Week 15: April 8, 2018 -- April 14, 2018

Disclaimer: there are likely to be more typos than usual below due to being rushed. If alerted, I will update them.

For the archives, this past week:

• US, France, Great Britain missile response against Syria
• my trip through west Texas to see oil activity along the I-20 thoroughfare
• I had planned to write a fairly long post on my observations of what I saw while driving through west Texas but for now will hold off

Operations
February production still aabout 1.2 million bopd; despite the weather in February, and the fact that there was an increase in the number of DUCs and inactive wells (now up to 2,555
Enerplus with permits for a 10-well pad
Oasis reports a huge well 
Bakken production up 24% year-over-year
SM Energy to exit the Bakken
New operator in the Bakken: Challenger Point Energy

Pipelines
Another reminder how important the DAPL was for North Dakota

Bakken 2.5
Productivity per rig, revisited
Definition; evolution of completion strategies
CLR with an 82-stage frack
CLR with a 71-stage frack
Bakken's still growing produced water problem
Permian vs Bakken

Other formations
Update of an old Madison well
Random update of a Madison well, re-work

Bakken economy
Increased activity in the Bakken; job openings in Divide, Williams and McKenzie counties hit 3-year high
Housing shortage in Williston