WILLISTON, ND - JULY 23: Russell Girsh, a floor hand for Raven Drilling, helps line up a pipe while drilling for oil in the Bakken shale formation on July 23, 2013 outside Watford City, North Dakota.

On a recent CD post about America’s energy miracle, I linked to a news article about a photographer from Fargo whose business is booming because of North Dakota’s oil boom – she’s found a ...

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Oil companies "are trying to hire with all their might, but they are not finding employees in the industry who want to come back," Helms said, referring to oil-field workers who left North Dakota ...

Pipeline news announced this week indicate another 885,000 barrels of oil a day could be carried out of North Dakota's Bakken Shale oil fields by 2016 on three different pipelines.

North Dakota explosion, fire at oil field leaves 1 injured ND oil field fire investigation ongoing, reports say tanks exploded. Associated Press. Published February 13, 2023 12:46pm EST.

In North Dakota, oil field waste is often disposed of improperly, ... (Andrew Burton / Getty Images) By Neela Banerjee. July 26, 2014 5:36 PM PT . Share . Share via Close extra sharing options.

An oil rush is on in North Dakota, where production has risen 12-fold since 2000. But along the way, the business has also become dangerous. At least 74 people have died in the Bakken oil fields ...

North Dakota's rich Bakken oil fields produced almost 9% of America's domestic crude oil production for the month of October, up from less than 2% of the nation's oil in 2006 . Other highlights of ...

A decade ago, North Dakota was a wind-swept also-ran in the oil industry. Wildcatters struck oil there in the 1950s, but the rock was too dense to get most of it out, and the fields never amounted ...

In 2008, prodded by North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, the USGS reassessed the Bakken field.Based on new survey techniques, advances in extraction technology and newly discovered reserves, that ...

Jennifer Gollan, Reporter: When Brendan Wegner left Wisconsin for the Bakken oil fields, his parents had no idea North Dakota was the deadliest place to work in America.Kevin Wegner, Brendan’s Father: ...