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Too Few Bakken Pipelines
Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council expressed this week that too few pipelines transporting Bakken Crude from the western North Dakota oil fields is creating a threat to local wildlife. Approximately 50% of North Dakota’s record oil production is shipped either by rail or truck due to a general lack of pipeline [...]
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Bakken Crude Express Pipeline Derailed
Tulsa, Oklahoma based Oneok Partners LP reported this week that their proposed $1.8 billion oil pipeline from North Dakota to Oklahoma, known as the Bakken Crude Express Pipeline, has been derailed due to the company’s inability to secure enough commitments to transport Bakken crude. While the overall outlook for crude oil supply is healthy from [...]
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Reason Needs to Prevail for a Productive Montana Coal Conversation
Not that long ago (although admittedly longer for some than others), most of us in this part of the world believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. As children it was culturally acceptable to operate in “a world of make-believe”. Simply put, truth is limited by one’s ability to reason. Broken [...]
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Oil Boom Has Downside for Towns in the Bakken Shale
By Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers SIDNEY, Mont — Politicians are quick to extol the virtues of domestic oil drilling while ignoring the trade-offs. Here in this fast-developing Western oil patch, the gritty side of America’s new oil boom is on display with rising crime, a slain schoolteacher, rents that have tripled and public resources [...]
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Bad Roads In the Bakken
A few years back you could sail on down the roads in Western North Dakota without fear of losing a tire or having the bottom of your transmission pan abruptly removed by the highway. The Bakken Oil boom has been a mixed blessing of plentiful work and lots of money. However, workers are moving to [...]
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Why Art is More Important than You Think
For many people, art is considered just a hobby. Painting is something you do on a lazy Sunday afternoon while drinking a delicious cup of espresso and calmly looking back on your workweek (which is almost a myth in itself, as very few people have ever had the time to do this). The fact is though, art [...]
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Sidney Struggles with Development
“The more fracking the more traffic” Leslie Messer, Economic Development Director for the City of Sidney, told members of the Big Sky Economic Development tour group. Sidney is just a few miles from the North Dakota border, but still very much in the heart of the oil field action. Confronted with impossible demands on their [...]
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Keystone XL…One More Time
R.L. (Bud) Andersen, spokesman for TransCanada, informed members of Montana Association of Oil, Gas, & Coal Counties, Inc. last week in Lewistown, MT that the Calgary based pipeline giant has divided the Keystone XL in two and is moving forward with the $2.3 Billion proposed pipeline running from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas; projected an in [...]
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The Strain of Getting Bakken to Market
As North Dakota hops over Alaska to become the #2 oil producer in the US, its no secret that Bakken crude trades at a discount due to the high cost of getting Bakken Gold out of the Bakken. Although additional pipeline routes are continually being developed; one producer, Phillips 66, the newly spun off downstream arm of Conoco [...]
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Williston Basin Infrastructure Challenges Continue
Marketplace challenges, obstacles and hurdles continue in the Bakken as the momentum to drill taxes infrastructure on all levels: WILLISTON, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) today hosted Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for a visit to Western North Dakota’s oil patch to show how the state is advancing oil and gas development in the region, as [...]
