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 ...

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 ...

The announcement that the Bakken Formation contains up to 4.3 billion barrels of potentially recoverable oil should give North Dakotans pause to rethink our state's future. As recently as 1995, the ...

The 200,000 square-mile Bakken Formation is one of the country’s top oil-producing regions that occupies areas in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada. The Bakken Formation is considered to be a “carbon ...

In the case of the Bakken formation, lots and lots of oil. The latest estimate is between 3 billion and 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered but probably recoverable oil. That 2008 government estimate ...

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.

FARGO - A federal agency issued a safety alert Thursday on Bakken crude oil, warning emergency responders, the public and others that the light, sweet crude may be more flammable than traditional ...

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 ...