North Dakota's oil output soared 14% in August as more wells shut down earlier in the spring because of the coronavirus crisis came back online. "It is nice to note that we are back on the road ...

North Dakota's shale oil wells may consume more water for long-term salt removal and maintenance than they required for their initial fracking, state officials say. By Patrick J. Kiger November 12 ...

Nearly half of North Dakota oil wells now qualify for a tax exemption as low-producing wells, contributing to a reduction in tax revenue projections for the upcoming budget cycle.

Summit Carbon Solutions has a plan to capture carbon from ethanol plants and send it to western North Dakota, but the company says it is for permanent storage, not the oil industry. SUBSCRIBE NOW ...

There were 822 idle wells in February, but despite that, oil drillers produced an average of 348,000 barrels a day that month.

A crew works on plugging Federal 3-32X, an abandoned oil well confiscated by the state of North Dakota. The well, first drilled in 1978, is southwest of the town of Watford City, in the Little ...

BISMARCK — On a typical day in western North Dakota, oil producers flush away more brine ... the waste stream saltier than the ocean came up from Bakken oil wells in quantities more than 1.5 ...

The decline could cost the state over 8,000 jobs in drilling, fracking and oil-patch work before a turnaround starts.

Ray Gerish, a floor hand for Raven Drilling, works on an oil rig drilling into the Bakken shale formation on July 28, 2013 outside Watford City, North Dakota. Andrew Burton / Getty Images ...

North Dakota oil production rose to a record in November, even as energy companies drilled fewer wells and the rig count dropped to a near five-year low, state officials said.

North Dakota's oil regulators said on Monday they may allow more wells to be temporarily abandoned, a step that would permit producers to delay fracking beyond the typical one-year window and ...

Salty wastewater from Bakken Shale oil wells has contaminated a creek and flowed into the Missouri River after a huge pipeline leak in North Dakota, state officials said Thursday.