Around the Oil Patch

Utah company to build facility in Dickinson to build temporary housing for roughnecks.

From the Oil Patch Hotline (full article available only by subscription):

Minot is becoming the "go-to" city for new oil and oil service companies, partly because of housing shortages in Dickinson and Williston. New companies are moving to Minot after Hess Corporation moved its regional headquarters to Minot. Oil service companies want to work with a multi-national company.The Oil Patch Hotline there are 17 new companies with more than 500 employees that have come to Minot after Hess moved there:

Hess: 100 - 300 employees in North Dakota.
Power Fuels: building a facility on a 20-acre site off highway 2 across from the Cenex tank farm.
Enseco Energy Services: well testing and flowback services; 40 employees and 8 trucks
Badger Daylighting of North Dakota: operates hydro vac trucks to clean out silt, sand, other debris from mud tanks.
Pure Energy: a new $20 million office and truck bay facility; provides production testing and cased wireline hole services. It joins Pumpco Magnum Trucking at the new 130-acre industrial park built by the city.
A new 90-acre Northern Plains Energy Park with city water, sewer and three-phase power connections.

Minot, the fourth-largest city in North Dakota, has a few more amenities than Williston, including the crowd favorite, the annual Scandinavian Hostfest. 

For those who missed it, here's the link to some Whiting corporate videos; whether you like the presentation or not, the scenery is spectacular. Enjoy.