Chief Oil and Gas is getting a new AC QuickSilver drilling system to use in their Marcellus Shale drilling efforts.  The rig is supposed to set-up quickly in difficult terrain, moving from one drill pad to another 100 miles away in under 48 hours. More at BizJournals.com

A post at the Clastic Detritus blog discusses the types of resources present in the Bakken Formation, looking specifically at the USGS fact sheet for the Bakken undiscovered resource assessment. The author points out that these are “undiscovered” “resources” and explain that means less than many people will read into the numbers.