Week 42: October 13, 2019 -- October 19, 2019

Top international non-energy story:

• President Trump pulls 28 (maybe 50) troops out of Syria and the world goes bonkers

Top international energy story:

• US crude oil imports to plummet next month (October, 2019)
• US to be net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products
• Saudi Aramco delays IPO
• Dyson drops plans for EVs
• EV sales in China plummet  
• TransCanada declares force majeure on Keystone; pumping stations damaged due to autumn snowstorm;
• Tea leaves suggest that Canada's TransMountain pipeline project is dead

Top national non-energy story:

Top national every story:

• US Federal Gulf of Mexico crude oil production sets new record;

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• Williston Basin International airport open for business;

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Director's Cut: all-time production record; 
• Bakken sets new records: EIA
• Shaleprole.com predicts record production;

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota Energy stories:

• North Dakota sets new all-time oil and natural gas production record
• Company want to develop salt caverns; storage would support petro-chemical industry
• Progress on new Long X bridge
• Bridger pipeline expansion
• District 8 votes to build new high school
• Drone fleet getting ready for takeoff in northwestern North Dakota
• Reader's Digest: Watford City -- nicest place in North Dakota"
• US shale output nears 9 million bopd with the Permian and the Bakken leading the way

Operations:

• Shooting fish in a barrel
• Slawson with a dual lateral;

Incredible wells:

• BR Archer well in Charlson oil field
• Brooklyn oil field
• Squaw Creek oil field
• Bailey oil field 
• Fort Berthold
• Reunion Bay

Fracking:

• North Dakota "game-changer":
• Sand;

Bakken economy:

• Whitiing in talks with Abraxas

Commentary:

• Advantaged oil; and, here; and, here;
• US shale oil revolution: Forbes