Week 39: September 22, 2019 -- September 28, 2019

Top international non-energy story:

Top international energy story:

• Post Saudi attack
• Partial cease-fire announced
• Claims that Saudi has returned to pre-attack production capacity
• Saudi switches from sweet oil to sour oil to meet contracts
• Gasoline shipments from Europe to the Mideast surging; 
• Record amounts of oil traded following attack;
• Ocean-going tankers find work-around to IMO 2020; and, here;

Top national non-energy story:

• US House on its way to impeaching President Trump
• Historic early winter storm to hit Montana ; and, here; and, here; and, here;
• Apple will get Chinese trade waivers; US will reimburse Apple for tariffs already paid;

Top national energy story:

• Natural gas prices, already low, slide to a 3-week low; New Yorkers won't benefit; 
• Global consumers want "pure Permian"

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Active rig count drops to 56

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• XWA: three years to the day, from groundbreaking to "open for business," October 10, 2019
• Lakebed minerals survey in progress; Lake Sakakawea
• Petrochemicals: the next "boom" coming to ND? -- NPR Radio
• City investing $1 million to new pipeline to sell water to Davis refinery 
• XWA receives another $6 million in federal grants

Bakken 2.5:

• Inter-formation uplift?
• Productivity per rig continues to increase in the Bakken 

Operations:

• CLR reports incredible Ravin wells in Dimmick Lake
• CLR: 22 wells on a 2560-acre drilling unit in Cedar Coulee
• CLR: upwards of 30 wells on a 2560-acre unit in Elm Tree  
• CLR with eight more Long Creek unit permits
• Unusual-shaped 2560-acre drilling unit 
• PetroShale to put four wells on a 320-acre spacing unit  
• Nine Point Energy reports a great Eckert Foundation well;
• As predicted years ago, a Bakken well demonstrates a second jump in production;

Flaring:

• Relief in sight as more infrastructure comes on line

Waste Water Management:

• Blockchain in the Bakken
• Essay -- a very, very nice article

Bakken Economy:

• Legacy Fund deposit for September, 2019, shows month-over-month increase;
• First National Band & Trust Of Williston to change name, charter

Miscellaneous:

• CLR tweaking its business model?
• Dr Dean Strinden passes away, Williston physician

FWIW:

• St Greta visited the wrong country;
• 41 doomsday predictions the global warming alarmists got wrong