Week 31: August 1, 2021 -- August 7, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president; says 350 million Americans have now been vaccinated, which means the US is 100% vaccinated, and then some.
• Energy story after energy story of new records. 
• NDIC is back! Still working on database migration, but at least daily updates getting back on track. 
• Sturgis rally begins today.
  

Top international non-energy story:

• Apple, Inc: most profitable company in the world. Saudi Aramco falls to #2.

Top international energy story:

• Coal demand is spiking.

Top national non-energy story:

• Dow and S&P 500 keep hitting new all-time records.

Top national energy story:

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• Work on the Red River Water Supply Project commences.

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Someone's head just exploded.
  
• Three-well blowout/fire north of Charlson.
  

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Quick connects.

Operators:

• Iron Oil Operating with four new permits.
• CLR to spud exploratory well in Louisiana; here; here; here.
• Enerplus in the news.
• Enerplus acquires 600 wells from Hess.

Operations:

• Bakken wells simply get better and better.
• EOR project, Liberty Resources, east of Tioga.

Wells:

Fracking:

Pipelines:

Natural gas:

• One word: incredible.
• ONEOK expanding its Bear Creek plant southwest of Killdeer.
  

Bakken economy:

Commentary:

Miscellaneous: