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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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.

One person was severely burned in an explosion and fire at an oil field in western North Dakota, fire officials said. The explosion was reported about 10:30 p.m. Friday at a saltwater disposal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Workforce shortages in the oil fields of North Dakota are attracting Ukrainian refugees who’ve fled their homeland due to Russia’s war. A humanitarian program known as Uniting for Ukraine has ...

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 ...

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: ...