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Grand Forks, N.D. area businesses are growing to meet demands in the Bakken region of North Dakota, the region’s chamber of commerce said in an Aug. 6 press release. The Chamber – Grand Forks/East Grand Forks, on behalf of the region’s Bakken Initiative, surveyed its members, revealing that businesses are “attributing both revenue and employment growth to business activity related to the oil and gas industry,” the chamber said. Sixty-seven percent of the respondents attribute “some of their revenue” in the past two years to Bakken activi...
Dallas-based Summit Midstream Partners LLC and Summit Investments said June 25 that they are significantly expanding their Divide crude oil and water gathering system under construction in Williams and Divide counties in North Dakota. “In addition to the approximately 90 miles of crude gathering pipeline being constructed as part of the Divide system, Summit Investments will construct approximately 145 miles of new gathering pipeline capable of handling up to 45,000 barrels of crude oil and 45,000 barrels of water per day,” the company sai...
CN said May 28 it is accelerating a $33 million line upgrade in Wisconsin to increase railcar loading capacity and train velocity for growing frac sand business from Badger Mining Corp., Preferred Sands of Wisconsin L.L.C., Atlas Resin Proppants L.L.C. and Taylor Frac L.L.C. The railroad now plans to improve a 74-mile section of track in its Whitehall Subdivision between Wisconsin Rapids and Blair, Wis., in three years instead of four. Work began in 2012 and the entire project is slated for completion in December 2014. The project will enable...
Abbreviations & parameters With a few exceptions, such as the Heath shale play in the central part of the state, the Montana weekly oil activity report includes horizontal well activity in the Bakken petroleum system in the eastern/northeastern part of the state within the Williston Basin. It also includes what is referred to as the South Alberta Bakken fairway in northwestern/west-central Montana, which is at least 175 miles long (north-south) and 50 miles wide (east-west), extending from southern Alberta, where the formation is generally refe...
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Larson Electronics said March 4 that it has announced the release of a multi-mode capable LED light with remote control that is compatible with standard PAR38 style light fixtures. The LED18W-PAR38-RGB 18 Watt RGB LED PAR 38 Remote Control Light provides innovative control and operating options with remote control operation and multi-color output choices as well as the ability to produce flashing, dimming, and strobing effects. The Larson Electronics LED18W-PAR38-RGB 18 watt RGB LED PAR 38 remote control light is an innovative addition to...
Interested in information about firms that provide goods and services for oil companies in the Bakken? The Bakken Oil & Gas Directory lists all the operators in the Williston Basin’s Bakken/Three Forks play, as well as service, supply, equipment, financial, construction, transportation, housing and other active firms. News items, company profiles and photo features provide more information about those companies that serve the oil and gas industry in the Williston Basin of North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The second edition o...
United States rail car manufacturers should have enough units on the rails to carry 2 million barrels per day by the end of 2014, well over double what is currently extracted from the Bakken shale basin, according to an a rail industry advisor. Of the current tank car backlog of about 48,000 as many as 30,000 are needed for crude petroleum, Toby Kolstad, who runs the firm Rail Theory Forecasts told the National Post, and the firm is counting on thousands of cars coming off the production lines at Trinity Industries, Union Tank Car and Greenbrie...
Growth in unconventional crude from sources in the Bakken and the Alberta oil sands will see North American become a net exporter of petroleum liquids in the 2020-22 period, the Hart Energy-Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources conference in Calgary was told Feb. 27. Terry Higgins, director of refining at Hart Energy, predicted shale oil alone will boost output by 2.6 million-2.8 million barrels per day, while the oil sands will add another 2.5 million bpd, along with 800,000 bpd of natural gas liquids, offset by a drop in gasoline...
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The law offices of Ebeltoft Sickler Lawyers said Feb. 27 that attorneys Bekki Grant and Courtney Olson recently gave a presentation to the Southwest Area Human Resources Association on the issue of age discrimination in the workplace. The Southwest Area Human Resources Association is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management. The Society for Human Resource Management is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Attorneys Grant and Olson’s presentation covered federal and state regulations on age dis...
Lister Industries said Feb. 28 that it is pleased to announce the addition of Marjorie Parker to its team in 2012 as office manager of its Edmonton Alberta office. Parker has a solid background in oil and gas office management coming from Carlyle Saskatchewan where she worked for an oilfield service company. She will keep a steady hand on Lister’s billing and receivables and employee payrolls. Parker arrives into the office well before sun up to ensure those early bird truckers are able to load Lister rig mats quickly and get on the road to t...
Four Seasons Equipment said Feb. 28 that in partnering with the Williston Special Olympics to help raise money for a trip to the state tournament in March, it held a cookout for the team and their families at its shop in Williston, N.D., on March 9. Four Seasons would like your continuing support for these athletes and their journey to the state tournament and is requesting community support for the athletes to compete and help in developing important skills for their future. Four Seasons is especially excited for this year’s event, as one o...
Western Canadian junior producer Yoho Resources has reported successful drilling in the Duvernay formation’s Kaybob play in Alberta, where it has been encouraged by overall well costs and a multi-well pad operation. The company said it drilled and completed its first two horizontal Duvernay development wells from a pad site targeting the Devonian Duvernay shale, a close geological relative of the Bakken. The first was drilled to a depth of 16,200 feet, with a horizontal lateral of just over 5,000 feet. The well was drilled and cased over 33 d...
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Michael J. Stover, manager of Marathon Oil’s mid-continent production operations, has been appointed to the newly established position of vice president of operations services, effective Feb. 1, the company said Jan. 29. In his new role Stover will have oversight responsibility for Marathon’s upstream development, technology, global procurement, land and commercial services, and drilling and completions activities. Based in Houston, he will report to Marathon Chairman, President and CEO Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., the company said. “Establishing t...
Sixty percent of U.S. oil and gas chief financial officers, CFOs, who responded to a national survey say they feel more pessimistic this year than last on the state of the U.S. economy and its impact on demand for oil and gas. This is reflected in a drop in sentiment about accessing capital and credit. In 2011, 73 percent of CFOs felt positive about accessing additional sources of financing, compared to just 59 percent this year. The survey found that 31 percent of U.S. energy companies plan to increase their capital investments for 2013 in...
