In the Bakken

We toured the Bakken Oil Patch yesterday and identified a dozen or so camps to document in the vicinity of Watford City, Alexander, and Willistion before arriving at a man camp where we’ll be staying just east of the town of Ray, ND. The rest of our team arrives out here this afternoon.

When we identified suitable camps for our study, I grabbed  quick photograph with my iPhone and uploaded it to Evernote where it was geotagged. I can then place the camps on a Google Map of the area. Unfortunately Evernote is being glacially slow and updating my computers database (some of this maybe the limited bandwidth at our mancamp).

Our accommodations, however, are better than many folks working here in the patch (such as the folks living here).

The sky had been pretty spectacular all day and we didn’t get substantial rain until after 10 last night.

We awoke this morning a little before 6 am to the first group of workers heading out into the fields. It was a good reminder that we are here to work.