The world:
The nation:
- Chevron moving 800 employees from its California headquarters to Houston
- Gulf Coast oil being shipped to Canadian refineries
Most exciting operator in the Bakken in 2012:
- Helis (but KOG is a very, very close second)
- Rail
- See sidebar
- Monster wells
- Biggest reported Bakken IP in 2012: #20636, 5,130, BR, Brazos 24-34H, Charlson,
- CLR: one million acres in the Bakken
- Formations: the four benches (talked about since August, 2011); completes TF3;
- CHK <-->: Chesapeake to leave Dickinson area; may leave Williston Basin; CHK to stay
Bakken oil field story of the year:
Biggest story in takeaway capacity:
Investment story of the year:
The "Other" Williston Basin formation:
Record bonus paid per acre:
Most hypocritical story of the year:
- US and Germany only two countries to decrease CO2 emissions, and China/India given a pass on the Kyoto Protocol; overwhelming majority of CO2 emissions come from China/India
- MDW's most cited local newspaper: The Dickinson Press
- MDW's least visited local newspaper: The Williston Herald
- Best education site: RBN Energy
- Keystone XL
- Chesapeake's drilling program in North Dakota
The Williston Wire's Top Ten Stories of 2012
Expanded List of Top Stories of 2012
Williston named fastest growing micro area in the United States
Williston to annex 4,800 acres north of Williston
KKR makes game-changing housing investment in Williston
Williston population to grow to 50,000 by 2017
More than $470 million in construction projects permitted in Williston in 2012
United, Delta Airlines launch service in Williston
Williston led state in taxable sales and purchases
Construction begins on Williston area recreation center
Mercy Medical Center, Trinity open new facilities
WSC opens new science center, broke ground on housing for essential services employees
Famous Dave's, Buffalo Wild Wings announce plans to open in Williston in 2013
Temporary truck bypass opens in August, 2012
Williston approves revised plans for northwest bypass
Governor's budget recommends four-laning highway 85 between Williston and Watford City
Expanded List of Top Stories of 2012
The Short List
The nation:
The Bakken: production
- North Dakota jumps to #2 in oil production; one year earlier than anticipated; passed CA earlier
- 1.5 million bbl-EURs
- Bakken boom will get bigger; at least 35,000 more wells to drill
The Bakken: formations
- Three Forks may be 200 feet thick in the core Bakken; What the four TFS benches might mean
- Pronghorn Sands part of the Bakken; Whiting presentation, February 7, 2012
- Red River: multiple pay zones
- Slawson proving that upper Bakken shale will produce oil
- BEXP reports a great IP (4,368 bbls) for a wildcat in the Bakken
- Samson Resources' Thomte well with 102,000 bbls in first six months, Divide County
- CLR successfully completes first TF3 well
- CLR's 14-well/1280-acre spacing unit
- Continental Resources proposal for drilling 14 wells on on 2560-acre spacing unit
- 10+ wells on one 1280-acre spacing unit
- $100 million, 12-well Hess pad?
- 32 long laterals in four adjacent spacing units -- Abraxas
- EOG: 320-acre spacing in the Bakken
- 640-acre spacing vs 1280-acre spacing in the Bakken
The Bakken: crude by rail
- BNI's huge crude-by-rail operation
- Plains All American 5-Terminal Expansion
- Savage announces completion of its Trenton double-track CBR facility
- Is there more to rail transport of crude than we're aware?
- Dickinson facility expanding
- Statoil to lease > 1,000 rail cars to ship oil
- BNSF investing $200 million in upgrades, maintenance
- Just how big IS the Bakken? BNSF now has capacity for 1 million bopd
- Backhaul of diluent in otherwise empty tank cars
- Growth of CBR in the Bakken
- Bakken hits new production record; 40% of Bakken oil is going out by rail
- Coolest link of the week: photos of BNSF crude-by-rail terminals
- Enbridge Announces Enbridge Rail
- First Bakken unit train arrives in Tacoma, Washington
- Enbridge announcement: $6.2 billion pipeline expansion for the Bakken, Canadian oil
- Bakken oil being shipped to California
- A 17-mile pipeline; Stanley to oil rail loading station: $14 million project
- EOG: First CBR Bakken Oil to Louisiana
- Bakken crude being shipped to the Gulf Coast by barge
- Enbridge talking about need for yet another high capacity pipeline from the Bakken to Superior, WI
- $700 million to improve Williston waste water plant
- $4 billion/month pouring into western North Dakota
- $26 million proppant distribution facility to Stark County?
- MDU proposing an 88-MW natural gas electric utility near Mandan
- Williston's new recreation center: even bigger
- Medical complex in Williston; fastest growing hospital in the nation; HAL donation
- Tioga Hess expansion update
- ONEOK to build fifth natural gas processing plant, Garden Creek II
- North Dakota state sales tax collection increased by 40% yoy
- North Dakota tax receipts setting records
- Williston surpassed Fargo by $100 million for 4Q11
- US Army Corps of Engineers will release river water for fracking
- EPA: no health concerns with first well tests from Dimock, Pennsylvania
- Fracking deemed safe in California study
- Hearing dockets for March, 2012: Hess requesting permits for 468 new wells
Building permits, dollar value, Williston, triples previous year: $360 million for 2011
Williston #6 on Forbes' fastest-growing small town list - Dickinson building permits -- a new record, second year in a row
- Williston's Amtrak station: fastest growing US train depot
- On track for 2,514 permits this year; a new record
- On track for 2,535 new permits this year; new record
- On track for nearly 2,450 permits this calendar year in the Williston Basin
- Could the Bakken rival Ghawar?
- Bakken might need 50,000 additional workers in next few years
- Millionaires: 634 in 2011; 532 in 2010 (North Dakota)
- Williston, Minot set record for new building permits (as of early December, 2012)
- Williston's building permits, >$405 million; exceeds those of Fargo AND Minot combined
- Developer: 500 new homes in Watford City
- Minot: building permits will set record; > $300 million
- 300 apartment units in South Heart, North Dakota?
- 24-hour Wendy's and Chester's Chicken coming to Williston
- More oil patch housing, Oppidan to invest $100 million
- More oil patch housing, 1,500 units to Burlington
- Counties secure $370 million in loans for electric grid build-out
- Electricity demand could triple in western North Dakota over next 20 years
- Another 123-single family unit development, east of Dickinson
- Dickinson: $20 million health care facility underway
- Watford City: housing needs assessment
- The Dutch pull the plug on off-shore wind; the Spanish suspend all renewable projcts
- Wind farms in Wyoming on hold
- GM "temporarily" halts production of the Volt
- Batteries of all Nissan Leafs to be replaced; premature loss of capacity
- 440,000 birds killed annually by wind turbines
- Solar power: the math doesn't work
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