Bakken

U.S. Highway 85 crosses the rugged Badlands south of Watford City in one of the most dramatic drives in North Dakota. The roadway runs for a few miles through the Little Missouri Valley in the area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park before climbing out of the Badlands.

Monday, September 6, 2021 - On this Labor Day, we feature a conversation about working in the oil patch. It’s an excerpt from a One Book One North Dakota webinar as Bill Thomas visits with Michael Patrick F. Smith, the author of “The Good Hand.”

Today marks the wide release of author, playwright, and musician Michael Patrick F. Smith's debut memoir, "The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown." (Penguin Random House)

The Williston Basin is known for its oil and gas reserves.But helium?"We know that there's helium there in the Basin," said state geologist Ed Murphy.…

If you drove through the Bakken a few years ago, you would have seen dozens of new hotels, RV parks and mobile homes that popped up when the oil rigs…

A decade into North Dakota’s shale fracking boom, the state consistently produces one million barrels of oil per day -- and officials here are looking to…

The decade-long shale fracking boom in North Dakota sent the population of oil patch communities soaring. These towns beefed up their public services to…

North Dakota officials have noticed an uptick in the number of oil wells transferring ownership in the Bakken.Nearly 700 wells are in the process of being…

No word yet from the US Geological Survey on whether it will do an updated assessment of the oil in the Bakken and Three Forks formations.Sen. John Hoeven…

When a company enters oil and gas country, it wants to know there’s enough oil and gas in the ground that business will be robust for a long time.One way…