Just got back from Kansas. I attended the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association Meeting in Wichita. My employer had a booth, I talked to customers, competitors, and all sorts of other people. I also attended some really good talks and discussions.
The short story? Natural gas prices are going to stay down, oil prices are going to stay up. What does that mean? The producers are drilling more oil wells, less gas wells. Darn it! I’m a gas guy. Oh well.
The political take. They are resigned to Obama’s changed tax laws in regard to oil and gas drilling. What does it mean? Drilling wells will be less profitable, so less drilling will occur, so look out, increased oil imports are going to happen.
What about me? I had a great time. My sister Ellen was in town on business from Colorado. She is a geocacher (“eoripolyard” is her geocaching handle.) So guess what? We went geocaching. We found seven in downtown Wichita including a webcam cache. Sweetie helped us with that by remotely operating a webcam in Wichita, Kansas from Tulsa, Oklahoma. (You want to do that?, stay tuned to the end of this broadcast!)
So, who cares about our energy concerns. The big news is that I found 19 caches over three days of my trip, Woo hoo!! Lets have a party! I’m up to 829 total caches found. Below is a partial screenshot of my logs.
Thank you my fellow American taxpayers. Your spending billions of dollars on supersecret GPS satellite technology not only helps keeps our troops, sailors, and airmen safe, it allows me to find Tupperware containers in our city parks and highway rest stops!!! Isn’t this country great or what? Who cares about Obama taking our guns? I don’t want him scrambling the GPS signals again.
For those of you who are patient. Do you want to operate a web cam? Here is the link!
You can take control of this camera mounted high atop a building in downtown Wichita and move it left and right, up and down, and zoom in. Its fun during the day to track people as they walk. You can even take still images of what you see!! You can stalk people in downtown Wichita from anywhere on the planet!
To find out about webcam geocaches. Check out this link to the webcam cache my sister and I found using the same webcam.
I remember when the GPS signals suddenly became accurate to within a few feet. It was great for hiking, and I’m sure amazing for geocaching.
Sorry to hear there will be less gas wells – for you and for our area. Our oil is poor quality, but the natural gas wells are more profitable — or they were, back in the good old days…
What a great informative post, just read it to the Hubster. Many congrats on so many finds, now when will you get over this way?
Off to have fun with the webcam!
@Janie – You know the politicians talk and th pundits proclaim and the price of gas goes up and down. Right now it is headed down, and afer a while it will go up.
@Brit Gal – Hey thanks. I would love to get to NW Oklahoma. I have a good friend in Vici that I haven’t seen in years and my employer has a facility in Tangier (Southwest of Woodward that I need to go see.) I’ll give you a heads up.
LOL that would be a bit creepy thinking someone was following me around on the internet. That is a cool web cam though.
You’re funny. I love the way military technology over the years. If we could travel back in time, we could have been able spies!