MondayOne to Develop Duplex Town-homes in the Bakken

    IRVINE, CA, August 11, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kenny Dewan, President of MondayOne, announced the firm's new joint venture to build a duplex style town-homes project in the premium Hunter's Run Master Planned Community in Watford City, North Dakota.

The Watford Town-home Community will be MondayOne's second project in North Dakota. The community's 100 duplex-style town-homes will be leased to oil companies to use as housing for their workers and their families.

The demand for family housing in the oil-rich communities around the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota continues to grow. As Dewan explains, "The workers in the oil industry and related services are saying that they want Watford City to be their permanent home. The schools are excellent, and it's a great place to raise a family."

MondayOne principal Gary Pomeroy has designed two duplex models. Model One, which features a daylight walk-out basement, is 2,550 square feet, with four bedrooms and four baths. Model Two is a "Cape-look" duplex. It will be 1,640 square feet, with four bedrooms and four-and-a half baths. Both models will have an attached two-car garage, front porch, and good-sized backyard.

For more information about the Watford Town-home Community by MondayOne, please visit the firm's website at http://www.mondayone.com.

Media Contact:

Jenny P
MondayOne (Irvine)
Phone: 949-833-8100
Email: info@mondayone.com

MondayOne, a leading diversified real estate developer based in Irvine, California, has a solid reputation for integrity, innovation and community involvement. MondayOne and its partners have acquired, planned and developed numerous successful retail, hospitality and multifamily properties.

More details about MondayOne and its portfolio of real estate development projects can be found on its website at http://www.mondayone.com.

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Osha hits companies for Bakken safety flaws

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New Assessment of the Bakken Formation will begin in Fiscal Year 2012 [archive]

NEW  USGS Releases Updated Bakken and New Three Forks Oil and Gas Assessment (04/30/2013)

NOTE: The Information below is superseded by the April 2013 published materials on the Bakken and Three Forks Assessment (see link above). 

DOI Press Release: USGS is updating the Bakken Formation Oil Assessment in North Dakota, Montana
DOI Press Release (05/19/2011)

Previous USGS Press Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate
USGS Press Release (4/10/08) 

Fact Sheet 2008–3021

FAQs about the Bakken Formation.

Assessment GIS Data

Open-File Report 2008–1353 (Posters)

Slide Presentation
Flash Document
PDF version (3MB)

USGS Podcast (Episode 38):  3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Oil in North Dakota and Montana

Download Directly  |  See Podcast Transcript and Details

   

Project Website: National Oil and Gas Assessment

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Osha hits companies for Bakken safety flaws

Osha cited First Choice Energy Services of Minot, North Dakota, with nine "serious" violations for exposing workers to unsafe conditions at an oilfield drilling and fluid disposal operation in the US state.

Osha launched an investigation into the company's practises after 31-year-old Joshua Hoilanda was killed after being caught in the agitator of an oilfield vacuum truck storage tank in March. It was North Dakota's fifth oilfield death in less than a year. The oil and gas industry accounts for half of all work-related deaths in the state since 2010.

First Choice faces a fine of $33,000.

"First Choice Energy failed to develop and implement the most basic of confined space and energy control safety protocols," said Eric Brooks, OSHA's regional director. "Companies have a responsibility to recognise – and train their workers to recognise – hazards unique to their job sites in addition to protecting workers from such hazards."

Five of the nine citations involve violations of Osha's confined space requirements, aimed at preventing situations that led to the death of Hoilanda.

Separately, Osha cited Oklahoma-based Nomac Drilling for three safety violations, including one repeat for failing to provide fall protection, to workers at another North Dakota well site.

The citations came as part of an inspection last month aimed at ensuring compliance from companies working in the Bakken tight-oil play.

In a repeat violation, Nomac failed to protect workers on unguarded open platforms in the mud house from fall hazards of about 9 feet, Osha said. Nomac was cited for the same thing in 2010 in Towanda Township, Pennsylvania, and again in 2011 in Cordell, Oklahoma, and Wyalusing, Pennsylvania.

The company was also cited this time for two "serious" violations for failing to ensure workers were protected from fall hazards by installing an effective emergency escape line from the derrick board and to provide a usable eyewash station for working with corrosive chemicals.

Nomac faces a $65,300 fine.

"Nomac Drilling continues to expose workers to fall hazards," Brooks said in a separate statement. "Falls are one of the leading causes of injury and death in the workplace. Employers have a responsibility to implement worker safety programs effectively and to train their employees on the proper use of fall protection equipment."

Nomac has been inspected by Osha 35 times since January 2010, with 16 of those inspections resulting in citations.

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USGS Releases Updated Bakken and New Three Forks Oil and Gas Assessment

USGS Releases Updated Bakken and New Three Forks Oil and Gas Assessment

Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the USGS estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 7.4 billion barrels of oil, 6.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 0.53 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin Province of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

DOI Press Release (4/30/2013)

USGS Feature Story (4/30/2013)

Fact Sheet 2013-3013

FAQs about the Bakken Formation.

Open-File Report 2013–1094 

Slide Presentation
PDF version (3MB)

Bakken Gallery

Digital Data Series 69–W: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Williston Basin Province of North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota, 2010 

Project Website: National Oil and Gas Assessment

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