Week 36: September 2, 2018 -- September 8, 2018 -- Williston, Dickinson On List Of Top 15 "Small" American Towns With Most Millionaire Households

Williston's new airport: JM Marshuetz reinstated as the contractor for the new Williston airport. Link here.

Airport director Anthony Dudas would not elaborate on the particular steps and observations that would accompany this second round of work, however it does entail additional equipment and personnel contributed by the contractor and the surety to guarantee the taxiway is finished on time for the October 10th 2019, Grand Opening of the airport.

The city canceled the contract in August when JM Marschuetz had informed the city it would need additional funding to complete the taxiway by the deadline. Marschuetz counted that assertion, blaming the city for giving a two month late start for the project.

The project: a taxiway. The article does not say if more than the taxiway is at stake.

Geoff Simon's top North Dakota energy stories:

• State revenue growing along with increased oil production
• Donald Trump, Jr, will be the featured speaker at this year's annual meeting of the ND Petroleum Council, September 24 - 26, 2018, in Fargo
• ND PSC approves Andeavor Logistics' 42-mile BakkenLink pipeline; in the heart of the Bakken; natural gas liquids (NGLs)
• originally approved in 2012 to transport crude oil
• will augment Endeavor's 44-mile NGLs pipeline McKenzie, Billings, and Stark counties
• NGLs from Watford City area to an Andeavor gas processing plant near Belfield
• North Dakota produces 450,000 bbls of NGLs per day
• PSC asks administrative law judge to weigh in on Davis Refinery; it remains the PSC decision, but they want another set of eyes to look at the permit
• Williston, Dickinson on list of 15 American small towns with most millionaires (link here)
• small defined as 10,000 to 50,000 population (excludes Bismarck, Fargo, apparently
• #12:Dickinson: #4 with 1,000 millionaire households; one-thousand millionaires in an overall population of 14,000 households
• #10: Jackson, Wyoming/Jackson, Idaho: 1,026
• #7: Williston: 1,301 millionaire households

National
US job growth surges; annual wage gain largest since 2009 
Chippewa reach agreement with Enbridge on Line 3

Operations
Well in Fort Berthold area produces 150,000 bbls of crude oil in two months
MRO re-frack; the life-cycle of a Bakken well;
Horizontal well straddles ND/Montana state line
Newfield plans to add 42 wells to three 1280-acre units
Newfield wants to place fourteen new wells on an existing 640-acre drilling unit
Kraken Operating hitting its stride

Pipelines:
USACOE tells protestors to suck eggs

Other formations
Southwestern Production Corp looking to drill Tracy-Mountain-Tyler

Miscellaneous
How busy is the Bakken? Count the SWD wells!