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Bakken Overview: The Bakken Shale and the underlying Three Forks formation are both part of the Williston Basin, which spans portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Read More

Bakken Counties: ND: Billings, Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie Read More

Bakken Pipelines (natural gas): Northern Border, WBI Energy Transmission Read More

Bakken Net Acreage Table: A table detailing the net acreage owned by various companies in the Bakken play. View Table

ARTICLES

State Regulators Say Bakken, Midcontinent, Utica Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing

October 22, 2014
Jamison Cocklin
Top regulators from Oklahoma, North Dakota and Ohio all agreed on Tuesday that unconventional oil and gas development in their states shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. Read More

Rocky E&P Quarterlies Forecast on Oil Price Declines

October 22, 2014
Carolyn Davis
Talk about domestic natural gas oversupply may not be the big story when the domestic exploration and production (E&P) sector unveils quarterly earnings reports over the next few weeks. Instead, conversations may center around the impact lower crude oil prices had on the third quarter, and what impact lower prices may have on drilling plans into 2015, energy analysts said this week. Read More

QEP Sells Gas-Rich Midstream Assets to Tesoro for $2.5B

October 20, 2014
Richard Nemec
Seeking to improve its financial and competitive positions, Denver-based QEP Resources unit QEP Field Services is selling its natural gas-rich midstream assets to Tesoro Logistic LP (TLLP) in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.5 billion. Read More

North Dakota Officials Eye Oil Price Declines; Fear Rig Cutback

October 16, 2014
Richard Nemec
Bakken sweet crude oil on Wednesday was fetching $66.25/bbl, prompting North Dakota's chief oil/natural gas regulator to spend most of his time during a monthly production webinar lamenting the possibility of future slowed production in the state's otherwise uninterrupted oil boom. Read More

North Dakota’s August Oil, NatGas Output at All-Time High

October 15, 2014
Richard Nemec
Oil and natural gas production continued to climb in North Dakota in August, but at a more modest pace, the state's latest monthly statistics revealed Wednesday. Read More
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Big Seven Plays to Produce 43.28 Bcf/d in November, EIA Says

October 15, 2014
David Bradley
Production from the seven most prolific U.S. shale and tight oil regions in November is expected to reach 43.28 Bcf/d of natural gas (up 1.4% from October ) and 5.14 million b/d of crude oil... Read More
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Atlas Resource Readies Standalone E&P Following Targa-Atlas Energy $7.7B Combo

October 14, 2014
Carolyn Davis
Atlas Resource Partners LP (ARP) executives plan to put a herculean effort toward demonstrating the value of the exploration and production (E&P) assets as it prepares to spin off from its parent following a merger agreement with Targa Resources Corp. Read More

Oasis Cleans Wastewater Spill in North Dakota; Impact Small

October 14, 2014
Richard Nemec
Houston-based Oasis Petroleum Inc. continued water and soil sampling Monday after one of its pipelines spewed 42,000 gallons of salty wastewater into a pool and small creek that are part of a tributary to a Missouri River reservoir in McKenzie County in northwest North Dakota. Read More
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Anti-Flaring Sentiment Strong in the West, Poll Shows

October 14, 2014
Richard Nemec
A strong majority of potential voters in four western states support government mandates for oil/natural gas operators to greatly cut amounts of flared wellhead associated gas... Read More
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Bakken Rail Crude Shipments Likely Strong Into 2016, Fitch Says

October 13, 2014
Richard Nemec
With significant new pipeline capacity not likely before some time in 2016, burgeoning Bakken crude oil production in North Dakota will continue... Read More

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