Week 5: January 26, 2014 -- February 1, 2014

Story of the Month
Bakken acreage goes for $34,000/acre

Story of the Week
Liberty II re-enters the Bakken (runner-up story: Oasis to drill 21 wells in one section, see below)

Operations
NOG operational update
EOG drilling extended long laterals
Enerplus to report three huge wells
Random update on the Bryce wells
Whiting wells in Westbank oil field competing for bragging rights

CBR
Update on SHRT
Amtrak stays on schedule despite surge in CBR

Fracking
Fracking is good, get over it -- President Obama
MRO -- re-fracking

Flaring
Random look at flaring by KOG, OAS
Memo to Heidi: talk to BLM

Dockets
February, 2014, dockets
Oasis to drill 21 wells in one 640-acre drilling unit

Tyler
Update on the Tyler in southwest North Dakota

Economy
Belfield utilities about maxed out
Great Plains Synfuels Plant to add new product line: urea for fertilizer
Truck drivers still needed in the Bakken

For investors
QEP to spin off its midstream business
Hess 4Q13 update; focus on the Bakken

Miscellaneous
For mineral rights owners in the "Helis Grail"
NDIC approves "Helis Grail" unitization; now up to mineral rights owners
The history of "frak"
Marathon Oil CEO to be keynote speaker at annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, Bismarck
Keystone XL 2.0 South opens; smooth rollout; oil price rises
Far and away, North Dakota is #1 in canola; will get bigger