Week 22: May 30, 2021 -- June 5, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president.
• WTI just shy of $70;
• Oasis returns to the Bakken;

Biggest non-story of the week:

• Biden kills Arctic refuge drilling;

Top international non-energy story:

• Iran: we have a turkey!

Top international energy story:

• Shell says Pemex can have it;

Top national non-energy story:

• Is the pandemic over?

Top national energy story:

• Gasoline trending toward $6/gallon;
• Gasoline demand hits new Covid weekly high;
• Could Denbury be the next acquisition?
• Saving TAPS;

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Blue hydrogen production;
• "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead; CLR with seven active rigs."

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Nascent hydrogen industry in North Dakota?
• could involve DCG in Beulah, ND
• WBI pipeline gets FERC approval; connects Tioga Plant to northern border;
• safety corridors in North Dakota:
  
• US 85 Watford City to ND 68: 14-mile safety corridor
• US 52 Brooks Junction to Velva: 35-mile safety corridor
• US 83 Bismarck to Washburn: 36-mile safety corridor
  
• Quick connects;

Operators:

• Enerplus with permits for a nine-well Tennis pad well;
• Oasis returns to the Bakken;
  

Operations:

Wells:

• Oasis Rolfsrud well with five-fold jump in production;
• Armstrong's Gruman Lodgepole well has just gone over one million bbls crude oil cumulative;
  

Fracking:

Pipelines:

• Bakken natural gas pipeline expansion approved;

Natural gas:

• Where's all that natural gas going?

Bakken economy:

• Updating DUCs that reported 2Q19;