Ever wondered what life in a man camp is like? Two U.N.D. professors did also, and they set out to study the phenomenon. What they’ve found so far are a lot of innovative residents and a housing model that is well suited[...]
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Commentary: Oil Prices from a Canadian Perspective
BNN is a Canadian Business News television network. In this short video piece, you get some intelligent commentary on the state of oil prices and what can be expected over the next few months. [...]Read More... from Commentary: Oil Prices from a[...]
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Wastewater Spills In North Dakota: What The Data Tell Us
There’s a new player in the energy reporting game, and some of their early work is centering on the oil and brine spills that are taking place in North Dakota. There are several stories that have been published in past few days,[...]
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Oil Extraction Tax Reduction For New Wells Announced
It’s official, the first oil-tax reduction price trigger has been reached. Full news release follows below. — Official News Release, ND Tax Commissioner — Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced an oil extraction tax rate reduction for new wells today at a news[...]
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It’s the Dollar, Not the Price of Oil, Pushing Boom & Bust Cycles
If you’re up for some economic analysis this morning, John Tamny at Forbes offers up some commentary on what the real culprit is when it comes to oil price swings and the resulting market expansion and contractions. [...]Read More... from It’s the[...]
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Interactive: The View of Fracking Flares From Space
Flaring isn’t ideal — it’s literally burning up a valuable natural resource, and we need to continue to push the oil and gas industry towards reducing and finally eliminating the practice. That process will take a some time, but here’s a not-so-subtle[...]
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Legislature to Wrestle with Multiple Income Tax Proposals
There are lots of income tax related bills on the legislative agenda this session, Jessica Holdman from the Bismarck Tribune provides a nice overview of the bills and informative commentary from State Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger. [...]Read More... from Legislature to Wrestle[...]
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Low Prices Raise Alarm in North Dakota Oil Patch
The latest national media piece hits all the usual themes, low prices, uncertainty, moving ahead anyway, history of boom and bust, hopeful for a price rebound. You’ve read it before and this won’t be the last one, but when these are published[...]
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Labs Testing Yellowstone River Fish After Oil Spill
Montana officials are anxious to see the impact — if any — on fish in the Yellowstone following last month’s oil spill, and that starts with good science. The article here walks you through the sampling and testing process required to get[...]
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Shake Shack IPO Portends Shakeup of Fast Food Industry
Shake Shack’s IPO was Friday and investors scooped up stock for the Manhattan-based burger chain driving the price up well beyond the forecast. With the early money betting hungry customers will follow, it’s a single event that illustrates broader changes taking place[...]
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Where Do the Rigs Go?
As oil prices have dropped, so has the rig count, but where do all the inactive rigs go? It turns out that the law sets a few restrictions on where and for how long. Full story from the Dickinson Press. [...]Read More...[...]
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Oil Patch Surge Funding Passes in Senate
The oil-patch spending bill has grown to more than $1.1 billion, yet it sailed through the Senate nearly unopposed, passing 44-2. The bill is designed fast-track funding for the oil-impacted western part of the state so projects can get underway first thing[...]
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Bill to Encourage Use of Natural Gas Vehicles
The bill would provide financial incentives to retail locations that install natural gas filling equipment and grants to consumers who purchase or convert vehicles to run on natural gas. Full details from Bakken.com. [...]Read More... from Bill to Encourage Use of Natural[...]
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Revised TENORM Regulations Would Have Significant Economic Impact
You know that low-level radioactive waste left over from oil production, the stuff that’s been in the news recently? It turns out that if we allow it to be disposedĀ of in-state, an enormous amount of money would be saved — some estimates[...]
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Why Dump Treated Wastewater When You Could Make Beer With It?
If we can turn sewage into drinking water and then into beer, it begs the question — why are we pumping our used fracking water underground? š [...]Read More... from Why Dump Treated Wastewater When You Could Make Beer With It?
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Bakken Construction CEO: Amount of Catch-up, Future Work is High
Stories in the news telling of a ‘Bakken Bust’ have reached a fever pitch recently, but there are a lot of people in the know who are telling a different story.Ā Here’s one of those ‘alternative’ stories that’s worth a read. [...]Read More...[...]