Week 29: July 16, 2017 -- July 22, 2017

Folks are making a big deal out of the fact that OPEC production will increase in August, suggesting the cartel deal to cut production is falling apart. The deal is probably falling apart (Ecuador was the first to publicly leave) but the Mideast always increases production in August. So, we move on.

For the archives, in less than five years, the US could produce 40% of the world's total natural gas. For the archives, this was also the week that Senator McCain was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

The biggest story for me this past week was the DAPL update; the fact that this story was not easy to find suggests it may not be all that significant. Be that as it may, for me, someone who is inappropriately exuberant about the Bakken, this was a huge story. 

Operations
High production jump for #23279
Analysis of oil production by field

• greatest decline month-over-month
• greatest increase month-over-month 
• oil/well/month
• top producing oil fields in North Dakota 

Bakken 2.0
Much more oil is recoverable

Fracking
Random look at several high-intensity fracks
CLR getting ready to frack several wells in Divide County?

Bakken economy
Paving project west of Williston awarded to Northern Improvement
Hallmark Card on Main Street, Williston, will close