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Most exciting operator in the Bakken in 2011: KOG
- In-depth look at one of the most exciting oil companies in the Bakken: KOG.
- The KOG/BTA deal
- KOG: acquires 50,000 net acres; to raise almost $1 billion
Best well:
Most exciting production prediction:
Bakken oil field story of the year:
Most surprising formation of the year:
Biggest story in takeaway capacity (3):
Investment Story of the Year:
Record bonus paid per acre:
Most hypocritical story of the year:
Expanded List of Top Stories of 2011
The Short List
Weeks 34 - 52
Weeks 34 - 52
The Bakken: production
- Tesoro to increase diesel production: big headline, little increase.
- Six great Oasis wells.
- Six great Oasis wells.
- EURs of 1,000,000 possible in the Bakken
- Three notable wells reported in past ten days: Charlotte, Tarpon, and Hagen
- 75,000 more wells to be drilled in the Bakken
The Bakken: formations
- The Sanish vs the Pronghorn (formations).
- Taking another look at the Madison
- The Madison
- Three additional pay zones below the upper Three Forks
- The new Hagen/Madison well in Red Wing Creek; near Watford City
- Four-well pad approved for inside Williston city limits
- Huge Harry Stroh well; Fayette field update.
- Petro-Hunt with cluster of six wells in Four Bears
- Slawson's Armada well -- 120,000 bbls in one year
- Whiting's Record TFS well
- The first 2560-acre unit well -- MRO
- BEXP: 10 wells on a spacing unit coming
- WMB well: 20,000 bbls in 14 days; not fracked
- Biggest news story of the week: pipeline company to invest $145 million in new rail transport
- Triangle Petroleum getting more active; sits in the core Bakken
- Hess getting its mojo back: another 6-well pad
- Statoil/BEXP report great IPs on a 3-well pad in the bull's eye of the Bakken; Statoil buys BEXP
- Six-stage frack results in huge Bakken Whiting well
- BEXP's 5-well pad
- Continental Resources Drilling Deeper into the Three Forks
- Bakken boom fuels rail boom
- Tesoro to ship oil to the west coast; $50 million+ project
- Crude-by-rail; Louisiana sweet crude prices
- Crude-by-rail, update; Reuters factbox on CBR; Railroad hub at Zap; Update of crude-by-rail
- Dickinson crude-by-rail update
- Focus on Enbridge
- Enbridge to increase pipeline capacity
- Enbridge to reverse flow of oil from Cushing; Keystone XL killed
- $3 billion in natural gas infrastructure in North Dakota
- $1.5 to $2 billion/month going into the Bakken
- Oil industry pouring $2 billion/month into western ND.
- Another hotel (Value Place) breaks ground in Williston
- Motel 6 opens in Williston, December 2, 2011.
- Whiting to build operations center in Watford City; Power Fuels doing same
- Missouri Basin Well Service to build headquarters in Watford City
- New Oasis complex west of Williston
- Update on ONEOK's Garden Creek, Stateline I and II; more on ONEOK in North Dakota; expansion of the Hess natural gas plant in Tioga; update on LNG industry in western North Dakota;
- $1.2 billion for western ND roads.
- Industrial park update, Williston, North Dakota ; and here.
- Photos of the new Baker Hughes "SuperSite" going up west of Williston
- Peter Kiewit subdivision breaks ground; 2,500 new units; 289 acres
The Bakken: fracking
- New fracking company in town: Liberty Liberty Oilfield Services
- One inch of water from Lake Sakakawea will provide enough water for fracking for two years in the Bakken
- Halliburton's clean fracking
- Case study in re-fracs
- Halliburton to add 11,000 workers
- $14,000/acre in southwestern North Dakota -- a new record; full auction results here
- Longest EOG horizontal in the Bakken?
- Almost, North Dakota: We Don't Want A Bunch of Men Living in a Building All Together -- Unless They're Monks or Construction Workers.
- BLM fast-tracks golden eagle and whooping crane killing. Wind turbines: license to kill
- Minnesota's dirty oil industry.
- Minnesota: no qualms about destroying golden eagle, hawk habitat
- Federal govenment to okay killing of whooping cranes
Other top ten lists coming out of the Bakken
The Williston Herald: a very, very disappointing list (mostly negatives, and mostly trivial)
- 1. Rising rent raises anger
- 2. Parks and Recreation sales tax increase
- 3. "The Storm": white out cases black out
- 4. Legislature approves $1 billion for oil patch infrastructure
- 5. Spring and summer flooding
- 6. ND oil field deaths; injuries up in 2011 (any denominators; any analysis?)
- 7. Booming western North Dakota receives national attention
- 8. Williston Basin Energy Fest
- 9. Rig count hits 200
- 10. Fire west of town (no reports of hazardous material; no deaths; impressive fire, but not even in my top 1000)
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