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The New American Dream
With nothing but $600 in his pocket, a 33 year old unemployed construction worker, husband, and father of a 5 year old headed for the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota last summer. That $600 represented the last of the family savings and it was barely enough to buy the gas and food for the [...]
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The Bakken is so hot…it glows from outerspace !
Around the global this week, humanity looked to the skies to catch an impressive view of the 54th transit of Venus across our sun since 2000 B.C.. That’s right “B C”….not 2000 AD ! The significance of the 2012 Venus transit is that, regardless of your age, it was the last in your lifetime. The next Venus [...]
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Pipeline Bottlenecks Plague Bakken Crude
Legal jabs between two pipeline companies servicing the oil fields of western North Dakota continues to add to the Bakken crude bottleneck at a large oil terminal in northwestern Minnesota. Currently, High Prairie Pipeline operates 250 miles of pipeline in the southwestern part of North Dakota and is proposing the construction of an additional 450 miles of pipeline designed to cross the state [...]
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Bakken Oil Industry Continues to Tax Transportation Infrastructure
How many truckloads does it take to bring an oil well in North Dakota into production? The answer, “1,012″ ! Okay – where’s the punch line ? Well (no pun intended) there isn’t one. The answer really is “1,012″ truck loads. And that’s just one way ! 80 truckloads of sand 400 truckloads of fresh water [...]
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“You Know You’re Having a Bad Day in North Dakota When……”
Let’s talk about big trucks, the oil field, and safety…A friend of mine drives his rig throughout the Bakken oil fields everyday; so I asked him about the overall driving conditions. He comments, that almost on a daily basis he comes very close to having an accident. He states that the drivers in the big trucks are taking crazy chances by [...]
