Vern Whitten's Bakken Photos

This has become one of the high points of my monthly blogging, receiving links to photographs by Vern Whitten.

Take a look at slides #4 and #5 of the Bakken Spring photos -- seven tracks of oil tank cars at a CBR terminal waiting to be filled. The first set contains photos of Williston, Minot, and points in between. And then look at slide 12 where one sees a pad with 36 tanks and four pumpers. Now, imagine a pad with six pumpers, or even ten pumpers.

Remember: EOG ships all Bakken oil by rail; CLR ships 80% by rail.

The following set of photos: Watford City.

And the third set: Dickinson, North Dakota.

Vern Whitten Photography would love to hear from you.

Enjoy the photos. I think they are phenomenal.

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For those interested in location of some new construction coming to Dickinson, Don has provided some assistance.

Go to the Dickinson set of slides.

Go to slide #1. Note the site for the new MDU-Calumet refinery. Two miles to the immediate left of the "x" in the center of the picture, will be Exit 56 (when it it built) off I-94.

Go to slide  #4. This is Exit  59 off I-94. "X Next Slide" just happens to mark the location of the new Menard's facility.

In that same photo, slide 4, kitty corner from the new Menard's, along 30th Avenue West, where "all the dirt is being moved," is the location where the new hospital will be built.

In that same photo, slide 4, again Exit 59: this is where the bypass going north to ND Highway 22 should begin; going north about 3 to 4 miles and then heading east another three miles to ND Highway 22.