oil and gas

Hems held the monthly "Director's Cut" briefing this week.

The companies say they will finish the uncompleted wells.

If oil prices exceed $94.69 per barrel for three consecutive months, the extraction tax would go back to 6 percent.

The goals are higher than North Dakota's current targets

Texas continues to be the top oil producing state in the US.But now, there’s a race for second place.North Dakota has been second – but New Mexico is…

Bismarck is hosting the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference this week.But there was some uncertainty going into it."We were concerned, coming…

"As flat as you can ever see."That's how North Dakota Mineral Resources director Lynn Helms described October oil production numbers, compared with…

A program to plug and reclaim orphaned oil wells, using federal coronavirus relief funds, will continue through the end of the year.The program uses money…

The Legislature’s Budget Section has okayed the repurposing of $16 million in CARES Act funding from a program to reclaim oil wells to paying for fracking…