North Dakota, the nation's second-largest oil-producing state after Texas, pumped out 1.16 million barrels per day, up from 1.04 million per day in July. In May, output hit a seven-year low of ...

Oil field waste: In the July 27 Section A, an article about waste generated by oil drilling in North Dakota said that about a dozen garbage trucks visit the McKenzie County landfill each day.

North Dakota's oil regulators said on Monday they may allow more wells to be temporarily abandoned, a step that would permit producers to delay fracking beyond the typical one-year window and ...

North Dakotans strongly back oil drilling, but attempts to drill wells near historic sites have sparked enough of an outcry that regulators are considering greater citizen input into how and where ...

WILLISTON, N.D. - North Dakota has fewer than 60 drilling rigs operating in the state for the first time since 2009, about a third of what were operating a year ago.

What North Dakota Would Look Like if Its Oil Drilling Lines Were Aboveground By GREGOR AISCH NOV. 25, 2014 More than 11,000 oil wells have been drilled in North Dakota since 2006, covering the ...

Instead of spending $500 million to plug up the wells, Alamooti said, the state of North Dakota could begin generating $1.5 billion in annual energy revenue by repurposing the old infrastructure ...

If passed, North Dakota Senate Bill 2360 would power a study on geothermal energy in the coming year, specifically examining an idea to build geothermal plants in used up oil and gas wells in the ...

Continental cited a study backed by the North Dakota Industrial Commission that found it could take 50,000 wells to develop the Bakken's entire 24 billion barrels of estimated oil. The COO noted ...

North Dakota's unconventional oil production grew from about 100,000 barrels a day in 2007 to more than 1 million barrels a day in 2014. Much of the increased production has been made possible by ...

The number of rigs drilling for Bakken Shale oil in North Dakota has dropped sharply as a result of the decline in crude oil prices, a development that may affect the state’s budget, a state ...