BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A South Dakota company is sponsoring a conference in Minnesota on investment and business opportunities in North Dakota’s booming oil patch.

Sioux Falls-based Hegg Companies Inc. is holding the daylong conference Friday in Golden Valley, Minn.

Hegg Companies is a real estate and management firm that also does business in the western North Dakota’s oil patch.

The company says similar conferences on North Dakota oil patch business opportunities have been held in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona and Texas.

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