Week 16: April 17, 2022 -- April 23 , 2022

Top video of the week;

• The presidential air-handshake.

Top story of the week:

• Joe Biden is still president.
• Biden blinked: opens federal land to drilling (and, fracking, OMG).
  
• US equity market implodes.
• Netflix plunges. And, here.
  
• Putin's War in its eighth week.
  
• US exports record amount of crude oil and refined oil products. And, here.
  
• Natural gas soaring.
  
• This is where it ends; the mask mandate ended.
  
• Haynesville: 2021 -- natural gas production record.
  

Top international non-energy story:

Top international energy story:

• Russian sanctions. And, here.
  
• Schlumberger making hay. 
• Saudi crude oil exports up a bit.
  

Top national non-energy story:

Top national energy story:

• SPR release: how big was it?
• E15 will make "no" impact.
  

Top North Dakota non-energy story:

• Kevin O'Leary visits North Dakota; another cryptocurrency venture?

Top North Dakota energy story:

• North Dakota light sweet pricing.

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• Quick connects.

Energy chaser, Renée Jean:

• Link here.

Operators:

• XTO reports completion of two huge DUCs.

Operations:

• Enerplus winter fur pad.

Wells:

• Enerplus Hudson: halo effect; trending toward 500K;
• Enerplus Leviathan pad updated.

Fracking:

• Why aren't they fracking in the Bakken?

Natural gas:

• Gas-to-oil ratio increasing in the Bakken.

Pipelines:

• Bridger Pipeline to bridge the Keystone XL gap.

Bakken economy:

Commentary;