In the 2000 census, the population of Ray was 540 people.
Tioga Tribune.com reporting March 15, 2011, data points (some numbers rounded):
- Hess: Ray, North Dakota (Bakken) -- "single biggest investment for Hess in their portfolio."
- Presentation at special meeting in Ray by Hess executives last week; up from Houston
- Hess North American budget: $3 billion; Bakken to get 25 percent of that
- Main focus in 2010: acquire acreage
- Total Hess Bakken acreage: 647,000 core acres
- 18 rigs: enough work for next five years
- Hess spokesman: "This is the most amazing oil I have seen in my 30-year career."
- Hess concentrating on export infrastructure to minimize trucking and flaring
- Hess pipeline corridor: Red Sky Pipeline; extended from Palermo to Tioga; further extension this year
- Railspur under construction west of Tioga: 45,000 bbls daily
- Bakken employees: 250 production, 35 engineers, 85 at gas plant, 76 embedded contractors; thousands of other contractors
- No plans for a Hess refinery in the area
- Solution: an iPad app (not in the original article)
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