Week 51: December 17 -- December 23, 2011

Huge decline in US oil supplies

NDIC hearing dockets for January, 2011 -- manufacturing phase

Chimney Sweep -- "new" operator in the Williston Basin

Two new hotels in Williston

Horizontals targeting the Red River formation

USA: net exporter of oil; first time in six decades

Williston taxable sales surge past Fargo's; second quarter in a row

Massive decline in US oil stockpiles

Magic Maps for Bakken wells

Corral Creek -- Huge New One-Unit Oil Field -- The Bakken

The KOG/BTA deal

Chevy Volt costs taxpayers $250,000/car;  No amount of fuel savings will recoup up-front costs for a Volt (certainly not at $250,000/car)

Triangle Petroleum getting more active; sits in the core Bakken

Four-well pad approved for inside Williston city limits

Wind advocates: no qualms about destroying eagle habitat in Minnesota

Statoil/BEXP report great IPs on a 3-well pad in the bull's eye of the Bakken

Yes, Virginia, they are refracking in the Bakken

Another hotel breaks ground in Williston

$1.5 to $2 billion/month going into the Bakken

XOM chops megaloads into microloads; 300 truck loads; folks, we got ourselves a convoy