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Cookfest Schedule
Page 2
ND Petroleum Council reaches out
Page 3
Baytex works around the weather
Page 4 - 5
Progress Zone
Page 12
Supplement to The Journal, Crosby, ND
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
On the cover: Driller Paul Royer and Derrick Hand Pete
Williams at the controls of the Ensign 67 rig, drilling on the
Colby 23-14-160-99H, in Garnet Township, Divide County.
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Cookfest Schedule
CookFest is a big community BBQ that provides an opportunity for industry
members to get better acquainted with the folks living in the communities
where they live and work every day.
There is lots of fantastic food and fun to be had!
2:30-4:30 p.m. CDT – Bakken Basics Education Session
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n Lynn Helms, Director, Department of Mineral Reources
n Justin Kringstad, Director, ND Pipeline Authority
n Mick Urban, ONEOK
n Vicky Steiner, Executive Director, ND Oil and Gas Producing Counties
n Ron Ness, President, ND Petroleum Council
n Hess Royalties/Landman
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. CDT – food
Educational booths
n ND Petroleum Council
n Department of Mineral Resources
n Geology
n ND Pipeline Authority
n ONEOK
n Alliance/Aux Sable
n Enbridge
n Energy Careers
n Oil and Gas Research Council
n ND Association of Oil and Gas Producing Counties – Vicky Steiner
n City of Crosby
Local entertainment
n Bob & Laurie Enerson
n Peterson Family
Kids’ entertainment
n Face Painting
n Rock climbing wall
8 grill teams:
n Hess & Penkota Wireline
n Murex & Superior Well Service
n Baytex & Go Wireline
n Continental Resources & Jericho Services
n Newfield, Missouri Basin Well Service, and Wyoming Casing
n Samson and Halliburton
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ND Petroleum Council reaches out
By Cecile Wehrman
It’s a simple message.
Oil Can!
And it’s the name of the
North Dakota Petroleum
Council’s effort to “engage
and educate” the public
about the oil industry.
The petroleum council
seeks to do that in a number
of ways, said Ron Ness,
executive director.
“There are three guiding
principles,” he said.
Listen First
The first thing the organization
aims to do is to be a
good listener.
They’ve strived to do that,
Ness said, through 25 town
hall meetings across the oil
patch in the past few years.
Similarly, they conducted
a survey last fall to try to
identify hot topics as well as
the public’s general perception
of the oil industry.
Develop partnerships
Second, the council determined
partnerships should
be developed, particularly
on issues relating to roads.
Ness said the development
of a county road
task force is a case in
point.
“We’re going to sit
down and create a
regular dialog with
the counties,” he said,
especially given the
extreme road situations
that developed
with record moisture
this spring and summer.
Ness would like to
see the council facilitate
relationships between
companies and
local governments to
work on road repairs.
Further, he wants to
see a one-stop shop
for truckers to access
road closure information.
A focus on best
practices, including
reducing speed to
reduce damage and
zero tolerance for infractions
are other aspects being
looked at.
Respect others
The third principle is to
respect others. Ness said the
council does that by offering
education and reaching out
to the communities impacted
by oil.
The Bakken Rocks Cookfests
is a way to draw
people out to access
some of the information
the council has
to offer.
“We hold our ‘Bakken
Basics’ education
sessions and they’ve
been wildly popular,”
Ness said.
The sessions,
which will run from
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
on Tuesday, July 26,
will feature a number
of oil industry professionals
talking about
everything from geology
to pipelines.
“We have found
that there is an
incredible curiosity,”
Ness said, among
people who want to
know what the oil
industry is all about.
That’s partly because
many people
have a mineral interest in the
area, but also because everyone
is impacted in some way
or another by the work going
on in the oil patch.
Ness encourages everyone
in the community to take
part in the cookfest, which
includes free food and fun
for all.
“When we do these cookfests
it’s a chance for the
companies to ‘put a face on’
to the community,” he said.
“Everyone is welcome to
attend.”
A number of teams will
partner an oil field explorer
with service industry partner
to produce different
types of food.
In addition, many will offer
merchandise give-aways or
activities for kids, including
face painting and a rock
climbing wall.
“It really is kind of a carnival,”
he said, with a family
friendly atmosphere. “We’re
very strict on these that
they’re alcohol-free events.”
As well, “Each operator
provides an ‘experience’ at
their booth. We judge them
on the experience,” Ness
said, and the winners among
the operators also receive
prizes.
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McKenzie Co. Fairgrounds
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Baytex works around the weather . . .
By Cecile Wehrman
Exploration companies
working in the Divide County
area have been from extreme
to extreme this year -- from
blowing snow and record
snowfall to a deluge of rain the
likes of which have rarely been
recorded.
But the oil field never stops,
and neither does Baytex Energy,
USA.
“We don’t ever halt, we just
have to work through it,” said
Donn Campbell, area supervisor
for Baytex in Divide
County.
The company currently
operates 27 wells in Divide
County and has the potential
to drill another 150 wells over
the next five years.
“Thirty wells a year, weather
permitting,” Campbell said.
Working in the winter is hard
enough.
“It’s very tough due to blowing
snow, ground blizzards is
what you guys call it. Snow
removal off the township roads
to keep production going. Drifting
-- it was tough this winter,
cold to operate. It’s hard to
start,” said Campbell.
Everyone was looking
forward to getting caught up
this spring, and being able to
work in a little more forgiving
environment, but that was not
to be.
“Last year the thaw was a lot
slower,” and they could work
around soft spots.
“(There was) so much rain,
then it froze, then it snowed,”
Campbell said, and then it
rained some more.
Record rainfall created new
bodies of water and connected
existing ones, inundating as
many as 200 roads -- many of
which the oil companies rely
on to service existing wells.
“We’re back to producing 65
percent of our wells,” Campbell
said just after the July 4th
holiday, and with no more significant
moisture, that number
will be improving.
But it’s still not easy and it
won’t be for some time.
“We have several wells that
we still don’t have access to
due to road closures. There’s
really no way around it. You
just have to wait ‘til the water
subsides. If we can’t, we’ve
even built up roads, county
and township roads, ourselves,”
said Campbell.
What Baytex is doing and
what more and more oil companies
are doing all the time,
is to try to work with local
officials to set some priorities
and work cooperatively.
Said Campbell, “We get with
the county guys, of course,
“We have several
wells that we still
don’t have access
to due to road
closures.”
-- Donn Campbell
Area Supervisor
Baytex Energy USA
county personnel, and township,
and decide what we can
do to access and get in and
out – and the farmers, landowners.
So far we’ve had great
cooperation from landowners,
township and county people.”
The company is very flexible,
he said, and willing to
remedy what ever problems
present themselves. In one
case, that meant loaning a
four-wheel drive vehicle to a
landowner whose road was
torn up.
“If we move something and
we tear it up and we make
tracks, we fix it,” he said.
If a landowner has too
much water, the company has
even sought temporary water
permits to use slough water
for fracing -- helping to alleviate
the wear and tear and
roads, as well as helping to
open some roads inundated by
water.
“It has to be a health and
The Ensign 67, drilling on the Colby 23-14-160-99H, in
Garnet Township.
Baytex Area
Supervisor
in Divide
County
Donn
Campbell
looks over a
spread sheet
with Julie
Haugland at
the Baytex
field office
south of
Ambrose.
Trainee John Fitzgerald (left) gets a hand with the slips from floor hand Scott
Bradley, on the Ensign 67 rig.
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. . . in the Bakken oil patch
safety issue for us to pump it out of a
slough,” Campbell said.
While the company might save a little by
not paying for treated water that is trucked
in, using slough water requires the company
to either create a staging area near the
well where the water can be treated or to
pump it to an area where it can be treated.
One thing Campbell is sure of, he’s not in
Oklahoma anymore.
The veteran oil man is more accustomed
to conditions in that southern state, where
you don’t have to scratch down very far to
hit rock.
“The difference is that there’s no ground
bottom here. We have to do an extensive
amount of location work compared to anywhere
else,” he said, in order to construct a
location that is workable.
They’ve used a type of material called
a geopad, which comes in perforated rolls
that are laid over a location to help fix a
foundation.Then they cover it with gravel
before moving a rig onsite.
Other companies are using various mattype
systems to keep well sites accessible
in muddy conditions.
With two rigs currently under contract
in Divide County, Campbell said Baytex is
responsible for keeping about 70 people
employed. Beyond that, he said, there are
about 13 people in Divide County who work
on the production side. Some, if not all of
those jobs will remain as long as wells are
producing.
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average peak rate of 775 barrels of oil per day. They expect to drill
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of about 420 barrels of oil per day for each well.
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‘Progress Zone’ will encourage traffic safety
By Cecile Wehrman
The North Dakota Petroleum
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this summer are
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awareness campaign aimed
at making all drivers more
safe on the road.
“The biggest thing is addressing
the concern with the
increased amount of traffic,”
said the DOT’s Mark Nelson,
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to launch yet this summer,
it’s taken many months
to determine what the focus
of the program should be.
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on safety,” she said, so they
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to look at three keys: wellsite
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and public safety.
As well, she said, her
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perception survey last fall,
which identified housing and
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two concerns among people
polled.
The DOT, in turn, received
a grant of $20,000 from the
National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
to conduct a safety campaign.
That money was supplemented
with funds from an oil and
gas research program grant.
The goal -- to focus on creating
driver awareness of increased
traffic and to encourage
safe driving habits.
The name “Progress Zone”
was coined and a logo developed
to identify the messages.
Wald said the title seems to
fit what’s going on in the area
these days.
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If there’s one overall message
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That message will be delivered
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Key components of the
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the change in trafic patterns,
the messages about patience
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is necessary. It brings
the message to the public that
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out there. If we don’t get
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One thing is certain: Now
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