Week 6: February 7, 2021 -- February 13, 2021

Damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead:

• CLR has just completed eighteen wells in Elm Tree;   
• CLR's thirty Dennis / Flint Chips permits; another six Flint Chips permits; here; here; here; and, here;
• Closer look at CLR permits over 24 hours;
• The CLR Jack wells;
• Thirty-five permits renewed;

Top story of the week:

• US markets: three major indices hit all-time highs;

Most interesting North Dakota energy story all week:

• The Williston Herald's story on Equinor selling assets to Houston-based company; archived.

Top international non-energy story:

• Saudi Arabia's financial situation continues to deteriorate; but Biden will get this turned around;
  
• 100 million people globally wear an Apple Watch; new Apple chips;
  
• An EV for the masses;
• Daimler splits off its truck division;
• Trucks massively out-selling cars;
• Plastic use surging;
• Super Bowl LV data points;
• Global warming: fake narrative;
  

Top international energy story:

• Brent top $60; WTI flirts with $60;
• Total pivots to green energy and LNG;
• Tectonic splits;
  

Top national non-energy story:

• Going head-to-head;
• Despite Covid, Disney blows past forecasts;
• Apple accounted for 12% of all chips sold last year;

Top national energy story:

• Natural gas spikes;
• California "woke";
• Off-shore wind: huge debacle;
• Oil demand talk back in fashion;
• Judge halts huge COP project in Alaska;
  

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Equinor to sell Bakken assets;
• Equinor selling Bakken assets to company led by former Oasis VP; link to Williston Herald;

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories (archived):

• MHA Nation urges the Corps to keep DAPL running;
• legislation addresses straddle wells: laterals sited outside the reservation but laterals penetrate the reservation (I must be missing something; why wouldn't MHA get those royalties?)
• ND crude oil output drops slightly in December, 2020; not unexpected;
• judge delays hearing on DAPL, link here;
• ND oil prices surge and output stalls as DAPL's fate awaited; Reuters;
  

Rigs:

• Back to rig counts;
  

Operators:

• MRO will report two huge wells in Reunion Bay;
• Kraken reports huge Hobart / Black Federal wells in Oliver oi field;
• Hess reports two more nice wells in the Bakken;
  

Operations:

• Directional legs for five MRO wells in the Antelope-Sanish have been drilled;
• The XTO Werre Trust wells back on line;
• Enerplus' "Precipitation Pad" wells starting to report runs;
• Enerplus Honor well returned to production;
• Production update for a lengthened Petro-Hunt Charlson well;
• CLR reports another huge Siverston well;
  

Wells:

• Enerplus Monarch well has just gone over 500K bbls;
• Oasis Oyloe well has gone over 500K bbls;
  

DUCs:

• Has anyone noticed how few completed DUCs are being reported?

Fracking:

• Bullish on frackers: Forbes;

Pipelines:

• US Army asks for two-month delay on DAPL;
• Speaking with forked tongue;