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 ...

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 ...

Will the oil gushing from the Bakken Formation in western North Dakota someday free the United States from dependence on foreign oil? Just how much oil is out there? Does the Bakken contain more oil ...

The Bakken Shale Formation—a 200,000-square-mile shale deposit below parts of Canada and North Dakota—has supplied billions of barrels of oil and natural gas to North America for 70 years. A new ...

GRAND FORKS - A University of North Dakota professor says the amount of recoverable oil on the U.S. side of the Bakken Formation could more than double as a result of a three-year study by UND ...

North Dakota and Montana are already reaping millions of dollars in new tax revenues as oil companies rush to develop what is described as the largest onshore oil reserve in the continental United ...

There may be as many as 503 billion barrels of oil in the Bakken Formation that runs under Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota and Montana. It's common knowledge that there is a lot of oil in the ...

Geologists studying the Bakken Shale Formation discovered a critical kill mechanism behind a series of extinctions some 350 million years ago. The Bakken Shale Formation -- a 200,000-square-mile shale ...