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 ...

At the peak of the Bakken oil boom in the late 2000s, city leaders said Sloulin Field Airport in Williston needed a major ...

The Bakken oil boom that has turned Williston, N.D., into a chaotic circus offers Billings and Eastern Montana both opportunity and challenges, said business and community leaders who gathered Friday ...

Don't chase the oil boom money or jobs unless you have a place to stay. Rents have doubled and tripled in the Bakken's boomtowns. Hotel rooms are booked solid months in advance, forcing travelers to ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Prosecutors have netted a string of guilty pleas among the suspects in an interstate drug trafficking case that’s highlighted the criminal underside of an oil boom sweeping the ...

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 ...

SIDNEY – Sidney isn’t the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold – more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken ...

The refinement of horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, has made this boom possible. In fracking, drillers fire a million gallons or more of water mixed with sand ...

Montana’s Bakken produces roughly $1.2 billion worth of oil per year. A steady stream of trucks haul food, gravel, scoria, sand, natural gas, crude oil, pipe, asphalt, concrete, fresh water and liquid ...

BILLINGS - The secret has been well-kept until now, but central Montana is sitting on an oil field that some suggest could be a mini-Bakken, the boom that turned western North Dakota into the ...

North Dakota plugged along, steadily producing oil at a rate of about 100,000 barrels of oil per day throughout much of the 1970s. Production spiked with what nowadays would be considered a mini-boom ...

Joseph Mahan, economist with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, said the technology boom is an interesting angle, but the Bakken is clearly an oil boom. He went on to say that the "grain of truth" in ...