Quicksilver Resources Inc. (KWK)

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  • commenter
    redteach
    Sep 24 01:36 PM
    General Discussion on KWK
    Actually, sellling Quicksilver stocks immediately might be a good idea. According to today's posting, there is plenty of money to lease millions of acres in the US and Canada, most of which won't see any drilling. They should look very solid, but the investor won't see returns for years, perhaps never. I'd SELL now while the values are high. Reply
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    redteach
    Sep 24 06:15 AM
    General Discussion on KWK
    If Quicksilver is "high grading" its holdings in Hood, Somervell, and Hill counties, meaning drilling on less lease holdings while hanging on to all of their leased land, why not high grade some of the land just sitting around? Much of it probably has enough gas to make drilling profitable. The theory seems to be to lease as much land as possible, then sit on it so no one else can drill anywhere near your select holdings. Who would want to buy stocks from your company?? Reply
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    flyingdogale
    man
    Sep 02 08:00 PM
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    nakedjaybird -

    typically in america, sept 1 is labor day and not memorial day......     Reply
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    this Bud's
    for you
    Sep 01 10:56 PM
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    steve ward

    I thought Picken's had substantial water rights in the Panhandle of Texas and a pipeline to move it. If so. how timely can that be?     Reply
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    nakedjaybird
    Sep 01 09:40 PM
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    Sep 01 04:37 PMuser211108 - i read the nyt aricle you mentioned. Basically, it just lists the roadblocks people keep thowing in the way of getting the right things done.

    As I have said in other blogs, the grid needs to be beefed up and expanded, and also provide for solar and wind hook-up. And I grossly stated that high power transmission lines are probably within 25-50 miles of any future installation.

    Take a look at where all the hydro installations are (Grand Coulee Dam in the middle of nowhere is the equivalent of 8 (eight) 1000 MWe nuc plants. No look at the rest of the hydro locations west/midwest/southeast... etc. As for nucs; we have over 100 1000 MWe plants scattered around the US - few states without - most state are less than 200 mi in one direction or another. Then there is the coal - everywhere??

    So, the grid problem is just a bunch of roadblocks (policy/politics/regul... - we have the technology and wherewithall to improve it and expand it immediately. Report abuse
    nakedjaybird
    Sep 01 09:20 PMYou know, in the NYTimes article, a FERC member member is quoted saying we need an "INTERSTATE TRANSMISSION SUPERHIGHWAY SYSTEM" - he is so right.

    And where they should run that grid is alongside/between/abov... the US Interstate hiway system that exists. And then, put the electrified ferries on steel-wheeled rails in the same space. Then we simply take the cargo off the diesel (biodiesel hybrid) trucks and ferry it electrically powered by solar and wind - that's a good role for solar and wind.

    Centainly takes the wind out of the sails of the contras that continually talk about balancing the grid.

    This idea solves two if not three problems at the same time. Since the Gov't steamrolled for the interstate highway system, let them steamroll for electrifying it. Simple. The right of way is there. Who's going to argure?. Yes, I know, someone will.

    And what's the distance between interstate hiways? Do they go thru wind mill and solar land, and do they eventually move right into cities, and go thru where all the people are. DUH??

    I hope someone in FERC reads this.

    Help out, guys. I'm like solarPV on a native hut, with a microwave, color TV, cell phone, but connected to no one.


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    nakedjaybird
    Sep 01 09:27 PMOh yes, and wireless internet!

    But I'm as helpless as all the steers running around me and that just reminds me of Washington DC every time I look at them and feed them. And what do I get in return - about the same stuff - let me help you city folks, it's hot, wet, sort of like putty, and smells like shit. If it looks like, smells like, feels like, it probably is.........yup!

    Happy Memorial Day to all the Vets and all those enjoying the freedom they have provided in the US and worldwide - regardless of the naysayers.     Reply
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    Danny/The
    Digger
    Sep 01 08:31 PM
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    PA Governor Ed Rendell has been promoting coal to diesel conversion for a couple of years and has gotten nowhere with the idea.

    There are literally miles upon miles of "mountains" of coal culm in PA that are unsightly, which would disappear if coal to diesel conversion could somehow "get off the ground".

    China can use all the coal we can export to them, but they are "hell-bent" to develop the new tech "small" nuclear plants that can be readily installed in their myriad of towns.

    I heard about the new nuclear technology while visiting Knoxville, Tn this past Spring, but haven't seen any "press" about its safety and cost-effectiveness. For some reason (conspiracy??), it is under the medias' radar!?

    Guess we must contact the U. of Tenn - Knoxville for info. That is the source of this leading-edge technology.     Reply
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    Jimbo
    Sep 01 02:50 PM
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    famos is soooo right. Maybe OBAMA! will make him Secretary of Energy. Too bad the enriros think coal is so dirty. Reply
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    famos
    Sep 01 02:22 PM
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    Dear Rachael & Commentors,

    Here we go, beating around the bush again., Oil? Energy crisis. What energy crisis? There is no energy crisis - there is a transportation crisis.

    Transportation is getting anything and/or anyone transported to somewhere else, and transportation is the area that requires the bulk of our energy. And without transportation our world will certainly change for the worst. Anyway, the days of wind transportation are past (Boone Pickens) and the days of powering by hydrogen are yet to come (automotive industry.) So,

    The solution:

    Ample energy sources already exist, the manufacturing process exists, the delivery infrastructure exists, the storage facility exists, the vehicle technology exists, the price competitiveness exists - all things exist, that's why it's called the Solution. It's even been successfully tested.

    1. Ample energy source = Coal. 100 years known energy reserves.

    2. Manufacturing process = Fischer-Tropsch, coal to clean diesel..

    3. Delivery = use existing pipelines, tankers, trucks.

    4. Storage = use existing refiner tanks & gas station tanks.

    5. Vehicle technology = ships, plans, trains, trucks, cars run on diesel. This is exceptionally clean diesel.

    6. Competitiveness = cost equivalent to $30±. per barrel of oil.

    7. Successfully tested = German army, Second World War.


    P.S. There are many other very useful advantages, e.g., solid waste into clean diesel that would downsize our landfill and run our garbage trucks. Meat processing wastes into clean diesel and power our military jet engine planes, etc. on & on, & on. These plants are being built as we speak.

    Probably the solution is too easy to accept without feeling totally foolish, since it's been right in our face for so long. If, the solution is too simple to figure out by the people back in Washington and you want some help, give me a call.

    Sincerely,

    famos
    (email: famos@bresnan.net)     Reply
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    steve Ward
    Sep 01 01:36 PM
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    Extraction of gas from shale like the Barnnet is water consuming intensive. I'm no enviro nut but in Denton County Texas, the heart of the Barnnet gas play, the water table is dropping like the proverbial rock and the water commission estimates water shortfall for everyone, consumer and drilling companies in 2010.
    Get this: the leader of the opposition tio the drillers is a former oil and gas prospector.

    Water usage and pollution is a huge issue that Mac and O'Bama will have to face.
    I just wonder what the greenies are going to do with O'Bama if he goes against them

    This is (water) the big boogey man in T. Boone'splans od self suffiicency that no on's talking about.     Reply
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    Pinkivory
    Sep 01 12:02 PM
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    Would not have a surplus if the energy companies would go back to
    "Gas to Gas"     Reply
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    Ozarker
    Sep 01 10:00 AM
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    Natural Gas which is 80% hydrogen will be available for over 100 years so why not use it if it's abundant, clean burning and low priced? Reply
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    unimpressedp
    ragmatist
    Sep 01 09:10 AM
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    The debate over oil shale is short sighted. Fossil fuels are a short-term solution to a long-term problem. The demand for energy will escalate as China, India, and other emerging nations improve their way of life. And, as noted, fossil fuels are a very finite source of energy.

    Hydrogen is the answer. Since the entire universe consists of hydrogen, there is little chance, or none, that we will ever run out of it. Therefore, we must put on a full-court press to develop and implement it as our primary source of energy. Additionally, there is no way that business and government can create a believable shortage of it with the result of price gouging.

    If you think of it, with abundant energy at very low prices, government and business take a back seat to the will of the people as their main control over our destiny is removed.

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    Rubberman
    Sep 01 09:08 AM
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    If you want a company that is developing at least a few of the other mentioned things in the comments above, look at GRH. A startup, but read about it...with emphasis on who the CEO is! Also notice that they are the only company in the US that can import Wind Turbines from China. Could be worth a real hard look. In keeping up the tradition of my last post, I am long and a shareholder of GRH. I love the story, the excitement surrounding their businesses and the Management! Reply
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    Rubberman
    Sep 01 09:05 AM
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    Devon Energy is cheaper than St. Mary Land & Exploration. Devon is less risky and if you think the company has already grown, you don't know Larry NIchols very well. If you want to speculate, look at SandRidge. The company is way below it's 52 week and for that matter all time high. Was founded by the co-founder of CHK and is one that looks like a no-brainer to me. Having said that, I do not own a share as I am not sure we have seen the bottom on any of these oil and gas stocks short term. Reply
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    mkreisel
    Aug 31 06:57 PM
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    Oil sand is difficult enough to extract, just ask Suncor how expensive (in terms of energy as well) it is to extract.

    Oil shale is by magnitudes more difficult to produce.

    It ought be cheaper to develop nuclear, solar, and wind.     Reply
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