Week 24: June 13, 2021 -- June 19, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president.

Top international non-energy story:

Top international energy story:

• Volatility in price of oil;

Top national non-energy story:

• The US economy is on fire; no one is going back to work.

Top national energy story:

• Shell considers selling its assets in the Permian.
  
• Shortest hurricane ever; was it one day or two days?
• North Dakota and New Mexico fighting for bragging rights; North Dakota with 16 rigs; New Mexico with 72 rigs.
  

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Meridian Davis refinery "on the ropes"

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Quick connects.

Operators:

• MRO: the reason for their spectacular wells?
• Kraken is spacing wellheads only 33 feet apart.

Operations:

• Update on canceled Slawson Osprey Federal wells.
• MRO has completed all of its spectacular wells on the P-R-S-4W pad.
• A Bruin "AB" well goes back to active.

Wells:

• First production numbers of Petro-Hunt well re-entered, lengthened.
• A CLR Angus well with a second jump in production.
• The Enerplus Horse pad -- the Pinto well has just gone over 500K bbls crude oil.
• A Whiting parent well just went over 500K bbls crude oil.

Fracking:

Pipelines:

Bakken economy:

Commentary:

• Why the restraint?
• Is the EV fad already dying?
• EVs need cheap electricity; and cheap electricity needs coal.
• On EVs, the G-7 backpedals.