The Great Bakken Oil Rebound -- Forbes -- May 16, 2018; Meanwhile Katie Ledecky Sets Another World Record -- Time To Put Her On A Wheaties Box

Disclaimer: I'm inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken -- 

• Art Berman: the beginning of the end for the Bakken, August 11, 2017 -- less than a year ago.
• The Atlantic Monthly: the Bakken bust, June 27, 2015 -- probably the most incredibly wrong headline about the Bakken ... ever ... 
• Bakken oil hype? Don't believe it -- Jane Nielson, June 25, 2010 -- another doofus
• Forbes: the great Bakken oil rebound. Some data points --
• the Bakken remains one of just ten oil fields in the entire universe that yields over one million bopd
• the average breakeven price to profitably drill a new well in the Bakken at $50
• the Bakken's ncremental potential this year is second, maybe surpassing the 1.3 million b/d mark for total output. This would be a record for the Bakken but it's likely dependent on favorable weather and road conditions. Any slowdown in the Permian from infrastructure constraints would help put more focus on the Bakken, which has had a few years to get infrastructure in order

Much more at the linked article. 

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The Katie Ledecky Page

From The IndyStar: Katie sets another world record. Not only that but she "opens the Indy meet with the world record in the 1500-meet freestyle." From IndyStar:

No one told Katie Ledecky you are not supposed to set world records apart from championship meets while in the middle of heavy training.

In her first meet as a professional swimmer, she lowered her own world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle by five seconds to 15 minutes, 20.48 seconds Wednesday night at the Natatorium at IUPUI.

It was the first event of the TYR Pro Swim Series meet, which continues through Saturday.

Ledecky, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, hit her fist in the water and stuck out her tongue after touching the wall and seeing the scoreboard. The world record was the 19th set at the Natatorium, which opened in 1982.

Wow! So much more at the link.  From tweets:

Katie Ledecky's time would have made the Olympic men's 1500-meter freestyle final as recently as 1996 -- when it would have knocked eventual gold medalist Kieren Perkins out of the final. 

The women's 1500-meter free debuts at the 2020 Olympics.

In 2013, Katie Ledecky broke her first world record in any event in the 1500-meter freestyle. At the time, she lowered the longest-standing record in the sport by six seconds. She has since lowered it by another 16 seconds.

All-time women's 1500-meter freestyle:

• Katie Ledecky 15:20.48
• Ledecky 15:25.48
• Ledecky 15:27.71
• Ledecky 15:28.36
• Ledecky 15:31.82
• Ledecky 15:34.23
• Ledecky 15:35.65
• Ledecky 15:36.53
• Lottie Friis 15:38.88

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All Alone Am I 

All Alone Am I, Brenda Lee