of history, the keys still are needed for a functional use, he said.
With repairs and maintenance continuing inside the prison, workers eventually had to cut through locks to gain access to the holding cells in the gas chamber.
They keys on a soldered ring are not labeled as the “gas chamber,” but instead simply say “admin keys 17.”
Without their return, the original locks may have to be replaced or welded so they no longer latch.
“Our hope is with public awareness we will get the keys back,” Schreiber said. “The locking mechanisms are part of the structure’s history.”
The three most important keys on the gas chamber ring are to the front door and the two holding cells inside. Those would have been used to open the building to a minimum of 25 witnesses and staff for each execution.
Returning the missing keys would be a show of respect for the history that has occurred at the gas chamber and all of the MSP, Schreiber said.
“We have not forgotten they’ve been gone since 2005,” he said.
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Youth Physio Leading Charge For Charity
Notts County’s youth team physiotherapist Tom Jenkins took home the gold medal in the Nottingham Sport Relief 10K.
As part of the Sport Relief Games, Tom took on the race to raise money for people living unimaginable tough lives here in the UK and across the world.
Tom completed the race in an impressive time of 40 minutes and 33 seconds and is still looking to raise money for the charity.
He said: “Winning the race was an added bonus but the reason was all to raise money for a great cause.
“I would be ever so grateful if you could give anything you have spare that really could make a difference to the lives of others.”
To sponsor Tom, visit http://my.sportrelief.com/sponsor/tomjenkins.
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Nova Scotia Construction Industry Goes Digital with Mobile Devices
Nova Communications is lending a hand to the Nova Scotia construction industry to help improve productivity, accuracy and safety at construction sites across the province through the use of mobile digital devices.
The program – a first of its kind in Canada – provides members of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council with a verity of digital mobile devices, including ruggedized tablets, mobile computers, scanners, wearable computers and two way radios.
Members are able to migrate to paperless processes, including scanning of site materials inventory, incoming shipments, electronic delivery of receipts with stylus signatures, on-site employee and sub-contractor time tracking, ordering of materials and job scheduling directly from hand-held computers.
The technology helps streamline processes, reduce labour overhead, and improve accuracy and timeliness of information.
For more information, please refer to the article below.
Source: The Chronicle Herald
N.S. Construction Industry Finds Going Digital A Good Fit
TRURO — Chris Curtis knows the cost of making changes on a work site or when a paper invoice goes missing.
That’s why Curtis, of Atlantica Mechanical Contractors Inc., is excited about a new industry-led project examining the application of digital devices to improve efficiencies and productivity on construction sites.
The Functional Information Technology project is the first of its kind in the country, said Trent Soholt, executive director of the Nova Scotia Construction Sector Council.
The idea comes from a study in 2006 that looked at the use of information technology in the workplace, Soholt said. The study showed that while technology is being used to some degree at construction sites, there were noticeable gaps, particularly when it comes to getting information back and forth between the job site and a company’s main office.
On Tuesday, the project, which already has industry funding, received a further boost. With the construction site of the Central Nova Scotia Civic Centre in Truro serving as a backdrop, area politicians announced $98,000 from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and about $210,000 from the province towards the technology project.
A variety of devices that use touch screens, styluses or keypads are already on job sites in the hands of foremen and supervisors. They’re designed to take a pounding, be used while the operator is wearing gloves and can be strapped to a wrist, worn around the neck or several other options.
“The momentum has been phenomenal,” said Soholt. “Being able to manage their time, manage their resources more effectively is key.”
The devices can help manage everything from schedules, to safety records, to digital communications and provide digital copies of building plans.
Paperwork can be a major issue for contractors, said Curtis. Atlantica is working on the civic centre project and also did work across the street at the new Colchester East Hants Health Centre. Some of their workers have been able to test the new equipment.
Lost invoices and packing slips can cost companies as much as $250,000 a year in interest payments, said Curtis. Keeping track of inventory on expansive work sites or making changes to drawings and then ensuring everyone has updated copies can also be cumbersome.
With a digital work flow, everyone involved in a project gets real-time updates and changes can be made right away. Inventory can now be scanned much the way couriers scan mail. The result is less time lost on the job as workers wait for changes to come down from the office.
“If we can take that (wait) from hours to minutes, the cost savings are huge,” said Curtis. “If that happens once, it will happen a thousand times in that (job site).”
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LMS 2P 4-4-0
Has anyone considered the possibility that maybe the Midland was right with its policy of frequent short trains? Look at today's railway...
Post by: Cartman, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:32 PM in forum: Steam Traction
BR Locos that are still overseas
Yes, one of the Belgian 0-6-0s was scrapped in about 2002. Here's a question, the American 2-6-0s which were used by the Midland, GN and GC for a...
If all we had were 2MTs on heritage lines, it would be like the real railway where virtually every Loco you see is a 66.
Why an Oban bogie 4-6-0? As far as I know the Caley 4-6-0s were poor tools, apart from the Rivers, who h they bought from the Highland. A bit like...
I like the C2X, the big boiler gives it a powerful, no nonsense look. On the 4Fs, 2968,was the Stanier mogul not considered for further orders as...
Post by: Cartman, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:23 PM in forum: Steam Traction
The ROD locos on the LMS were faced with some pretty extensive route restrictions, I think they were barred from more or less the whole of the LYR...
Post by: Cartman, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:14 AM in forum: Steam Traction
Pacers: The End
What about the 3rd rail on Merseyside? Are they allowed to work on those sections?
Post by: Cartman, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
Despite all the dislike of them expressed on here, I think that if it hadn't been for pacers, quite a lot of rural routes in the North would have...
Marples and Beeching
Still think Marples is quite possibly the only man in the whole of world history who was even more bent than Sepp Blatter
Post by: Cartman, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
Leaders.....
Yes, an oil storage plant was built at Rose Grove but the scheme was abandoned before a single drop of oil was ever delivered to the shed and it...
Usually somewhere between a quarter of a mile and half a mile long
The troughs on the LYR Calder valley line were at Luddenden foot, near Halifax, and I've read that the track here wasn't quite level, it was a...
The LYR and LNWR both managed to get some on their hilly Trans Pennine routes. The LNWR ones were inside Standedge tunnel, which was the only...
Why did the Southern never have water troughs? I can understand the Brighton and maybe SECR not having them as they didn't have any particularly...
I think it incorporated too many untried ideas in one go, sleeve valves, for example, they had been tried before on the Paget Loco on the Midland,...
Steam Locomotive Restoration of the Decade 2010-2019
If we are including railcars, the Cravens class 105 on the ELR.
All that was needed were LMS 2-6-4 tanks, which the Southern got after nationalisation
Anyone know if the Pacer Preservation group which has been running for a few years has got one picked out?
Post by: Cartman, Dec 30, 2019 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
LNWR locomotives
It pretty much was that on the 2-6-2 tank, the Stanier version was just a reboilered version of the existing, unsatisfactory Derby design. A few...
Post by: Cartman, Dec 28, 2019 in forum: Steam Traction
There was a huge amount of animosity between the two biggest constituents, the Midland and LNWR. The North Western was the bigger (slightly) of...
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Butcher Babies, Dead in 5, and Assault Inc. at Frankie's Inner City in Toledo, OH on 11-May-2015
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Ferns Ferns are abundant in Manchester Cedar Swamp in Manchester, New Hampshire. © Eric Aldrich/The Nature Conservancy
Manchester Cedar Swamp
Giant rhododendron and lush ferns are abundant at this urban preserve
New Hampshire’s largest city isn’t where most of us think of going to explore nature. But nature abounds here at the 640-acre Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve, the largest conservation area in the city—providing residents and visitors alike with opportunities for a peaceful escape, outdoor recreation and nature study close to home.
Curious visitors who follow the preserve’s easily accessible and well-maintained 1.8-mile trail system will find shady hemlock groves, giant rhododendron patches and the globally rare Atlantic white cedar swamps that are the preserve’s namesake. Mingling in are black gum, another long-lived tree species that occurs in the Manchester Cedar Swamp wetlands. Some of these trees are over 450 years old.
When you’re down on the boardwalk in the cedar swamp, the stillness and sense of solitude can feel like a remote wilderness. Amazing to think that in 10 minutes’ time you can be off the trails and in downtown Manchester getting ready for your next adventure!
This preserve is open to foot traffic only. Please leave your pets at home. Thank you!
<p>Hiking, snowshoeing and bird watching are fun activities at this preserve. There are also citizen science opportunities here including Picture Posts and iNaturalist.</p>
The preserve is in the Hackett Hill section of Manchester, on the west side of the Merrimack River.
From Interstate 93, take Exit 10 and head south on West River Road (a.k.a. Front Street).
Go about 1 mile (crossing the town line from Hooksett into Manchester) and turn right (west and north) onto Hackett Hill Road.
Go 0.7 miles and turn left (west) onto Countryside Boulevard.
Go about 0.5 miles to where the road starts to curve right.
You'll see the trailhead and sign on the left.
The parking area will be on the left.
Manchester Cedar Swamp Map and Guide (.pdf)
A large portion of Hackett Hill, including parts of what is now our preserve, was slated to be UNH’s Manchester Campus. Plans were drawn up and funding approved to start construction. Roads, granite curbs, underground power, parking lots and lighting were all installed. Before classroom construction began however, the state decided to relocate the campus into the old mills along the Merrimack River. The Hackett Hill improvements remain to this day, creating a ghost town feel.
After the relocation of the campus, Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve was protected through an innovative settlement agreement in 1999 between the City of Manchester, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Under the agreement, the City of Manchester agreed to establish a $5.6 million Supplemental Environmental Projects Program in order to do environmental restoration and protection projects. In exchange the City was allowed to phase in stormwater control improvements to remove combined sewer overflow into the Merrimack and Piscataquog rivers.
The city allocated $2 million for protection of rare wetlands with a goal of preserving the globally rare Atlantic white cedar swamp and giant rhododendrons located in the Hackett Hill area. The cedar swamp is among the biggest and best quality in the state and was located in an area of several hundred acres of undeveloped land. The EPA asked The Nature Conservancy to own and manage these special lands because of our biodiversity mission and land management expertise. We received 350 acres from the City of Manchester in August 2001 and another 252 acres was added to the preserve in 2002 and 2003. In April 2015, we once again partnered with the City of Manchester to add another 40 acres - known as "the thumb" - to the preserve.
You can hike through 1.8 miles of trail that includes three loop trails through the cedar swamp, white pine and red oak woodlands, and giant rhododendron thickets. The cedar loop trail leads you through a small section of the cedar swamp where you’ll see Atlantic white cedar, giant rhododendron, winterberry, cinnamon fern, and a large black gum tree. The rhododendron loop trail leads through several thickets of giant rhododendron which are in full bloom in June. You can also walk along the wetlands of Millstone Brook which is a great place to see wetland birds like great blue herons and common yellowthroat warblers and wildlife like deer, mink, and beaver. The trails are also perfect for snowshoeing in the winter!
Trail rating: Easy
Enjoy the Preserve Responsibly:
• Leave No Trace—please keep the preserve clean by carrying out your trash (and any that you find).
• No camping or open fires allowed.
• Please, for your safety and the protection of this globally rare ecosystem, stay on marked trails.
• Foot traffic only; horses, bikes and motorized vehicles are prohibited.
• Pets are not permitted; help us protect wildlife on the preserve and be respectful of other hikers by leaving your pets at home.
• Hunting is allowed on the preserve, except within 300 feet of the trail. Please obey all posted signs and contact NH Fish & Game Department for dates and regulations.
• Respect the natural world around you! Do not remove or destroy plants, wildlife, minerals or cultural items.
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Legislative Research Librarians
Newsline Newsletter
Volume XXII, No. 1
Chair's Column
Tentative Annual Meeting Agenda
Preview: Professional Development Seminar
ASI - Frequently Asked Questions
Coordinators' Corner
News from the States
NCSL Publications
by Jonetta Douglas, Iowa
LRL Chairperson
This issue of Newsline contains information about LRL at Annual Meeting and the Professional Development Seminar. Thanks to Evelyn Andrews and Susan Zavacky in Pennsylvania for all their early efforts at planning our October meeting. Thanks also to Clare Cholik for covering all of the sessions at LSCC in San Antonio.
Participants in the LRL Staff Section are being encouraged to come to ASI meetings. Please see the ASI article. Included in this Newsline mailing is a copy of the 1998 LRL Directory. Thanks to regional coordinators for submitting the updates.
Speaking of regional coordinators, LRL is losing Jennifer Boteler, Idaho Legislative Reference Library. She is moving to Washington State in May. We'll miss her prompt and thorough responses to requests and her enthusiastic participation in LRL activities. She would like to continue as a regional coordinator until PDS in October. Thank you and best wishes, Jennifer.
Awards to be presented at Annual Meeting are the LRL Notable Documents Award and the Legislative Staff Achievement Award. Two LRL committees are considering nominations. Please contact Deb Priest in New York about Notable Documents and Nancy Quesada in Texas about Staff Achievement. Here's a look at our Annual Meeting schedule. Sure hope you can join us in Las Vegas!
LRL at Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada-July 20-23
4:15pm-5:30pm LRL Panel Discussion
"Librarian Duties Outside of the Library"
6:00pm-7:00pm LRL Reception
8:00am-9:30am "Public Information, the Internet and Technology"
12:00noon-1:30pm Legislative Staff Luncheon
9:45am-11:45am "Thomas Jefferson"
(Joint with RACSS, LSSS and LSS)
12:00noon-1:30pm LRL Staff Section Lunch
10:15am-11:45am LRL Business Meeting
2:15pm-5:00pm Tour and Demonstration
James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, including the Gaming Resource Center
Professional Development Seminar
by Evelyn Andrews, Pennsylvania Senate Library
The PDS will address many of the topics members are interested in learning about. On Thursday morning we will hear from a panel on "The Pennsylvania Legislative Process: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Thursday afternoon our speaker will be Renee Cardoza Lopinski on "Your Professional Image - You're a state worker and a Librarian!!!" and now you have to participate in casual days! Out with the sensible shoes and on with the flip flops. Friday we will be addressed by Genie Tyburski, a "cybrarian" on "Legal Research on the Internet." Genie will discuss research techniques and criteria for analyzing the sites for accuracy. Friday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Archives and Records Retention Offices will tell us about the latest techniques for records management.
by Clare Cholik, South Dakota
The Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee met January 23 and 24 in conjunction with the Executive Committee. The committee devoted much of its time to the work of the three task forces.
The Outreach and External Communication Task Force is focusing on how NCSL can provide new legislative employees with information on the organization and what it can do for them soon after they begin their jobs. In an effort to accomplish this task, they are contacting those in the legislative agencies who handle personnel issues to get an idea of how best to provide NCSL information in each state.
The Communication and Coordination of Professional Development Task Force has divided into subcommittees to work on several issues. One subcommittee is looking into the possibility of staff certification for legislative staff. Another is examining and gathering input from those who have attended the Legislative Staff Management Institute and the seminar for legislative staff executives held last December. A third group is working with members of the Communication through Technology Task Force in an effort to develop a multi-media interactive presentation to promote NCSL.
The Communication through Technology Task Force reviewed the continued progression of the NCSL web site. The subcommittee focusing on standards for legislative information on the internet has discussed this issue via conference call with legislative employees from several states and will continue to gather information from other states. The committee also spent time discussing the multi-media interactive presentation as described above.
On January 24, Anne Walker, Staff Chair of NCSL, called a meeting of those members of the LSCC who represent staff sections. The group discussed ways in which staff sections could join together to sponsor professional development seminars. Several of the staff sections have already co-sponsored seminars, and for the most part, they have been successful. Participants in this meeting agreed that combining efforts is worthwhile not only in terms of the possible financial savings, but also because of the interaction it allows among the staff sections. It became evident, however, that some staff sections would likely never be able to work with some of the other staff sections because of a wide variance in the amount of support they seek from outside sources.
Assembly on State Issues (ASI)
What is ASI?
ASI is one of two committee structures used by NCSL to serve its members. Unlike the other committee structure (the Assembly on Federal Issues, which directs NCSL's lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.), ASI membership is open to legislative staff. ASI serves as a major forum for the exchange of ideas and information among state legislatures. It allows legislators and legislative staff to benefit from the experiences of other states in shaping public policy, experimenting with new laws, and managing the legislative institution.
How does ASI accomplish the goal of sharing ideas and information?
ASI holds three meetings each year, providing an exchange of information through timely and relevant work products and through networking opportunities for legislators and legislative staff.
How is ASI structured?
Eight ASI committees focus on different topic areas, including Arts and Tourism; Children, Families, and Health; Communications and Information Policy; Criminal Justice; Education; Fiscal, Oversight, and Intergovernmental Affairs; Legislative Effectiveness; and Science, Energy, and Environmental Resources. There is also one task force: the Redistricting Task Force.
Do I have to be appointed to a committee or task force to participate in ASI meetings and activities?
No! ASI meetings are open to all legislative staff, regardless of committee membership. Staff interested in the issues addressed by ASI are encouraged to attend all meetings.
What can I expect from an ASI meeting?
ASI meetings have a structure similar to that of the NCSL Annual Meeting and staff section training conferences. Two plenary sessions addressing topics of wide interest are usually held while concurrent sessions are held on a variety of topics relevant to each committee or task force.
I need more information. How can I get it?
Additional information about ASI is available through NCSL's home page (www.ncsl.org), including information about each of the committees, a list of officers, committee work products, and information about upcoming meetings. You can also contact NCSL's Vicky Rodriguez at (303)364-7700 or e-mail Vicky Rodriguez. Jennifer Noyes, ASI's current Staff Chair, can also answer any questions you may have. You can reach her at (608)266-2818 (the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau).
News for this column is gathered by a dedicated team of coordinators who call and fax to libraries and librarians in their regions to get the latest news and ask preassigned questions that interest all of us.
The questions for this issue were:
In addition to your duties as librarian, do you have any other legislative assignments, such as committees, bill drafting, etc.)?
What is your policy regarding service to the general public? Does it differ during session as opposed to the interim?
Coordinator JENNIFER BERNIER, Connecticut Legislative Library
Pam Schofield, Massachusetts State Library
My job is as Legislative Reference Librarian and I am part of the reference staff here. I have no other legislative assignments.
The State Library of Massachusetts is a state agency (under the executive as opposed to legislative branch) of government. It is a government research and law library and serves as the public law library for Suffolk County. Although we extend direct borrowing privileges to state employees only and not to the general public, anyone can use the library. We are open all year, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 to 5:00 (closed legal holidays). Although many of our main users are legislators and their staffs and committee staff as well as other state employees, we have many attorneys, paralegals, lobbyists, scholars, and members of the general public who frequent the collection. We, of course, extend borrowing privileges through interlibrary loan to those who do not work for the state.
Paul Donovan, Vermont Law Librarian
No other legislative assignments.
We serve the general public identically as we serve the legislature, in session or out.
Lynn Randall, Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library
I am the Legislative Records Officer and coordinate records management in the Legislature with the Maine State Archives. I assist legislative offices in developing record series descriptions and retention schedules and in transferring records to the Records Center or the Archives for permanent preservation.
We combine a state law library and a legislative reference bureau, so some requests are not directly related to the work of the Legislature. By statute, we serve the citizens of Maine, and our goal is to provide the very highest level of service that we can without providing legal advice. That doesn't change during the legislative session, but legislative requests always have top priority. Requests from citizens from all over the state are welcome at any time of the year.
Susan Southworth, Connecticut Legislative Library
One part of the library's responsibility to leadership is to keep track of their appointments to legislative task forces, commissions, and councils. This is a cumbersome task, about which I would enjoy speaking with others with like responsibilities. It's about the only direct interaction we have with leadership, so I am interested in continuing this relationship while maintaining the list accurately and efficiently.
We have to be open to the public, although we do not advertise that fact. With our small staff, we need to utilize our time giving service to our primary clientele, both in and out of session. In addition, the state library, across the street with its far larger resources and Law and Legislative Reference Unit of five and a half reference librarians, is quite able to assist most public questions as well if not better than we. We are, however, very free with those portions of our collection not generally available elsewhere (usually that amounts to OLR reports).
Coordinator CLARE CHOLIK, South Dakota Legislative Reference Library
from Clare
I staff the House and Senate Education Committees during session. This mainly involves drafting amendments for education bills during committee hearings and at other times. I was hesitant to take this on at first, but it has actually worked out pretty well in all respects. The best part of it is that I get to witness first hand my research work being put to use, and I think librarians need that once in awhile.
Our library is open to the public. They can use our resources at any time, and I am always happy to help them get started in their research. However, if they need further assistance, I provide it only as time permits. All requests from legislators and legislative staffers come first. The policy does not differ depending on whether or not the legislature is in session. I do, however, have much more time to assist the public during the interim than I do when the legislature is meeting.
Beth Furbush, Montana Legislative Library
My main additional responsibility is closely related to library work, I am responsible for records management oversight for the Branch. This is becoming especially interesting as we try to merge four formerly independent agencies and as we try to get a handle on electronic filing and archiving.
The public is always welcome to use our library resources and we provide general guidance as time permits without taking on research projects. We do (for a minimal copy charge) copy materials such as committee minutes when they are not available elsewhere. We occasionally circulate items to the public during non-session times, but through experience have learned to avoid letting any crucial materials go out of the office. During session we do a great deal of outreach to the public to help them understand the legislative process.
Marilyn Guttromson, North Dakota Legislative Council
During session, the research librarian takes on the additional task of indexing substantive entries in the daily House and Senate journals. Library staff also works very closely with the committee clerks. A major component of that relationship means collecting minutes, testimony and tapes to begin the process of preserving and accessing legislative history records. The library assistant spends much of her time during the early days of session working with the Legislative Council's legal and fiscal staff on the fiscal note process. Grass don't grow on a busy street.
The question about serving the general public reminds me of an attorney for the Secretary of State who wandered into the legislative library years ago. Without a word, he sat at the round study table, laid his head down, then muttered: "I hate the general public." The distraught man's assignment involved drafting a response to a citizen's concern over the number of rusty grills in North Dakota parks and the danger they posed to pregnant women. We ran the argument up the flagpole that rusty grills provide a good source of iron, but it didn't fly.
In or out of session, we try to accommodate even general public-hating attorneys. As a rule, library staff never leave a request for a legislative history record on their desks overnight. Request in, response out the same day. We try to reach that goal even during session, staying until the task is complete. While the legislature works, we usually prod attorneys from executive branch agencies to do their own legislative intent research. We also frequently ask members of the general public to assist even in minor ways like doing their own photocopying. The truth is that during the days we are in session, there is a lot of directing, pointing and referring!
Marilyn Cathcart, Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Library staff participate in the management and development of the Minnesota Legislature web site.
The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library is open to the public at all times. However, public users may not check materials out of the library except through interlibrary loan via another library. Public users must use a pay copier to make photocopies. Since our primary clients are legislators and legislative staff, requests from those people take precedence over the public users, but we always try to help everyone to the extent that time permits.
Anne Christensen, Nebraska Legislative Reference Library
The Nebraska Unicameral houses its own bill drafting and indexing offices. The Nebraska Legislative Reference Library assists these offices with general information requests, as well as assisting the Legislative Research Division with interim study research. The library also conducts some limited research for legislative staff.
The Nebraska Legislative Reference Library is considered a special library in the sense that its collection is defined by its users and their needs. Users in this setting include senators and legislative and division staff. The library is not open to the general public other than to provide copies of very specific legislative documents.
Coordinator MARIAN ROGERS, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau
from Marian
Although we do not have any legislative assignments, the index librarians are responsible for publication of the Indexes to Legislation throughout the legislative biennium. Other legislative responsibilities include publication of the Index to Clearinghouse Rules and Directories to Lobbyists and Lobbying Principals.
Our library is open to the general public at all times.
Taran Ley, Illinois Legislative Research Unit
Similar to the research staff, the Legislative Research Unit librarians also write research reports for the legislators and their staff. The reports include general correspondence letters and more in-depth research responses.
Unless a member of the public is referred to us by a legislator, we will generally help with only minor matters and refer them to an appropriate state agency. This policy does not change, whether during session or the interim.
Elaine Harrison, Library of Michigan
We do not have additional legislative assignments. However, we assist in training for use of various electronic resources.
The Library of Michigan is a large special library with many special collections, and because of these collections, our service policy for the general public remains constant during and between sessions. Our two team structure (Legislative and Special Collections) enables us to maintain services for the public at the same level year round.
Anne Rottmann, Missouri Legislative Library
We respond to requests from the general public, but requests by the members of the General Assembly and staff take precedence. If a request requires a lot of photocopying, we may turn it down because we do not charge for copies. Obviously during the interim we have more time to respond to requests from the public and in a more timely way.
Debbie Tavenner, Ohio Legislative Service Commission
In addition to running the library for the Legislative Service Commission, I am the records retention officer, physical disaster coordinator for the office, and assignment clerk and coordinator for the digest of enactments. The library staff respond to research requests when the topic does not require a subject specialist or attorney.
The library is not open to the public unless this is the only location that owns an item. When I get a call or a visitor from outside the legislature, I try to be of assistance, but usually must direct them elsewhere.
Coordinator TRACEY KIMBALL, New Mexico Legislative Council Service
from Tracey
The principal non-library assignment in New Mexico is editing some of the session-related publications of the Legislative Council Service, such as The Voting Record of the Legislature and Veto Messages of the Governor. Other duties as assigned include being liaison for the state publications distribution program and responding to the rich variety of surveys and questionnaires from publishers, other legislative and state agencies, and students. (I could call some of this reference work but often its just going back to the person who dumped it on us and writing down their answers.) During the session we log in amendments for the print shop and provide occasional back-up for opening and distributing legislative request files.
We are open to the public (telephone, fax, and e-mail requests, as well as walk-ins) but provide restricted photocopying and faxing services compared to services for legislators and legislative staff. Having lost floor space and shelves with the last office remodeling, we currently have just one chair for visitors but expect to recoup some workspace for the public in the next office remodeling. Material is not checked out to the public, although we rarely circulate anything to legislators in their home districts either. Legislators and legislative staff requests usually have priority during the interim and always during session.
Dale Steele, Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records
The library has no non-library duties. At one time the state library had a Legislative Reference Bureau with responsibilities for assisting with the drafting of legislation, but we now serve the legislature by providing research assistance to members, staff, and other legislative agencies. The department is also the state library.
We serve the general public, although providing service to the legislature gets highest priority because the department is a legislative agency. We do not restrict services to the public during session. At most, we may ask a client to leave a computer workstation if it is needed for research by or for legislative staff.
Dolores Lanier, Colorado Legislative Council
Librarians work on Senate confirmations, boards, and commissions. Other jobs include working on amendments, planning conventions and meetings, staffing committees and providing statistics for leadership on committee workflow. We even planned for the dedication service of a stained glass window.
The general public can use the library, but we prioritize questions to do legislative members and staff questions first, then all others.
Susan Gilley, Oklahoma Legislative Services
In addition to our duties as legislative librarians, the two of us daily provide a total of six hours of public reference assistance in the law library. Some questions are legislative in nature, others are completely law related. We also deal with a lot of people who confuse us with legal aid. We have a mandate to track and report creation, termination, and changes to agencies, boards, and commissions by the legislature and the governor. This report must be distributed within 30 days after the end of the session. In order to prepare the report by the deadline, we add to our session activities the reading of all enacted legislation, including the repealer sections of bills.
The legislative library is administered by the state library, so we serve not only the legislature, but also the executive and judicial branches, as well as being open to the public. We allow public access to the law collection and to the legislative reference subject vertical files, and refer users to additional sources of information. We also provide assistance to public users, including instruction in the legislative process (practically a full time job!), in using particular resources, and in using our library. Materials circulate to only elected officials and state employees but may be photocopied. Vertical file materials are rarely checked out except to the legislative branch. Service is provided 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday, session and interim. Legislative librarians give priority and extra attention to legislative requests, including constituent requests routed through members or staff. Nevertheless, we estimate that approximately 75 percent of library users requiring assistance are members of the general public and such reference assistance consumes about 50 percent of our time.
Nancy Quesada, Texas Legislative Reference Library
We do not have extra duties outside of our library functions. However, as part of our library responsibilities, during the legislative sessions, we have the library staff assigned to each chamber to track the actions on all of the legislation, and they are present in the chambers for all sessions "from gavel to gavel."
We are located in the capitol and open to the public. We answer telephone (and occasionally fax and e-mail) reference questions from the public. Members of the general public may not borrow materials from our library, but may borrow materials from the state library, located in the building next to us. We have an open stacks arrangement and a coin-operated photocopy machine. We also have computers available for public use and printed copies of all current legislation (paper bill files). Our policies do not change during the sessions.
Coordinator JOYCE GRIMES, South Carolina Legislative Council
from Joyce
We have only one librarian, and two part-time students: law clerk and M.L.I.S. graduate assistant. My duties as librarian are varied and at times seem to involve my business education more than my library education. I truly enjoy the work, especially being of help to my patrons.
(a) With the part-time assistance of college students, the library distributes a large number of statute mandated publications. Some of these publications are the code, revisions and annual supplements, annual acts and joint resolutions, annual bound journals of the House and Senate, and The Supreme Court advance sheets and Reports. Mailing lists are maintained by the librarian.
(b) The library sells additional codes and supplements to statute-mandated entities. This task requires implementing inventory controls and maintaining funding accountability.
(c) Over the years, select documents have been mandated by statute to be filed with the Code Commissioner. The library serves as the official filing repository for these documents.
(d) Estabish data bases for library support.
(e) Promote public relations opportunities.
Our foremost directive is to serve and support the members of the General Assembly and their staffs. When a request is received from the general public, it is evaluated for complexity and for the amount of time required to reply. In my conversations with the public, if I am unable to provide assistance with the research, I direct them to a resource and give them a contact name. Most of the questions received via telephone, fax, or web can be handled by directing the requestor to their local county library if the request is from within state. The legislature provides to each county library a set of the codes, annual supplements, journals and acts. If it is an out of state request, and the information is available from our web site, I'll direct them to the web site. Fortunately, we have a good legislative web site that provides an easy search protocol. Having worked all three branches of government helps me to respond to requests. Usually by the time an individual gets to the legislative library, they are at "wits end." I try to help the individual through the maze of bureaucracy. It is my objective to provide a competent answer to the question. If I am unable, I strive to provide an alternate quick competent source. If it's an instate person, I ask for the name of their elected legislator so that I can alert the legislator. This is a wonderful opportunity to provide a service for the legislator to his constitutent. What I have experienced is that the legislator is appreciative of the extra time, and it also provides an opportunity for the library to be visible with the legislator.
Cheryl Jackson, Virginia Legislative Reference Library
I am sometimes given other legislative assignments. For example, I was recently the backup staff person (acting in a research associate role) to a permanent legislative commission, and gave it up only when library duties became too time consuming. I have also attended our bill drafting seminar and was considered a backup drafter.
The general public is welcome in our library to perform their research or use the internet. However, the research assistance they receive is limited to our showing them where items are located. Photocopies are 10 cents per page. This policy does not differ during the interim, but, of course, we have more traffic from the public during session. We receive many requests from the public for legislative history and we perform this research, as we are the only people with access to the drafting files in which legislative history is kept. Photocopy fees for this service are 25 cents per page.
Cathy Martin, North Carolina Legislative Library
No non-library assignments.
Our entire physical facility (both library locations, stacks and all) is open to the public during regular hours; one location is kept open during legislative session and is open to the public then as well. Part of our mission is to serve the public. Given, however, that our primary purpose is to support the research and information needs of the Legislature, its committees and staff, our reference services to the public are limited, primarily to the status of bills, bill histories, and copies of study reports. We also provide onsite assistance for anyone wishing to do research in committee minutes and other primary legislative materials. We have nothing per se that dictates a difference in handling of such requests during session as compared with the interim.
Susan Zavacky, Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau
I occasionally teach legislative information and orientation classes to new staff and/or interns.
The library is open to the public for research only, no interlibrary loan or borrowing. Copying by LRB staff is limited. We do not differentiate between session and non-session days.
Lynda Davis, Maryland Library and Information Services
Other duties as assigned covers a wide range of activities for Library and Information Services. Library staff coordinates the program for legislative visits by constituents, school groups and international visitors. The program involves publication preparation and scheduling speakers. During the session, we provide staff to record Senate proceedings for the bill status system. This year we also provided staff (Johanne Greer) to the Senate as assistant journal clerk. The library indexes the journals for the House and Senate, as well as the session laws (Barb Speyser). The publications editor (Margie Forsyth), with help from librarians and information officer (Sherry Little), writes and edits the department newsletter, weekly Legislative Wrap-up during the session, and a post session constituent newsletter for members. Other publications include daily synopsis of introduced bills, roster and list of committees, and weekly schedule of hearings and meetings. Finally, we serve as ADA coordinator, scheduling interpreters for the deaf, for committee and floor proceedings upon request.
We have no formal written policy concerning service to the general public. We provide access to session information through our Information Desks, telephones, and the General Assembly web site. We are also the distribution point to the public for legislative publications. We do not provide research services for the public. However, we do try to answer specific questions concerning legislation and provide citations to the code. Many questions are handled by referring the caller to the appropriate agency or to their public library. We photocopy materials for a fee and limit the number of pages to 35. Practically speaking, the limit is sometimes hard to enforce if we are the only source for the document. The public is welcome to use materials in the library and we assist them. The priority for responding to research questions is: legislators, staff, state agencies, and the general public.
Coordinator JENNIFER BOTELER, Idaho Legislative Reference Library
from Jennifer
I am responsible for indexing all legislation, including draft legislation, by subject. This subject index is used for our bill tracking publication, Daily Data. It is the same index that goes in the House and Senate journals and the session laws. I am also responsible for organizing, indexing, and binding standing committee minutes.
By statute, this special library exists to serve the legislators and legislative staff. We are a public library in the sense that our collection is open to the public, and we will assist them in using our collection. We frequently answer questions from the public by telephone and through e-mail/internet. However, we do not provide research assistance to the general public.
Barbara Porter, Oregon Legislative Library
We sort of work outside the library. We are part of the larger Policy and Research Office and sometimes perform functions related to that office, such as staffing the Senate floor session for the governor's executive appointments, managing the web site for the library and the office, and publishing the Daily News Clip.
The public is treated like any other customer, but our first priority is to legislators and legislative staff.
Linda Heatherly, California Office of Legislative Council
I am not involved with committee work or bill drafting or other legislative assignments, but do have a time-consuming role as supervisor of a double unit known as "Library/Publications" the latter part as manager of our agency's receipts of print copies of bills and other legislative materials, including files, journals and histories, and copies of chaptered bills in different forms. On a daily basis during session, clerks who work under my direction sort about 60 copies of each bill, file them in four locations, in multiples, and send them to other staff members to be filed on other floors of the building. They take print copies of legislative materials to offices of 80 deputies, if they have been requested (e.g. the statutes) and keep one copy of each item in a mini-library on each floor. We serve people who serve legislators directly, our deputies are involved in bill drafting. This supervision a big part of my job.
I refer all questions from the public to the state library, but answer some in these categories: (a) "quick and dirty"-easy to answer and to be compassionate if someone has been transferred from one office to another or when all that's needed is "have you tried our internet site?" (b) Tough questions-relevent to our specific area of legislation/codes revision, with a possibility that our library may have unique resources or expertise to answer the question.
Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau
No duties outside the library.
Serve the public for everything but fee-based online search and extensive research.
Nan Bowers, Nevada Legislative Research Library
Nevada's legislative library is open to the public but materials do not circulate. During the session and the interim, we serve state and local government personnel, judicial staff, attorneys, lobbyists, businesses and the general public. We provide telephone and e-mail reference and assist walk-in clients. Much of our service involves providing materials and assisting in the use of legislative history documents. Service to legislators and legislative staff is our first priority, but assistantce to non-legislative branch personnel comprises over half of our time.
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Helen Hanby, Alabama Legislative Reference Service
In addition to librarian duties, I am responsible for the upkeep of the Code of Alabama data base, which is used by LRS for bill drafting purposes and the same code data base that is accessible on the Alabama web site.
The Legislative Reference Service library is used primarily by our staff, other legislative staff and legislators. The general public is always welcome to use the library, whether or not we are in session. The public may use materials in the library, but no materials can be taken from the library.
Suzy Hughes,Louisiana Legislative Research Library
For each session, the librarians index all House and Senate instruments to create three subject index documents: (1) all legislative instruments introduced, which appears on the internet and in the Legislative Calendar; (2) all legislative instruments that pass the legislature, which appears on the internet and in Resume; and (3) all acts and resolutions suspending the law, which appears in the Secretary of State's Acts of Louisiana.
Our library has never been open to the public but was once open to state agencies. However, because of increased demand for library services from members and staff, the library is now restricted for use by legislators and legislative employees. We do provide a very popular public service by phone, the PULS (Public Update Legislative Service) line, which includes access for the deaf and provides the latest session information on bill subject I.D., bill status, committee meetings, and guidance in accessing the information on the internet. The service is available all year long.
from Susan Southworth
Connecticut's legislative home page, www.cga.state.ct.us, now includes a web page for our Office of Legislative Research. Here you can find recent reports highlighted, as well as an archive of earlier reports. We have been experiencing some difficulty achieving consistency in the content and are continuing to work with our ITS department to clear up problems. Please feel free to call/write/e-mail if you need assistance. To find these reports, go to the legislative home page and click on: Staff Offices, then choose Office of Legislative Research from the list. There are a few caveats to its use, however. Statements made on the first screen make it look as if the content goes back to 1993, I don't know why because it definitely does not.
Reports are back to January 1997 at this point, with more being added. On the search screen there is a drop down menu that includes the year 1996. Again, this is optomistic. We are planning to load documents retrospectively but it's misleading now. Another word of caution, the OLReporter online does not scroll from one page to the next. You have to pay attention to the segments listed at the top of the page (e.g., Page One, New from OLR) and click on each of these in order to find the entire issue. The site is in its infancy so has the flaws of inexperience, but it's full of great information! Visit it and see.
from Jennifer Boteler
Kudos to the Washington State Library! The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 1998-8709 honoring and recognizing "the priceless research assistance, technology, and customer service offered by the employees at the Washington State Library." The senators wrote that "legislators and their staff rely heavily on the efficient research, vast resources and quick turn around of the state library and its staff." Wouldn't it be nice if all legislative librarians received this kind of feedback from legislators! (For the full text of the resolution, visit the Washington Legislature's Internet site at http://leginfo.leg.wa.gov/www/ses.htm.
Eddie Weeks and the Office of Legal Services library survived the April 16th tornado in Nashville. Their building lost 39 windows.
Legislative Librarians Service Enhancement Program
by Cheryl Jackson, Virginia Division of Legislative Services
The Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) of the Council of State Governments has begun the Legislative Librarians Service Enhancement Program. The program was initially developed "as a constantly evolving program that reflects the changing needs and technology within legislative libraries." Participants serve as either host library or visiting librarian; SLC pays travel and lodging for the visitor. Late last summer, SLC sent questionnaires to member libraries and attached a sample agenda for a visit of either three or five days. After completing and returning the questionnaire, I received a call saying that my request to visit the Texas LRL matched their desire to be a host library, and the rest was history! I "exchanged" to the Texas LRL Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14, 1997.
Nancy Quesada and I worked closely in planning the trip and then on the actual visit. We were able to customize SLC's proposed agenda to meet my learning and their teaching desires. I asked to find out about the following: general orientation of LRL, reference desk/computer services, cataloging system, LRL publications, collection development, orientations/training sessions for legislators and staff, session services and activities, services for the public, needs assessments/user surveys, budget development and accountability, personnel management and polices, and internet management. Sally, Nancy Q, Rona, Robert, Courtney and Nancy Hays all generously donated their time in demonsrating their areas of expertise and answering my myriad questions.
The Texas LRL varies greatly in its services from those offered in the Virginia LRL. Specifically, Texas combines duties (or portions thereof) performed by four agencies in Virginia. First, of course, are the legislative history/reference questions handled by all legislative reference libraries. Second, as they are a depository library for state documents, they are similar in function to the Government Documents section of the state library. They also answer current bill status questions, which in Virginia are handled by Legislative Information (an office of the House Clerk). Finally, library staff updates the LIS themselves, which is done here by our Division of Legislative Automated Systems. So while Texas has a much bigger library (and budget) than Virginia's, the services they perform are much broader in scope. Our main focus is on meeting the information needs and providing research assistance to members of the General Assembly and their staffs, our staff (DLS), and other legislative staffs. We offer very few services for members of the public.
Our library will benefit in many ways from the exchange program to Texas. First, I was able to get an in-depth look at their cataloging system, TINLAW, which we've been considering purchasing. Thanks to the demonstrations, I am already planning reports we can run using the statistics it stores to increase budget tracking, purchasing histories, and circulation data. Second, the classification system devised by a former Texas librarian for classifying government documents is extremely useful and easily adaptable to other libraries with many agency reports. It is based on material content and author more than subject matter.
Another inspiring feature is outreach services the librarians offer to members of the legislature. They are proactive in sending materials out to the members, rather than waiting for a request. At this point, our library publications (e.g., acquisitions list, internet resource list) are distributed to only legislative agencies and are made available to members. We may consider altering our mailing list to initially include members. Finally, I learned a lot by talking with Sally about the library's budget. I got ideas for expenditure tracking and accountability, and methods for forecasting the next year's budget.
The program offered by SLC is a great experience. For me, it was two and a half days of nonstop learning, getting and sharing ideas and brainstorming. The staff in Texas is incredible--they are a highly professional, well-trained, friendly group of people. We have already implemented several changes in our library as a result of the visit, and I will forever have a yardstick by which to measure our services. I am anxious to now be a host library and encourage each legislative library to contact SLC or CSG for information on participation. It really is worth the time and effort and will undoubtedly bring long-term benefits.
from Marilyn Cathcart
Randi Madisen, Minnesota LRL reference librarian, and her husband recently had their second child, David Madisen White. All are doing well. Randi will be on leave until early June.
from Marilyn Guttromson, North Dakota
Spotlight on PorkIII: What's Happening? A State-by-State summary. Walthill, NE: Center for Rural Affairs, January 1998. (402) 846-5942
Profiles in Connecting Learning and Work: State Initiatives: 1997 Updates. Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States. 1997.
Litigation in Progress and Unsettled Lawsuits. Denver, CO: Education Commission of the States. Clearinghouse Notes. February 3, 1998.
State and Local Value-Based Taxes on Motor Vehicles. February 24, 1998 NCSL. (not printed - available on the web)
Done by NCSL's fiscal affairs and has an appendix summary of stateactivities.
from Marianne Reiff, Washington, D.C., State Services Organization Library
We just got our new library catalog loaded and searchable of the web. The URL is http://www.sso.org/library.htm
Take a look. Information about the new catalog appeared in an article in the What's New? column, winter issue of Newsline.
Copies of all NCSL publications listed here are available from the Marketing Department at 303/364-7700, unless otherwise noted.
Emergency Management Model Legislation
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Meeting the Challenges of Welfare Reform:
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Children, Youth and Family Issues: 1997 State
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A Review of State Economic Development Policy
The "De-skilling" of American Hospitals, Vol.6, No.13
Late State Budgets, Vol.6, No.14
Methane Gas Recovery from Landfills, Vol.6, No.15
Irradiated Foods: A Solution to Food Poisoning? Vol.6, No.16
The Emergence of Biopolitics in State Legislatures, Vol.6, No.17
The Tobacco Agreement: Implications for Farmers, Vol.6, No.18
State Meat and Poultry Inspection Programs, Vol.6, No.19
Work Force Development Reform, Vol.6, No.20
School-Based Mental Health Programs, Vol.6, No.21
ATM Surcharges, Vol.6, No.22
Low Performing Schools, Vol.6, No. 23
State Roth IRA Conformity, Vol.6, No.24
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Evaluating the Effects of State Takings Legislation, Vol.23, No.2
Two Decades of Clean Air: EPA Assesses Costs and Benefits, Vol. 23, No.3
State Crime Legislation: 1997, Vol. 23, No.4
Teacher Policy: A Summary of Current Trends, Vol.23, No.5
New National Air Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone, Vol.23, No.6
Ozone Transport Assessment Group: Implications for State Legislatures, Vol.23, No.7
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Susan Rice: Risk of Iranian Retaliation Could Last ‘Years’
By Alison King • Published at 7:29 pm on January 9, 2020
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Speaking at Wellesley College Thursday, former President Barack Obama's national security advisor gave her take on the tension between the U.S. and Iran.
Susan Rice was at the Massachusetts school to promote her new memoir, "Tough Love." She was also asked about President Donald Trump's decision to kill one of Iran's top leaders, Qassem Soleimani.
"Which, by the way, I cannot believe the chairman of the joint chiefs and the secretary of defense put on the menu," Rice said of the option.
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Rice says the way Iran responded is significant — hitting hangars, not barracks, and sending a warning so the U.S. could be prepared.
"You may think, 'Well, that's good, bullet dodged, you know we got Soleimani, they got some hangars, that's a good deal,'" Rice said. "If you think that, you don't know Iran."
Rice believes Iran will continue to retaliate in other ways, using proxies, cyber attacks and potentially even terrorists.
"And so for months, if not years, we need to be ready for the very real prospect that their retaliation will come in multiple forms in multiple places," she said.
Rice says we are far less safe than we were because of a risk of retaliation, having to suspend the fight against ISIS and knowing that Iranians will now exercise no restraint on their nuclear program.
Rice had a final message for those who think that a war with Iran would be quick and easy.
"You've got another thing coming," she said. "This problem is not behind us."
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July 01, 2015 Music, Arts & Culture » Arts
Kids can get their hands on cool tools at SLO Makerspace summer camp
By Hayley Thomas
Sven Gasser is a pretty capable guy—the kind of guy who can build an electric guitar from scratch (it doesn’t have to sound good to still be a really cool experiment). For the past two years, he’s been hammering away at a boat in his garage; a boat that he one day hopes to navigate across the Panama Canal.
PHOTO BY HAYLEY THOMAS
IN 3-D: Sven Gasser, pictured next to a 3-D printer, serves as SLO Maker Academy Camp Director at SLO Makerspace.
No, he’s not a craftsman. Nope, he’s not an artisan. Yes, he’s a bit crazy. He calls himself simply “a maker,” the kind of person who learns by doing and bravely dives into that great unknown.
“I mean, I had no idea how to make a boat when I started, but I didn’t let that stop me,” the former math and science teacher said.
Trying and trying again is a big part of the maker movement—it’s the first step toward real, hands-on learning, the kind that leads to true DIY triumph. This is the main message Gasser aims to teach kids through the SLO Maker Academy Summer Maker Camp held through Aug. 7.
“Children should never be afraid to try learning a new skill,” Gasser said. “In public education these days, shop classes are one of the first things cut from the budget. Not many kids are working with their hands, and that’s one thing we wanted to bring back to the community.”
The SLO Makerspace, with its walls of shining tools and open-share camaraderie, offers up an alternative to a summer of computer games and TV shows.
KIDS GET CRAFTY!: Kids from 6 through 12 years old can explore their inner maker with hands-on skills and techniques during the SLO Maker Academy Summer Maker Camp held through Aug. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Camps are held year-round, so parents should inquire with organizers about other potential dates as well. Maker Camp at SLO Makerspace focuses on creativity, problem solving, and fun. Visit slomakeracademy.org for sign-ups and pricing.
“When I was growing up, I had a dad who was into building things and making things, and I got into woodworking at 9. I haven’t stopped since then,” Gasser said. “People at the Makerspace are the same way. They just love being here, creating.”
A row of laminated tags hangs on the door that separates the main floor space from the woodworking shop. Each represents a different Makerspace member; colored stickers indicate skill certification.
When it comes to using table saws, welding equipment, mills, and laser cutters, safety is paramount. Of course, kids won’t be manning these kinds of tools just yet. Camp offerings include pottery throwing, shaping malleable metals, and learning how to use a CNC router to cut out any shape under the sun.
“It’s the safe but fun stuff,” Gasser said with a laugh. “It’s a controlled environment, and the maximum camper-to-adult number is five to one. That’s good, considering all the fun things around here kids could get in trouble with.”
After putting on a pair of clear safety glasses, Gasser showed me the workshop’s CNC router, which, in itself, represents true maker ingenuity at its finest.
A wooden pterodactyl hangs above the contraption, showing just what you can do with the software.
Not only is the prehistoric animal comprised entirely of wooden shapes cut out by the computer-controlled device: The machine itself was made by another CNC router.
Yes, you read that right: A maker made a CNC router that, in turn, “made” the parts for a second CNC router.
“The whole maker movement of ‘making your own tools to make what you want’ is huge. This machine is straight out of that philosophy,” Gasser said. I ran my hand over the router’s many grooves, imagining the hundreds of parts that had been created by the single machine.
MR. ROBOTO : A robotic arm that can be controlled by Internet users hangs five at the SLO Makerspace.
Upstairs, I found more crafty technology that wowed my world: A robotic arm that can be powered by Internet users, life-sized wire sculptures of men and women created by sculptor Michael Redden (he plans to create bulls and other farm animals next), and a clutch of wire-covered 3-D printers, to name just a few.
Gasser held up a couple of plastic parts created by the 3-D printer sitting alongside a wooden car used to educate kids during SLO’s Thursday Farmers’ Market.
Perhaps you’ve already seen the maker demonstrating how gears work at the Garden Street STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Alley during the weekly event.
“We really want to reach the kids,” Gasser said. “That’s what it’s all about.”
That being said, the SLO Makerspace is a mecca for curious kids from 1 to 92. Makers of all ilk are invited to rent out the nooks and crannies at the workshop, and, because the locale is open regularly till 11 p.m., it’s become quite the after-work hangout for tinkerers, engineers, and artists.
BUILD. LEARN. HACK.: The SLO Makerspace is a collaborative tool shop and craft center where anyone can work on projects, teach and take classes, and connect with a community of makers. The facility offers woodworking, metalworking, electronics equipment, pottery studio, and craft area. Classes include CNC router use, laser cutter use, 3-D printer use, and more. The space is located at 3988 Short St. in SLO. For more information, visit slomakerspace.com.
Gasser said he hopes the new influx of kids will become those future makers. All it takes is a bright idea and a fearless mind.
“In so much of society today, things are done for you. You go to the store and buy whatever you want for a nickel,” Gasser said. “There’s no sense of the satisfaction that comes with making something for yourself.”
So, what would the world be like if every community had its own makerspace? If every child learned to wield a power drill and utilize a 3-D printer? I ran the question by Gasser, who’s eternally optimistic.
“That would be a very cool world to see,” he said with a smile. “Anyone can be a maker.”
Hayley Thomas wants to make stuff at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.
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Fittler's forecast: Bennett v Lockyer
Wed 16 Sep 2009, 05:07 PM
The age old argument of influence. It’s the sporting world’s version of the ‘chicken and the egg’ debate. Which has more influence… horse or jockey, car or driver, player or coach? <br><br>Well, brace yourself for a great insight into who holds the ultimate power in rugby league. <br><br>On Saturday night, super coach Wayne Bennett goes up against his former super player Darren Lockyer. The head-to-head between the Broncos and the Dragons this season is square at one-all... but it now comes down to the preliminary semi final at the Suncorp Cauldron, home of the Broncos and a pitch both men know very well.<br><br>Wayne Bennett won six premierships as coach of the Broncos – and Darren Lockyer played a major part in four of those victories. <br><br>Wayne knows Darren’s game better than anyone, even to the point where he suggested Jamie Soward watch videos of Darren’s play in order to emulate his influence on a team. The ploy has clearly paid off, with Soward discovering career-best form while guiding the Dragons to the minor premiership.<br><br>Wayne will have his Dragon soldiers so ‘knowledged’ up on Darren’s game that they will think he’s been playing alongside them all year.<br><br>Wayne’s job will be to convince his side to take time with Locky by getting in his face and putting pressure on his kicking game – a task fraught with danger considering Lockyer has strike-weapon Israel Folau at the ready. The Dragons will need to be careful not to rush out of the line, because Lockyer will turn a kick into a dummy-step-run-pass and then a four-pointer before they can blink. <br><br>They are some of the obvious traits and I’m sure Wayne knows plenty more. But Wayne’s real strength and opportunity for influence is going to be from his knowledge of Lockyer’s weaknesses. If he can get the Dragons players to believe and execute his plan in nullifying Lockyer’s game, then he is one step closer to victory. <br><br>On the other hand, Darren Lockyer knows Wayne knows. <br><br>Darren is well aware of Bennett’s capabilities as a powerful motivator. He knows the Dragons will be prepared. He knows they will control the ball. He knows their outside backs will be ready to slingshot into action at the slightest sign of laziness from the Brisbane defence. <br><br>Those are the tactics. Let’s get back to the debate. <br><br>The great North Queensland, Qld State of Origin and Australian trainer Billy Johnstone maybe said it best....“Coaches get far too much credit when you win and far too much blame when you lose.” <br><br>It’s an educated comment considering Billy has been on and around football grounds all of his life. <br><br>I watched Collingwood’s recent semi-final victory where John Anthony nailed a 50 metre screamer to steal the lollies from an Adelaide Crows team. <br><br>In the press conference that followed, Collingwood Coach Mick Malthouse was asked what inspired the turn around. His reply was that he made a structural change that turned the tide. <br><br>I don’t know my AFL, but what I saw was a team who found belief in themselves and came up with an absolute cracker on the bell with pure concentration and a ‘Carpe Diem’ moment. <br><br>Given my current situation (head coach of the Wooden Spooners), I’d like to believe Billy’s view. <br><br>But I know there’s a lot more to coaching than tactics and motivation. A motivated player needs to be in an environment where he can have the ultimate influence on the field.<br><br>Plenty goes into creating that climate. There’s the staff structure, monitoring of media, balancing of player behaviour and egos, fans, finances and the Board. <br><br>These are all behind the scenes operations which combine to make up the environment in which the players eat, sleep, breathe… and play.<br><br>So when it comes to this weekend, I’ll be watching with great excitement as two legends of the game do battle. One the leader of the minor premiers - the Dragons, the other the captain of the Broncos. <br><br>I’m not going to make a prediction because in a society that demands best and worst, right and wrong, black and white... I’m going to grab a middle of the range, grey piece of fence and enjoy how these two masters of their craft try to inflict the influence needed to be victorious. <br>
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The Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF) Program provides promising emerging scientists and engineers with the opportunity to work with research groups or leaders in Canadian government laboratories and research institutions. Fellowships are awarded for one year with the possibility of renewal for a second and third year, at the discretion of the government department concerned.
The number of awards varies according to the budgets of participating departments and agencies.
Are you eligible for a Visiting Fellowship?
You must have received a doctoral degree in the natural sciences or engineering from a recognized university within the past five years. Your application will be accepted if you are currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a recognized university; however, you must expect to complete all requirements for your degree (including the thesis defence) within six months of submitting your application.
If you have withdrawn from the workforce and active research for maternity leave, or to raise a child for at least one year, after you received your doctorate, NSERC will extend the eligibility period to six years.
You can apply only twice for a Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories.
You will not be allowed to take up your award until confirmation of completion of degree requirements is received. You may hold only one Visiting Fellowship.
There are no restrictions on the nationality of applicants, but awards are subject to a citizenship quota: two-thirds of awards must be made to Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Successful candidates who are not Canadians or permanent residents of Canada must satisfy Canadian immigration requirements.
Applications are processed and reviewed as they are received.
Review procedures and selection criteria
Selection committees, appointed by the individual government departments, will be responsible for the pre-selection of applicants, recommending only the most meritorious applicants.
Note: Candidates should be aware that successful evaluation does not guarantee a fellowship; it is a preliminary requirement only.
Approved candidates to be offered a fellowship will be selected by the individual government departments. Successful applicants will be notified by NSERC or by the interested government department. Approximately three months after receipt of a complete application, departments may request additional information (e.g., interviews) before offering a fellowship.
The selection committee will rate the applications according to the following criteria:
scholarships and awards held;
duration of previous studies;
research ability or potential
quality of contributions to research and development;
relevant work experience and academic training;
critical ability, capacity for critical thought and analysis;
ability to apply skills and knowledge;
judgment, originality, and curiosity;
initiative and autonomy;
enthusiasm for research;
determination and ability to complete projects within an appropriate period of time;
ability or potential to communicate scientific concepts clearly and logically in written and oral formats (e.g., quality of presentation of application, participation in the preparation of publications, special awards for oral presentations or papers);
interpersonal and leadership abilities
professional and relevant extracurricular interactions and collaborations (e.g., mentoring, teaching, supervisory experience, project management, chairing committees, organizing conferences/meetings, and elected positions held);
justification for location of tenure and potential benefits to the government department (e.g., specific skills or experience that relate directly to ongoing research in participating government departments).
Announcement of competition results
Decisions are announced approximately three months after receipt of complete applications.
Departments and agencies that support fellowships:
Note: Some changes may occur in this list.
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DCB showcases expanded portfolio at Infosecurity Belgium following its acquisition by Nuvias.
WatchGuard, Tintri, Kaspersky Lab and VASCO head up featured vendors
Stand: 08.B113, Infosecurity Belgium, 12 March 2018: – Leading Benelux security distributor DCB will be making its first appearance as part of the fast-growing pan-EMEA Nuvias Group at this week’s Infosecurity Belgium. The event provides an ideal opportunity for DCB to showcase its expanded portfolio of IT security and advanced networking products and services. Featured on the stand will be the latest technology from leading brands such as WatchGuard Technologies, Tintri, Kaspersky Lab and VASCO, along with new vendors such as HID Global, Malwarebytes, Dtex Systems, FileFacets, Arbor Networks and Juniper Networks.
WatchGuard will be featuring its latest Firebox T Series, Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances that allow users in small offices, home offices and distributed enterprises to experience ultra-fast internet speeds along with the most advanced enterprise-grade security protections and controls. These include services such as APT Blocker, Threat Detection and Response (TDR), Anti-Virus and Application Control. Also featured on the stand will be WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud, a secure, scalable and feature-rich Wi-Fi management platform. When deployed with WatchGuard’s latest family of high-performance, cloud-ready access points, this next-generation secure wireless solution delivers the industry’s most sophisticated wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS).
“As a long-standing partner of DCB and the Nuvias Group, we are looking forward to attending Infosecurity.be to meet customers both old and new,” said Natasja de Groot, PR and Marketing Manager EMEA at WatchGuard.
“We offer a huge range of total security solutions, secure Wi-Fi and network intelligence products and services that scale from the smallest home office right up to the largest enterprise. We can also address concerns ranging from GDPR to threat detection and response around ransomware or malware attacks,” added de Groot.
From the Nuvias Advanced Networking Practice, Tintri will be introducing its latest all-flash storage and software solutions for virtualised workloads. “A big topic at Infosecurity.be will be the ‘Power of the Cloud’ and with the shift to cloud in full flow, the challenge is adopting the right mix of cloud models for your organisation,” said Verron Martina, Senior Systems Engineer at Tintri. “Public cloud is setting the pace with agility and scale but what’s yet to be seen is if the private cloud and the IT department can keep pace. We are very pleased to join Nuvias at the show and look forward to sharing stories of organisations helped by Tintri to deploy enterprise clouds, which guarantee performance, enable self-service and manage a massive footprint with a fraction of the effort.”
At the show, Tintri’s Verron Martina will be highlighting these benefits in a presentation entitled: “Three public cloud myths and one enterprise cloud solution.”
Also on the stand, Kaspersky Lab will be demonstrating its new Security-as-a-Service offering, powered by advanced machine learning and real-time threat intelligence, to protect Exchange Online cloud-based email systems. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 works in conjunction with Microsoft’s built-in security to provide enhanced protection from ransomware, malicious attachments, spam, phishing including Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) and other unknown threats. During the show, Kaspersky Lab’s Philip Verbeeck will be highlighting the importance of security awareness with a presentation entitled: “The only way to prevent incidents is to make your colleagues aware of cyber security.”
“We have been exhibiting at Infosecurity Belgium for 15 years and this year, as part of the Nuvias Group, we have a stronger message than ever,” said Wim Clinckspoor, managing partner at DCB. “With a greatly expanded portfolio of IT security and advanced networking products, we are able to offer major growth opportunities for our resellers and deliver end-to-end solutions for their customers. The rise in cyber security attacks combined with a further rapid migration to the cloud and looming GDPR deadline, continue to drive the market for best-in-class security products and services.”
Visit Nuvias on Stand 08.B113 at Infosecurity.be on 14 and 15 March at the Brussels Expo.
The Group’s portfolio covers a comprehensive range of IT solutions, with the focus currently on three areas – Cyber Security (based on the former Wick Hill); Advanced Networking (based on the former Zycko) and Unified Communications (based on the former SIPHON). In July 2017, Nuvias added Benelux value added distributor and security specialist DCB to the Group. All four award-winning companies had previously demonstrated their ability to provide innovative technology solutions from world-class vendors and deliver market growth for vendor partners and customers. Nuvias Group has 21 regional offices across EMEA, as well as serving additional countries through those offices. Turnover is around US$ 500 million.
For further press information or pictures, please contact Annabelle Brown on +44 (0)1326 318212, email pr@nuvias.com
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Cowgirls Defeat Cimarron; Advance to Regional Semi’s
Ross VolkmerMay 14, 2019
LAKIN, KS — Every thing kind of seemed to go to plan on Tuesday afternoon as the Goodland Cowgirls came away with a 9-2 win over Cimarron in the first round of Lakin 3A softball regional.
After a very fast two first innings that only took 20 minutes to complete, the Cowgirls stuck first as Brooke Livengood drove in Anna Gutierrez & Atalee Amthor make the game 2-0 in favor of GHS. After another inning of no runs Goodland added 6 more runs highlighted by a couple of big hits from Taitem Ketter & Atalee Amthor who each drive in two a piece with a swing of the bat.
Ketter would drive in another run in the sixth to give GHS a 9-0 lead heading into the bottom of the frame. That’s when Cimarron would load the bases twice but could only must two runs to make it 9-2. Neither team could do anything in the seventh especially the Bluejay who were sat down on just four pitches to end the game.
Brooke Livengood was stellar on the mound and at the plate. In the circle, Livengood threw a complete game three hitter allowing just two runs while striking out six for the win. She also went 3 for 4 with two runs and two RBI’s. Taitem Ketter also had great day at the dish driving in three on two base hits.
Cowgirls also played some very solid defense highlighted by Taighe Weeter’s sliding catch in center in the bosom of the sixth and double play started by Eve Cole in the fifth.
The win was the Cowgirls seventh straight as they improved to 9-8 on the season. Goodland will play in the semifinals Wednesday at 3:30 MT versus the Holcomb.
Coach Tess Smith Postgame:
https://www.nwksradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Tess-Cimarron.mp3
Game Highlights:
https://www.nwksradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/HIGHLIGHTS-Goodland-v-Cimarron.mp3
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More in this Section... Becoming Involved with Wildlife Rehabilitation Finding a Wildlife Rehabilitator Help! I've Found a Wild Animal Other Online Resources State and Provincial Agencies What is Wildlife Rehabilitation?
If you have found a wild animal that is truly in crisis, you may be facing a dilemma. Of course, you want to do what’s best for the animal, but you may find it difficult to turn him or her over to a wildlife rehabilitator. Letting go can be hard, especially when the animal is a baby. The temptation to care for the baby yourself may be strong. And having eager young children in the house begging to raise the animal does not make the decision any easier. So why can’t you keep the animal?
In almost every case, keeping a wild animal is illegal. Native wildlife species are protected by state laws, federal laws, or both. To keep a wild animal in captivity for any length of time, for any reason, requires at least one special permit. Most cities and many counties have local ordinances that prevent individuals from keeping wild animals in captivity. Many neighborhood associations or covenants also prohibit keeping wildlife within property boundaries.
More importantly, wild animals deserve the best possible care. Providing the proper care is challenging because each species has specialized needs. Orphans need special diets and formulas to grow strong and healthy. They also must learn survival skills, including how to recognize and find food, how to escape predators, and how and where to make a nest, den, or burrow before being released back into the wild. Young animals need to be raised in the company of their own kind for proper behavioral development. Infections, parasites, and injuries are common and difficult to detect and treat in wild animals.
There is also the welfare of your own family to consider. Wild animals can be dangerous, especially when frightened or injured. Wildlife diseases, such as distemper, may pose a threat to companion animals, while others, including rabies and tularemia, can be transmitted to humans.
Most people who want to care for a wild animal themselves plan to release the animal once it is grown or has recovered from its injuries. That is the goal of wildlife rehabilitation, but rehabilitators have an advantage when they return their patients to the wild—they have years of experience in letting go, both physically and emotionally. Knowing what the animal needs to survive in the wild, knowing when the animal is ready to be on its own, and learning to avoid becoming too attached to a patient are important parts of becoming a good wildlife rehabilitator.
If you are tempted to care for a wild animal on your own, please ask yourself these questions first:
What is the best thing I can do for this animal?
If I’m having a hard time letting go of the animal now, how will I feel after I’ve really grown attached?
Am I prepared to deal with the legal and financial consequences of keeping a wild animal illegally? How will I feel if the animal is discovered, confiscated, and possibly euthanized?
Am I prepared to deal with the health consequences of someone being bitten or scratched, my pets or house becoming infested with parasites, a person or pet catching a disease, or just simple allergic reactions?
Can I be certain that, once I’ve released the animal back to the wild, it is capable of surviving on its own? Am I providing the best possible chance for survival?
How will my family and I feel if the animal dies in our care or is permanently impaired by my improper care?
Turning the animal over to a licensed/permitted wildlife rehabilitator as soon as possible is the best way to safeguard human and pet safety while providing the wild animal with the best chance of survival. Call a wildlife rehabilitator right away for advice and answers to your questions.
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Cut You Down (A Wakeland Novel)
Sam Wiebe
D. R. Meredith
“A wonderful setting and likeable characters, lots of action and subtle humor will have readers calling for more stories featuring David Wakeland.”
Canadian mystery and suspense writers are becoming better known south of the border as our northern neighbors publish more and more captivating and compelling works that rival the best the rest of the English-speaking world produces.
This Canadian writer’s Vancouver noir novels feature a rather reckless PI who doesn’t hold back just because a risk is involved. Nominally a partner in Wakeland & Chen Investigations, a firm that is becoming more upscale each quarter, David Wakeland is more interested in finding missing persons than in the firm’s security work.
The fact that tracking down missing persons or involving himself in other criminal investigations is not at all profitable doesn’t keep David from taking on new clients even though his partner, Jefferson Chen, disapproves. There’s no profit in missing persons, and besides, it’s frequently dangerous. In Chen opinion, David’s luck will run out one day, and he will die in some violent and unpleasant way.
David ignores his partner’s worries, and aided by his younger sister, Kay, who finds detective work very exciting, takes Dana Essex as a client. Dana wants David to find Tabitha Sorenson, a young college student who has disappeared in the midst of a scandal involving millions of dollars in missing college funds.
Dana Essex, “. . . looked as if she’d been dressed by a Canadian TV show. A background player, College Professor Number Three.” The bland-looking professor assures David that Tabitha had nothing to do with stealing the money from the college fund, while she tries to hide her personal, perhaps romantic, interest in the young girl.
David doesn’t care about what Essex may feel for Tabitha; he’s interested in finding her. His interview with the accounting firm that audited the collage fund convinces him that Tabitha is up to her eyebrows in the missing funds which amounted to more than he realized.
“The ruling party controlled the election budget, the health and dental fund, a number of scholarships, and the events account.” The students on the council that control the funds are literally in charge of millions of dollars every semester, with very little oversight by the college.
David and Kay discover Tabitha hiding out with her boyfriend, a rather meek librarian only interested in protecting her. After staking out the house, David concludes that Tabitha is not attracted to Dana Essex, and tells the professor so.
He learns too late that sharing the information about Tabitha’s whereabouts with Dana Essex might not have been his best idea. The next day Tabitha is dead, her librarian boyfriend tortured, and the milquetoast Professor Dana Essex is gone.
Did Dana murder Tabitha or was it the college student’s criminal friends? Cody Hayes, better known as Baby Godzilla, “. . . wouldn’t look out of place amid the city-devouring monsters of Toho Studios,” and his brother, Dalton, the brains of the two, deny any knowledge of Tabitha. They hadn’t seen her for years.
Another complication that doesn’t make David’s life any easier is his old partner (and former lover) when he was a cop, who wants him to follow her new partner. Chris Chambers. Sonia Drego suspects Chris, the Golden Boy whom everyone likes even if he did screw up so badly as a rookie that he will be promoted beyond constable, of being corrupt.
Trailing Chris to a meeting with a Chinese gangster, David agrees with Sonia: Chris Chambers is so corrupt, you can smell his stink a mile away. David witnesses Chambers nearly beating a man to death in an ally. Not only is Chris Chambers corrupt, he is violent.
Then suddenly Sonia tells David to forget investigating Chris. What is going on with his former partner? Does she want Chris Chambers and his corruption uncovered or not? Trying to find Dana Essex, trying to discover just who she is, because she is not a mild-mannered professor, and trying to avoid the Hayes brothers, are enough to keep David awake at night. He doesn’t need Sonia suddenly changing her mind.
An altercation with the Hayes brothers that nearly sends him to a heavenly address, and a deadly meeting with Dana Essex threaten to fulfill Jeff Chen’s prediction that David Wakeland will wake up dead one morning if he doesn’t stop taking chances.
An exciting, page-turner that all fans of noir will enjoy, Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe introduces Vancouver to a U.S. audience that might not be all that familiar with the city. A wonderful setting and likeable characters, lots of action and subtle humor will have readers calling for more stories featuring David Wakeland.
D. R. Meredith is the author of fifteen mystery novels, two historical sagas, a TV novelization, several short stories, and innumerable book reviews.
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Archives|ANTON SEIDL'S FUNERAL; Public Memorial Demonstration Held at the Metropolitan Opera House. THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE The Address Delivered by the Rev. Merle St. Croix Wright and a Telegram Sent by Robert G. Ingersoll -- The Body Cremated.
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ANTON SEIDL'S FUNERAL; Public Memorial Demonstration Held at the Metropolitan Opera House. THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE The Address Delivered by the Rev. Merle St. Croix Wright and a Telegram Sent by Robert G. Ingersoll -- The Body Cremated.
April 1, 1898, Page 7Buy Reprints
The public memorial services for Anton Seidl in the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon, in the size and character of the assemblage that there honored the master, and in the number, variety, and beauty of the floral tokens of remembrance that surrounded his bier, testified amply to the place he had made for himself in the esteem of this community. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
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(Adagio Press).
ADAGIO.
(Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press), n.d. large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. Not in Tanner and Alstrom. Bahr's thoughts on the purpose of Adagio Press, influenced by Daniel Berkeley Updike's PRINTING TYPES. READ MORE about ADAGIO
Almquist, Johan Axel.
SVERIGES BIBLIOGRAFISKA LITTERATUR FORTECKNAD AF J...TREDJE DELEN, HAFT 1, TYPOGRAFI OCH BOKHANDTVERK SAMT SUPPLEMENT TILL FOREGAENDE DELAR [SWEDEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE LISTED BY (THE AUTHOR), THE THIRD PART, FASICLE 1, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK ARTS, WITH SUPPLEMENT TO PRECEDING PARTS].
Stockholm: n.p. (Royal Library)), 1912. 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 152 pages. Part III, fasc. 1 of the work listed in Besterman 5949. Entries no. 4951-5810 (i.e. 860) of this work. The making and selling of books, and the history thereof. The supplement lists bibliographies, biobibliographies, books on library science and archives, and library catalogues. Concludes with list of corrections and errata. Unopened. Covers detached and missing pieces; backing missing. READ MORE about SVERIGES BIBLIOGRAFISKA LITTERATUR FORTECKNAD AF J...TREDJE DELEN, HAFT 1, TYPOGRAFI OCH...
Arnold, Edmund C.
ARNOLD'S ANCIENT AXIOMS: TYPOGRAPHY FOR PUBLICATIONS EDITORS.
Chicago, IL: Ragan Report Press, 1978. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound. (iv), 135+(1) pages. Third printing. Table of contents, glossary. Instructions for the publishing of newspapers and magazines. Previous owner's name on title. Spiral binding cracked. READ MORE about ARNOLD'S ANCIENT AXIOMS: TYPOGRAPHY FOR PUBLICATIONS EDITORS
Bahr, Leonard F.
ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HANDBOOK.
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America, (1969). 4to. cloth. 158 pages. Fourth edition. Covers all aspects of printing; ie, paper, type, different methods of illustrating, typography. Includes a glossary of terms. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HANDBOOK
Order nr. 326
Bartlett, Edward Everett.
TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES IN EUROPE AND A STUDY OF CONTEMPORANEOUS BOOK PRODUCTION IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
With an Addendum by J.W. Muller giving the Principal Dates and Personages in Printing History.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. folio. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, slipcase. 185, (3) pages. With an Addendum by J.W. Muller giving the Principal Dates and Personages in Printing History. First edition, limited to 585 copies. Contains five plates and much information. Spine spotted in places. Slipcase bottom creased. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES IN EUROPE AND A STUDY OF CONTEMPORANEOUS BOOK PRODUCTION IN GREAT BRITAIN,...
(Bayberry Hill Press). Johnson, Foster Macy.
A BACKWARD GLANCE.
Meriden, CT: Bayberry Hill Press, 1975. 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover labels. (iv), 27+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Poem by J. Johnson on title. A reflection on the demise of the typographer and the compositor with the onslaught of "Cold Type" and the computer. Illustrated. Complimentary gift card laid in. READ MORE about A BACKWARD GLANCE
(Bibliography).
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS.
New York: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. "European, English and American Literature - The Fine Arts, including Painting, Engraving and Architecture - Genealogy & Heraldry - Incunabula - Manuscripts - Dictionaries and Vocabularies - The Arts of teh Book, including formation of libraries, the Book Trade, Typography, Illustration and Binding - mainly from the library of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, the noted 19th century historian and collector, co-founder of the..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS
Bigelow, Charles, Paul Hayden, and Linnea Gentry (Editors).
FINE PRINT ON TYPE. THE BEST OF FINE PRINT MAGAZINE ON TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY.
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. cloth, dust-jacket. (viii), 148 pages. First edition. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. Review copy with material inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT ON TYPE. THE BEST OF FINE PRINT MAGAZINE ON TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY
Biggs, John R.
AN APPROACH TO TYPE.
London: Blandford Press, (1961). small 4to. cloth. 136 pages. Second edition. Well illustrated introduction to typography. Minor jacket chipping. Bookplate. READ MORE about AN APPROACH TO TYPE
Bjorkbom, Carl.
DET GAMLA TRYCKERIET, ETT TRYCKERI PA 1500-TALET, ETT FRANSKT LANDSOR.
N.P. (Stockholm?): "Bibliophiles" (i.e. Society of B...?), n.d (c1960). 12mo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages. Limited to 700 copies. Three articles by Björkbom, previously published elsewhere. The "printing shop of the 1500's" is that of C. PLantin. No.10 in the "Bibliophile's Miniature Series." READ MORE about DET GAMLA TRYCKERIET, ETT TRYCKERI PA 1500-TALET, ETT FRANSKT LANDSOR
Blumenthal, Joseph.
ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955; MASTERPIECES OF TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1984). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 192 pages. First edition, fourth printing. Profusely illustrated. Name in ink. READ MORE about ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955; MASTERPIECES OF TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES FROM THE...
ART OF THE PRINTED BOOKS 1455-1955.
London: The Bodley Head, 1974. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First English edition. Profusely illustrated. Jacket spine slightly faded. READ MORE about ART OF THE PRINTED BOOKS 1455-1955
THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Jacket spine faded; chipped around edges. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. With a small paper label on the free endpaper calling attention to the fact that this book was printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Presentation on half-title "Inscribed for Mike McCurdy, Joe Blumenthal." READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
BULLETIN OFFICIEL DES COURS PROFESSIONNELS.
Paris: Chambre Syndicale Typographique Parisienne, 1925. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 80 pages followed by the specially printed typographic examples. A special number issued by this group of Pariesene book professionals. This magnificent issue has paper supplied by different manufactures containing printing by various type founders. Filled with illustrations and a section of typographic examples printed on different colored paper stock. Small tear in front hinge at top; corner bumped. READ MORE about BULLETIN OFFICIEL DES COURS PROFESSIONNELS
CARACTÉRE NOËL.
Paris, France: Compagnie Française, d'Éditions Emmanuel Olive, n.d. (1960). 4to. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in French. A collection of typography, illustration, advertising and other specimens by various French firms. Lists of artists and collaborators, printers, paper manufacturers, and photographers follows text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Inside back hinge cracked. Lacking dust jacket. READ MORE about CARACTÉRE NOËL
Carter, Rob.
AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY TODAY.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1989). 4to. paper over boards, dust jacket. 159 pages. First edition. The author provides a critical analysis of 24 modern typographic designers. Covers many different styles including classicism, modernism, expressionism and post-modernism. Also contains a descriptive list of individuals, movements, developments, etc. in typographic design. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY TODAY
(Caslon, William).
PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON.
N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1966. folio. stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items. Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon..... READ MORE about PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM LEWIS F. WHITE.
New York: Lewis F. White, 1951. small 4to. box containing the greeting leaf and many pieces of printed stationery. Box containing printed stationery for O. Alfred Dickman at the Herald Tribune with printed Christmas greeting and original mailing label present. White owned L.F. White, Typography and Printing, and a label to this effect is on the front cover of the box. READ MORE about CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM LEWIS F. WHITE
(Clark, Edward).
CATALOGUE OF THE EDWARD CLARK LIBRARY.
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December 17, 2019 - Trusts and Estates Group News: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Trustee Powers Under Connecticut's New Trust Code
By: Patrick D. Coughlin
On July 12, 2019, Governor Lamont signed Public Act 19-137, “An Act Concerning Adoption of the Connecticut Uniform Trust Code,” which comprehensively updates the state’s trust laws, including the Uniform Trust Code, the Directed Trust Act, and the Connecticut Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act. The Act is effective as of January 1, 2020.
One of the more notable innovations of the Trust Code is its automatic grant of trustee powers. Under current law, a trust agreement must either explicitly state the trustee’s powers, or incorporate the (now outdated) Connecticut Fiduciary Powers Act by reference. Thus, if a particular power is omitted, the trustee simply does not have it.
Under the new Trust Code, trustees of both existing and future trusts will generally have much greater authority. Generally, unless the trust1 says otherwise, a trustee will have all powers “which an unmarried competent owner has over individually owned property,”2 as well as any power necessary to invest, manage, and distribute the trust property.3 In addition, the Trust Code details specific powers given to the Trustee by default, meaning they are available, without specific reference in the instrument itself,4 as long as they are not overridden or expressly excluded.5
The new trustee powers are not identical to the ones in the Fiduciary Powers Act, nor should they be, as that act has not been updated in many years. While these changes to fiduciary powers will undoubtedly receive less fanfare than other aspects of the Trust Code, they are important and noteworthy. After this year, a trustee will almost always, automatically, have the broad authority to do almost anything that a trustee might need to do. However, a client will still need to consider whether there are any specific powers that he or she wants to prohibit, or as is more likely, any other powers that need to be added or expanded.
If you would like more information about the implications of the new Connecticut Uniform Trust Code, please contact one of our attorneys in the Trusts and Estates Department.
1 Trustees of charitable trusts will not have any power that allows deviation from a charitable purpose or violates a restricted gift.
Connecticut Public Act 19-37, Section 65(b).
2 Connecticut Public Act 19-37, Section 65.
5 Connecticut Public Act 19-37, Section 66(c).
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If "West End" is finally only the 12th studio album of The 69 Eyes, it nevertheless marks the 30 years of existence of the Helsinki vampires. This is the kind of anniversary that you have to mark when you are a reference in Gothic rock/metal. Three years after a "Universal Monsters" that had hit hard, the quintet had to maintain the high standards that made the 2016 production a success. It is therefore not surprising to find Johnny Lee Michaels again at the controls, the man who imposed the sound of the band.
Launching the hostilities with its massive bass, catchy chorus and hard/heavy riff, the single "Two Horns Up" announces the color with a distinguished guest. Dani Filth (Cradle Of Filth) shares the vocals with Jyrki 69 and the contrast between the British's torn voice and the deep voice of the Finnish reinforces the effectiveness of this track. In the register of distinguished guests, we will also note the presence of Wednesday 13 (Murderdolls, Bourbon Crow, Gunfire 76...) and Calico Cooper (daughter of Alice Cooper) on an unstoppable 'The Last House On The Left' and paying tribute to the film of the same name by Wes Craven. Hard heavy and aggressive rock, this track devastates everything in its path with its chainsaw riff and its hyper effective chorus. Without a doubt one of the highlights of this opus which are not lacking.
Scathing pieces like the very good 'Burn Witch Burn' denouncing the media and their way of always giving scapegoats to crowds thirsty for fresh blood, alternate with more softer pieces. These can take the form of ballads (the bewitching and melancholic "Death & Desire") or throbbing and hypnotic mid-tempo ("Change"). But we must not forget the new-wave component of the gothic set of The 69 Eyes with, for example, a '27 & Done' handling the second degree to talk about the club of 27, sadly famous because composed of many artists who died at the age of 27 (Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse to name only the most famous). And if Billy Idol's discreet shadow hangs over this track or over 'Outsiders', it is that of Type O Negative and Pete Steele who haunts the corridors of a 'Black Orchid' as dark as the flower from which it takes its title. As for the AC/DC of the "For Those About To Rock" period, it points to the riff of "Hell Has No Mercy" which closes the whole in a haunting way.
A successful bet for the Finns who are celebrating their 30th anniversary with brio. The guests participating in the festivities bring an undeniable added value instead of masking non-existent weaknesses. And if some tracks may seem to be slightly lower than the vast majority of the album, they remain even more than presentable.
More informations on http://www.69eyes.com/angelsite/
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01. Two Horns Up - 3:57
02. 27 & Done - 4:17
03. Black Orchid - 4:15
04. Change - 5:38
05. Burn Witch Burn - 3:17
06. Cheyenna - 4:09
07. The Last House On The Left - 3:47
08. Death & Desire - 4:40
09. Outsiders - 3:36
10. Be Here Now - 4:20
11. Hell Has No Mercy - 6:43
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Artist Rez Williams returns to landscape painting in A Gallery exhibit
Maine Coastal View oil on canvas 48 x 60 inches. — Courtesy A Gallery
A new series of paintings by Island painter Rez Williams, “Views From Another Island,” debuts at A Gallery on Friday, July 14, and will be on exhibit through August 2. He returns to landscape painting with 16 oil-on-canvas works depicting the rugged shoreline and coastal forest of Monhegan Island, Maine. According to a press release from A Gallery, this follows a series of Irish paintings of coastal and rural Mayo during his fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 2014, which the artist says was pivotal in kindling a renewed interest in landscape.
Williams challenged himself with how to deal with what initially presented itself as “a chaotic jumble of dead and living understory, distant glimpses of ocean, and towering deciduous canopy where vegetative undergrowth comes slam bam up to the edge of the sea with no mediating interval,” the release states.
The artist is known for painting the brightly colored, steel-hulled fishing vessels of New Bedford, exploring the abstract elements of a local industrial subject. Of this the artist says in the press release, “the elements of sky and water in these paintings were structured to work with the dominant form of the vessels, and so took on both a subordinate and abstract function. In the Irish landscapes this hierarchy and crutch was gone. There was no tyranny of the image; the composition was now democratic and this has become almost socialistic in the Monhegan paintings.”
A Gallery is at 8 Uncas Ave., Oak Bluffs. For more information about the exhibit, contact Tanya Augoustinos at Agallerymv@hotmail.com or visit agallerymv.com.
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16 Aug 2018. Long before Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Madonna was the first female pop star to project an image of control, drive and. More videos on YouTube. From her first performance of Like a Virgin at the MTV Music Awards in 1984, which saw her writhing around the stage in a. she performed Aids benefit concerts and used her album Like A Prayer to campaign for greater awareness of the.
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Letra, tradução e música de Like A Prayer de Madonna – Quando você chama o meu nome é como uma oração / Estou de joelhos, eu quero te levar até lá / À meia-noite eu posso sentir o seu poder / Como uma oração, você sabe que te.
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16 Aug 2018. As a result, it's the singles a cover artist tends to focus on – f'rinstance, the song “ Like a Prayer” has been. this rather flimsy song to 7:20 seems like pushing your luck – is “Music” on anyone's list of top-tier Madonna jams?
4 Mar 2019. Un 4 de marzo de 1989, Madonna lanzó “Like a Prayer”, una canción que incomodó a la iglesia y cuyo video fue uno de los más polémicos en la historia.
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Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone. I hear you call my name. And it feels like home. When you call my name it's like a little prayer. I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there. In the midnight hour I can feel your power. Just like a.
2 mar 2019. Il 3 marzo 1989 usciva un singolo che ha fatto la storia della musica. Soprattutto per il video che l'accompagnava e che lo trasformò in una hit.
But, in keeping with his belief in prayer. like performer who says her work is based in the artistry of clowning. A.
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amato.giaccia@oncology.ox.ac.uk
Tumour Microenvironment (Co-Investigator)
Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
Director, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
Jack, Lulu & Sam Willson Professor in Cancer Biology
My research program is focused on translating basic science findings on the role of hypoxia in tumour progression and resistance to therapy to pre-clinical models of cancer that I ultimately hopes to take into the clinic. My overarching hypothesis is that hypoxia not only makes tumour cells resistant to radiotherapy, chemotherapy and in some cases targeted therapy, but also increases their invasiveness and metastatic potential by inducing a select group of genes involved in tissue remodeling. My group is rigorously investigating the genomic response of tumour cells to hypoxia and are developing new targeted therapies to eliminate hypoxic cells or inhibit the secreted gene products of hypoxic cells that drive malignant progression. The group have advanced understanding of gene regulation under hypoxic conditions, have used synthetic lethal screening to identify new targets for hypoxia directed therapies, and are developing new diagnostics for hypoxia. Our future goals will be to further define critical effectors of the hypoxic response that are essential for tumour growth and expansion that can be targeted therapeutically.
Professor Amato Giaccia is the Director of the Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology and has held this position, with the University of Oxford since January 2019.
Until moving to Oxford he was “Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Cancer Biology” in the Stanford University School of Medicine, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Associate Chair for Research & Director of the Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, California. He was the Director of Basic Science at the Stanford Cancer Institute and lead the Radiation Biology Program in Stanford’s Cancer Center, and was Director of the Cancer Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program.
He was awarded an American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award and the Michael Fry Award from the Radiation Research Society for his outstanding contributions on understanding the molecular mechanisms of resistance promoted by the tumor microenvironment. Additionally, he was the recipient of the 2013 ASTRO Gold Medal. In 2015, he was awarded an NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award and was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
He co-authored the sixth, seventh & eighth editions of the textbook, “Radiation Biology for the Radiologist,” with Professor Eric Hall from Columbia.
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– Well, Kathy welcome to Teslanomics, I’m very excited to hearabout your company, Dandelion. Is it just Dandelion oris it Dandelion Energy? How do you guys prefer it? – Our real name is Dandelion Energy, but many people just call us Dandelion. (upbeat music) – Hey guys, that was Kathy, the co-founder and CEOof Dandelion Energy, a company that is trying to bring kind of all the modern tech stuff, we expect in our homeappliances, to geothermal heat, don’t know what that is, that’swhat we’re gonna talk about in this interview.If you live in a place that is colder and you spend a lot of money on heat preferably, if you have afurnace-burning fuel oil, they call it, which is kindof some form of diesel, this will be a veryinteresting conversation to you and one that could saveyou a lot of money. I do want to thank Dandelionfor sponsoring this episode as well as this channel, andI hope you guys learn a lot and really enjoy this conversationI had today with Kathy. Here you go, let’s jumpinto the interview now. Tell me what it is you guys do because I just heard about it recently and I’m guessing a lot of my viewers, probably those on theWest Coast especially, don’t have a clue about this, so please I think it’s fascinating, so let me hear you telllike what it is you guys do here at Dandelion. – Absolutely, so geothermal energy, it’s, geothermal heat pumps havebeen around for decades.It’s a way of using the vastreservoir of renewable energy stored right underneaththe Earth’s surface to heat and cool buildingsvery, very efficiently. But in the past it’s been mostly something that only very wealthypeople could afford, and not only did you have to be wealthy, you had to be like very, very motivated, because there was no infrastructure for getting these things inin any sort of seamless way. And so what we’re doing at Dandelion is just really turning why there is now very much a niche technologyinto a mainstream technology. And specifically, we’re making geothermalmuch less expensive, and just much easier for homeowners so that they can sort of outsource the process of installation. – Yeah, so you’re using the energy that is kind of justbelow the surface, right? And how are you actuallygoing about doing that ’cause I thought thiswas kind of interesting when I first heard it. – Yeah, so the way that we do it is there’s what’s called a ground loop, that we install in the yardand this is a plastic pipe.Actually fairly thin, it’s about an inch and a 1/4 in diameter shaped like a long thin Uand it just circulates water. But even though the pipeis thin it’s fairly long. So this pipe goes about500 feet into the yard, – Oh wow.- Yeah, and circulates that water and then that water is run into the house into your heat pump, where the heat isextracted from that water, the temperature is boosted and it’s blown through your house.One way to think about this is other heat pumps thatwe’re so familiar with in day-to-day life are airconditioners and refrigerators, and so the way they workis they use electricity to move heat from one place to another and air conditioners, they’reexchanging heat with the air, and the downside to doing that is the air tends to beexactly what you don’t want in sense that the days when you want to air-condition the most is when the air outside is the hottest but you’re trying to rejectheat into that hot air, which is hard. – Right, I had a problemactually at my house when we did AC install that. It was sucking air from the attic and using that to conditionit, to cool it down, but the air in the attic was much hotter than the air that I wanted,so it just never worked well.I had to fix that after a while. So that’s interesting. So what is it about the going underground, like why do that? Because I think this is akey thing that blew my mind. – Yeah, so the reason that it’sso helpful to go underground is underground it’s about 50degrees Fahrenheit year round. So in the winter you can pull heat from that 50 degree environment. Again, you’re boosting thetemperature so don’t worry your house will be warmer than 50 degrees but you’re able to pullthat heat into the house.But then, in the summer, you’re rejecting heatinto the 50-degree ground, which is so much easier than rejecting it into the 80-degree or90-degree air outside and this property lets your heat pump run very, very efficiently. – Right, so essentially, and you said, the pipe is 500 feet, but I don’t imagine yougo down 500 feet, right? – You do actually.- You do? Wow, okay. – Yeah, so there aredifferent ways of doing it. Some people have what arecalled horizontal loops where it’s more of aslinky, that’s buried, let’s say eight feet underground, but we tend to install systemsthat go vertically 500 feet and the reason we do that is that we want to minimizedisruption to the surface.So if you put in a horizontal system, you literally, I mean, your yard, it looks like you’reputting in a swimming pool, that’s like four times asbig as a swimming pool, you know what I mean, andthen you fill it back in but if you’re going down theamount of surface disruption is much less. – So how much surface disruption is there ’cause this was a question I had. I mean, obviously, if you, say, live in an apartment or a building, this isn’t an option foryou, but if you have a home like how much room do you actually need to install something like this? – Yeah, you need very little room.I mean it is, I think,the biggest challenge isn’t the room you needfor the loop itself, but the drilling equipment needs to be able to access the yard in order to even put that equipment in, and so that’s one reasonthat at Dandelion, one of our top focuses isdeveloping drilling equipment specific to this use case. – Yeah, yeah, I could see that. I mean, in California it’sa different landscape, but property is expensivespace, is very limited, and actually I’ve had several times I’m trying to do something inmy yard and that was an issue was even getting the equipment back there. Like it’s a given, right? Depending where you are,some areas, it fine, but in other parts likeout here in California, it’s definitely not a given so. – Right, and so that’swhy the drilling equipment that we’re designing, it’smeant to be very small and very nimble so that that access issue isn’t an issue anymore, because as long as you canget the equipment there, if you have any yard at all, you’ll be able to install that loop because again, it’s verysmall, I mean, it’s very long, but it’s in terms of thesurface that you need contained, so it will be critical tobringing geo to more urban areas, to have smaller drilling equipment.- Yeah, that’s awesome. And then so you install the actual pipe, it goes down 500 feet, loops back, you run water through it to capture or reject the heat essentially, right? – That’s right.- Depending on AC, and then that comes back up into what? What’s the next step onceI’ve got that energy captured? – Yeah, absolutely. So you’re going to run it throughyour geothermal heat pump, which is sitting whereyour furnace used to be, or your boiler used to be.And so inside that heat pump, it essentially lookslike an air conditioner you can run in reverse. It has a heat exchanger, where you’re passing that heatyou collected in that water to a refrigerant and thenyou’re using a compressor to boost the temperatureof the refrigerant, where you can harness that heat for blowing hotair throughout your home to heat it. – Got it. And that typically, thatunit, how big is it? Is like a refrigerator sizeor washing machine size? – It’s actually very similarto the size of a furnace.So usually what happens iswe just take the furnace out of the home, put that heat pump exactly where the furnaceused to be and connect it to whatever the furnaceused to be connected to. – Gotcha, and so for people in California, furnace is the thingthat heats your house. – Yes.- Okay? (laughs) But in the Northeast, this islike a common thing, right? Now, these live indoors typically, like if you already haveone unit, you know that. But if you don’t, likeout here in California a lot of people we have them on our roofs or we have them just sittingoutside of our house.So could this survive outside or would it be preferredto be inside typically? – It’s definitely preferableto have it inside, because it’s isolated from – The elements and stuff?- All potential damage of elements, and it’s longer-lasting. In the Northeast, peopletend to have basements, I know that’s not as common in California. (both laughing) Most furnaces are in basements here, but like I lived inCalifornia for 12 years before I moved to NewYork just this year, so. – Oh wow.- I had a natural gas furnace. It was just in a sort of utilitycloset and that works too. We see that here as well.- Got it. And so why would someone actually do this? Like what’s the incentive? If I’m a homeowner, and I have a furnacealready, it’s working, why would I go this route? – Yeah, well, our initialcustomers in the Northeast tend to be using, notall of them, but many, tend to be using fuels like fuel oil or propane to heat their homes and fuel oil is a nice way to say diesel.People are using diesel to heat their homes.- That’s bad. – So that’s actually super common, millions and millions of people do that. – How do you vent that? I didn’t even, I’ve heard fuel oil, but I didn’t understand that ’cause I know diesel,I mean you can’t like sit in your garage witha diesel car running, so there must be somekind of ventilation system or something for those right? – They have ventilation pipes, kind of like a tailpipe for your house. – That could be dangerous. That could be like seriouslydangerous for your house. – I mean, when you startyour fuel oil furnace for the first time, itdoes tend to have a smell.They can leak into your basement. It’s clearly not the best for air quality to be combusting diesel in your house, but these are necessaryevils that people live with, because they don’t have any other option. – Right, right. And so by going with the system that you guys have set up here, a geothermal system, I’mgoing to eliminate that danger am I gonna save money, like what other benefits are there here? – Exactly, so not onlyis fuel oil poisonous and combustible, (laughs)and like very annoying because you have to havea truck come to deliver it and pump it into a bigtank in your basement, it’s also very, very expensive. And not only is itexpensive but like diesel, all of us are familiar with this, the price fluctuates wildly, and so not only is it a major expense, but you can’t really predictwhat it will be in the future, which is just a veryfinancially stressful situation. So, just like through a heat pump, a geothermal heat pumpand all of a sudden, your bills are much lower and they’re much more predictable.- Right, and so I think thepredictability is the key thing, probably for most people, right? Like if it’s a known quantityI can live with that, I can budget that, if it’ssome other geopolitical event and all the sudden now it costme double to heat my home, which I have to do, thenthat’s a problem, right? So, okay, so I get this installed and I have a predictableamount for energy cost. Does it use electricityto do all the pumping? – It does.- Okay great, yeah. – Instead of paying for fuel oil, you’re paying more for electricity, but you’re actually coming out ahead. So your operating costsfor the geothermal system is much lower than for a furnace. – Do you have like a calculator, or some kind of I don’t know, range of how much peoplewould probably save, I know when I got solar installed, there’s kind of thisconcept of a payback period? Do you guys have that as well, where it’s you know?- We do.- Yeah, give me thosedetails, I’m curious. – Yeah, of course. So for a typical home thatwe serve in the Northeast, the payback period is anywherefrom five to seven years. – Mm-hmm.- So it’s quite fast, but it actually can beshorter if the homeowner was going to have to replacetheir furnace anyway, because then you don’t have to do that so then your paybackcould be almost immediate. Like solar, we offer financing options. So if a homeowner decidesto pay nothing up front and take a loan to pay for their system, their loan payment plus theirincreased electricity payment is actually less than what theywere paying for a fuel oil.So they have an immediate payback if they choose the financing option, – Wow, okay, great. So if I need to replace my furnace, this is a no-brainer, right? If I don’t need to replace my furnace, but I am concerned aboutdiesel combusting in my house, which is something I wouldbe very concerned about, or I just want more predictability or I guess, obviously this reduces kind of the personal CO2emissions that somebody emits, I imagine, by a substantial amount or our furnace is generallygood, I don’t know. Like how bad are they, yeah? – So, even if you’re notgonna replace your furnace because fuel oil is so expensive, you’re actually still gonnabe financially better off to replace it with a geothermal system. In terms of emissions, yeah I mean, heating and cooling in the Northeast, I can speak to better than California and I would have to runthe numbers for California, but in the Northeast, it’sone of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. And not only that it’sespecially problematic because they’re allpoint source emissions, like everyone’s furnace, it’s millions and millionsof point source emissions and heat pumps really are the only way to clean those up, right, because you can’t straight electrify it.Electric resistance heating is actually the mostexpensive possible way to heat your house (laughs) so. – Yeah, I’ve looked at at that, and it’s just like electricwater heaters, for example, I was like yeah, let’s dothat, I’ll be all electric and I looked at them like this is not, (laughs) this is not really viable yet. It’s one of those things where the amount of electricity needed is tremendously largerthan you would imagine for something like that, yeah. – Exactly and electricity is such a high-value form of energy, whereas heat is the lowestvalue form of energy. And so it makes sense thatif you’re just gonna resist the highest value formof energy to the lowest, like that’s probably not ever gonna be the best economic choice,but what a heat pump does is because you’re not using electricity to create all of the energythat you’re using for heating, you’re actually usingelectricity to move the energy from one place to another.And the way you define theefficiency of a heat pump is something called theCoefficient Of Performance or typically referred to as the COP, and the COP of our heat pump, for example, is just over four. So what that means is forevery one unit of electricity you’re actually movingfour units of usable energy into the house. – Good, yeah, so that’s a big return then. – You’re getting a lotof free, renewable energy that you’re using to keep your house that you don’t have to pay anything for. – Now, with your client base, we mentioned we talked aboutbasically the limitation or the barrier besides cost is getting the drillingequipment in there, but space isn’t really an issue here. So who are the people thatare kind of primed for this? I know actually, my mother-in-law, she lives in Montana in a very rural area, and this was the first time I had heard of geothermalheating and cooling because they explained it to me that they have these pipes in the ground and it just magically makesthe home a perfect temperature all year round (laughs) and they have this giant solar system and they’re like yeah,it’s basically free.I’m like I don’t fullybelieve this, but okay, and now here we are, and I’mlearning so much more about it but who are people that arekind of primed for this? Is it somebody living in asubdivision in Connecticut, or is it somebody out in a rural area, like who is, kind of moresuited for it typically? – Mm-hmm. Yeah, it’s a great questionand I can speak first to Dandelion’s customers, but then I’ll talk more broadlyabout geothermal in general.So in terms of who we serve and who we find is the bestfit in our service territory, which right now is upstateNew York, it’s people again, people who get the bestpayback are using fuel oil, propane or electric resistance. We actually do have a lot of customers who switch from natural gas, but for them it tends to be a choice that’s not purely economically-driven. So you tend to, you’re not worse off with geothermal than natural gas, but given the low prices of natural gas, it’s not super different. And then beyond that, ourproduct today works for homes that have existing ductwork.So we tend to look for homeowners who don’t have to doextensive ductwork remodeling in order to adopt the heat pump but yeah, I think subdivisionversus rural, both are great. I would say the limitation is, we’re not ready to tackle aplace like Manhattan, right, it’s like very, verydense, very hard to drill, so the environment, and then more broadly, sorry, one minute, I’mjust gonna quit Slack so that it doesn’t keep popping up, so. – No worries. – More broadly, theplaces where geothermal makes the most senseare places where people are spending a lot of money for heating.Because geothermal costs less for heating, you just save money more quickly if you’re spending more to begin with, so. Throughout the Northeast, the Midwest, those are all prime markets. – Right. The parallel for me withsolar is kind of how, where I live in San Diego,solar isn’t actually the best, because the we don’t spenda ton of money on cooling, because the temperatures aregenerally pretty agreeable but like Phoenix where I’m from, you spend ungodly amountsof money on cooling and you have tons of sunshine so solar is just a slam dunk out there.- Yeah, that’s exactlyright, that’s actually right. – So if you spend a lotof money on heating, this is obviously a good option. – Mm-hmm, yep. And geothermal workswell for cooling as well, so the best best places (laughs) are ones where youspend a lot of money on heating but you also have an air conditioning need because the system does both things. But certainly in the U.S, I do think that theheating dominant use case will be the one that drivesto your thermal adoption.- I mean, and that’s agood very large percentage of the country, right?- Yeah. – Like I’m down here atthe southern Western end, a very kind of in a different world, but yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So let’s talk about the company,because I think you guys, like I’m interested in hearing how you kind of came to this path, right? I’m always fascinated tolearn the motivations, what led to it, I know thisisn’t how I built this, but I’m curious just like,(Kathy laughs) and I know you guys gotsome investment recently and congratulations, but just like, like what led you downthis road to do this? Is it a climate change kind of thing, or is it a you had afurnace you hate it as a kid or something like that? Like really ’cause likewhat’s the origin story here? – Yeah, of course. I think for those of uswho are environmentalists and panic every time wehear about the latest, like giant iceberg melting or notice that yet again wehave the hottest year on record, it can seem like a veryintractable problem, because you don’t want to pitthe needs of the world economy against the needs of the environment.It’s a very hard. (laughs) It’s a hard way of looking at the problem. And I think that the thingthat I found so exceptional about the opportunityto transition heating to heat pumps is that economically it’s in thehomeowner’s best interest, right? Like people are saving moneyby switching from heating fuels that they do not like using to renewable electrified heating, and that is, it just struck me, like this is a problemwhere all of the interests should be aligned. We just have some work todo to get the technology and the process to apoint where this product is actually ready for the mainstream, but like creating technologyand creating business models and processes, likethose are doable things, and the scale of whatcould be accomplished if we do them is so vast. So again, there are hundredsof millions of buildings that are burning fossil fuels and, unlike electric vehiclesand renewable electricity, I don’t think there’requite as many companies, or people really focusedon tackling this problem.- Yeah, good point.- So it just seems like this is a problem space that really needs moretalented people looking into it and needs more R&D and more(laughs) creative thinking, and if we can figure it out, it will just make such a big difference, not only to saving peoplebillions of dollars, but also cleaning upall of those emissions. – Yeah, I mean, but how did you, how did you think of this idea? Like what brought yousaid, hmm, heat pumps? You said you lived in Californiafor the past 12 years, so I don’t imagine it was fromyour time out here, right? – Yeah, it certainly wasn’t inspired by living in California.- Yeah, like what sparked thisspecific idea of heat pumps? – Well, I had this job that was a perfect job forstumbling upon an idea like this, because my job was I worked as, what was called a rapidevaluator within Google X, and my mission was to find new ideas for X to pursue that couldturn into big businesses that would make a really big impact.And I focused in that capacity on energy, ’cause that’s what I’m interested in and that’s the problem scapethat really calls to me and I’m sure, that’s true ofa lot of your viewers as well. – Yeah, 100%.- Yeah, so in that job, I got this email one dayfrom a software engineer who was based in New York. At that time I was sittingin Mountain View, California, and he just laid out this case for why geothermal heat pumps were the number-one opportunity to make a transformational difference in how we use energy as a society. It was a very bold claim,it was a very long email and (laughs) most of the time, so because it was myjob to really like learn and understand these opportunities, I decided, you know I don’t know that much about geothermal heat pumps, I’ll dig into this andlike really understand the points that he’s making.- Yes, so that’s probably likehis best email he ever sent. (both laughing)Right. Like what other kind of thingswere people emailing you? Was this a, I’m veryintrigued now of like, I know reporters get tons of things, the random stuff, peoplewant to push their story, but like what other kindof things were people, like ideas were out there? – A lot of people emailedX about wanting funding for their idea or proposalsof various things we could do but so often, so often, you like scratch the surface and for whatever reason, that’s clear that it’snot exactly the right fit. And I totally expected thatto happen with this email. You know what I mean?- Right. – Just like the common experience, but the unique thing about it was the more I learned, the moreit really dragged me in. – Well, in your point about, so the point you made about the economics and everything kind of aligning is something I’ve beensaying for a long time with electric vehicles, right, where I focus a lot of myenergy, pun intended, I guess, but is that when an electricvehicle is clearly better like objectively in every way, people will stop rejecting them for whatever kind of biasesthey may hold, right? But if you’re trying to justplay on people’s psychology of being altruistic or something, that to me it never seemedlike a feasible business model.(laughs) All right. Like you had to show me in concrete terms how this would be better for me. And it sounds like that also kind of is what drew you to thisbusiness or this industry. – It is. And I look to Tesla as such a role model of a company for what needs to be done here, because before they showed us that you could make an electric car intothe most desirable car, that’s just not how peoplethought about electric cars at all, and now allthe major car companies are making electric cars. I think, I mean, the category of furnaces and air conditioners is one that there isn’t apleasant consumer experience. There hasn’t been a lotof attention paid to that, to making that product asamazing to use as it can be. I think Nest also showed us a little bit about what can happen when you take a neglected element (both laughing)of the home system and really put design andattention to the user experience and I think we’ll do that for heating and cooling equipment, and in the process, electrify it.Yeah, so that is certainly the vision. – So you get the email,you write them back and then you end up leaving Google, the venture part of it, right? You were at Google X. Google X, which part was that? Was this the moonshot division? – Yeah.- Okay. – It’s the moonshot division so the more we dug intogeothermal heat pumps, the more intriguing it became, and I ended up hiring James to Google X, who’s now Dandelion’s co-founder and CTO, because he had actuallysold a company to Solar City in the past and then workedfor five years at Solar City in their energy efficiency division. So he had first-hand participatedin part of that journey of taking solar panels fromthis niche expensive product to have the mainstreamproduct that it is today. And then, together withX, in evaluating the idea, it just became clear thatunlike a lot of the ideas that X pursues, the self-driving car being the most famous one,- With Waymo, or.- With Waymo, yeah, exactly. – Well, and there’s somany, like we could go off in so many tangents hereabout the Google X projects, but yeah, keep going (laughs). This one seemed more real. – Well, unlike that, sosome of the X projects that I think are actuallyvery well-suited for X, require a tremendous amountof upfront R&D investment in order to see a giant payoff. And I think Waymo is actuallya really good example of that. This wasn’t that at all, right, like Dandelion, thestyle of the challenge, it just lent itself togoing to market much sooner and running it more like a startup, and so that’s why we’ve made the decision, let’s go to market much soonerand run this like a startup and got their blessing to spinit out and take that path.- That’s awesome. So you saw something thatthe economics made sense and it was kind of aligning with your environmentalist kind of view, or the the energy space and with what you see as abig problem in the world, but I think, most importantlyyou saw that it was possible, it wasn’t something thatwas like a moonshot idea, it wasn’t a let’s builda self-driving car, it’s like yeah, okay, give us15 years and a couple billion, and we can maybe do it, right? This was like a give us, I don’t know a couplemillion or whatever it costs, and let’s go to market. So how far along are you now? I mean, how many customers do you have, or where are you at inthat kind of process of actually delivering these things? Are you still kind ofin research phase or? – No, yeah.We launched our Dandelion air heat pump, which we created specificallyto be filled with sensors, so it it monitorsperformance in real-time, can do diagnostics and providemore intelligence, I suppose, than most heating cooling systems offer and more transparency to the homeowner about how it’s performing. We launched that in June of 2018 and our market right now is upstate New York. So we’ve made the very conscious decision to start with a circumscribed geography to limit the complexity ofbalancing a lot of different like regulatory regimes, utilities and all the different things we’d have to, well, eventually take on.And one of the nicethings about this product is that there are so manyhomes that need heating that limiting yourself geographically actually does not limit your market in any way that couldslower growth at this point. So we’ve been focused on sellingsystems in upstate New York for the past, I guessalmost nine months now. – Wow, awesome. So people actually havethis in their home, they’re actually benefiting from this? So, since you guys areex-Google, and stuff like that, I love that you mentioned the sensors because I used to work at Facebook and we had a similarkind of central tenant and I’m sure, Google, as well, of like the concept of the value of data and so I love that you guys have all this. Are users of Dandelionable to see that data and interact with it in any way or, ’cause like one of the thingswith Nest, for example, it’s fantastic to just get these reports, how much energy you use,it’s like a simple bar chart, but it’s something you never had before.So I think it’s really cool. Is that a path you’re going? Does that already exist or? – That’s absolutely our path. So today, we prioritized justlike launching that product and formatting the data and starting to get insights from it. We do send the reports to thecustomers that ask for them, but we’re in the process of building out a much more beautiful and somecustomer-friendly interface, so that everyone can trackhow their system is performing and how much energy they’re using and how much they’re saving. – Yeah, that’s fantastic. ‘Cause I think it’s probablysomething like your furnace never gave you a report, right? You just have that fuel oil bill once you’re howeveroften they have to come.- And you know, not only that, but it turns out that overhalf of air conditioners are installed incorrectly, so – Yeah, mine.(both laughing). – Usually, somethinglike the refrigerant line isn’t build the properamount or like something and that causes them to underperform. But because we have nomonitoring, no one can see it, and so like the homeowneris basically helpless with actually doing anything about this. I think it’s probably extremely prevalent among heating systems as well. So we’re also just passionate about bringing more transparency to the heating and cooling industry. – Yeah. No, I love that because Nestseems like a very good parallel where, besides us dads out there, the thermostat was prettyneglected part of the household, and now it’s, I mean, I don’tknow it’s just like I love, I mean, Nest did a great job, I feel, of creating a whole product line that integrates really kindof seamlessly into their apps.So I imagine you’ve guys,obviously Google owns Nest and I think they still do, but like there’s probablya lot of that same thinking with your product line, I imagine, right? Like you’re gonnaintegrate with other apps or other services, things like that. – Yeah, and you canimagine that in the future we’ll be able to doreally interesting things. So, just to give a quick example, peak air conditioning loads, they impact the way thegrid is built, right? Like the grid is designedfor that hot summer day. If Dandelion controls alot of the cooling systems that are in use, we can actually make the systemperform more intelligently. So the homeowner doesn’thave to do anything or suffer any discomfort, likethey can set the temperature as they normally would butour system can anticipate, okay, it looks likeit’s gonna be a hot day and the peak load might behigh so let’s sort of pre-cool this part of our system, or we can start to rid them of that work to really alleviate thatpressure on the grid.And this isn’t somethingthat we have today, and it wouldn’t make sensefor us to have it staked, we don’t have enough systems out there for it to make a difference, but we’re designing the systems so that that future is possible and that we can start to operatethese systems as a network that just has positive effectsto the grid as a whole. – So is there an actualsoftware package for the system and you’re able to update that in either wired- That’s right.- Or over-the-air, or something? Wow. Yeah.- Yeah, that’s right. So all the systems are connectedwith a cellular link today, we’re actually about tolaunch Wi-Fi any day now so we’ll have about twomethods of connection where we can update the software, similar to like many company, Tesla does the same thing with their cars. – I woke up this morning andmy car had 5% more range on it than it did yesterday.- Exactly, exactly. – Magic, magic. It is pure magic.(both laughing) So I could see that makesa lot of sense right, and so I’m such a data geek, but it goes back to thatright, like let’s fast forward and you have, I don’t knowthree million households or something using Dandelion, the amount of data you would have would be incredibly valuable to understanding the peakdemand of the grid, right? And so you could probably even partner with local energy companies, not to like give them that data, but to say, like hey look,like let’s work together and make sure thatbecause we have the data on all the households,and what they’re doing.If you give us a sense of like what is happening on your end, we could probably make this more efficient or something, right?- Exactly. – It’s probably lots ofopportunities there to help, I guess, on both sides, the customer and theinfrastructure system. – Right, and in the Northeastagain, about 80-plus percent of the energy used in thehouse, it goes towards heating. So it’s this giant segment ofhow homes are using energy, and so the fact that, like this one, the heat pump is responsiblefor managing that energy, is it really that concentration gives us a lot of opportunitywhen it comes to, for example, smart pricing of technology or, there are lots of opportunitiesto like reward homeowners, for having a system thatactually benefits the grid and not just the homeowner.- Yeah, it a bit reminds me ofhow auto-insurance companies are giving people these little things to plug into their car, to prove that they’re like safe drivers, and by doing so, they get adiscount on their insurance, right? Like I could see a parallel there where you’re like oh well, now that you’re connected with this, we can have kind of a two-way relationship and because of that, it’ll save all of usmoney kind of a thing. – Yeah, and that’ excitingthings we’re seeing is that that’s already started to happen even at this very earlyphase of geothermal.Utilities in New York have already started offeringincentives to homeowners that geothermal systems, because even without anyintelligent communication between systems or anyof that sophistication, the mere act of switching fromtraditional fossil system, to a heat pump is sobeneficial to the grid that the utilities arealready giving rebates and incentives to make it happen. So I think there’s just like an incredible amount of potential there. – That’s amazing. Now, have you looked to partner with, I mean, I guess I’ll just say Tesla, because they’re the only onesI know making home batteries, but I know there are others out there, but have you looked to partner with them because it seems like there would be a reallygood type of setup, right, you have a power walls,maybe two or three, however many you needand you have Dandelion, and so, solar doesn’t always work when the sun’s not out in thewinter, those kind of times, but you have this battery system, so you’re reducing load on the grid and, let’s say there’s apower outage or something, your system totally sustainable, right? I mean, have you looked at partnerships.I mean, I don’t know if you, I don’t know how that would work or if it would just be like,yeah, go ahead and buy them. (both laughing) – I think that is absolutelythe way that things will had. So exactly as you said, if you have a sole solar on your roof, you’re powering your battery, you’re using it to power your heat pump, and your electric car,let’s say like your home, is completely electrified and you’re making a good portion of that electricity yourself, at this stage we haven’tyet partnered with Tesla or any other company with batteries, but we do see that a lotof our customers have solar and we do see that a lot of our customers are interested in electrification. So it’s a natural fit.- Yeah, exactly. I mean, even if you’re notmaking money on the deal, just offering it like hey,let’s get you your heat pump and your geothermal stuff andwe’ll install some batteries at the same time.If it makes sense to do those things, you know sometimes it’s like if you’re gonna redo the floors you may have as well redothis other part of the house or something, right? So I’m curious to see how that goes ’cause yeah, to me that’sjust a perfect fit, especially ’cause thenI mean for energy needs, you’re pretty good,right, other than I guess, if it snows and thesolar panels are covered. Maybe you have heated solarpanels that melt away the snow, I don’t know, it’s sucha foreign concept to me, but I love that idea and Ilove what you guys are doing.So, what’s next on the horizon, what do you have guys have coming up that you want people to know about, or is it all behind closed doors? It’s Google X still.(both laughing) – No, I’d be happy to talk about that. So we’ve just raised our Series A round and one of the things thatwe’re really excited about doing is just taking our drilling technology from the world of R&D,where it’s been living, into operations. So we have this smallerrig that’s less messy, that’s faster, we wanna start using that to install all of our systemsfor homeowners in New York.And that’s really one ofour main focuses this year is rolling that out. So we’re really excited about that. We also, currently, ourfirst heat pump product is specifically for homes with ductwork, so people with forced air heating today, but a lot of people in New York and throughout the Northeast, use other types of heatdistribution systems, – Radiators in the ground.- Radiators, exactly. And so we’re starting towork on the very early stages of developing our next product, to just be able to accommodate more homes than we’re able to serve today. And then lastly, there’sjust a lot of work that we’re focused on tocontinuously improve our offerings. So a simple example is, while there’s been decades of effort put into the different financing options that are available for peoplewho want to go with solar, geothermal is in the very early innings, so we offer a loan that works really well, but we want to be ableto offer more options and give people more opportunities to pay in a way that works well for them.So there’s a lot of projects like that which we’re taking on to just always be making theproduct offering less expensive and easier for homeowners. – Yeah, it must feel good too right, because when you look at all this, the numbers all add up,they all make sense, and then, on top of it,it’s one of those things that it’s benefiting the planet and also in some ways, thedecentralization of these things, taking that load off the grid, I mean, just just all-around good stuff. And do you feel, like I know I was at the boring companyevent launch party a while ago and just hearing these guys talk about it, the engineers from SpaceX that are now working on boring tunnels, they’re just looking at it going like nobody’s done anythingin this space for 100 years.Does it kind of feel thatway on your side too, or coming from Google and Silicon Valley, it’s like hey, why didn’tanyone do this already? – It absolutely feels that way, and I love the way you put it. One of the most expensive parts of installing geothermal today is sticking a hole in your yard, and why is it so expensiveto put a hole in your yard? I think one of the reasons is like what no one hasinnovated on that problem in a very, very long time,and so it’s exciting for me, because it suggests thata little bit of resource applied to that problem might yield very interesting and very fast progress. – Right, it’s the Pareto principle, right? Like there’s this 20%here that you can tackle, which will yield 80% of those results, and people haven’t tackled it. They haven’t actually went after it right, they’ve just said hey, thisis how it’s always worked, let’s just stick with that. Now, to be fair, there probably are companiesout there working on this, but from just my outsider perspective, it seems like a veryripe area of disruption.You know what I mean, it sounds like something that’s.- And of the things we have going for us is that there have been trillionsof dollars put into R&D, for fracking and other types of— The bigger, yeah. – And so one of ourapproaches is really borrowing from those sort of adjacentbut very different sectors. So, like the average pieceof drilling equipment for some of those applications is the size of a city block, right, and we have something tiny that can go in the customers’ yard, but conceptually, someof the breakthroughs that have happened overthere are equally applicable to our use case. And it’s just a matter of translating them in the way that makes sense for the problem that we’re tackling. So it’s nice to be able to rideoff of the tailwinds of that of that dramatic technology expansion. – I do wonder too, ifthere’s something about that, why it’s actuallyexpensive and difficult now is because it wasn’t designedwith that intent at all, right?- Yeah.- Like, oh, we know how to drill a hole, but it’s usually in an oil field where we have this giant system. To do it in your house is like oh man, how are we gonna fit this in there versus kind of the Teslafirst principles approach of like okay, so what we’re trying to do, let’s just break it downto the simplest form and figure out how to achieve it, ignoring how people havebeen doing it for a while and then look at other areasto glean learnings from that seems like.- Yeah, you’re definitely right. And the technology that’s used in the past for geothermal wells iswater-well technology. So people are essentially usingwater-well digging equipment to put in a geothermalloop but, as you said, that’s not gonna be the best way to do it.It’s just like the onlyway that people have had. – Yeah, well that’s fantastic. I am really excited for you Kathy, and I wish you guys all the best and where can people find more info, just dandelionenergy.com?- That’s the best place. – Fantastic, and next timewe’ll have a new office setup, I understand, there’s someconstruction going on there. So maybe, when I’m out in NewYork, I’ll come have a tour. Are you guys in Manhattan itself? – We are yeah, we’re rightnext to Grand Central Station.- Oh yeah, perfect, cool. I do come out there once ayear at least, sometimes twice, but I end up in Brooklyn and it’s always like, Iwant to go to Manhattan, but it’s difficult to get there and back but I’ll let you know next time I’m out ’cause I’d love to come see and just hang with youguys for a little bit. – Yeah, it’d be great to host you. – Cool, all right well,hey thanks for joining me.Everyone check out dandelionenergy.com and let me know what you guys think. If you have other questions, leave them in the comments down below. I will do my best to pointyou to the resources I have, and maybe we could convinceKathy or someone on her team to chime in some commentsand answers there if you have somequestions, so thanks again. – Thank you, great to be with you. – Yeah.(upbeat music) Hey, thanks for watching the video. 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Difference between revisions of "Talk:OWASP Initiatives Global Strategic Focus/website project"
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== Thoughts on Information Architecture ==
* The proposed top level navigation on p50 is inward looking, and doesn't consider the site's audiences and their needs
* The "OWASP Podcast" is no longer updated - it is called "OWASP 24/7"
* The proposed design for the home page on p53 is not compatible with OWASP's activity level and ability to generate content frequently, specifically:
** Blog post frequency is typically 2-4 per month which would give the impression not much is happening
** Not sure how "latest news" is different to what appears on "blog" or "podcast" or "events" - the Global Connector is the most regular OWASP output, but that content also appear on the blog and OWASP 24/7
** OWASP 24/7 frequency is quite variable. Excellent content but old dates might put people off
** The events diary has never represented all the chapter and other local meetings going on, and therefore suggests OWASP is not active in many places when it actually is - most events listed on the current home page calendar are not OWASP events, but security sector events
** "AppSec feed" hasn't existed for many years now - it was extremely good at the time, but a spot on the home page with no content will look terrible
* The earlier section of the report suggests that most visitors want the Top 10, ASVS and Cheat Sheets. they are not mentioned anywhere on the proposed design
* Project drop down on p56 is OWASP-centric instead of audience-centric - who cares how OWASP categorises its own projects? It's important, but shouldn't be the prime way to find information.
* How is "recent activity" on the projects page updated and who does it?
* The project wiki article page suggestion on p57 looks boring, and throws away lots of content on many project pages
* Breadcrumb trail and other things were mentioned as missing in the report discussion, but lots of those recommendations don't appear in the proposed designs - why not?
== Thoughts on Back Office and Infrastructure Architecture ==
1 Thoughts on look and feel
2 Thoughts on Platform Selection
3 Thoughts on Information Architecture
4 Thoughts on Back Office and Infrastructure Architecture
5 Thoughts on Gamification
6 Thoughts on Features and Release Roadmap
7 Thoughts on Search Functionality
8 Another topic...
Thoughts on look and feel
The Needs Assessment report has a good analysis of the current web site and provides a lot of valuable ideas for improvements. The mock-ups mostly look attractive. However, I disagree with some of the underlying assumptions:
Wikipedia-style is derided. However, this style is wholly appropriate for the OWASP style IMHO. The OWASP web site could do worse than emulate Wikipedia more faithfully. Run towards Wikipedia, not away from it!
The (ISC)^2 web site is put forward as a style to aspire to. I beg to differ: the current OWASP web site looks a lot more attractive to me than (ISC)^2's. The former is much easier on the eye. (ISC)^2 may draw attention through the use of striking colors and more graphic material. However, no additional useful information is conveyed. The net result is a feeling of weariness: my brain has to work hard to take in all these stimuli and I get very little in return. Remember that web sites are not competing for attention like billboards: unlike billboards, you visit web sites one by one. A good web site conveys its message while minimising collateral damage through information fatigue.
Agree with both of the above. ISC2 is not a "competitor" and whilst the report has much to offer, focusing on ISC2, ISACA, ISA for comparisons seems a bit lazy. These other organisations are not like OWASP in terms of objectives, audience or membership. I remember being asked during an interview for this "shouldn't OWASP be the primary source of information" and I said no, OWASP's role is to promote application security - not promote itself. AppSec info appearing on other websites is a win - not a negative.
The importance of the (ISC)^2 website is not that (ISC)^2 is a direct competitor or the colors they used but that they inhabit the same "space" as OWASP and that their decisions about organization make their website easier for new people to use.
The suggestion is not necessarily to do away with the wiki but to clean it up and change a few key landing pages to be easier to follow.
On p28 of the report, there is a recommendation to make the projects more consistency. I disagree, let projects lay out their content however they want - the audiences vary massively, and projects vary a lot too. OWASP is not ISC2 and I suspect never wants to be. ISC2 keeps getting used as an example - what about other community sites rather than commercial sales-orientated vendors like ISC2? At least OWASP has a memorable/writable name.
Agree, a breadcrumb trail mentioned on p31 would be useful, but is still a challenge to define what the hierarchy might be
Peer analysis on p32 is flawed. The organisation mentioned are not peers.
Fascinating, p37 says "OWASP has the highest Alexa ranking"... err so why do we have to change so much?
The "bounce rate" is mentioned as a negative here but fails to understand how some people use the site. The high number of "single page visitors" was also lauded by the report's authors as awful during the telephone interview, but they did not realise that some people use OWASP as a reference document, and use Google to search for "XSS cheat sheet" for example, then go to that page, use the information and then get on with their lives. There is no analysis of robots anywhere in this report, so the analysis of information presented about visitors is guesswork.
Thoughts on Platform Selection
p48 states there are two purposes for the OWASP website.... (1 Organisation visibility and membership promotion/participation and 2 Improve application security visibility...). Although this is stated within what is called "Option A", it seems to apply to all three options. But more importantly, "Organisation visibility and membership promotion/participation" is not one of OWASP's objectives, values, purposes or principles. Who said that self-promotion is one of the website's purposes? If the only purpose is instead "Improve application security visibility...", then the arguments for the 3 options need to be revisited e.g. the report says "These 2 purposes are at odds with each other".
Thoughts on Information Architecture
The proposed top level navigation on p50 is inward looking, and doesn't consider the site's audiences and their needs
The "OWASP Podcast" is no longer updated - it is called "OWASP 24/7"
The proposed design for the home page on p53 is not compatible with OWASP's activity level and ability to generate content frequently, specifically:
Blog post frequency is typically 2-4 per month which would give the impression not much is happening
Not sure how "latest news" is different to what appears on "blog" or "podcast" or "events" - the Global Connector is the most regular OWASP output, but that content also appear on the blog and OWASP 24/7
OWASP 24/7 frequency is quite variable. Excellent content but old dates might put people off
The events diary has never represented all the chapter and other local meetings going on, and therefore suggests OWASP is not active in many places when it actually is - most events listed on the current home page calendar are not OWASP events, but security sector events
"AppSec feed" hasn't existed for many years now - it was extremely good at the time, but a spot on the home page with no content will look terrible
The earlier section of the report suggests that most visitors want the Top 10, ASVS and Cheat Sheets. they are not mentioned anywhere on the proposed design
Project drop down on p56 is OWASP-centric instead of audience-centric - who cares how OWASP categorises its own projects? It's important, but shouldn't be the prime way to find information.
How is "recent activity" on the projects page updated and who does it?
The project wiki article page suggestion on p57 looks boring, and throws away lots of content on many project pages
Breadcrumb trail and other things were mentioned as missing in the report discussion, but lots of those recommendations don't appear in the proposed designs - why not?
Thoughts on Back Office and Infrastructure Architecture
This should certainly be a priority. It is difficult to volunteer for projects and efforts since work needed is not centralized. Additionally, communication seems to always go out of band to email which reduces overall teamwork and transparency. While the groups are very successful, we are losing volunteer work due to an inability to locate it.
Thoughts on Gamification
Thoughts on Features and Release Roadmap
Thoughts on Search Functionality
Another topic...
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Saving Baby Mango: A pig's tale of kindness
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Published on: September 10, 2019 | Last Updated: September 10, 2019 9:45 AM EDT
A baby pig likely fell out of a transport truck in Ottawa and was found lying on the side of the highway. gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
A kind-hearted woman has saved a piglet named Mango from a lonely death at the edge of Highway 417 east of Ottawa.
Now donors are flooding a GoFundMe campaign with cash for the little pig’s veterinary bills, and Mango is recovering nicely.
But the rescue nearly didn’t happen. Dr. Lara Elizabeth Cohen of the Aylmer Veterinary Clinic in Gatineau explained on a GoFundMe page how a woman named Julia drove past the injured pig last Monday and almost didn’t notice him.
“She caught a glimpse of what she thought was a paper bag on the highway. She passed it quickly but could not get the image out of her mind,” Cohen wrote.
“About 5 minutes out, she realized that what she had thought was a paper bag, was actually a baby pig, lying on the side of the highway. He was clearly injured. She quickly turned around and ten minutes later, arrived to find a small piglet lying shivering and bloody on the ground.”
The little guy is eight or nine weeks old, weighs 20 pounds and probably fell off a transport truck.
“Not knowing what to do, Julia grabbed a towel, wrapped him up and brought him home.”
Baby pig found injured by the side of Highway 417.
Mango was clearly hurt, so Julia started to make phone calls and eventually connected with Cohen and another vet.
Mango “was not looking good.” On the car ride to the emergency clinic, the second vet thought she would be doing a humane euthanasia, Cohen wrote.
“Shortly before her arrival however, her eyes met his and he had a look of gratitude and hope that could not be ignored. It was then that she decided to take a chance.
“She was able to obtain pain medications from the emergency clinic and Mango started to show improvement almost immediately. Despite this, he remained largely listless and was unable to walk. One of his legs was extremely swollen and dangled from his hip. We tried to keep him as immobilized as we could while creating a sling for him to walk outside to do his business every few hours.”
Mango had surgery for broken bones in his upper and lower hind leg and is recovering well.
X-Ray of multiple fractures from Mango’s fall. gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
Julia, the woman who found him, named him Hamlet at first. The vets vetoed this (too meat-like) and renamed him after he fell asleep with a piece of mango dangling out of his mouth.
“He’s doing phenomenally well,” Cohen said Monday. “He sleeps a lot, which is part of recovery for sure, but it’s also part of being a baby.
Mango in his sling. www.gofundme.com/f/saving-baby-mango
“He seems quite comfortable. We have been able to discontinue the harder pain medications and he is good on an anti-inflammatory.” He can’t put weight on the injured leg yet. But being a baby is on his side because his body is primed to build new bones and cells quickly.
“He is on rest for four to six weeks in a small cage and then we are going to open up the area he is allowed to walk about in,” she said.
“He is very playful. He loves his belly scratched. He loves to interact with people. The funny thing that we learned is that like a dog, he wags his tail when he’s happy. It is the cutest thing ever!
“When you feed him a meal that he is excited about he will wag his tail. So he’s very much like a dog.”
He is also house-trained, using a litter box.
The clinic has found a foster home for the near term, but will need someone to take him in the long term. “This will be a place where he can roam freely, burrow in the soil and be amongst other farm and domestic animals, enjoying the care and respect of humans who understand the value of all creatures — large and small — regardless of what this earth has deemed to be their destiny,” Cohen wrote.
She cautions that Mango will some day be very large. He is not a miniature pig.
As of 10 p.m. Monday, the campaign had raised $5,920 of the estimated $7,000 needed for surgery and follow-up care.
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January 2 2019
P2P set for fundraising boom in 2019
Marc Shoffman Industry News, News Abundance, Assetz Capital, Beauhurst, equity fundraising, Funding Circle, fundraising, Henry Whorwood, Jaidev Janardana, Landbay, P2P fundraising, Seedrs, Stuart Law, Tom Horbye, Welendus, Zopa
INVESTORS could be set to benefit from another bumper year of equity fundraisings in the peer-to-peer lending sector.
P2P lenders raised more than £10m through crowdfunding platforms last year to boost their technology and operations, while almost £2bn was ploughed into the wider fintech sector.
P2P executives have said that the extra financial firepower offered by fundraising rounds benefits the sector’s retail investors, who can enjoy a better customer experience and greater reassurance in the firm handling their funds.
“2018 has seen nearly £2bn invested into private UK fintech and alternative finance companies – a record amount,” Henry Whorwood, head of research and consultancy at Beauhurst, said.
“39 fintech companies have used crowdfunding platforms to raise capital. This is a record level of crowdfunding investment into fintech companies and we expect to see more of this in 2019.”
Some of the largest P2P deals last year included Funding Circle’s £300m initial public offering, while Zopa raised £60m from a private fundraise, with more to come this year as it seeks to build a bank.
“Our main priorities into 2019 are launching our new banking products, such as the fixed-term de-posits, whilst also continuing to grow and improve our P2P business,” Jaidev Janardana, chief executive of Zopa, said.
“In 2019, we will be looking to raise additional capital to meet our regulatory requirements as we fuel the fast growth of our bank.”
Other platforms have chosen to go down the equity crowdfunding route. Landbay and Abundance raised £1.6m and £1.4m respectively on Seedrs last year, while Welendus raised £939,104.
Assetz Capital has raised more than £5m via Seedrs over the years and is now looking to raise £400,000 on the crowdfunding platform to finance the launch of a new P2P property venture.
“We may raise further equity next year,” Assetz Capital’s chief executive Stuart Law told Peer2Peer Finance News.
“A business with a strong balance sheet is a business that is worth investing through, as is dealing with one that is in profit.”
Tom Horbye, campaigns development manager for Seedrs, said that 12 P2P platforms raised funds through its platform in 2018, raising more than £10m, and predicted that the market is ripe for more campaigns in 2019.
“As seen in the latest update from the UK Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, the P2P lending market has continued to see strong growth, an attractive market signal for any growth equity investor,” he said.
“That coupled with the recent increase in the EU prospectus limit – which increased the threshold for when those raising funds have to produce a full prospectus – will likely see later-stage P2P lenders explore equity crowdfunding as a way to allow their loyal lending customers the opportunity to own a slice of the P2P platform they use, and share in the success of the P2P lending market’s growth.”
This article originally appeared in the January print edition of Peer2Peer Finance News. You can read the full issue here.
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Oracle Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
Name of Product: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Plug In Version 2.0 for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
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The developed UI screens don't contain any images.
1194.22(f) Client-side image maps shall be provided instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape. Not Applicable
1194.22(g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Table usage – only data tables, as opposed to layout tables, use table elements of TH and CAPTION and table attributes of SUMMARY, SCOPE, HEADERS and AXIS
Each column of a data table is marked up with TH and SCOPE=”COL”
Each row of a data table has at least one cell marked as the row header with SCOPE=”ROW”
1194.22(h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Complex data tables with multiple levels of table headings or other organization of data, use the ID, HEADERS, and AXIS attributes
1194.22(i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation. Not Applicable
Frames and iFrames are not used.
1194.22(j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
1194.22(k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Text–only pages are not necessary because pages have been coded to meet other applicable standards, to the extent indicated.
1194.22(l) When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text that can be read by assistive technology. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Content generated by JavaScript has been coded to meet other applicable standards, to the extent indicated
1194.22(m) When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a plug-in or applet that complies with §1194.21(a) through (l). Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Product does not depend on plug-ins.
1194.22(n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
1194.22(o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
A ‘Skip to Main Content’ link is provided to skip repetitive navigation links at the top of the page
Structure and hierarchy is marked up with Header elements
1194.22(p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. Product has been developed to conform to this standard subject to the remarks on the right.
Content that automatically updates, or time limits, can be adjusted by the user
The product's time limit settings can be tweaked by clicking on "Metric and Collection settings" menu item.
Note to 1194.22: The Board interprets paragraphs (a) through (k) of this section as consistent with the following priority 1 Checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) (May 5 1999) published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium: Paragraph (a) - 1.1, (b) - 1.4, (c) - 2.1, (d) - 6.1, (e) - 1.2, (f) - 9.1, (g) - 5.1, (h) - 5.2, (i) - 12.1, (j) - 7.1, (k) - 11.4.
Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products
1194.23(a) Telecommunications products or systems which provide a function allowing voice communication and which do not themselves provide a TTY functionality shall provide a standard non-acoustic connection point for TTYs. Microphones shall be capable of being turned on and off to allow the user to intermix speech with TTY use. Not Applicable
1194.23(b) Telecommunications products which include voice communication functionality shall support all commonly used cross-manufacturer non-proprietary standard TTY signal protocols. Not Applicable
1194.23(c) Voice mail, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems shall be usable by TTY users with their TTYs. Not Applicable
1194.23(d) Voice mail, messaging, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems that require a response from a user within a time interval, shall give an alert when the time interval is about to run out, and shall provide sufficient time for the user to indicate more time is required. Not Applicable
1194.23(e) Where provided, caller identification and similar telecommunications functions shall also be available for users of TTYs, and for users who cannot see displays. Not Applicable
1194.23(f) For transmitted voice signals, telecommunications products shall provide a gain adjustable up to a minimum of 20 dB. For incremental volume control, at least one intermediate step of 12 dB of gain shall be provided. Not Applicable
1194.23(g) If the telecommunications product allows a user to adjust the receive volume, a function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use. Not Applicable
1194.23(h) Where a telecommunications product delivers output by an audio transducer which is normally held up to the ear, a means for effective magnetic wireless coupling to hearing technologies shall be provided. Not Applicable
1194.23(i) Interference to hearing technologies (including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices) shall be reduced to the lowest possible level that allows a user of hearing technologies to utilize the telecommunications product. Not Applicable
1194.23(j) Products that transmit or conduct information or communication, shall pass through cross-manufacturer, non-proprietary, industry-standard codes, translation protocols, formats or other information necessary to provide the information or communication in a usable format. Technologies which use encoding, signal compression, format transformation, or similar techniques shall not remove information needed for access or shall restore it upon delivery. Not Applicable
1194.23(k)(1) For products which have mechanically operated controls or keys, controls and keys shall be tactilely discernible without activating the controls or keys. Not Applicable
1194.23(k)(2) For products which have mechanically operated controls or keys, controls do not require tight grasping, pinching or twisting of the wrist to operate. Not Applicable
1194.23(k)(3) If key repeat is supported, the delay before repeat shall be adjustable to at least 2 seconds. Key repeat rate shall be adjustable to 2 seconds per character. Not Applicable
1194.23(k)(4) The status of all locking or toggle controls or keys shall be visually discernible, and discernible either through touch or sound. Not Applicable
Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products
1194.24(a) All analog television displays 13 inches and larger, and computer equipment that includes analog television receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. As soon as practicable, but not later than July 1, 2002, widescreen digital television (DTV) displays measuring at least 7.8 inches vertically, DTV sets with conventional displays measuring at least 13 inches vertically, and stand-alone DTV tuners, whether or not they are marketed with display screens, and computer equipment that includes DTV receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. Not Applicable
1194.24(b) Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program playback circuitry. Not Applicable
1194.24(c) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. Not Applicable
1194.24(d) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described. Not Applicable
1194.24(e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent. Not Applicable
Section 1194.25 Self Contained, Closed Products
1194.25(a) Self contained products shall be usable by people with disabilities without requiring an end-user to attach assistive technology to the product. Personal headsets for private listening are not assistive technology. Not Applicable
1194.25(b) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. Not Applicable
1194.25(c) Where a product utilizes touchscreens or contact-sensitive controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with Section 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4). Not Applicable
1194.25(d) When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided. Not Applicable
1194.25(e) When products provide auditory output, the audio signal shall be provided at a standard signal level through an industry standard connector that will allow for private listening. The product must provide the ability to interrupt, pause, and restart the audio at anytime. Not Applicable
1194.25(f) When products deliver voice output in a public area, incremental volume control shall be provided with output amplification up to a level of at least 65 dB. Where the ambient noise level of the environment is above 45 dB, a volume gain of at least 20 dB above the ambient level shall be user selectable. A function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use. Not Applicable
1194.25(g) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. Not Applicable
1194.25(h) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a range of color selections capable of producing a variety of contrast levels shall be provided. Not Applicable
1194.25(i) Products shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. Not Applicable
1194.25(j)(1) The position of any operable control shall be determined with respect to a vertical plane, which is 48 inches in length, centered on the operable control, and at the maximum protrusion of the product within the 48 inch length on products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls. Not Applicable
1194.25(j)(2) Where any operable control is 10 inches or less behind the reference plane, the height shall be 54 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor. Not Applicable
1194.25(j)(3) Where any operable control is more than 10 inches and not more than 24 inches behind the reference plane, the height shall be 46 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor. Not Applicable
1194.25(j)(4) Operable controls shall not be more than 24 inches behind the reference plane. Not Applicable
Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers
1194.26(a) All mechanically operated controls and keys shall comply with Section 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4). Not Applicable
1194.26(b) If a product utilizes touchscreens or touch-operated controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with Section 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4). Not Applicable
1194.26(c) When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided. Not Applicable
1194.26(d) Where provided, at least one of each type of expansion slots, ports and connectors shall comply with publicly available industry standards. Not Applicable
Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria
1194.31(a) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
1194.31(b) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require visual acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in audio and enlarged print output working together or independently, or support for assistive technology used by people who are visually impaired shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
1194.31(c) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user hearing shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
1194.31(d) Where audio information is important for the use of a product, at least one mode of operation and information retrieval shall be provided in an enhanced auditory fashion, or support for assistive hearing devices shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
1194.31(e) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user speech shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people with disabilities shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
1194.31(f) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided. Yes Subject to the information provided in this document, this product has been developed to conform to the applicable technical provisions of the 508 standards.
Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation and Support
1194.41(a) Product support documentation provided to end-users shall be made available in alternate formats upon request, at no additional charge. Documentation for this product is available in accessible electronic format.
1194.41(b) End-users shall have access to a description of the accessibility and compatibility features of products in alternate formats or alternate methods upon request, at no additional charge. Documentation for this product is available in accessible electronic format.
1194.41(c) Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of end-users with disabilities. Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support or by calling Oracle Support at 1.800.223.1711. Hearing-impaired customers in the U.S. who wish to speak to an Oracle Support representative may use a telecommunications relay service (TRS). Information about the TRS is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html, and a list of telephone numbers is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/trsphonebk.html. International hearing-impaired customers should use the TRS at +1.605.224.1837. An Oracle Support engineer will respond to technical issues according to the standard service request process.
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From Dale Whittaker's inbox: Alarms during a UCF exam, stinky dorm, missing honor roll awards
By Annie Martin
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Former University of Central Florida president Dale Whittaker resigned from his position last month. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)
Dale Whittaker was caught up in an investigation during his last two weeks as UCF president, but his email inbox shows he was confronted with day-to-day concerns including screeching alarms blaring during exams, stinky dorms and campus shuttles.
“My professor was proctoring and decided to mess around with the fire exit door which set off an alarm that consistently rang for an estimated period of 10 minutes,” wrote a frustrated student who sought Whittaker’s help after an exam Feb. 8 went awry. “During this scene, my professor insisted we continue to work on the exam while the alarm was blasting in my ear.”
The email was included in a batch received this week through a public records request. The Orlando Sentinel sought Whittaker’s incoming and outgoing emails from Feb. 6 to 20. The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees accepted his resignation Feb. 21 amid a controversy over the school's use of operating dollars for construction.
Whittaker and trustees said he gave up his post to “protect the university” but were vague about what that meant. Though the emails received by the Sentinel shed no light on that topic, they do reflect an array of concerns from students, employees and a parent who felt Whittaker — who was known as an approachable leader — could address their issues.
The messages also reveal that Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Garvy had arranged a lunch last month between university leaders and former Gov. Jeb Bush. The reason for the meeting, which was canceled for unspecified reasons, is not spelled out. But Bush, who spoke at a university graduation ceremony last spring, was apparently a friendly figure to UCF officials. A review of Garvy’s text messages the day before the university announced Whittaker’s resignation offer revealed the former governor had engaged in “outreach” for the university, though it wasn’t clear what that meant.
The emails also provided more detail about a statement a university spokesman prepared for Garvy last month. A little more than a week before Whittaker offered his resignation, the Sentinel asked the 13 trustees whether they still supported his presidency. Records obtained by the paper showed Grant Heston, the chief of staff and vice president for communications and marketing, emailed a statement to Garvy nine minutes before he sent it to the Sentinel unchanged. Heston reported directly to Whittaker.
The morning of Feb. 13, after the story appeared on the Sentinel’s website, Heston sent a “clarification” to Whittaker and trustees about the matter.
“Chairman Garvy told me what he wanted his statement to say and asked me to type it up for him so he didn’t have to do it on his iPad,” Heston wrote about the 174-word response. “I emailed it to him so he could copy it into his email response.”
He added: “The story suggests something nefarious when the reality is much more boring.”
A few emails came from employees and others who offered their support to Whittaker in the middle of the turmoil resulting from university leaders’ acknowledgment they spent, or planned to spend, $85 million in operating funds on construction, a violation of state rules.
On Feb. 6, the Florida House committee on Public Integrity and Ethics, sent subpoenas to Whittaker, former Board of Trustees Chairman Marcos Marchena, and a dozen current and former university employees. Whittaker sat for a brief deposition on Feb. 18. The next day, he offer his resignation to trustees.
During those two weeks, a job seeker sent his resume to Whittaker, promising experience in “global corporate treasury and cash management” and asking whether UCF was considering adding staff to its finance department.
This is an example of emails UCF President Dale Whittaker received during his last several weeks at the helm of the university (Courtesy of UCF)
On Feb. 17, a parent emailed him about the conditions in a dorm, citing “rotting food and throw-up on comforters left in the stairwells.” That morning, the writer’s daughter “walked out of her dorm door to be met with several large areas of throw up.” The student had contacted the resident assistant and university staff to no avail.
“It is beyond gross and unsanitary and the entire hallway permeates with the stench,” the parent wrote.
Additionally, the parent wrote, the elevator in the seven-story building had broken more than 15 times and “black dust” blew from the vents, sickening the young woman and her roommates. The same parent wrote again at 9 p.m. the same day saying the resident assistant still had not responded to her daughter’s complaints.
“I will be calling your office in the morning to gain insight into what solutions are going to be exercised in relation to these ongoing issues,” the parent wrote.
The next day, Feb. 18, Whittaker was in Tallahassee to sit for a deposition with staff members for the House Committee on Public Integrity and Ethics, which was investigating the university’s spending issues.
It’s not clear how the university responded to the parent’s complaints.
A parent emailed UCF President Dale Whittaker about issues in a dorm on Feb. 17, two days before Whittaker offered his resignation. (Provided by UCF)
The same day the House committee subpoenaed Whittaker and other employees, Feb. 6, a professor insistent on bringing autonomous shuttles to UCF sent several messages to Whittaker and other administrators, saying the idea could bring the university to the forefront in “high tech transportation.” The shuttles, which would operate on wide sidewalks at speeds of 10 to 15 mph, he assured, have “all types of sensors to stop faster” than an average person.
“But it seems with our bureaucracy and indecisiveness we cannot do much,” he vented.
Transportation issues also were on the mind of a student who confided to Whittaker on Valentine’s Day the existing campus shuttles seem to have problems with accelerating and braking. When the drivers hit the gas, the student wrote, “riders jolt forward more than normal.” And when it’s time to stop, the shuttles sometimes “screech.”
“I initially wasn’t sure who to send my concerns to, but I figured you would be able to channel this to the correct people. Thank you for your time, and thanks for being an awesome President!” the student gushed.
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And during Whittaker’s last full week in the university’s top post, two high-achievers emailed him regarding the whereabouts of their “President’s Honor Roll” awards, an honor reserved for students who earn 4.0 grade-point averages for the semester.
One of the notes, which started “Good afternoon Dale,” said the registrar’s office had referred the student’s concern to him.
“If you can get back to me about my next steps in getting these honor roll awards that would be highly appreciated,” the student wrote. “Thank you and have a wonderful day Mr. President.”
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€27/24 | Group Rates Available
Barry McGovern in
by Samuel Beckett
This smash-hit production returns to Pavilion Theatre after a sold-out run in April 2019!
A wide-eyed stranger alights from a country train. The destination: Mr Knott’s house. The mission: to serve.
Samuel Beckett’s wit and wisdom combine in the story of a nomadic manservant in the house of his unseen master.
Written as a novel while Beckett waited in the south of France for the Second World War to end, Watt comes to the stage in a one-man production of sparkling humour and heart-stirring poignancy.
This is a rare opportunity to see the master’s work performed by one of the greatest Beckett interpreters in the world: Barry McGovern.
Directed by Tom Creed, whose recent productions at Pavilion Theatre include The Tales of Hoffmann with Irish National Opera and Acis and Galatea with Opera Theatre Company.
Latecomers may not be admitted to the performance
Adapted and performed by Barry McGovern
Directed by Tom Creed
Set and Lighting Design by Sinéad Mckenna
Costume Design by Joan O’Clery
★★★★★ "McGovern's virtuosic performance demonstrates the value of simply experiencing the play"
– The Reviews Hub
★★★★ “A gem of a show”
– Time Out
“Explosively funny”
"It was a privilege to be in the audience"
– No More Workhorse
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Youth engagement in agriculture takes shape
The youth’s participation in agriculture is slowly becoming a relevant ambition for the Philippines. It does not simply imply a brighter future for the youth of today; it also gives hope to the industry that provides food for every household table.
In 2019, a number of policymakers have called for encouraging initiatives. Department of Education Sec. Leonor Briones said that agriculture must be integrated as early as in basic education.
“I believe that teaching agriculture to college students at the tertiary level will be already a little too late. We have to develop a passion, an interest, and excitement for agriculture at the basic education level,” she said in a story published in the Inquirer.net on Nov. 1, 2019.
Another cabinet secretary also said that the youth, being the tech-savvy that they are, have essential roles in modernization.
“Their entry into the agriculture sector, especially as agripreneurs and infomediaries, would greatly help modernize Philippine agriculture. Hence, programs, projects, and policies to attract more of the youth into the agriculture sector are a must,” Department of Agriculture’s William Dar wrote in his ‘New Thinking’ article.
Beyond the data
Before acquiring national certificates on four different agriculture-related short courses, Carmi Kilayko’s engagement to this field was not as encouraging as it is now. This young professional from Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat belongs to a smallholder farming family that is financially challenged. Sadly, she needed a scholarship to get into college.
Truth be told, Carmi may not consider agriculture as a viable opportunity if her family’s experiences were to be considered. She may even look at farming as a difficult, sometimes unrewarding job to fulfill. Good thing, her involvement in an initiative for high school students made her reconsider her stand in the country’s economic backbone.
In 2013, Carmi and her schoolmates at Apolinario S. Bernardo Memorial National High School was involved in the Infomediary Campaign, an initiative to mobilize high school students to serve as information mediators in their own rural rice-farming households. They listened to lectures and had hands-on exercises on rice planting and entertaining activities like quiz bees. She wanted more of her growing interest for the field so she pursued further studies and experience. She now holds NC II in organic agriculture, horticulture, animal production and food processing. She had these while leading their community’s 4H Club, an organization of young enthusiasts for agriculture.
“I must say, I am in love with agriculture,” an inspired Carmi admitted.
Call for more
The International Labor Organization revealed that in 2017, agriculture is no longer included in the growing sectors for the youth.
In their study, Jaime Manalo IV and Elske Van de Fliert identified poverty and risk in farming, the need for quality education, and lack of parents’ support as the common reasons of the rural youth in leaving farming.
While data showed the current trend, the fact that the youth still have direct and indirect roles in the farms have to be magnified. Like Carmi, the age-old dilemma of youth leaving agriculture requires the right intervention.
“While there seems a consensus that young people are leaving agricultural communities, attention should also be directed to people who are comfortable working in the rice farm. The debate should now focus on which forms of indirect engagement best suit young people,” authors of the book, Youth and Agriculture: The Infomediary Campaign in the Philippines, stated.
Written by Anna Marie Bautista
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