Tag archive for ‘Bakken’
Kenmare’s Future Looks Bright
By Tina Ding A ribbon of highway winds and stretches through rolling hills, carrying drivers northwest from Minot to a community rich with agricultural heritage. Family farms dot the countryside, nestled between crops of durum, wheat, canola and flax. And though many folks near Kenmare work the soil to reap the harvest each autumn, others [...]
Expanding the Bakken
North Dakotans are very familiar with the Bakken formation, and industry leaders nationwide consider it to be one of the best oil plays in the U.S. It covers approximately 25,000 square miles in western North Dakota and eastern Montana, and its wells produce rich, high-quality sweet crude oil. But a new player has emerged in [...]
The Oil Patch: Western North Dakota thrives on a crude foundation
North Dakota’s energy sector swelled last summer, partially due to the healthy oil industry’s uptick in production. Western towns throughout the state discovered ways to capitalize in the widespread increase in traffic, the surge of new business and the overall attention to the industry. And though the initial flurry of activity and excitement stabilized, the [...]
Energy Potential: Bismarck native takes over as director of Pipeline Authority
When that omniscient voice whispered its famous advice to a farmer in an Iowa cornfield in the movie “Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner listened. And when North Dakota State University instructors offered their counsel a few years ago to one of their students, Justin Kringstad listened, too. “They told me ‘If you love geology, you [...]
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