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To: Ditchdigger who wrote (48385)	6/20/2012 7:30:00 PM
From: E_K_S	1 Recommendation Respond to of 78683

Hi Ditch - When I was looking at rail options to move NG & Oil it did make a lot of sense even w/ the premium one might pay per barrel of oil (I believe it was as high as $5/barrel for rail transportation vs pipeline). I discovered that there were these new NG rail cars that were designed to carry compressed natural gas. These same cars were being developed to provide the trains fuel too which almost halved the cost of traditional diesel fuel. So now, using rail to move NG becomes an economical option so rail is not exclusive to only oil. I am not too sure what the refinery does to the NG but if it is treated at the gathering station before it is compressed, the new NG rail cars could be loaded at the head end of the gathering treatment plants and put alongside the oil tanker cars for rail transport to the U.S. coast refining hub. In fact, the CNG rail cars could theoretically be dropped off at different terminals so compressed NG could then be trucked to land based NG filling stations. CNG can now be transported by both rail and truck too. So if they do not want to export this fuel (our Gov is not providing NG export licenses), then why not use NG as the primary fuel to transport domestic oil in tanker cars? The overall value proposition begins to make sense for everybody. Here is what I posted late last year: Message 27789094 Here is an LNG powered Locomotive puling LNG fuel tank. LNG locomotive conversion EKS

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (48385)	6/20/2012 8:06:53 PM
From: Paul Senior	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78683

About Statoil: It's one of those Scandinavian companies in which I hold shares. Looking to add to position if stock will drop a bit more. I like that STO seems to be aggressive in acquiring assets worldwide for future years' development. And the company appears to have long-term plans and actions for the development of those assets. Annual dividend yield after foreign tax withholding, I show to be about 3.75%. (The annual dividend amount has fluctuated year-to-year, which is common with many European stocks.) statoil.com (OT: Aside, my wife and her family visited that museum when she was a kid.)