A bill seeks to encourage drilling for oil outside of North Dakota’s highly productive Bakken Formation and take advantage of ...

A bill seeks to encourage drilling for oil outside of North Dakota’s highly productive Bakken Formation and take advantage of ...

North Dakota could help America become a dominant player in the oil industry after experts found a significant amount of undeveloped oil resources yet to be extracted. Geologists determined ...

Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal Doug Burgum as North Dakota governor catered to the whims of oil and gas ...

As governor, Burgum never disclosed that his family leased roughly 200 acres of farmland to Continental for well drilling ... North Dakota’s Industrial Commission, which regulates the oil ...

Those ties concern Democrats and environmentalists who say his zeal to expand drilling was ... As chairman of North Dakota’s Industrial Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry ...

Big Oil Wants a Lot From Trump. It Has an Ally in Doug Burgum, the President's Interior Pick BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When North Dakota's petroleum ... his zeal to expand drilling was “troubling.” ...

Senate Confirms North Dakota's Burgum as Trump Interior Secretary ... During his nomination hearing, Burgum said he would expand oil and gas drilling rights auctions and support permitting ...

More cost-effective technology in recent decades drove drilling booms in states including New Mexico, Texas and North Dakota, where vast expanses of rural farmland have been industrialized by oil ...