Bakken Shale

Enable Midstream Partners LP has secured two more agreements with XTO Energy Inc. to build a second crude oil gathering system, as well as one for produced water, in North Dakota's Bakken Shale.

North Dakota’s record-setting pace for oil and natural gas production continued to slow for the most recent month reported, and the prospects are for the slowing trend to continue at least through March, the state’s top oil/gas official said Thursday.

State and national initiatives (see Shale Daily, March 13) to significantly cut flaring of associated gas in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale fields will result in some short-term cutbacks in the state’s record production growth, the state’s chief oil/natural gas regulator said Thursday.

The multi-billion-dollar Sandpiper Pipeline addition from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to multiple market connecting points in Minnesota appears to have enough shipper interest to move forward, North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad said Thursday.

A piece of the nuclear world lurks in oilfields, and it has reared its unwanted head in the Williston Basin of North Dakota, with reports continuing of illegally dumped oilfield byproducts from the Bakken Shale that contain naturally occurring radioactive waste.

A state legislative committee on Wednesday approved industry-supported rule changes for oil and natural gas drilling in North Dakota, according to the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR). The changes take effect April 1.

Production from five of the top six major tight/shale oil and natural gas regions in the United States are projected to increase over the next year, reaching totals comparable to nations on the world stage, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The need for the multi-billion-dollar parallel Sandpiper Pipeline addition was questioned Tuesday by a Minnesota refinery and customer of the existing North Dakota Pipeline Co. (NDP) oil pipeline from the Bakken Shale.

A new destination for shale oil, forecast to reduce market congestion and price discounting across North America, will open in central Canada as a result of a pipeline decision Thursday by the National Energy Board (NEB).