Updates
February 2, 2013: update in the Dickinson Press.
Dawa, a professional services and communications firm based in Williston, Dawa began offering narrated tours of a sizable chunk of the Bakken last year. Available for anyone with $325, Bakken Field Tours are offered several times per year during warm weather months beginning in May and feature a chance to get an up close look at the operating areas of the northwest North Dakota Oil Patch.
Each tour begins with a three-hour briefing about, among other topics, the history of the Bakken. During colder months — when travel on Oil Patch roads is unpredictable — several longer versions of the briefings are offered in Williston beginning later this month.
“People want to know and understand what’s going on out here,” said Dawa President Jeff Zarling. “We cover everything from the discovering of oil in North Dakota to the development of the Bakken shale play. We get pretty in-depth.”
Tours originate from Dickinson or Williston and last for roughly eight hours, including lunch at a Bakken crew camp. Zarling said a wide variety of people have taken advantage of the tours so far.
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DAWA Solutions Group is offering an 11-hour Bakken Field Tour bus trip through parts of the oil field, including a three-hour educational session the night before the tour. The $325 tour does not include the price of a hotel room, and is aimed at investors, community leaders and developers, although the tours will likely also attract tourists, too.DAWA Solutions Group has an office kitty-corner from the CENEX service station in Williston that must be the busiest little station in the world at 6:00 - 7:00 a.m. daily; on 2nd Street West, I believe.
I could be wrong on all of this; it's been awhile since I've been in Williston.
