As a journalist digging into the long-term potential for shale oil—how much oil ... out into new areas. Also, North Dakota allows drillers to put new wells on “confidential” status ...

With enhanced oil recovery “they wouldn’t give these ethanol plants credits,” Hill says. A map of the ... for a class 6 well. Hill said that’s because North Dakota was able to gain ...

More than 11,000 oil wells have been drilled in North Dakota since 2006, covering the state’s agricultural landscape. In all, almost 40,000 miles of well bores have been drilled underground to ...

The U.S. Geological Survey is significantly increasing its assessment of oil and gas reserves in the Williston basin of North Dakota. In the past five years, more than 4,000 new wells in the ...

North Dakota's oil output soared 14% in August as more wells shut down earlier in the spring because of the coronavirus crisis came back online. "It is nice to note that we are back on the road ...

BISMARCK, N.D. – Dr. Lyle Best traveled nearly 200 miles from the heart of North ... oil production as a means of controlling the amount of natural gas that's being burned off at well sites ...

Nearly half of North Dakota oil wells now qualify for a tax exemption as low-producing wells, contributing to a reduction in tax revenue projections for the upcoming budget cycle. But even if ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A crew battling an oil well blaze in northwestern North Dakota that had been burning for nearly two weeks doused the fire on Friday and temporarily capped the wellhead ...