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...
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HAPPY 65TH HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
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...
NORTH DAKOTA LAWMAKERS LOOK TO REMEDY DUAL CONVICTION FOR DUI, REFUSAL
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...
Baker Hughes to Reveal all Hydraulic fracturing chemicals
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).
NEW FLARING REGULATIONS TO SLOW PRODUCTION
The North Dakota Industrial Commission is considering a proposal that would cut back on the state's booming oil production as a means of controlling the amount of natural gas that's being burned off at well sites and wasted as a byproduct of the more valuable...
SHALE PLAYS DOMINATED BY SMALL PRODUCERS
Shale plays like North Dakota's Bakken formation have led to a revolution in the U.S. Oil & Gas Industry. As this FuelFix piece discusses, unlike previous "booms," shale plays across the U.S. are dominated by independent producers as opposed to the "Seven...
NORTH DAKOTA COUNTIES TOP 10 PRODUCERS IN NATION
North Dakota's McKenzie and Mountrail Counties are among the top ten oil producing areas in the United States. As this Drilling Info piece illustrates, half of the oil production in the U.S. comes from twenty counties and the Gulf of Mexico. If you only consider...
FEDERAL LANDS NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION DOWN
Over the past few years, natural gas production across the U.S. has skyrocketed. However, most of this production has come from privately-owned lands rather than public.
TEXAS, NORTH DAKOTA PROVIDE NEARLY HALF OF U.S. CRUDE PRODUCTION
Via Oil & Gas Journal - Crude oil production in the US during April totaled 8.4 million b/d, with Texas and North Dakota accounting for 4 million b/d, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration's Petroleum Supply Monthly Report.Texas...