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The North Dakota Pipeline Company (NDPL) system is a 950-mile (1530 km) crude oil pipeline system that collects oil from fields in the Williston Basin in Montana and North Dakota transports it eastward to other pipeline systems that carry oil to refineries in the Midwest.
A map of the FM Area Diversion Project. The Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Area Diversion project, officially known as the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Diversion Flood Risk Management Project, is a large, regional flood control infrastructure project on the Red River of the North, which forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and flows north to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.
The Parshall Oil Field discovery, combined with other factors, including an oil-drilling tax break enacted by the state of North Dakota in 2007, [49] shifted attention in the Bakken from Montana to the North Dakota side. [50] The number of wells drilled in the North Dakota Bakken jumped from 300 in 2006 [51] to 457 in 2007. [52]
Map of the United States with North Dakota highlighted. North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern United States. All incorporated communities in North Dakota are considered cities, regardless of population; there are no towns, villages, or hamlets in the state. There are 355 municipalities.
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.
Former Canadian border station, Northgate. In 1962, the building of Highway 8 realigned the road to 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the previous crossing. [4] After being idle for years, the Canadian National Railway upgraded its tracks at this crossing to support rail traffic from the Bakken oil field.
The Smuggler's Point customs office may have predated the corresponding Canadian one. Up to the 1930s, harvested grain flowed southward via the GN in bond before re-entering Canada. [6] The US border station of Neche, which was built in 1965, [11] was replaced by a new facility in 2012. [12] In 2020, opening hours reduced, becoming 8am–4pm. [13]
U.S. Route 83 (US 83) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from the Mexico–United States border in Brownsville, Texas, to the Canada–United States border near Westhope, North Dakota. [1] In the state of North Dakota, US 83 extends from the South Dakota border north to the Canada-United States border.