Friday, March 2, 2012

Week 9: February 26, 2012 -- March 3, 2012

New record for active rigs in North Dakota: 207, Saturday morning, March 3, 2012

New record for active rigs in North Dakota: 206, Friday evening, March 2, 2012

Man-camp ban in Williams County now indefinite length of time (ban until further notice)

GM "temporarily" halts production of the Volt

Hearing dockets for March, 2012: Hess requesting permits for 468 new wells

$10/hr --> $100,000/year as a diesel mechanic in the Bakken

Fourteen-screen movie theater coming to Williston; Menard's shopping center

Two daily non-stops Minneapolis-Williston to begin shortly

Romney names Harold Hamm his energy advisor

Largest one-time contract for road repair in McKenzie County history

3 comments:

  1. I thought this was an interesting article. They asked Oil industry officials to list the top 10 oil towns/cities in North America. Williston comes in at 9th, ahead of Edmonton, Alberta
    http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=49&articleid=20120304_49_E5_CUTLIN890247

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    1. Wow, that's incredible.

      It explains why Williston needs two daily flights to Minneapolis. A lot of executives are flying in and out. Sure, the CEO mights have their corporate jets, but not all, and certainly not the middle management folks.

      I truly thought Williston was going to level out this year but one just keeps seeing more evidence of growth.

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    2. See stand-alone post for this story:

      http://milliondollarway.blogspot.com/2012/03/williston-makes-top-ten-list-of-ranked.html

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