Located in the Williston Basin in Montana and North Dakota and in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Bakken Shale subsurface formation is mainly an oil play. Some figures put ...

The Bakken shale is already declining because of financial struggles and the oil market downturn, but the potential shuttering of the Dakota Access pipeline could close off the possibility of a ...

IN ORDER TO COPE with the low price environment in 2016, shale focused companies have announced that they will prioritize developing their best acreage and optimizing their completion techniques. In ...

Vinson Takes Lead on $1.6 Billion Bakken Shale Sale In the latest big deal in one of the country's red-hot shale plays, Vinson & Elkins is advising Denbury Resources on the $1.6 billion sale of its ...

Mitsubishi Power is joining with a pipeline company based in a key U.S. natural gas play to develop a hydrogen hub which can then be connected to other H2 infrastructure throughout North America. The ...

North Dakota set an oil production record in January this year, and crude output in the state home to the Bakken shale play held close to that record level in the three months that followed. But is ...

My Alerts is a service for subscribers. Please login or subscribe in order to use My Alerts. Operators in the US state of North Dakota could soon begin moving on from sweet spots in the Bakken shale ...

North Dakota’s Bakken shale field — once the largest and busiest American shale patch — is showing signs of age, threatening to hold back US oil production as the world thirsts for more crude. Mature ...

Oil prices are increasing again, thanks to the weakness in dollar. Also, China's central bank said that it would employ various monetary policy tools to bolster the property market and wider economy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - XTO Energy Inc said on Wednesday it would pay $1.85 billion in cash and stock to buy more than 350,000 acres of property in the Bakken Shale region of the western United States.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover oil, gas, power, LNG markets, linking to human development. But, U.S. crude prices are up nearly 20% since the start of ...