Data Links

How to find Bakken spot prices at Clearbrook, Minnesota (because Bloomberg no longer posts that data)

• Bloomberg Clearbrook, MN, chart for Bakken ; on April 9, 2013, it looks like Bloomberg removed this data from the free site; sad face; for now check in at Clearbrook Newswire.
• Bloomberg WTI, Cushing (if you combine the previous link with this link, you can get Bakken price at Clearbrook, MN)

Understanding BOE, Motley Fool:  how to convert "mcf" natural gas to barrels of equivalent oil (boe).


Bakken Resource Information: sort, search wells on the confidential list. (currently down, December 17, 2012; may be fixed within the week)

Nationwide Projects Database

• Dodge Projects
• Bid Clerk

Snapshot of Bakken Operators

Airlines in/out of the Basin

Gasoline Demand

Data Base

• Williston Building Permits (BidClerk) (see this post for background to this link)
• Williston Building Permits (direct to Williston)
• Bakken Classifieds (not my site; no endorsement; simply a link)
• ND Workforce Intelligence Network
  

Presentations, Conferences

• Western Shale, Emerging Shale, January, 2012 

NDIC Presentations

• Home Page 
• NDIC Town Hall Meetings 
• Semi-Annual Newsletters 
• Monthly Production Report Index -- fully searchable

North Dakota Industrial Commission:

• Active Rigs
• Daily Activity Report
• Tax Incentives for Extraction
• Monthly production figures: operator, field, formation (PDF) 

NDIC Hearing Dockets

• Blog Summary
• NDIC

North Dakota Energy

• Home Page

Rig Locations

• Cyclone
• Nabors
• Nomac Drilling
• US Drilling Rig Report
• Chesapeake
• Baker Hughes
• SST Energy.  SST rig locations.
• Magic Maps -- map any rig
  

North Dakota Pipeline Infrastructure

• North Dakota Pipelines (state website, outstanding source)
• Pipeline Infrastructure, December 2010 
• North Dakota Pipeline Assets, 2008
• US-Canadian Crude Oil Pipeline System  
• US Pipeline Matrix 

Rail

• Crude-By-Rail Terminals, NDIC, February, 2011
• Crude-By-Rail Terminals, unofficial, MDW
• Trinity Rail -- great photos 

Commodities and Futures

• Bloomberg: Bakken  (no longer provided by Bloomberg, see below)
• CNBC: Futures
• CNBC: Commodities
• Bloomberg Futures: Oil
• ND Spot Price:  ND Oil 
• Clearbrook, MN (Bloomberg)(no longer provided by Bloomberg) (see below)
• Brent oil: Real Time
• Western Canadian Select (WCS -- includes Canadian heavy oil from oil sands, I believe) 
• Scranton Equity: Grain, Cattle

EIA (US - Energy Information Agency)

• EIA: Weekly Petroleum Status Report
• EIA: Crude Oil Production
• EIA: Days Supply 
• EIA: Long term projections -- 2010 presentation and outlook 
• EIA: Oil imports into the US

International

• Oil Market Report - IEA
  

Oil Prices

• SemCrude;
• SemCrude Price and Commentary
• Bloomberg Clearbrook, MN -- no longer provided by Bloomberg (September 18, 2012)
• Bloomberg Clearbrook, MN, chart for Bakken; as of April 9, 2013, Bloomberg removed this from its free site; this is the second Bakken-related pricing that Bloomberg has removed from its free site since linked to the MDW;
• Bloomberg WTI, Cushing (if you combine the previous link with this link, you can get Bakken price at Clearbrook, MN)
• Oil-Price.net
• Murphy Oil Prices
• Louisiana Sweet Crude (light)
• Historical: inflation adjusted 
• Historical: Brent
• Real time futures 
• WTI spot cash
• Spearfish oil: I was told by e-mail that Spearfish oil delivered to Edmonton is priced as Edmonton Par Light;  I do not know if that is accurate;  
• California pricing: Chevron Crude Oil Marketing

Gasoline Prices Nationwide / Gasoline Demand

• Price Map
• Best gasoline prices (gas buddy) 
• Click here to locate an E85 pump
• First Fuel Banks Prices (St Cloud, Minnesota) 
• State taxes (may change over time; this is a PDF downloaded 2012)
• Percent Income Spent on Gasoline (by state) 
• Gasoline retail sales (monthly/annual) EIA
• Gasoline demand (scroll to bottom of the page at the link) 
• Gasoline futures, historical, chart 
• Wikiposit

Minerals Management: Lease Sales

• Latest Lease Sale Results

History: Publications

• The Bakken Boom Began With Vertical Wells in Elm Coulee (Montana)
  
• Seeking Alpha, 2008; in retrospect, a nice historical look 
• Incredible, obscure report, dated September, 2008: a must! 
• ND Oil Industry Began in A Wheat Field 
• Rockin' the  Bakken's Version 
• American Oil and Gas Journal: Emerging Shale Plays, January, 2011; a must! 
• Is the Bakken Fantasy? Rigzone, March 29, 2011 - a must! 
• North Dakota Sand for Fracking

North Dakota Producers, Ranking by Production

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
  

Acreage by Operator

Montana

• Weekly roundup [this link may break; if broken, try googling "Great Falls Tribune oil roundup]
• Montana Petroleum Report; new blog started June, 2012
• Oil and Gas Home Page
• Montana Dockets 
• Montana Activity Reports 
• Montana Permits

Wyoming

• Hearings
  

South Dakota

• State oil and gas website -- production
• State oil and gas website -- map (like NDIC)
• State oil and gas permits -- permits
• Stratigraphic formations
• State auctions
  

Utah

• Database

US Government

• Bureau of Land Management
• US Energy Information Agency: EIA
• USGS Fact Sheet, April, 2008, the Bakken

Maps and Metrics

• UND-EERC Interactive Map 
• Cumulative Production of All Bakken Wells 
• Cumulative Production by Formation, 2009 and 2010
• Interactive Map of All North Dakota Oil and Gas Wells 
• Magic maps: map any rig, any well -- no longer working (as of ~ March, 2012)
• ESER.org
• NOG map 
• Interactive Map of Williston, North Dakota
• Relocation Map for the US, IRS
• Search section, township at Earth Point 
• All 2010 Bakken Producers (RMOJ)
• All 2009 Bakken Producers (RMOJ)
• Bakken Acreage by Driller
• CNG stations, worldwide, and prices -- BEST
• CNG - LNG Filling Station Locator
• Market Capitalization of Selected Bakken Companies
• Stratigraphic View of the Formations
• Map of North Dakota Counties (Favorite)
• Map of North Dakota: Counties
• North Dakota Townships
• Production
• Minnesota-Wisconsin Frack Sand Map
• National Pipeline Mapping, by State and by County  
• US Power Grid: excellent interactive link
• US Census: 2010 
• Road Conditions: 48 Contiguous States 
• Hydrology (flooding): 48 Contiguous States 
• Map of Workers Moving In, Folks Moving Out: IRS
• Labor Force Statistics
• ChartsBin

Energy Policy

• Analysis of Impact of Regulation and Tax Policy on US Domestic Energy Program
  

Law

• ND Energy Law, UND Symposium, November, 2011 

Economic Development

• Miscellaneous links
  

Websites

• All 50-State Oil and Gas Related Websites: Railroad Commission of Texas
• UND-EERC Bakken Decision Support System
• Petroleum Geology; How To Read a Scout Ticket; and Much, Much More 
• North Dakota Petroleum Council
• BakkenOil.Org
• Ryder Scott: Oil Consultants
• PennEnergy
• API: Williston Chapter
• Williams County News
• Weather 

Local Newspapers

• Williston, North Dakota
• Minot, North Dakota
• Bismarck, North Dakota
• Dickinson, North Dakota (oil)
• Billings, Montana

Regional Newspapers

• Denver BizJournals

National Newspapers

• Oil and Gas Journal
• Los Angeles Times
• Los Angeles Times Business Section
• Oil and Gas Financial Journal
• New York Times Business Section

Miscellaneous / Personal

• Mac Keyboard Symbol Shortcuts
• Aesop On-Line
• Yahoo
• Drudge Report

Google Earth and Other Satellite / Aerial Views / Photography

• Aerial photos: Robb Siverson; linked early 2012
• Aerial photos: Vern Whitten photography; linked April, 2021
• Aerial photos; appears not to have been updated since 2010 
• Ground photography: Renae Mitchell, linked in late 2012
• How to Use Google Earth to Find your Well (incredibly easy method)
• How to Use Google Earth to Find Your Well (alternate method)
• Earth Point : overlay Google Earth on township and range
• Aerial Views of North Dakota: State Water Commission
• At the NDIC GIS Map Server, turn on NAIP 2009 Imagery 
• North Dakota Road Map, Cameras, Advisories 
• Weather: Stanley radar - live/active 
• Weather: national -- lots of fun 
• North Dakota flaring from space

Calculators

• Energy Conversion Calculators
• Rigzone Oil and Gas Conversion Calculator
• Oil industry conversions
• Wolframalpha.com
• Wind Chill Chart 
• CO2 Conversion Calculators

Renewable: 

• Database of the "gazillions" in tax incentives, by state 

Renewable: Wind

• American Wind Energy
• Wind Farms in the US: an interactive map
• Economic Impact of Minnesota's Renewable Energy Mandate, April 11, 2011, White Paper, a PDF file

Fracking

• Fracking Insider
• Minnesota-Wisconsin Frack Sand Map
• National Frac Fluid Registry Database 
• How to find fracking information at the NDIC site 

Technical Stuff

• How a sucker rod pump works (those "horse head" pumps, or "donkey pumps")

Miscellaneous

• Job openings by salary, Bloomberg
• The Empire Builder, discussion group  
• Oil Field Music 
• Return on investment, natural gas, go to slide 17 of this pdf 
• Power outage maps for all 50 states and some countries outside the US 
• Keystone XL Study, Final Report, December 23, 2010
• Bismarck Tribune, searchable, 1873 - 1922.  Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. 
• Signing leases, not signing leases, working interests, forced pooling 
• A discussion of 2560-acre spacing (as it stands, March, 2013) 
• Introduction to petroleum refining 
• Federal Farm Bill, 2012

National Economic Data

• The St Louis Fed