Sorted by date Results 226 - 250 of 448
The 2015 Zombie Run will be held Saturday, October 31st at the Richland County Fairgrounds with registration beginning at 9:00 am and the run beginning at 10:00 am. This is a Fun Run Obstacle Course and a family friendly event where strollers are welcome. This is the second year that the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has held the event and this year’s sponsors are Oneok, Trisha Klempel Designs, and Kim and Andrew Simmonds. Participants are invited to dress up in their Halloween...
The 2015 Zombie Run will be held Saturday, October 31st at the Richland County Fairgrounds with registration beginning at 9:00 am and the run beginning at 10:00 am. This is a Fun Run Obstacle Course and a family friendly event where strollers are welcome. This is the second year that the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has held the event and this year’s sponsors are Oneok, Trisha Klempel Designs, and Kim and Andrew Simmonds. Participants are invited to dress up in their Halloween...
The 2015 Zombie Run will be held Saturday, October 31st at the Richland County Fairgrounds with registration beginning at 9:00 am and the run beginning at 10:00 am. This is a Fun Run Obstacle Course and a family friendly event where strollers are welcome. This is the second year that the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture has held the event and this year's sponsors are Oneok, Trisha Klempel Designs, and Kim and Andrew Simmonds. Participants are invited to dress up in their...
Alexa Azure has always been interested in water. An enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, she remembers one spring when the water tasted gritty and another time when Standing Rock completely ran out of water. She doesn’t drink the water from her home faucet. Instead, she uses her own reverse osmosis water filter system. “My whole life I’ve been interested in water,” Azure said. “It’s a basic resource that’s essential for all life on the planet.” Azure’s interest in water, as well as her experience teaching pre-engi...
Williston, the fastest growing micropolitan for four years in a row, was named the 2015 City of the Year by the North Dakota League of Cities Saturday during the closing event at the League's annual conference Sept. 24-26 in Fargo. League President and West Fargo City Planner, Larry Weil, read off the list of Williston's many accomplishments over the past few years. They included: issuance of over 2,000 housing unit building permits since the beginning of the year, beginning construction of a ne...
OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier this month, Continental Resources Inc., announced plans to spend approximately $300 to $350 million less than its previously approved capital budget for 2015 to better align spending with cash flow at current commodity prices. The Company plans to defer well completion activity, except for where it has contractual considerations or it accomplishes specific strategic objectives. Continental is also reducing its operated rig count in the Bakken from 10 to eight rigs by the end of the month. “While we do not believe t...
It isn’t for a lack of trying. But, it has to be a good fit. Like many critical access hospitals across the nation who are situated in rural areas far removed from urban sprawl, Roosevelt Medical Center is struggling to hire a third provider. Still, they aren’t just going to hire anyone. To date, there have been six interested candidates for the position vacated in June by long-time provider, Jay Lambert, who chose to return to his home state of Utah. Of those, RMC interviewed three app...
Meeting Aug. 31, one day prior to the annual meeting of Montana Petroleum Association, Crowley Fleck PLLP held a seven-hour seminar focused on areas relating to oil, gas and mining law. Uriah Price, an Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Department associate, provided the more than 135 attendees with updates on case law from Montana and North Dakota pertaining to mineral and surface ownership, including pooling interests, royalties and probate. He serves on the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Young Professionals Committee, and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first federal rule to regulate methane emissions from oil and natural gas production last week. In the western United States methane is often intentionally flared or vented in oil-rich formations in the Bakken and Niobrara shale on private, federal, and tribal land. A toxic pollutant, methane contributes to smog, adversely impacts public health, and is widely reported to be one of the leading causes of climate change. In response to the announcement, Theodora Bird Bear, Chair of the...
Damage and repair work to the dated Long X Bridge have caused lengthy delays and detours for travelers along US Highway 85 in western North Dakota. Another major piece of the prime two-lane highway into the Bakken shale play would be widened and the old Long X Bridge possibly replaced following a study going on now. The North Dakota Department of Transportation is looking into improving 67 miles of U.S. Highway 85 from Watford City to Interstate 94 at Belfield. The highway has already undergone a dramatic transformation with a $300 million...
Incorporated in 1980, Western Waters Consultants, Inc., doing business as WWC Engineering these days, was one of the most sought after firms in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, where the company got its start. WWC works with oil & gas companies, mining companies, industrial companies, utilities, cities & towns, counties, state agencies, irrigation districts, developers, resorts, contractors, commercial developers, private individuals and many others. Specializing in oil, gas, and mining, WWC Engineering was built on a foundation of expertise...
WILLISTON: The Sloulin Field International Airport is expected to begin construction of the new Williston Basin International Airport in the spring 2016 and anticipates the completion between the fall of 2017 and fall of 2018. Although the airport will be changing the name to Williston Basin International, they will be naming the terminal of the new airport 'Sloulin Terminal' to honor the sacrifice and dedication of the Sloulin family. The new terminal will sit on approximately 1500 acres,...
The Sandpiper Project is an interstate crude oil pipeline that will bring growing supplies of North Dakota Bakken crude oil from the Enbridge Beaver Lodge Station south of Tioga, North Dakota to Clearbrook, Minnesota and then onto an existing Enbridge terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. From these terminals, the crude oil can be shipped through Enbridge pipelines and other third-party pipelines to U.S. and eastern Canadian refineries. More than 75 percent of the Sandpiper route follows pipelines...
WILLISTON: For nearly seven decades Triangle Electric has been a family owned business, serving the western North Dakota and eastern Montana regions. The company began in 1946 and then in 1947 owners Harold Hoffelt, Oscar Stenehjem, and Selmer Johnson placed an ad in the Williston Herald offering a reward to the person who choose the best name for their company, thus became Triangle Electric. When the oil and gas exploration began in North Dakota in the early 1950′s, Triangle Electric was w...
Produced by BBI International and /The Bakken/ Magazine, the second annual Bakken Conference & Expo will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Bakken shale play. GRAND FORKS, ND – BBI International will be hosting the 2nd annual Bakken Conference & Expo North Dakota’s premier shale oil event produced by /The Bakken/ magazine next week, July 27-29 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. With more than half of presentations being delivered by presidents, CEOs, or directors, the 2015 agenda features more than 70 tec...
DICKINSON, ND. June 29, 2015: Governor Jack Dalrymple joined hundreds of people today in celebrating the Grand Opening of Dakota Prairie Refining, the first greenfield fuels refinery to be built in the United States in nearly 40 years. The Dakota Prairie refinery which began construction in March 2013 and operation on May 4, 2015, is currently operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The plant is located on a 318-acre site in Stark County, approximately 4 miles west of Dickinson, ND. The sit...
In January 2015, Dakota Access, LLC, an Energy Transfer Company, filed its petitions for permit regarding a proposal to build a crude oil pipeline (the Dakota Access Pipeline, a.k.a. Bakken Pipeline). The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a new approximate 1,134-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline that will connect the Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois, traveling through 50 counties in 4 states. The pipeline will enable domestically produced light sweet crud...
NEW YORK: Hess Corporation announced last week that it has agreed to sell a 50 percent interest in its Bakken midstream assets to Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure investor with an extensive midstream energy investment track record, for cash consideration of $2.675 billion. Hess and Global Infrastructure Partners will create a premier midstream joint venture – Hess Infrastructure Partners. Upon closing, the joint venture will incur $600 million of debt through a 5...
A new speaker has been added to the Froid Research Farm Field Day roster for Thursday, June 25th. Dr. Rex Crick, Chief Operating Officer with Sionix Corporation and President of Sionix Oilfield Solutions (SOS), will be speaking about SOS's new oilfield water reclamation operation in Culbertson. The company purchased the former Montola oilseed crushing facility in Culbertson last summer and is building a new operation at the 45-acre site to treat, reclaim and market production and flowback water...
It's June, the traditional wedding month, which means I see a host of women's magazines on sale at the newsstands with glossy front covers showcasing dewy faced gorgeous young brides wearing extravagant gowns. Featured wedding stories inside the magazine often include such articles as how to hold a reception for under $20,000 or a story outlining this spring's hot fashion colors that the engaged couple's wedding entourage really ought to wear. I used to be slightly offended that the featured bri...
Red River Supply has released its Stony Creek Rail Yard Master Plan. The 180-acre site is located in southeast Williston with immediate access to rail and road transportation. The development is owned and operated by Rich Vestal and his family. Vestal started the business in 1978 and since then it has grown and diversified. Red River Supply currently provides rail access, transloading, trucking, drilling and completion supplies and warehousing and it will soon offer an industrial park. "When...
Williston Economic Development will take the next step in promoting its Enhanced Bakken Supply Chain Initiative in Colorado this month. WED Executive Director Shawn Wenko will facilitate the discussions with Bakken stakeholders June 18 and 19. “Our goal is to reach out to oil and gas operators in the Bakken with headquarters based in Colorado,” said Wenko. “We want to hear from the industry and what their challenges are in the Bakken region.” WED collaborated with Jeff Zarling and his business development group, DAWA Solutions Group, to coor...
DENVER: American Midstream Partners, LP (AMID) (the “Partnership”) announced on Friday that American Midstream Bakken, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Partnership, is conducting a binding open season for a proposed approximately 50-mile Bakken crude oil gathering and transportation system in the core of McKenzie County, North Dakota (the “Bakken System”) to transport up to 40,000 barrels per day (Bbl/d) of crude oil for delivery to major intrastate and interstate pipeline systems beginni...
The Bakken area is in desperate need of a safe house for victims of human trafficking. Windie Lazenko of 4 Her North Dakota is hard at work to establish such a facility, and residents of Richland County are invited to help. The annual "Blessing Sale" at Fairview Alliance Church will channel all proceeds to the safe house project for the second year in a row. Last year your generosity provided over $5,000 to 4 Her and we're hoping to exceed that figure this year in order to help meet this u...
