Montana’s oil production held steady last year, but North Dakota pumped 60 percent more crude than in 2011. And the sprint continues. North Dakota is now the country’s No. 2 oil-producing state and ...

Study: the Three Forks reservoir may hold some 250 million barrels of untapped crude. Study: developing these reserves would require the drilling of 600 more wells in the Three Forks play. U.S. shale ...

EASTERN MONTANA — Like wagon trains of yesteryear, the traffic tells the tale of the Bakken oil boom. Semitrailers haul sand, liquid nitrogen, pipe, tanks and modular homes across Montana to the oil ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show.

My son-in-law, Kenny Kiser, was in the lead vehicle, and I followed in a somewhat serviceable 1994 Winnebago Adventurer that would become my home the next month. Kenny’s Toyota Tundra towed a 1998 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No rail terminals have been shut down in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota as a result of inspections, an official at the U.S. agency that oversees transportation of ...

A plan that is said to double oil production and the life of coal-fired power plants throughout the state is moving forward.

Several climate groups opposed Tuesday’s auction, while the oil and gas industry has pushed to expand areas for drilling. The Bureau of Land Management netted roughly $24 million from an oil and gas ...

Interested in working in the Bakken oil field? Montana State University Billings and the Billings Job Service are sponsoring a meeting Feb. 23 to answer questions about how to apply for jobs and what ...

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received bids on all 20 parcels it offered in its Oct. 23 federal oil and gas lease sale in North Dakota, taking in $16.7 million in high bids. BLM said it ...

Freshly painted and carpeted rooms were filled with the sounds of beating drums Wednesday as an honor song welcomed the arrival of a new tribal college to Rapid City that could provide much needed ...