FORTUNA, N.D. - When an Arizona couple opened up a bar and dorm-style lodging for oilfield workers last year in far northwest North Dakota, the bar was packed and the rooms were booked solid. But as ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - For the first time in more than 30 years, North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation will be without drilling rigs operated by Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources Inc., the ...

A new report by Abe Sauer in The Awl pulls back the curtain on the oil industry's quiet but quick takeover of North Dakota. In explaining the apocalyptic sight of "Dakota candles" illuminating the ...

Marathon Oil Co., still the only company fracking with modern Bakken techniques in the Tyler Formation, appears to have taken a break from drilling at its sites there, a North Dakota Geological Survey ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

WILLISTON — Oil companies are hiring in the Bakken, and more jobs are expected to open up next year. Job Service North Dakota announced six oil companies are looking for workers to man fracking crews ...

Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. on Monday announced a significant expansion to its southeast Saskatchewan land base highly prospective for Bakken light oil, ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 3-- Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, plans to drill 9 operated and 19 nonoperated wells in 2009 in the Williston basin Bakken play, where it holds 300,000 net acres. Encore ...

The Bakken is a notoriously tough area for producers to drill, which is why the play has some of the highest well completion costs in the U.S. Producers can spend $10 million or more to drill a single ...

Hess Corp. is using four Nabors all-electric drilling rigs in the Bakken. Nabors converted all of its Hess drilling rigs in the Bakken by installing its Canrig PowerTAP™ highline power transformer ...