Week 25: June 20, 2021 -- June 26, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president.
• Kamala makes a stop-over along the border on way to fund-raiser in California.

Top international non-energy story:

Top international energy story:

• Conversation has changed: now it's all about the demand surge;
  
• Crude oil all the rage.
• Narrative changing: all of a sudden IOCs backpedaling on green energy.
• Saudi Arabia in transition.
  

Top national non-energy story:

• Folks think $6 billion from the SPR can help pay for the $1-trillion-infrastructure bill.
  

Top national energy story:

• US crude oil supply drops below 30 days for first time in quite some time.
• Storage available at Cushing.
  

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

Top North Dakota energy story:

• Twenty active rigs.

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Update on Williams County TENORM.
• Harold Hamm: Biden's policies could push oil toward $100/bbl.
• DAPL suit dismissed; Judge Boasberg says tribe can file new suit over EIS
• Land commissioner Jodi Smith re-appointed for four more years; has received some criticism from oil and gas industry for her handling of unpaid royalties
• Hearing set for DGC CO2 pipeline; six geologic sequestration wells planned;
• Bowman to re-hear wind farm hearing for 208 MW facility: 74 turbines; 42,144 acres; a few miles west of Bowman; $420 million;
  

Operators:

• MRO with another huge well;
• Charlson with a nice well;

Operations:

• Petro-Hunt getting active in the Little Knife oil field.

Fracking:

• CLR: Rodeny 1-29H re-frack.

Pipelines:

• Judge Boasberg says "enough is enough."
• With apologies to Burma Shave.
  

Bakken economy:

• Blue hydrogen, Mitsubishi.

Commentary:

• Global freezing update.