A good friend of mine works in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota ... WW: I first came up during the initial oil boom a few years ago. There were numerous jobs for anyone willing to work ...

The boom took hold of western North Dakota and ... curious about “better-quality land management” in the Bakken-Three Forks oil-producing region. She attended to learn about other companies ...

When did the boom begin? About seven years ago. Geologists have known about the Bakken shale foundation, one of the largest oil and natural gas deposits in the world, since the early 1950s.

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.

North Dakota's oil boom is a big, probably underappreciated ... sweet crude being coaxed and bullied out of the Bakken shale formation in the northwestern part of the state. The Bakken crude ...

sitting in lots on the Detroit waterfront because of the energy boom in the Bakken oil field in the northern US and parts of Canada. It's fascinating the way that one change to a complex system ...

WSJ's Ben Casselman joins the News Hub to discuss North Dakota's oil boom. Known as the Bakken Shale, the field could contain up to 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Photographer Alec Soth recently traveled to the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota ... aspects of living and working in the middle of an oil boom. In striking black and white, they track the ...

A stretch of North Dakota highway witnesses oil’s boom and bust Oil prices have been ... Over 180 rigs drilled at the nearby Bakken oil field two years ago; only 27… ...

Some cool charts from Rob Grunewald and Dulguun Batbold at the Minneapolis Fed: they've plotted distance from ground zero of North Dakota 's shale oil boom, the Bakken formation, against ...