Video of Construction Activity in the Bakken Boom -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

The following videos were taken on Sunday (thus minimal construction activity), September 18, 2011.

This is one of the moderate-size subdivisions being developed.

It is on the northwest side of Williston.














The following video, I am told, is of a 24-lot parcel that an oil company bought to build homes on for their employees.





The following is the Granite Peak development northwest of Williston. It will be completed in three phases, if I remember correctly. It will be mixed residential with a school and a shopping center. The subdivision covers 289 acres (one-half section; there is an established residence in the southwest corner of the parcel that accounts for the missing 30 acres of the half section. I believe there may be as many as 2,200 units (single family, townhouse, apartment complexes) in this area when it is completed. Prior to the boom, there were probably about 3,000 units in Williston based on a population of 12,000 and four family members. It should be noted that this video was shot on Sunday, September 18, 2011, and they were working on the project. Activity in the Bakken is 24/7 although construction sites do slow down on Sunday.










Although this is only a single industrial site, I took video of it to better capture the size of these projects. Before the boom, a typical trucking company would have needed a maintenance building for one or two trucks, and a parking for a handful of large trucks and a few pickup trucks. Hexom Earth Construction has grown significantly since the boom began as evident by the size of their new building and the large complex currently being built.



The video below is the BHI "SuperSite" complex west of Williston: 100,000 square feet industrial space; 50,000 square feet office space. This, I believe, is the largest single building in Williston.