Week 33: August 12, 2012 -- August 18, 2012

Bakken Economic Development

Update on Williston economic development:

Blackwood Estates Subdivision, Pheasant Ridge Development (Watford City), master plan for Parshall (680 homes, 600 apartments, 320 hotel rooms), Marriott extended stay opens in Bismarck; etc.

New 120-unit apartment complex in Watford City
Williston: busiest McDonald's, busiest Wal-Mart, busiest gas station in the US
Update on hotel/motel construction in the oil patch
New airport for Bowman, ND -- paid for by US taxpayers
More oil patch housing, Oppidan to invest $100 million
More oil patch housing, 1,500 units to Burlington (west of Minot)
Port of North Dakota (Minot), update;
Another update on Bakken economic development:

Area's largest RV park and apartment complex in Harvest Hills subdivision; Hampton Inns and Suites opens in Williston; Target Logistics opens Stanley Hotel; Microtel Inn and Suites opens in Stanley; indoor RV park;

Building permits (in dollar amount) may exceed 2011 record year
Halliburton, Love's Trucking building apartment complexes for their workers (same link)
Fourth year in a row: North Dakota best employment stats in the US

Bakken operations

Bakken boom will get bigger; at least 35,000 more wells to drill -- state official
KOG acquires 80 Bakken acres from the state; $560K
Serka Services, Turkey, enters the Bakken
Work over rigs: the next big thing to talk about in the Bakken
Re-fracking Marathon wells
Whiting pursues Red River formation in the Williston Basin - Oil and Gas Journal
For newbies: keep an eye on the Three Forks 
The Bakken in 2025: 2 million bopd; natural gas production to quintuple 
North Dakota daily production: sets new record, 660,000 bopd
Another OXY well
North Dakota State lease sale, August, 2012

Fracking

Obama re-defines 50-year-old trucking regulation to hinder fracking
Cost of re-fracks, summer, 2012

Rail

CBR narrows the WTO-Bakken differential
Tesoro to move more Bakken oil by rail

Pipelines

Enbridge succeeding where TransCanada failed -- LA Times

BakkenLink progresses

Less than 50% of Bakken oil now shipped by pipeline

Archival

Largest pea processing plant in the Americas in Williston
US CO2 emissions lowest in 20 years
Permian will exceed takeaway capacity
Eagle Ford costs to get crude to market
US energy revolution: is this just the tip of the iceberg?
The Great Plains: Joe Kotkin in the WSJ
PBS discovers the Bakken boom
Solar power: the math doesn't work