Week 34: August 22, 2021 -- August 28, 2021

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still residing in the White House.

Top international non-energy stories:

• Afghanistan evacuation.
• First US military casualties since February, 2020: thirteen reported.
  
• Covid-19: natural immunity way better than vaccine-immunity;
  

Top international energy stories:

• Natural gas prices hitting all-time highs.
• German high court won't allow Nordsteam 2 special privileges
• Now that the Keystone XL has been killed, US crude oil imports from Russia are hitting all-time highs;
• US LNG exports smashing records;
• Gasoline stocks well below average;
• Saudi's fortunes recover;
• Pemex oil platform in GoM shuts in almost a third of Pemex' total production;

Top national non-energy story:

• US equity markets keeping hitting new all-time highs; Jay Powell remains as dovish as ever

Top national energy stories:

• The week of battery fires; now it's Hoverboards. Common denominator: chariots on fire.
• GM announces a third Chevy Bolt recall; this now covers all Bolts, even the 2022 models;
• Hitting new "recent" records, US oil supply down to 27.0 days; will Hurricane Ida have an effect?
• California will carry two sets of energy books to meet ESG goals.

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• Red River Water Project, update.

Top North Dakota energy story:

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Quick connects.

Stories we never got back to:

• Part 1; Part 2; Part 3;

Deals:

• Let's make a deal.

Operators:

• CLR's FIU inventory;
• More evidence EOG will depart the Bakken; and, here; and, here;
• Slawson's Whirlcat / Sniper Federal pad in Big Bend updated;
  

Operations:

• Miles-Kennedy wells updated; CLR has been active;

Wells:

• Equinor's Weisz wells in Painted Woods have been updated;
• The incredible Enerplus Honor, Grace, Courage, and Pride wells updated;
• An Enerplus "Owl" goes over 500K bbls cumulative
• An Enerplus "Daffy Duck" pad well goes over 500K bbls cumulative;
• The "Betty Shobe" pad wells updated;
• An Oasis Spratley well goes over 500K bbls cumulative;

Fracking:

Pipelines:

The Bakken geology:

• The Three Forks lower benches, and fracking sand;
• The lower Three Forks;

Bakken economy:

• North Dakota is #2 among states generating electricity from wind and solar.

Commentaries:

• The next big thing: cryptocurrency.
• How long have we been working on battery technology?