In the News

Daily news related to the world of oil and gas, concentrating on the Bakken.

Future Outlook of the Bakken - May 24, 2018

Bakken Executives Project 'Disciplined Approach' as ND Oil Activity Ramps Up - May 24, 2018

US Oil Industry Set to Break Record - Upend Global Trade - Jan 16, 2018

Continental Resources Sells 1 Million Barrels of Bakken Oil for Export - Oct 19, 2017

Dakota Access has increased ND tax revenue by more than $6M a month - Oct 11, 2017

North Dakota's Oil Industry More Efficient, More Resilient Than Ever Before - Jun 12, 2017

Army Corps Memo Shows DAPL Should Have Been Approved in December - Jan 27, 2017

NDPC: Pipeline Approvals Mark a New Beginning ... - Jan 25, 2017

Oil Companies Hiring Fracking Crews in Bakken - Dec 29, 2016

Big Changes Coming : Helms - Nov 18, 2016

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Warns of Oil Shortage - Oct 19, 2016

Helms Predicts Oil Will Come Back With Come Back "With a Rush" - Apr 16, 2016

Why We Could See an Oil Price Shock in 2016 - Mar 28, 2016

PSC Approves One Sacagawea Pipeline, Sets Hearing for Another - Feb 11, 2016

PSC Granted Permits for $2 Billion in Energy Projects in 2015 - Feb 4, 2016

The Bakken Oil Boom - Jan 28, 2016

PSC Issues Permit for Dakota Access Pipeline - Jan 20, 2016

About the Dakota Access Pipeline - 2015

Tesoro Buys Bakken Midstream Assets - Dec 22, 2015

Oil Drillers Bet Choking Wells Will Keep Shale From Going Bust - Oct 1, 2015

Top 10 things I learned on my summer trip to the Bakken oil fields, Part I - Jun 16, 2015

Oil trading at 4-month highs after bullish EIA report - Apr 29, 2015

For crude oil, this looks like 2009 all over again - Apr 20, 2015

Then and Now: Bakken Economy By The Numbers - Apr 8, 2015

US oil production growth is going to zero: Analyst - Mar 16, 2015

Oil and the state budget: ‘a correction, not a bust' - Mar 10, 2015

Economist: Saudi Arabia is to Blame for Low Oil Prices - Mar 10, 2015

Welcome To Cowboyistan: Fracking King Harold Hamm's Plan For U.S. Domination Of Global Oil - Mar 9, 2015

Oil Price Crash A Blessing In Disguise For US Shale - Mar 8, 2015

ND oil production total exits 2014 at record high - Feb 18, 2015

OPEC leader: Oil could shoot back to $200 - Feb 3, 2015

N.D. oil regulator says lower oil prices spell gloom, not doom - Jan 8, 2015

Oil prices falling but Bakken producers expected to tough it out - Dec 9, 2014

Bakken Shale Rig Count Increases by Three to 191 - Dec 1, 2014

Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes - Nov 30, 2014

Letter From North Dakota: The Oil Party Rocks On - Nov 13, 2014

Continental's Hamm Says Shale Industry Can Weather Crude Price Slump - Oct 16, 2014

Crude Prices Main Topic of October Director's Cut - Oct 15, 2014

Where the U.S. gets its domestic oil and gas, in two maps - Sep 24, 2014

Bentek Energy: ND Bakken Hit 1.2 Million b/d - August 2014 - Sep 23, 2014

Oneok to add gas processing, transportation in North Dakota, Wyoming - Sep 22, 2014

Bakken Pricing Point Coming, North Dakota Official Predicts - Sep 15, 2014

Eye on Energy: Bakken Developers Not Slowing - Sep 8, 2014

Crude Oil in America: How Much Do We Really Have and How Long Will It Last? - Aug 30, 2014

Shale Oil Production From Bakken, Eagle Ford Rose 3.4% in July: Platts' Bentek Energy - Aug 21, 2014

Billings area may see a new refinery - Aug 18, 2014

Conferences highlight Bakken’s impact on an international scale - Aug 11, 2014

Energy secretary gets first-hand look - Aug 9, 2014

Bakken Boom Still Being Felt - Aug 6, 2014

EOG continues Bakken growth, Three Forks testing next - Aug 7, 2014

Well density analysis leads WPX Energy to up Bakken inventory - Aug 6, 2014

Proposed oil pipeline faces regulatory hurdles - Aug 3, 2014

UPDATE 1-Whiting Petroleum profit beats as Bakken production surges - Jul 30, 2014

Oil boom may be just starting - Jul 28, 2014

North Dakota celebrates 1 million barrel a day oil production level - Jun 25, 2014

Bakken Oil Fields mark billionth barrel of oil - Apr 30, 2014