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The year 2012 has had the quaint community of Sidney realizing some harsh realities of the growing oil boom. As the year comes to an end, The Roundup would like to honor Sherry Arnold, an esteemed woman of our community. Sherry is one of The Roundup’s Top Ten for 2012. Tragedy came on the morning of Jan. 7 when a search party was gathered at Sidney High School for math teacher Sherry Arnold. Sherry, wife of Gary and the mother of five, had not returned from her regular morning jog. In the d...
The oil boom in the Bakken has made available housing in the oil patch become almost nonexistent. With housing shortages being one of the biggest problems of the current oil boom more than 350 people from 33 states attended the Bakken Housing Summit in Williston. The sold out summit this past week gave stakeholders and service providers opportunity to connect and conduct business. The presentations offered valuable market information and perspectives. Engineer and surveyor companies attended the...
Dean Risinger stood with his friends from Fairview School anxiously waiting for the sirens of local law enforcement. The sirens signaled the start of the Montana Special Olympics Summer Games Torch Run from the North Dakota border into Montana continuing on to Billings. Risinger participated in the divisional events earlier this month taking home three gold medals and one silver. He began participating in the Special Olympics Montana three years ago. Risinger’s mother, Michelle Andreasen, s...
The Law Enforcement Torch Run, which benefits Special Olympics, began Tuesday morning in Fairview with law enforcement and Fairview track team members running through the town’s downtown area. Pictured are Officer Alex Esteves, Sidney Police Department, Trooper Jason Love, Montana Highway Patrol, Deputy Gabe Zeiler, Richland County Sheriff's Department, Dean Risenger, Special Olympics participant, Officer Alex Roselles, Sidney Police Department, Deputy Wyatt Ueker, Richland County Sheriff's D...
Oneok Partners representatives Steve Johnson, Government Regulations, and Megan Lewis, Corporate Communications, met last Wednesday in Sidney to discuss progress of the future Bakken Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) Pipeline. Construction on the pipeline is set to begin mid-May of this year. Oneok Partners, a Tulsa, Okla. based company, announced last year plans to build the multi-million dollar natural gas liquids pipeline through the region. The 500-mile Bakken Pipeline, starts near Sidney and...
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-MT, held an energy jobs roundtable last Wednesday at the MSU Eastern Ag Research Station, Sidney. He was joined by USDA Rural Development Deputy Undersecretary Cheryl Cook, U.S. Small Business Administration leaders and other state officials in a call to action to support Eastern Montana in their struggles to solve oil impact issues. Baucus explained that a multi-agency “one-stop-shop-” in Sidney has been established dedicated to the infrastructure and development nee...
With the increase of residents and a noticeable increase in crime, newcomers and long-time residents of eastern Montana and western North Dakota are concerned about what can be done to feel safer. Fairview, East Fairview & surrounding area will be holding a Neighborhood Watch Program informational meeting beginning at 5:30, Thursday, March 29, at the Fairview High School Cafeteria. An information session will be held from 5:30-6:00 p.m. and a question and answer session will run from 6 to 6:30...
The increase in oil industry productions and the economic challenges have spurred North Dakota and Montana to look at the opportunities in all areas of the energy potential. Events to generate ideas and connect with businesses and leaders in the industry are being held the first week in April in Minot, N.D. and Billings, Mont. 2012 Bakken Investor Conference The 2012 Bakken Investor Conference will be held April 2-4 at the Sleep Inn & Suites Conference Center in Minot, N.D. Investors will be...
Federal and multi-state law enforcement officers have recovered a body believed to be that of missing Sherry Arnold, 43, of Sidney. Authorities said Wednesday they believe the physical remains recovered are that of the missing Sidney school teacher who disappeared Jan. 7 during a morning run. An FBI team started to recover the body in early morning hours on Wednesday east of Williston. The body was flown to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Montana Wednesday where it will be examined and po...
It’s nothing new to those living in the Bakken to pay higher gas prices than the rest of Montana and North Dakota. Go east or west and the price of gas is normally on average up to $.10 lower than the boom towns of eastern Montana and western North Dakota due to the increased demand of the oil industry services. The crude oil price rose in recent weeks because of increased tensions and fears of an Iranian supply cut. Gas prices have been rising because of the soaring oil prices. Surprisingly, o...
Major pipeline company, Enbridge, recently announced plans to build a Bakken oil pipeline crossing from one side of Lake Sakakawea to the other, but will need an environmental go ahead from several federal agencies before it can be built. Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company, is already a major transporter of North Dakota oil. The pipeline would be built 36 miles east of Watford City, boring under the lake, to a point 9 miles southeast of Tioga. From there oil would go into a second east-west...
Railroads seem to be experiencing a renaissance of sorts as the volume of crude oil pumped out of the Bakken continues to set records. U.S. railroads lost about six years of rail-traffic progress as a result of the recession. Shale drilling activities are helping to lead the charge with investments made during the past two years by oil and rail companies due to the accelerated growth in oil related traffic in the past four years. With the controversies regarding pipelines, railroads are laying...
Local news and rumors have been stating that an 800-person man camp is underway just west of Dore. The camp is located on Richland County Road 137 just north of Valley View Feedlot, Fairview. The first unit of the first group of trailers was being placed Monday morning by workers and a crane. A spokesman on the site said this is just the first unit of a smaller camp planned to go in. He said the company who owns the property, Sun Valley Oil, has applied for a permit for an 800-person workforce...
The FBI is asking land owners in North Dakota and Montana to help find the body of missing Sidney teacher Sherry Arnold. Williston Police Chief Jim Lokken, along with Sidney Police Chief Frank DiFonzo and Williams County Sheriff Scott Busching, held a press conference Monday at the Williams County Law Enforcement Center, Williston. Chief Lokken began with thanking the public in the efforts to find Sherry Arnold. “They have been, from the beginning, a very important component to this i...
The disappearance of Sherry Arnold, the Sidney math teacher who went missing on Jan. 7 has devastated the communities in the area surrounding Sidney, but hasn’t changed the community spirit of helping your neighbor. Schools that normally are competing against each other in sports events are showing their support to the Sidney Public Schools and the Arnold family. Students from all Fairview Schools went to Sidney High School last Friday morning to take orders for coffee for the teachers and s...
A large multi-user rail terminal in Trenton, ND, which began construction early 2011, is noticeably progressing. The Bakken Petroleum Hub can easily be seen at Marley Crossing near Trenton on Highway 1804. The terminal, to be known as Trenton Railport, being served by the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway, was designed to bring large-scale rail service to the Bakken Formation with oilfield-related materials such as tubular, frac sand and other strategic materials. This includes the...
The oil industry activity in the MonDak region increased in 2011 more than anyone ever imagined. The recent activity being called a boom had everyone skeptical, but the refinement of horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, has made this boom possible. During the current boom the workers have come ahead of the infrastructure and the region is scrambling to accommodate but sometimes with hesitancy. Many remember the region’s last boom 30 years ago. When crude p...
The current oil boom has brought many changes for the MonDak area in the past year. With the plethora of jobs available in the oil industry, our small communities have seen people from all over the U.S. coming to find work. Oil companies boasting a multitude of job openings and national news coverage of our boomtowns has brought more people arriving in the area every week. The unemployment rate in the U.S. has people who have been out of work for a long time heading for western North Dakota and...
Recreational Vehicles (RVs) are no longer for recreational living in Big Sky Country and the Bakken. The homes on wheels are no longer just for the lake or camping by the river. What originally was intended to be temporary housing is becoming more permanent homes due to housing shortages since the increase of oilfield activity in the area. National media coverage recently has many people coming from all over the country to secure a job in the oil industry. Many are warned of the housing...
The Montana and North Dakota Highway Patrol Departments are conducting a commercial motor vehicle safety inspection saturation effort this week. The saturation effort began Monday in northeastern Montana by the Montana Highway Patrol with a similar saturation being held in northwestern North Dakota. Commercial vehicle operation related to oil production has increased in eastern Montana and western North Dakota during recent years. According to Shane Mintz, Montana Department of Transportation...
With the majority of oil industry jobs being in the trucking of products, there are many truck drivers working and living in their trucks. Many of them are having to find a place to park during their “downtime”. A new truck park is open for trucks to rent a spot on a monthly basis, or as needed, north of Sidney on County Road 350 near County Road 132. The 350 Truck Park was developed by the Candee family of Fairview and has 72 truck spots with plug-in power for rent. “We are set up with Wells Fa...
Several Sidney residents turned out last Thursday for a Neighborhood Watch informational meeting held at the Community Services Building, Sidney. The purpose of the meeting was to outline a Neighborhood Watch Program and what it would take to get the program started in Sidney. A Neighborhood Watch Program is a crime prevention program that stresses education and common sense and empowers citizens to become active in community efforts through participation in neighborhood watch groups. “We a...
A public hearing was held by the City/Richland County Planning Board last Thursday night in Sidney to review the application of a major subdivision. The board unanimously approved the application for the Sunrise Village Subdivision to be built north of E. Holly Street. Marcy Hamburg, City of Sidney/Richland County planner, read the staff report for the major subdivision. The board had previously reviewed the application for the Sunrise Village Subdivision and presented a report on the effects th...
A Neighborhood Watch informational meeting will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3, in the upstairs conference room of the Community Services Building, 1201 W. Holly, Sidney. The purpose of the meeting is to outline a Neighborhood Watch Program and what it would take to get the program started in Sidney. A Neighborhood Watch Program is a crime prevention program that stresses education and common sense and empowers citizens to become active in community efforts through participation in neighbor...
The 2nd Annual Bakken Infrastructure Finance & Development Summit was held Oct. 24-26, in Denver, CO. The summit was an opportunity for those in any area of the oil industry to meet key decision makers from government, E&P companies, investment houses and financial institutions, midstream and other infrastructure developers and operators who are involved with Bakken infrastructure. Approximately 350 people attended the second annual Bakken Infrastructure Finance and Development Summit in...
