I wrote that my business partner headed for I-94 from Stanley and went on I-94 in the direction of Bismarck. What's wrong with that?
Second, armed convoys are not unusual from Minot AFB, considering there are missile silos in the Stanley area. I have seen those myself, but they have nothing to do with the oil industry.
Good nugget of information. Thank you. But I asked him if it was a military convoy because I have seen them too and he said no it was not a military convoy. He also said helicopters were circling around above and they were not military helicopters. I will quiz him more when he gets back home.
Only one well on the pad is being drilled at any given time, at most two (extremely rare), so hitting something that would cause six wellbores separated by better than 1250 ft. laterally to "Gush out of control" simultaneously would indeed be a feat, and defy well documented reservoir characteristics in the Bakken.
I never said there was one more than one well on a pad. I said it was reported to be a 6 pad well setup, the largest in the entire region. But this was not observed by my business partner but came from a respected person who is well known in the region since 1993. But I admit all messages not directly heard can be garbled and I commented to that fact in a previous post.
If there was a six well blowout, I can guarantee the following: The Feds would not be the ones to shut the wells in. It would be news all over the region, whether in the papers or just on the grapevine. Bad news travels fast in the patch.
No one ever said that federal agents physically shut the wells. It is reported they took control or jurisdiction of the wells and I asked the question are they allowed to do that? It was reported the drillers had not expected any gushing and that it was out of control for awhile but they managed to get it under control, Then it was reported that federal agents came in and took over. All this information is spotty. It is the convoy observation that is more clear.
Okay, pal, this is not just another bullshit hit piece on the oil industry, but now you are trying to crap on my home turf.
You need to change your tone and attitude. We only need civil discussion here. You contributed some useful information but I am recommending for the future you erase the uncivil comments. They have no place here.
What are you claiming a 6 pad well setup to be, other than backwards language?
You also said in post 36:
Since Stanley is on US 2, and Bismarck is roughly 120 miles South on I-94 which runs east to west also, I am naturally curious how this person allegedly saw an armed convoy on I-94 with "gunships" when the only north to south connecting highway leads directly into Bismarck from Minot.
Getting to the part of I-94 from Dickinson to Bismarck from Stanley would require making a large and inconvenient loop west, down US 85, and over from Belfield, adding hours to the drive.
Once past Ross, there are no more missile silos to service, so color of the vehicles becomes important. I am assuming, of course, it was daylight, simply because the Air Force is really testy about anyone trying to get into their column (as would anyone doing visibly armed security on a column moving down a road anywhere, from Minot to Kandahar)--of for that matter to even share the road with it--so anyone observing the vehicles in the middle of the column would have to be seeing them from in front of or behind the column, or be headed the opposite direction.
One more little question, How does this observer know the column was government vehicles? What markings were present to lead them to that conclusion?