Most under-reported story this week:
- Freezing weather in China; record snow in Madrid; headed to the US;
- Increasing tensions in the Mideast;
- Amazon Air;
Most interesting energy story this week:
Top story of the week:
- The storming of the Capitol.
Records:
- Natural gas consumed to generate electric power in the US last year reached an all-time record;
- All major US indices hit all time highs; why the market is surging; S&P 500 hits record;
- Wall Street most bullish on commodities in a decade;
- UK fails in goal to be "Saudi Arabia" of wind power;
- US LNG exports set another record in December, 2020;
- Elon Musk becomes richest man in the world; Jeff Bezos drops to second;
- US gas mileage down, emissions up, first time in five years;
Top international non-energy story:
- Vaccine rollout coming up short;
- Fiat Chrysler and PSA to merge;
- Saudi Arabia's foreign exchange reserves surge 2.3%;
Top international energy story:
- Saudi Arabia agrees to cut production; Saudi rigs;
- France: electricity shortage;
Top national non-energy story:
- Ford dethroned in large pickup truck category -- first time since 2015;
- Women take brunt of job losses due to pandemic;
Top national energy story:
Top North Dakota non-energy story:
Top North Dakota energy story:
Geoff Simon's to ND energy stories:
- Lynn Helms sees the writing on the wall: with a Biden presidency, "it's not a pretty picture"
- MHA Nation wants oil tax agreement signed last year, re-visited
- lawmakers consider road trains
- state is being asked to change a 40-year-old law that allows the state to collect up to 18% interest and 12% in penalties on unpaid royalties
- still no cause officially reported in Washington state train derailment
- Keystone gets water certification from Montana for water crossing permit
- oil and gas industry produces helium, a much-needed element in MRI equipment
- US imports no Saudi crude oil for first tine since 1985; lack of demand cited;
Most egregious ND energy story:
Operators:
Operations:
Fracking:
Wells of note:
- An "AB" well is returned to production;
- The Murex Sophia Drake "R" well;
- A QEP Van Hook well;
- The MRO Walcel USA well;
- MRO's Lang USA well: 113,000 bbls/month;
- An old XTO well in Lost Bridge;
- An old XTO well in Heart Butte;
- A Slawson Stallion well;
- A group of nice wells reported by MRO;
- The MRO Stillwell well in Lost Bridge;
- A WPX Omaha Woman is spectacular;
- An old WPX well goes over 700K bbls crude oil cumulative;
- Hess reporting some nice wells in oldest field in North Dakota;
- A very old Petro-Hunt well with huge jump in production;
- The amazing Bakken: Antelope-Sanish wells that reported;
Renewable energy:
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