Week 38: September 15, 2019 -- September 21, 2019

Top international non-energy story:

• The cruise missile attack on Saudi Arabia 

Top international energy story:

• For the first time in history, global sales of EVs declined month-over-month;
• The cruise missile attack on Saudi Arabia;
• Saudi Arabia (may be) importing oil
• Saudi Arabia's biggest field with declining production -- and that was before the attack;
• The Permian is now the world's #1 oil-producing basin;

Top national non-energy story:

• Last coal train rolls into one of nation's largest coal plants

Top national energy story:

• US the new swing producer;
• US gasoline demand drops significantly;

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• North Dakota sets all-time production record, second consecutive month; here; and, here;

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• North Dakota petro-chem facility talk continues
• Grant award for Project Tundra
• Oil and gas industry turning the Bakken into a steady Eddie
• TENORM landowner notices out of date; meeting moved to October, 2019
• National Parks Conservation Assn sues state department over proposed refinery
• Road restrictions in place
• Watford City honored as "City of the Years" from ND League of Cities
• Commentary: federal EV subsidies "on the road to nowhere" 
• New scientific study shows no link between fracking and health problems

Operations:

• MRO reports eight incredible completed DUCs;

Pipelines:

• Minnesota Supreme Court won't take up pipeline challenge;
• Energy Transfer to buy SemGroup for 65% premium, $5 billion

Commentary:

• This is absolutely, positively, not happening in the Bakken
• The Saudi attack