The Bakken shale is already declining because of financial struggles and the oil market downturn, but the potential shuttering of the Dakota Access pipeline could close off the possibility of a ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- Falling oil prices and the resulting oil drilling slowdown in the Bakken Oil Patch has led one of the world's largest oilfield services companies to make major cutbacks at its ...

The claim: The Bakken contains more than 500 billion barrels of cheap oil, enough to power the U.S. economy for more than 2,000 years A years-old claim that a massive oil reserve was recently ...

May 23—DICKINSON — According to the newly released 2021 North Dakota Energy report by EnergyND, Great Plains Energy Corridor and Bismarck State College's North Dakota Polytechnic Institution, industry ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show.

Production from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin has been improving steadily with technological advances. Production from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin has been improving ...

FARGO -- The Bakken Formation's oil bonanza was triggered eons ago in a story involving a cast of millions, earthly upheavals, heat and pressure -- lots and lots of pressure. It's actually a very ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — As the cleanup continues and federal investigators review Monday's explosive train derailment outside Casselton, N.D., public concern grows over the safety of transporting crude ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Americans haven’t talked about their country as the greatest oil country in the world, but they need to, Continental Oil’s Blu Hulsey told a crowd of oil and gas industry ...

BISMARCK — A consensus is forming among North Dakota’s top oil industry operators: the formation that drove the state’s fracking boom has entered its middle age. “The Bakken has been rebranded — ...

As energy prices plummet and rig counts fall hard, oil production in the Bakken looks ready to take a hit. Given even modest assumptions, investors should expect production in the region to decline, ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - After a spate of fiery derailments, the scramble to make North Dakota's Bakken crude oil safer when it's being transported on trains has focused on better tracks, slower speeds, ...