Rich Nemec

North Dakota officials reported Tuesday that the state again set all-time production records in August, hitting 1 Bcf/d for natural gas and 911,000 b/d of crude oil production. Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms predicted the state would soon pass the 1 million b/d milestone.

With a seemingly ever-increasing mother lode of crude oil from the Bakken Shale play, North Dakota lawmakers have embarked on a process for developing a long-term strategy regarding state revenues and taxation of the oil industry. An initial review of bidders to help in mapping the strategy is set for Oct. 31.

With a seemingly ever-increasing mother lode of crude oil from the Bakken Shale play, North Dakota lawmakers have embarked on a process for developing a long-term strategy regarding state revenues and taxation of the oil industry. An initial review of bidders to help in mapping the strategy is set for Oct. 31.

A 20,600 bbl Bakken crude oil spill in North Dakota from a leak sprung in a Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline in a wheat field northeast of Tioga, ND, on Friday was fully contained, under control and in the process of being remediated, according to state and company officials. The leak had originally been detected Sept. 29 and was mistakenly thought to be much smaller.

Amplifying favorable comments made earlier this year by Gov. Jerry Brown regarding future oil and natural gas development in California, the head of the state department responsible for overseeing drilling said recently that Brown supports the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

If a variety of industry experts are correct, the western United States is on the brink of an upsurge in natural gas demand outstripping supply and resulting in a need for a new wave of infrastructure being built from the Rockies westward.

With the potential to help satisfy growing regulatory concerns about flowback and produced water used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Los Angeles-based OriginOil Inc. has signed a pay-per-barrel agreement with small Colorado-based water treatment company Industrial Systems Inc. (ISI).

A 20,600 bbl Bakken crude oil spill in North Dakota from a leak sprung in a Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline in a wheat field northeast of Tioga, ND, on Friday was fully contained, under control and in the process of being remediated, according to state and company officials. The leak had originally been detected Sept. 29 and was mistakenly thought to be much smaller.

Amplifying favorable comments made earlier this year by Gov. Jerry Brown regarding future oil and natural gas development in California, the head of the state department responsible for overseeing drilling said recently that Brown supports the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).