Saturday, February 16, 2013

Week 7: February 10, 2013 -- February 16, 2013

New metric
90 wells/month needed to maintain current production -- NDIC, Director's Cut

Economic development
BNSF studying feasibility of natural gas processing plant to provide fuel for its new-generation locomotives
Bakken impact on Fargo
New industrial park north of Dickinson; on new bypass route
Update on Bismarck's Tubular Transport & Logistics / Northern Plains Commerce Centre
Braun Intertec to open two more offices in North Dakota: Minot, Dickinson
Algeco Scotsman buying Target Logistics; $625 million price tag
EPA certifies ethanol plant in Jamestown, ND; will bring new coal plant on-line

Bakken operations
North Dakota oil production hits another record
Random update of seven (7) WPX wells on one pad
Bakken near parity with WTI at Clearbrook, MN
Three discussions of note over at the Bakken Shale Discussion Group, including a thread on 160-acre spacing: they are saying it; not me
Manufacturers can't get enough trucks to the Bakken

Crude-by-rail
Free map of CBR terminals in North Dakota
Burlington Northern CAPEX for 2013 -- staggering
Mike Filloon's comment on CBR

Spearfish operations
Update on Surge, Legacy, Spearfish wells in North Dakota

Agriculture
Corn boom in North Dakota
North Dakota #1 in food production for the nation, the world
Staggering corn production possible
North Dakota farm land surging in value
Farm income: highest in 40 years

Photos for sale
Vern Whitten

Fiction
The miraculous North Dakota boom is over -- The Atlantic
President acknowledges "oil fields" of North Dakota
The Bakken and fracking, at The Oil Drum

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