US oil production has been booming the past few years, due in large part to North Dakota’s Bakken formation, a rock layer tapped through fracking.Each well travels down about two miles, then ...

In addition to having a record-low unemployment rate and ever-growing population, North Dakota, based on a map released by the U.S. Census Bureau last year, was also the state that had the most ...

In a Tuesday monthly briefing, the state regulator revealed that despite recent volatility in oil prices, the number of frac ...

Take a look at this map of America at night. As you'd expect, ... There are now so many gas wells burning fires in the North Dakota night, the fracking fields can be seen from deep space.

By many measures, North Dakota is one of America's less extraordinary states. Petroleum production is not one of those measures.

The fracking boom is bringing in a surge of development — and tax revenue — to North Dakota. Now conservationists have a plan use some of that growth to protect the environment.

Five years later, in 2010, North Dakota had climbed to fourth and last July, North Dakota became the second largest oil producer, just behind Texas. North Dakota’s oil production accounts for 11 ...

Fracking the Bakken: Why North Dakota is the Next Hub of U.S. Energy The austere North Dakota prairie is the unlikely center of one of the biggest oil booms in decades.

North Dakota has 439 active disposal wells in the oil patch. Last year, a record 441 million barrels of saltwater were injected in wells throughout the Bakken region.

By many measures, North Dakota is one of America's less extraordinary states. Petroleum production is not one of those measures. Neither is the explosive popularity of hydraulic fracturing, a ...