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The Bakken – Mixed Reactions

Sitting on the edge of the Bakken Oil Patch and looking across the miles of changed scenery over the past couple of years, I see hope and I see a stained glass view of mixed reaction from people.  The recent proposal from the City of Williston to ban living in RV Campers makes me think [...]

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Tour Group Checks Out the Bakken

Some forty business people from Billings and other areas of the state, from as far away as Whitefish, joined the Big Sky Economic Development Authority (EDA) tour of the Bakken. About a third of them said that they went to explore the possibility of launching some kind of business enterprise in what has become the [...]

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More Oil? Speculation Tantalizes Oil Explorers

Editorial Note:  Upon the heels of North Dakota’s wildly successful 20th Annual Williston Basin Conference, it seems fitting to take a retro look at a scoop published by the Big Sky Business Journal touching on the impending tsunami of the oil field activity that is now consuming western North Dakota. February, 2007 By Evelyn Pyburn Image Source:  KULR 8, Billings, MT [...]

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Question #3 What’s Your Mission Statement?

 Question #3 – What’s Your Mission Statement? Don’t let your eyes glaze over – this was written for the banker ! We believe we can use this immense economic opportunity to strategically direct our collective and individual destinies; but only if we (the community of stakeholders) actively engage in the process. This web portal is [...]

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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 [...]

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2010 Oil Production in the Williston Basin

Oil production topped 400,000 barrels per day in the Fall of 2010 for the entire Williston Basin which includes North Dakota, Eastern Montana and South Dakota. Production has remained in the 400,000 to 425,000 barrel per day range since then because of all the moisture we have received in this area which has slowed production. [...]