February 26, 2014

 
In This Issue
This State Bumps Hawaii as Happiest Place to Live...
Dickinson Airport boardings to increase...
Oil patch plea:
NDDOT rep. visits Dunn County and offers help...
The technology of the Bakken...
How a new proppant shape may offer a path to greater production
RDO opens 14-bay service center...
BNSF to spend $600M in ND to ease rail logjams
Small Businesses Unleash Energy Employment Boom...
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This State Bumps Hawaii as Happiest Place to Live

 

Move over, Hawaii. North Dakota is now the happiest state in the union.

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Dickinson airport boardings to increase
 

Passenger boardings at Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport in Dickinson continue to rise and the facility's manager said the trend is expected to continue.     

 

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Oil patch plea: More help

 

Leaders of oil patch communities say they are reaching the limits of their resources to deal with the effects of oil development and need more state help.

 

NDDOT rep. visits Dunn County and offers help

 

The North Dakota Department of Transportation's liaison with the western, oil-impacted part of the state paid a visit to the Dunn County Commission on Wednesday.

 

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The technology of the Bakken
 
In 2011, I asked former North Dakota governor and current Continental Resources board member Ed Schafer how important technology is in the Bakken oil boom.
 
How a new proppant shape may offer a path to greater production

Companies touting new recovery techniques tend to surface nearly as often as the barrels of sweet crude themselves, causing operators to continually weigh the pros and cons of any new idea.

 

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RDO opens 14-bay service center

 

Western North Dakota may be the busiest place in the country for semi trucks.    
 

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BNSF to spend $600M in ND to ease rail logjams

BNSF Railway promised Tuesday to provide more locomotives and workers in the next few weeks to break the logjam of rail shipments that has dismayed North Dakota farmers and forced the detour of passenger trains through the state.

Small Businesses Unleash Energy Employment Boom

 

America continues to suffer from a post-World War II record slow recovery in employment as well as record worker anxiety. Meanwhile, the brightest corner of the economy, the oil & gas sector, has seen stunning growth in creating jobs across the nation and in dozens of domains. With the right policies, much more is possible to encourage and accelerate the small-business-centric oil & gas revolution.