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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Week 17: April 20, 2014 -- April 26, 2014

Top story of the week: Williston approves more than 2,000 new residential units; more than number of residential permits approved all last year (2013)

Top "humor" of the week: will it be "fracked" natural gas?

Operations
Update on declining number of active rigs in the Bakken
Liberty Resources II, LLC, back in the Bakken

Flaring
Main problem with flaring in the Bakken is on BLM-managed land in the reservation

Fracking
Frackers using water to drain unwanted sloughs; will comply with state water commission

CBR
New mobile railcar repair service company announced focused on the Bakken

Economy
Man-camps gain ground in the Bakken
Random update of the boom with video 
Six North Dakota post offices to get new technology, including Watford City
Bank of North Dakota sets profit record for 10th straight year

For investors
Richard Zeit on CLR's aggressive move in the Bakken
COP in the Eagle Ford; compare to the Bakken
Nighthawk Energy in the D-J Basin at $860/acre

Miscellaneous
Monthly NDIC hearing; I have not heard if the big Slawson case was heard 
The Washington Post calls Obama's dithering on the Keystone embarrassing; tells Obama to approve the pipeline and move on
Paradigm shift: Big Oil + Big Coal = Big Energy --> Big Rail
Big drug problem in North Dakota began in 1998; probably less of a problem on a per capita basis now

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