Oil and Gas boom? (Minot, Dickinson: to rent, casinos, camps)

[Roloff1976]

Here are some interesting statistics from Job Service ND on employment growth and wages per county. Williston is way up there! Pretty much tells you where most of the oil related jobs are located.

NDWIN - Quarterly Review

[Wicked orchids]

OK we hear they're is a oil rush in ND. I ask you now, is it worth leaving this unemployed town (San Diego) and rush up to ND look for work and live on the land until they start building housing? I have been a heavy equipment operator all my life and I hear the pay is good but the living condition are a bit ruff. Who's there and what's going on with work, pay and living conditions? Is it worth going now. I am willing to leave the little misses here at home and get started up there before bring her up.

[kychlo]

Do a few searches through this site and you'll find the answer. The housing is being built as fast as it can. If you wait for the housing to catch up you'll be waiting til the wells are dry. Look into some mancamps up here. Dont wait because 100's by the day moving here to live in tents, cars, mancamps, rv's.

check out www.theshopperinc.net

It's worth leaving, trust me.

[kychlo]

And winter is around the corner so i definately get up here before September.

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[frontierspirit]

OK, I've been following this Bakken job thing for some time. As in the Marcellus Gas Shale Play of Penna. right now, most of the jobs in that area of drilling are blue collar jobs with white collar technical types making up only about 3%-5% of the workers in the field.

I'm an unemployed Civil Engineer living now in Okahoma City looking into any of the O&G job markets anywhere in North America except Meixico. I assume with the exception of a few professional constr. management and technical inspector and petro. engineering types most of the engineering jobs with oil and gas are in cities like Oklahoma City, Denver, Houston, Tulsa, Midland TX?

Can any professional in this industry confirm this? I'm new to this job market.

[fourwinds]

Originally Posted by frontierspirit

OK, I've been following this Bakken job thing for some time. As in the Marcellus Gas Shale Play of Penna. right now, most of the jobs in that area of drilling are blue collar jobs with white collar technical types making up only about 3%-5% of the workers in the field.

I'm an unemployed Civil Engineer living now in Okahoma City looking into any of the O&G job markets anywhere in North America except Meixico. I assume with the exception of a few professional constr. management and technical inspector and petro. engineering types most of the engineering jobs with oil and gas are in cities like Oklahoma City, Denver, Houston, Tulsa, Midland TX?

Can any professional in this industry confirm this? I'm new to this job market.

Most of the geologists, petroleum engineers, and other technical people are in the head office.

In Oklahoma City, there is one major company involved with the Bakken: Continental Resources. Continental is moving from Enid, Okla to Devon Energy's old headquarters downtown. Devon Energy is another good place to look, even though they aren't in the Bakken. Chesapeake is the other major OKC company that has leased a huge amount of land in the Bakken south of Dickinson, but hasn't started drilling yet. GMX is a smaller co there.

A couple of Bakken companies are in Denver: Whiting Petroleum, QEP, SM Energy, and Kodiak.

One major Bakken company is in Austin, TX: Brigham Exploration.

Williams is in the Bakken and I think is based in Tulsa. ONEOK is also building some natural gas and pipelines in Bakken.

Most Bakken companies are in Houston: EOG, Conoco (Fidelity in ND), Exxon (through XTO), LINN Energy, Newfield, Marathon, Hess (I think), Kinder Morgan, Enbridge, Rosetta, Oasis.

A few in DFW: Qwiksilver, Denbury Resources.

There are some others in various locations (Occidental in LA, Questar in Salt Lake, Murphy in El Dorado, OK).


Here's a list of Bakken oil companies:

Bakken Oil Shale Map - North Dakota- Bakken Shale Formation

There was recently an article in the Bismarck Tribune about how Engineering Companies are opening offices in Bismarck to help handle all the massive infrastructure required. Most of these would be civil engineering related.

Montana Dakota Utilities (MDU) has it's corporate office in Bismarck. That company has a oil & gas exploration division, and a construction division, as well as a electric utility business.

Here's the Bismarck Tribune article

Engineering companies building Bismarck presence

Check of ND's job service listing. There are a lot of technical type jobs in the state now. Engineering companies in Fargo and Grand Forks are getting some of the civil work out west.

[kychlo]

Originally Posted by fourwinds

Most of the geologists, petroleum engineers, and other technical people are in the head office.

In Oklahoma City, there is one major company involved with the Bakken: Continental Resources. Continental is moving from Enid, Okla to Devon Energy's old headquarters downtown. Devon Energy is another good place to look, even though they aren't in the Bakken. Chesapeake is the other major OKC company that has leased a huge amount of land in the Bakken south of Dickinson, but hasn't started drilling yet. GMX is a smaller co there.

A couple of Bakken companies are in Denver: Whiting Petroleum, QEP, SM Energy, and Kodiak.

One major Bakken company is in Austin, TX: Brigham Exploration.

Williams is in the Bakken and I think is based in Tulsa. ONEOK is also building some natural gas and pipelines in Bakken.

Most Bakken companies are in Houston: EOG, Conoco (Fidelity in ND), Exxon (through XTO), LINN Energy, Newfield, Marathon, Hess (I think), Kinder Morgan, Enbridge, Rosetta, Oasis.

A few in DFW: Qwiksilver, Denbury Resources.

There are some others in various locations (Occidental in LA, Questar in Salt Lake, Murphy in El Dorado, OK).


Here's a list of Bakken oil companies:

Bakken Oil Shale Map - North Dakota- Bakken Shale Formation

There was recently an article in the Bismarck Tribune about how Engineering Companies are opening offices in Bismarck to help handle all the massive infrastructure required. Most of these would be civil engineering related.

Montana Dakota Utilities (MDU) has it's corporate office in Bismarck. That company has a oil & gas exploration division, and a construction division, as well as a electric utility business.

Here's the Bismarck Tribune article

Engineering companies building Bismarck presence

Check of ND's job service listing. There are a lot of technical type jobs in the state now. Engineering companies in Fargo and Grand Forks are getting some of the civil work out west.

MDU is Fidelity, not Conoco. Conoco was Burlington Resources.

[mballweg50]

Originally Posted by Corbay

Crazy good pay, plenty of jobs. Very high cost of living (in the oil patch part of N.D.). Housing is VERY hard to come by.

Go to roughrider campground 701-261-1265 - Everything" 600. per month - have two to a camper and pay only 150. per paycheck or a small 300 buck per month!

[MountainBiking]

Has the oil boom brought residual opportunities for other industries not related to the oil industry such as the restaurant business for instance? Workers need to eat, after all, and some workers will want to go out and dine. What do you think?

-Cheers.