Week 50: December 8, 2019 -- December 14, 2019

Memo to self: send note to Art Berman; wow, we haven't heard from him in a long, long time.

Narrative (a new feature): here.

Top international non-energy story:

• Boris, landslide, Brexit;
• Trump not named person-of-the-year by Time; the real person of the year;
• Divergence of North American economies;

Top international energy story:

• Chevron pulls out of Canada; is Chevron also pulling out of California?
• US dominance in oil, natural gas; and, here; 
• US petroleum exports exceed imports, September, 2019;
• Bakken oil: the "gold standard" for IMO 2020?

Top national non-energy story:

• Trump vindicated: FBI; the Fed's rates;
• Articles of impeachment; majority of Americans don't want
• major indices hit new all-time highs; the Trump effect; FOMO; 
• Buffett's hoarding looks more foolish every day; did he miss a whale?
• Schwab - Ameritrade story continues to reverberate; here;

Top national energy story:

• Exxon prevails in New York climate change lawsuit;
• WTI comes close to $60; NYMEX closes slightly over $60;

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• Cold snap;

Top North Dakota energy story (many of the links are duplicated):

• North Dakota sets all-time production record; whopping month-over-month jump in production;
• The oil Bakken produces 3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day for first time ever;
• Flaring getting worse on the reservation;
• Whiting: canceled permits; here; here; here; new permits; update here;

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Oil production tops 1.5 million bopd
• Elk Creek NGL pipeline now operational; will help reduce flaring;
• CLR founder Harold Hamm steps down as CEO ("but not going anywhere")
• No major impacts on Lake Superior from Line 3 pipeline -- AP
• Hess receives approval for Bakken EOR
• Watford City to provide law enforcement for City of Arnegard 
• Watford City water rate going up 01%; had been subsidizing rates
• America blows past the world in projected oil and natural gas production, 2020 - 2024
• Ban fracking? Not gonna happen;
• How Enbridge plans to grow in the age of pipeline opposition -- and connect Canadian oil to world markets; Financial Times;

Operations:

• Hess announces thirteen completed DUCs, huge;
• Two BR Cross wells each go over 500,000 bbls cummulative;
• CLR's Carson Peak well has huge jump in production;
• CLR's Uhlman / Pittsburgh wells updated; some huge jumps in production;
• Twenty-two permits renewed; six DUCs completed; EOG with five "LR" permits -- all in a day in the Bakken;
• Random note on those five EOG "LR" permits;

Fracking:

• Concho CEO prepares for federal ban on fracking;

Pipelines:

• ONEOK announces completion of major natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline;

Carbon capture:

• Update on Red Trail Energy;

Bakken economy:

• Williston Economic Development office wins international award;

Miscellaneous:

EV:

• The problem with tethered vehicles;