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Night view of H&P drilling the Bakken. The North Dakota oil boom was the period of rapidly expanding oil extraction from the Bakken Formation in the state of North Dakota that lasted from the discovery of the Parshall Oil Field in 2006, and peaked in 2012, [1] [2] but with substantially less growth noted since 2015 due to a global decline in oil prices.
Between the years of 2009 and 2013, there were more than 9,000 injury claims related to the oil and gas industry filed with North Dakota's Workforce Safety & Insurance Agency. Between 2011 and 2015, at least 40 workers died as a result of their industries in North Dakota's oil and gas fields. [67]
North Dakota contains the world's largest known deposit of lignite coal, and hosted 4% of U.S. coal extraction in year 2019. It ranked second behind the state of Texas in U.S. crude oil extraction. [3] Natural gas extraction has been growing as well, and exceeded 1 trillion cubic feet for the first time. [4]
North Dakota's oil production rose nicely in April, and, with crude prices likely to remain strong, monthly output should break its old record by the end of this month.
The newest numbers showed that daily crude output remained above one million barrels for the 29th month, further confirming North Dakota as one of the hottest shale plays in the United States.
Bitter cold weather is causing a rash of spills in the oil fields of North Dakota as well as a slowdown in production, regulators say. More than 60 spills and other gas or oil environmental ...
The Parshall Oil Field is an oil field producing from the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Formation near the town of Parshall, in Mountrail County, North Dakota. The field is in the Williston Basin. The field was discovered in 2006 by Michael Johnson and sold the play to EOG Resources, which drilled, and now operates, most of the wells. [1]
According to the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, the state produced 1,175,638 barrels of oil per day and 2,068,244 thousand cubic feet per day of associated gas in January.