FARGO -- The Bakken Formation's oil bonanza was triggered eons ago in a story involving a cast of millions, earthly upheavals, heat and pressure -- lots and lots of pressure. It's actually a very ...

The claim: The Bakken contains more than 500 billion barrels of cheap oil, enough to power the U.S. economy for more than 2,000 years A years-old claim that a massive oil reserve was recently ...

A new government study released today estimates that the amount of recoverable oil in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana (see map above) – at 7.4 billion barrels – is more ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Could oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana rival output from Saudi Arabia's supergiant Ghawar oilfield, the greatest oil-bearing structure the world ...

May 23—DICKINSON — According to the newly released 2021 North Dakota Energy report by EnergyND, Great Plains Energy Corridor and Bismarck State College's North Dakota Polytechnic Institution, industry ...

TIOGA, N.D. - Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the North Dakota oil boom started to heat up. Since then, his family name has ...

The Bakken shale play in North Dakota, Montana, and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba is one of the largest oil resources in North America. Some figures put estimated oil reserves at ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — An oil reservoir in western North Dakota holds nearly as much recoverable crude as the rich Bakken shale formation above it, a new state study shows. The study released Thursday by ...

Samson noted that the joint venture elected to deepen the Leonard-1-23H well and drill a horizontal lateral into the middle Bakken Formation, which has been proven to be productive in the region.

TIOGA, N.D. -- Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the oil boom started to heat up. Since then, his family name has become ...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Bakken Formation in North Dakota and Montana have 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil, a federal report released today says. "This is the largest oil accumulation ...