FARGO -- The Bakken Formation's oil bonanza was triggered eons ago in a story involving a cast of millions, earthly upheavals, heat and pressure -- lots and lots of pressure. It's actually a very ...

The claim: The Bakken contains more than 500 billion barrels of cheap oil, enough to power the U.S. economy for more than 2,000 years A years-old claim that a massive oil reserve was recently ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Could oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana rival output from Saudi Arabia's supergiant Ghawar oilfield, the greatest oil-bearing structure the world ...

The announcement that the Bakken Formation contains up to 4.3 billion barrels of potentially recoverable oil should give North Dakotans pause to rethink our state's future. As recently as 1995, the ...

MINOT - North Dakota's own estimate of how much oil can be gotten economically, using current technology, from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin is slightly above or below 2.1 billion ...

In the case of the Bakken formation, lots and lots of oil. The latest estimate is between 3 billion and 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered but probably recoverable oil. That 2008 government estimate ...

May 23—DICKINSON — According to the newly released 2021 North Dakota Energy report by EnergyND, Great Plains Energy Corridor and Bismarck State College's North Dakota Polytechnic Institution, industry ...

TIOGA, N.D. - Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the North Dakota oil boom started to heat up. Since then, his family name has ...

TIOGA, N.D. -- Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the oil boom started to heat up. Since then, his family name has become ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — An oil reservoir in western North Dakota holds nearly as much recoverable crude as the rich Bakken shale formation above it, a new state study shows. The study released Thursday by ...

Samson noted that the joint venture elected to deepen the Leonard-1-23H well and drill a horizontal lateral into the middle Bakken Formation, which has been proven to be productive in the region.

We all benefit from a strong oil and natural gas industry. The billions of dollars in taxes and royalties paid to the state of North Dakota each year pay for education, infrastructure, and social ...