Week 37: September 12, 2021 -- September 18, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president.

Top international non-energy story:

• Pentagon admits only civilians were killed in Afghanistan drone strike; drone strike in  response to commander's intent;
• Saudi Arabia foreign exchange reserves drop again;
• Ivermectin for Covid-19
  

Top international energy story:

• Surging natural gas prices in the UK and Europe;
• Global crude oil inventories plummeting

Top national non-energy story:

• General Milley botches Afghanistan evacuation; drone kills innocent family of ten, including seven children;
  

Top national energy story:

• Resident Biden calls for investigation: why is the price of gasoline not falling? 
• Top four storage -- crude oil, gasoline, distillate, jet fuel-- now below 2018 inventories; 
• C is for Chevron, also for cynicism;
• US crude oil inventories dropping;
  

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• NDIC website remains compromised for the second straight month;

Top North Dakota energy story:

• North Dakota production drops in July, but so do number of producing wells;

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Quick connects.

Operators:

• NOG looking to buy a stake in Comstock Resources in the Bakken;
  

Operations:

• Random observation: Whiting's southern Bakken play;
• Five rigs in one screenshot;

Wells:

• Two WXP wells in South Fork oil field each go over 500K bbls crude oil cumulative;
• A Cobra/Enduro monster well updated;
• Equinor Skarston wells surprise on the up side;
• Two Petrogulf wells go over 500K bbls crude oil cumulative;
• MRO reports five monster wells; near a re-fracked well;
• Random update of two monster EOG wells;

Pipelines:

Fracking:

Bakken economy:

• ND's Basin Electric Power Co-Op to expand carbon capture;

Commentary;

• State of US shale;
• Shocking OPEC report;