Faces of the Oil Patch
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2012
- Faces of the Oil Patch describes the new visage of the oil patch-the areas in and around Williston, Watford City, Tioga, Stanley, New Town, Parshall, and Fort Berthold-in the words of the people who live and work in these communities.
The 60-minute documentary shows us the towns that don't have the infrastructure to support the uncontrolled and dramatic growth, the ranchers who now view bumper-to-bumper traffic all day rather than the rare vehicle traveling along the two-lane horizon to horizon, and the oil workers who earn huge salaries but live in makeshift housing without hope of finding homes suitable for their families. The narratives and stunning video are woven together with visual images captured by noted still photographer Wayne Gudmundson to show everyday life and the changing vernacular landscape of northwestern North Dakota.
Producers
Bob Dambach
Wayne Gudmundson
Associate Producer
Kim Stenehjem
Editor
Dave Geck
Videographers
Dave Geck
Ryan Sailor
Executive Producer
Bob Dambach
Production funding provided by The North Dakota Humanities Council and by the members of Prairie Public.
Enjoyed the honesty from all participants.
This is a beautiful & thoughtful film. All of the content is in the perspective and voice of the actual men & women on the ground, making the North Dakota Oil & Gas industry function. Real people, from every level, tier & socioeconomic status. A pure view of the actual situation. I’m actually planning a trip to North Dakota, and this only endears me to the State as a whole. I feel like the rest of America needs to be aware of what is happening in North Dakota. Thanks for making this film.
This video, is by far, one of the best ones on here to explain to people that have NO CLUE, what is going on in this state. I am finally proud to day that we " North Dakota " finally have a correct means of explaining our oil boom.
If you like bare dirt and mud everywhere for driving parking walking and living, endless dust clouds, the oil patch is for you
$110 per night? That's nearly $1000 pre tax salary per week. That's like saying your fist $50K in earnings is a wash. Not to mention, most of these men are there to support a family back home.
My heart goes out to all the natives who have nothing to gain by the oil boom. I home their local gov't keeps them in mind when it decides what to do with the surpluses.
Yeah I know! It's not the men doing the work who make the money but large corporations abusing and price gouging. Those mobile homes are 40k do the math and they pay for themselves in a month an a half. Not all that shines is gold
Got in the oilfield 2 weeks after graduating HS. I had a lot of fun and lot of misery. Met a lot of life long friends and I missed out on a lot of things back home and missed a lot of time with my family. I've been all over the United States because of it, made a lot of money, did a lot of sinful things, partied a lot, did a lot of drugs, lots of women, lots of nights spent in hotels, lots of 14-16 hr days, but through it all it made me a man. I started out running casing at 18 years old. Went and worked on a drilling rig. Then went to flowback/ roustabout. I sprayed mulch on locations and finally went to snubbing where I stay for about 9 years. I finally finished my career, the last year doing flowback again. I came home cause I felt like God was calling me back and now I think God might be calling me into Ministry. I've lived a crazy life full of lots of ups and downs, but I don't think I would have changed very many things- some things, for sure, like all the drugs I did and all the weed I smoked. But I think I needed to experience most everything I have in order to appreciate who I've become and what God has saved me from. If God can save a wretched ol oily like myself, he can save you too! There's nothing too great for Jesus! I pray everyone watching this will be blessed and I hope you aswell find Jesus, or like me, Jesus refinding me. I grew up a preachers grandson and in my teenage years fell off from the faith. But God had bigger plans for me than I had for myself. I am the prodigal son that Jesus spoke about. ISAIAH 45:22
6:14-you can see how bad it is, the trucks have worn down the roads. The average road is not designed to take constant truck traffic.
This was very interesting!!!
Awesome job! very informative...
Lol at the cop trying to work in the oil field.
Got the wakeup call real quick it sounds like haha.
Let us not forget that the oil & gas industry is the people of America. It is because of the kind landowners and hard working field operatives that we are experiencing a boom once again for the long term in the USA.
Timothy Smith, Petro Lucrum
a Single Family Office
+Timothy Smith, SFO Well said. Couldn't agree more!!!
i was born in minn st paul the the beauty never leaves you
But St. Paul is a long way from the Minot/Williston area.
After looking at the map, I guess I wasn't wrong, to say that Garrison Dam, and the lake it formed is not that far away. A couple of my cousins lived in Garrison, back in the early to mid-70's, in Garrison. You know, when you're 10-12 years of age, it's such a different perspective. Garrison Dam was the biggest dam I'd ever seen. I knew nothi9ng of Hoover Dam, or even Grand Coulee Dam, in Washington State. But, at the age of 10-12 years of age, the size of the lake formed by Garrison Dam was very impressive toi me. I really miss the gently rolling lay of the land of North Dakota. I've been living in Central Oregon for better than 40 years. I love North Dakota, and I think I always will. Hell, I was born in Dickinson, way back in 1962.
I worked out in ND as a Crude oil hauler. Best money I ever made. Which is also the biggest problem with working out in ND, the best money ever. You will not want to work any were else cause you will never make that kind of money again.....Not as a trucker anyway.
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I wanna know what shape the guys that retrieved the bridge plugs after the wells were fracked
Absolutely awesome!! Thanks so much. Is there a sequel planned for 2015?
JeanneKolberg We're so glad you enjoyed the program. There are no plans for a sequel. If you're interested in learning more about life in the Bakken, I would recommend the series "Boomtowners" which airs on the Smithsonian Channel. They also stream episodes online if you don't get their TV channel. Thanks for watching.
+Prairie Public Broadcasting Or maybe "Black Gold Boom," a co-production of Prairie Public. blackgoldboom.com/tv-doc-prairie-public/
+JeanneKolberg hi everyone ,if anyone else trying to find out best way to get work on oil rigs try Alkarno Oil Work Alchemist ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my neighbor got cool success with it.
+Prairie Public Broadcasting very good video
It's nice that the natural gas can give some people a decent living, but I still maintain that farming and ranching is America's bread and butter. I grew up as a farm boy in the 70's, and I wouldn't trade that for anything.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MISTER FOR YOUR MAIL!
The VIDEO is very good, and talking to us, about capitalists The End of USA!!!
Talking to us about criminal US-Oil-Corporations, Profit and Naturdestruction!
American people are on second Plase, are better to say, Nothing!
Interesting spread of views displayed in this documentry. Some saying the work is here and if you work hard there is opportunity for you. Others saying there is finance available here to help us....and a range in between.
I am in south Texas we went threw all of this with the Eagle Ford Shell oil boom just about 2 years ago . Now all these buildings and lodges , trailer parks and hotels lye vacant and for sale .
farmerjoe338 lie**
I'm up there and am in a different place every night. I did hear about a company called Prairie Housing that is starting to build some affordable housing that I'm going to check out.
Did you know Joe Lee?
We're not just a typical "Roughnecks ",that Era in the oil and gas industry is history, we consider ourselves, intellectual, the processes of training, safety,various jobs completions requires employees to focus, learning acquiring various knowledge, experiences daily. People can come into the industry totally green/ rookies, but you're trained, from driving Semi,tractor trailers CDL, required and you're school trained, preparing you to move transport numerous sizes of equipment and training to operate them consistently, in all types of weather, terrain from the Canadian Borders north through the Rockies Montana, Wyoming, beautiful Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, into Texas, being prepared to perform in higher elevations, Midwestern, southwestern terrain, It's challenging, but lots of fun, working, traveling with varieties of people from the entire planet. Each day is a new experience, the money is great, but you'll earn it, life changing monies, but you'll enjoy less than the family households cause you're working 14 days rotation, 7 days off, WITH PAY, yes paid to rest, believe that, this is how you take care of employees because you have to make the cut America, but as I said it's life changing and the people you're working with, can depend on you and everyone besides you, family, really quick because SAFETY is a necessity, greatest years of my life, Thanks to Halliburton, Fracturing, Cement crews
old school 20 below i remember him telling me about it
RIP Mr. Geiermann :(
When did he pass away?
@@hint0122 July 4 2013 according to the Williston newspaper.
Tough to hear large land owners complainers that someone else is becoming wealthy.
I've already done the working out of town routine several years ago in my early 20s.
Before that, I'd already done my fair share of travelling while stuck in the military for a 4-year stint.
Needless to say, I'd had my fill of that bullshit for several reasons and am happy as a clam just to remain local like I have been for the past 15 years. 💯
I've passed this video on the the politicians of Canada's Northwest Territories where it is said that the next big shale oil frack-a-way is about to take place... thanks
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Better get their houses paid off while the going stays good....
How have things slowed down now that it's 2016 and oil is at $36/barrel?
many people were layed off and many companies didn't make it. Nobody is hiring until the barrel goes up soon.
What a load of drivel. Half my family is from ND. I just came back from the big family reunion. Nothing but good things to say about the boom. Maybe it helps that we're part Native America and our European blood was among the very first into ND and SD. Oh well, when anything resembling honesty ever comes from "public broadcasting" I will be completely shocked. Meanwhile, it would just be nice if just once MY Native American people and MY Euros would NOT be painted as VICTIMS. We are NOT victims. We are hard workers and we are survivors. And that makes us winners!
agreed, u have to understand that majority of the media is leftist, they love creating the victim mentality, the darker your skin the bigger a victim u become in their eyes.
There might be some who would take issue w/this comment, but the banking industry needs much closer scrutiny, as to what they say they can get away with.
If I had been there before the boom I would be happy. Just think, if you want to move to sunny florida you can now sell your house for about 4 times what you paid for it and go anywhere you want........
Born and raised in ND.....my heart breaks for my homeland!! Money is the root of all evil.....
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Having money does not make someone evil.
Brenda Martell Did you watch the whole thing, Brenda? I thought they gave a very balanced view of what's going on here. If you have chosen to leave ND, then you have made your choice. Your heart may break, but North Dakota will be ok in the end. I truly believe that. It's why we returned to Bismarck 10 years ago.
***** Our state is being developed, you mean? Yes, it is, and it's not all bad!
Brenda Martell I take it bread and butter is to. Dallas has had a boom for the last 5 years and we enjoy it. Remember ou may be from ND but your an American stop crying and make it better.
Brenda Martell NOPE. The LOVE OF MONEY over all else is the root of evil. Money is a tool that like any other can be used for good or ill.
Those people that bought those brand new houses had to give them away when it all went bust.
That cop is full of it.
The hardest thing that will come of North Dakota, Is when the oil is gone. The mess left by the oil companies. But as time continues North Dakota will come back to a simple life..
I've lived in North Dakota my entire life and it is not when the oil is gone, most people have no idea the scale of the amount of oil here, they could pump oil out of here for another 100 years.
The reality is that the oil in North Dakota is sour crude not the sweet crude like there is in Texas, and it takes more to process it to be usable. The boom is based of the price of oil, having lived here my whole life there was a similar boom back in the early 1980's in the same area, and in the 1950's as well.
It will continue until it is not profitable.
The little towns have gone through this before and they will again. We will be fine here :)
You mean two generations from now?
Nicola Macleod
Nicola, The world's largest bitumen and high sulfur (sour) oil refinery is being built on the gulf coast of TX. And, to be honest, the extra processing isn't really that much more involved than sweet crude, just an extra few hours.
The Bakken & Three Forks shale formations contain light-sweet crude. That is what drew all the new recovery technology & horizontal fracking.
However, there still are a lot of older sour wells around here that are still producing.
There are also a handful of newer wells that went sour, but that was due to contamination during the fracking process.
That song at the end is PAINFUL!!! Pitch and vibrato control would assist in preventing me from cringing... And why does "boomtown" sound like "poon tang" with her delivery?
It's a documentary, not a place to try out your new material like it's Open Mic night.
capital "lodging" is for sale for 40 million
Capital lodge is no more. Most houses are gone and the ones that are left are falling apart.
Looking for a missing friend
Joseph Lee June 2013
Williston ND
i love the oil booms and work with all of them in the us ...i try to act as i would want people to act in my small town if an oil boom happened ....well it did but if it happens again ..i from east tx
9 years ago... yep.
Hahahaha I roared with laughter when the chick talked about the man camp as being a "gated community." What a joke.
akeffo I know. That was funny!!
Well there is a gate right! And you have everything you need here lol. She couldn't stand living there for a week
Hilo Hilo 👋
When the boom is going this town will be left in shambles. Image all the vacant building and equipment will be left, not to mention the economy when all that money leaves town.
Take it to the scrap yard since you aint making that oil field money bro
All this shit is gone now what a waste of resources that could have been put to use for people that are really in need.
cows at 20 below in the field ......those who know will understand this
bkfilipi What do you mean, Cows at 20 below in the field? Please fill me in...
To the cop in bumville...hey just do your job atleast you have one
Henry Ford and Rudolph Diesels engines were designed to run on Hemp Bio-fuels and North Dakota is the best State for the industrialization of Hemp farming it could replace Saudia Arabia if we could get the DEA out of our tanks. We need oil but Hemp is green and could replace much of oil.
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
hmmm
10:00 That's just what the native Indians was fighting your European people for. To keep their native lands in it's true form for their greater greater greater grand children.
Sounds like the cop is mad he has to work and do his job.. lol.
Home of phil Jackson ❤
It’s great to make one hundred thousand a year but a 3 bedroom apartment is 3 thousand a month.It’s not worth it.
Yeah, exactly. And the cost of groceries etc. are exponentially higher as well.
My good God you should have found someone to do this that looks older then 12 then it may have had some meaning
Why cant there be pipelines that handle all the pressure? Who engineered that? We have the same shit here in northern Michigan...flares, wells, all that. But there are trees to hide em here!
Michigan is nothing like ND! Ben Porter
yep...and you need internet/i-phone money to...
As far as I'm concerned this ruined our beautiful state. Now there's so much crime and crap up there it's not a nice place to live anymore.
what big oil companies should do is financially support the towns and counties they set foot on.
This state is like an addict, they simply will not quit flaring gas is worth money and they just burn it in a highly polluting manner.
You have no clue...
Paul Smith
The true costs? Burning fossil fuels kills more people every year than wars,murders,and traffic accidents combined.The truth is we know less about what's under our feet than what's on the other side of the solar system.The long-term consequences of this energy strategy are only now being discovered. A decade after fracking stops one can expect fracking induced earthquakes. Better look into quake insurance because those unregulated companies likely won't be held liable. IMO best left in the ground. Check out my sources to find out why.- www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-if-injection-of-fracking-wastewater-stops-quakes-wont/
theberkshireedge.com/part-i-fracking-unregulated-dangerous-to-human-health-environment/
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89117/satellite-detects-human-contribution-to-atmospheric-co2
climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
qz.com/568450/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-every-year-than-wars-murders-and-traffic-accidents-combined/
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=258210
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power/
ruclips.net/video/zz6v6OfoQvs/видео.html
The last quake that anyone felt in Williston was a 4.4 that was centered a good distance south of Bismarck in the late 60's, long before fracking. There was one close by in 2012, but it was not felt or reported by the public, only seismologists.
The oil field was way too much work for him, that's why he went back to being a cop...
ha ha ha ha thats funny!!!
You can’t Sugar Coat Shit , Capital Lodging
Talk about the court system and the meth addiction running rampant out there
How else do you work 26 hours straight.
Did you see that girls teeth that works at the Sinclair truck stop?
FRACKING? SLIDE AREAS!!!
1. Uraniumcontamination is the biggest frackingsproblem in USA!!!
2. Water and Earthuraniumcontamination!
3. Foodsuraniumcontamination!!!
That cop looks like he has no business at all being a cop
lmao........target in tioga..........dismanteled.......nothing but skeletons
Frack it all. Oilfield trash making oilfield cash. Shale pays
Shane bogle Yup. Shale pays!! And fracking pays!!
Well, feel bad for the natives. But North American shale delivering so much oil to the world market is what saving us from an economic ressesion. Without this many million barrels coming from America, oil prices would be above 120dollars.
A lot of these old folks keep talking about a bust, however, in the 50s and 80s, oil didn't profit nearly as much as it does now. I'm gonna guess it will eventually plateau out, meaning, you can only have so many wells going.... the long term problem I see is there aren't enough other businesses moving in and advertising. The old folks think it will die out, but it won't be like that. With a booming area like that, you need to be able to get other business and/or manufacturing companies based on the raw materials.... i.e. plastic companies, refineries, etc. There also needs to be a lot more advertising and incentives for working there. The Tastee Freez, etc. (example!) needs to offer relocation fees to people throughout the US. I think a lot of the planners, companies, and local govt. need to play a little bit more simcity. ;) I could go on and on, but the consensus I get is that people are panicking and running around in circles when they need to be planning and doing research on the changes.
wimblyx, you're right to an extent I think...but what goes UP must come DOWN...just a law of physics in general.
There's only so much product underneath their feet/drills. Once the amount of extraction balances out with the demand, then believe me when I say, it will come to a halt and things will slow down regardless. The infrastructure isn't there now, so it looks like a mad mess. There's only so much room for equipment on existing parcels, and mineral rights and properties will eventually be all claimed.
Nothing saying if you're adventurous and willing you shouldn't go up there and take advantage of the boom though.
wimblyx You make some good points. However, I think this program illustrates a number of good things that are being done. Did you watch the whole thing?
Tom Szirbik,Sr. And I spose you've heard that now, in 2015, things are slowing down. Many see this as a good thing -- and it's nowhere near a bust yet...
No
all because of some kind of printed paper that we just so much value into. Why do people needs money? We must realized that more important than money, power and oil, we need the land and the water to live. We need each other and the energy that we put into what we really need to make a better life for every one in the planet.
I agree with you but money is a necessity, we got to eat don't we?
So I guess you wrote this comment on tree bark and hand carried it to the local RUclips store for them to post it here. I'm sure that using that printed paper to buy a computer and pay an ISP is against your high morals. Dance on back to the commune, Pocahontas.
Unfortunately doesn't really sound like a good news story. To much greed desire waste destruction. Ultimately fairly disturbing.
not all underground water systems are connected. Speak to a geologist before you ramble on the internet pretending to know what you are talking about.
That said, water is going to get more expensive, but not because of this industry, because you don't have enough of it. Canada does... and we'll sell it to the US if they can afford it.
You speak to that Geologist yet or are you still pretending to be an authority on the internet?
Bakken aint Rockin anymore thank god!
Buck Thrusthorn yeah, I love the guy at the end who said something like "this ain't going anywhere anytime soon" LOL. Riiiiight. Many of them for their wish that shit would slow down. It sure as phuq did. Lots and lots of empty rooms and apartments now. I was there for the wild west days 2011/13. Came back briefly in 2015. The difference in infrastructure was night and day. I made my money, stayed the phuq away from town as much as possible. Got out. It was good while it lasted. But old Oblahblah and the Saudi's saw to it that it died damned near as fast as it came.
Play your cards right.
I knew $100.00 bbl oil wouldn't last for ever, but I knew I'd always have a good job.
I'm going on 9 years here.
@Jacob Stahl Putin Bot.
Wow I just cant say it enough THIS TOWN IS STRAIGHT UP RIPP N THESE PEOPLE OFF these legislators should be ashamed of themselves
I love that this all crashed when oil tanked. You have your land back and now it's worthless and you are all broke. ha, ha, ha. Serves you all right.
Lng liquid natural gas ...it's subsidized . The demand is federal , for a decade investment will lean twords natural gas ,fracking and apparently shale.
j parks what a poor sour dbag you are.
No dapl
GREED NOTHING BUT GREED!!!!!