CNBC will be reporting from the Bakken all day Wednesday, August 24, 2011.
On Amtrak today, between Seattle, Washington, and Chicago, Illinois, on the Empire Builder, I heard this conversation:
"If you have your CDL (commercial driver's license), you can get a job in Williston in fifteen minutes."
Fifteen minutes.
I overheard a similar conversation in McDonald's a few months ago: a roughneck was talking to a friend. He had arrived in Williston from Texas on Friday and by Monday he had a choice of roughneck jobs with several oil exploration companies, and he was looking at going with the "best" and the safest.
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