Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. A good friend of mine works in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. I thought it might be interesting to interview him to give ...

The Bakken will remain the most price sensitive of the three big shale oil plays but its incremental potential this year is second, maybe surpassing the 1.3 million b/d mark for total output.

Roughly the size of West Virginia, the Bakken oil field is the largest continuous oil field in the ... Association and the FracTracker Alliance will produce an interactive map that shows the most ...

"North Dakota Field Production of Crude Oil.” U.S. Department of the Interior. "USGS Releases Oil and Gas Assessment for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of Montana and North Dakota." ...

This week, the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s annual conference welcomed hundreds of local and national industry stakeholders to discuss the future of the country’s third-largest oil ...

BLM said it received a total of 293 bids in the sale that offered 3,173 acres in Bakken oil field. The oil industry expressed displeasure with the “measly” amount of acreage offered ...

So far the majority of oil traveling by rail is called "Bakken crude," from the fracked shale fields of North Dakota and Montana. However, tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, is also being transported ...

What accounts for worker injuries and fatalities in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota? Should they be viewed as localized phenomena, or are larger socioeconomic processes at work? In his effort to ...

Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM, the largest oil producer in the United States, is reportedly looking to sell some of its assets in North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation. According to a Reuters ...

A recent report from the EIA found natural gas comprised 40% of total production from the Bakken, the Eagle Ford and the ...

NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Top U.S. oil producer Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), opens new tab plans to sell a portion of its assets in North Dakota's Bakken shale formation, the company told Reuters ...