BISMARCK (AP) -- A Houston-based oil field services company will haul a huge portable housing complex used at the recent winter Olympics to lodge some of its workers in North Dakota's oil patch.
But Williston Mayor Ward Koeser says Halliburton's plan will do little to curb the city's housing crunch that's spurred by an oil boom in northwest North Dakota.
Koeser says the complex will be placed at an industrial park in Williston, on about six acres of land that the company bought from the city for about $160,000.
The company says in a statement that the 158-bedroom camp will include kitchen, dining, recreation and office areas.
