Hi  folks,

I see you have a lot  of heat in  parts of  US. I would  be glad if I
could  to send rain. We had  another 6mm at supper   time last  night
and another 1 over  night. The rivers are going  down  but not  before
taking roads  out. Water  running down ditches  eroded the roads in
places.  Other  places it ran over the road and cut  a new channel.
One   place  it does not go under the bridge  anymore and a new  bridge
needs to be built.  Can not get to well sites  and  the new leases
are too soft to work at. When  the level   drops some more, I  will
have to get out the gold pans as  the  high  flow will have
deposited gold dust where  it  slowed.

Cheers and  have  a good  day.

Dale  Davies

Dale
Are you in  Australia? I googled 'Rain in Australia "  after your
comment  and  it seems to be confined to the bottom part of  the
continent. Paul's favorite  places seemed to be dry. I was    there
last in '91 and it was dry. Peter

All of Oz  is  just  great. I highly recommend it.

Paul  Lamar

Hi   Peter,

No. I am in west  central Alberta, Canada. Whitecourt.  54.10960N  and
115.81553W. Local airport is CYZU. Lots of flooding in  west  central
Alberta
and southern Saskatchewan. Lot of other  places  like Pakistan also
flooded.
Chile is buried under  7 - 9 ft of snow.  Other places in drought
and  fires.

Dale Davies

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Hi  Dale

I am west of Chicago and we have had heat and rain. A   record 7" in
2 hours last weekend and 2 more big storms since then.  Hope  you
keep pumping oil up there because our current  leadership wants  to
use your oil first.

Peter  Duffecy

The waste product of  Alberta oil sands is nice  white clean beach
sand :) They ought to start  selling that  too.

Paul Lamar

Paul
Nice white beach  sand does a great job of breaking up the Illinois
clay based soil.  Maybe we could pump it down here in the pipelines
with dilutents and  separate the sand out down here.
Peter


Pipes taking the  "clean" sand to the ponds are turned every 6 weeks, 1/5th
turn each time.  This is with carbon steel pipe. There is more expensive
pipe
available that  lasts longer. Transports well in water but very abrasive on
the
pipe. A  potash mine in Saskatchewan uses teflon lined pipe. They drill
wells
and  pump water down to dissolve the potash and salt. Then dehydrate  and
separate  the salt and potash. Also abrasive to the  piping.

Dale Davies

Hi Dale

There is a pipeline about a half mile west of me with a 40" primary and a
20" return. They sent the heavy oil down with dilutents  and return the
dilutents for the next batch of heavy oil. We had better leave the sand in
Canada.

Peter