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As North Dakota oil production approaches the milestone of producing 1 million barrels a day, CEOs of three top Bakken companies said Thursday that's only the beginning. Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm said he projects that technology advancements will push the...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The future of crude oil shipments by train depends on proving to the public that it can be done safely, BNSF Railway Co. Executive Chairman Matt Rose told several hundred people at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck BNSF said...

When it comes to shale plays, Texas' own Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin are still the kings of oil production. North Dakota's Bakken Shale is gaining fast, though, as it just surpassed the 1 million barrels per day mark in March, according to the Energy...

The Wall Street Journal: Crude oil from the Bakken Shale formation doesn't pose special risks to rail transport and shouldn't require a separate classification regime than other hazardous liquids, North Dakota oil producers said in a study released Tuesday.

HuffPo via The Associated Press: Just 274 wells accounted for around 60 percent of all flaring of natural gas in North Dakota in December, said Chad Wocken, senior research manager at UND's EERC,Tuesday at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck...

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland dismissed a series of lawsuits filed against oil and gas companies by North Dakota mineral owners who claim they are owed royalty payments for natural gas illegally flared from oil wells. Hovland ruled that the mineral owners...

Hess Corporation, which is one of the most active E&P companies in North Dakota, has been recognized as the highest ranking energy company on Corporate Responsibility magazine's prestigious list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens. The modern-day Hess Corporation's...

While just about everyone over the past five years has heard of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" as it has come to be called, not many people outside of the oil and gas industry know that the hydraulic fracturing process has been around since the 1950's. This Forbes...

BISMARCK - State lawmakers are looking to clear up several areas of a tougher drunken-driving law approved last year, including one provision that allows offenders to be convicted for both DUI and refusing a field sobriety test in the same incident. Since the DUI law...

HOUSTON - Baker Hughes says it's ready to divulge all the chemicals it uses in hydraulic fracturing, revelations that other big industry players have limited by asserting the potions they use to get at trapped oil and gas are trade secrets. (via FuelFix).