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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.
Prior to the Dakota Access Pipeline, light sweet crude oil from the Bakken Formation was transported mainly by rail during the North Dakota oil boom. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Extraction from the area increased from 309,000 barrels a day in 2010 to more than 1 million in 2014, with insufficient pipeline infrastructure to transport the increased extraction. [ 5 ]
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]
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.
North Dakota has a commodity-based economy. North Dakota experienced an uptick in oil extraction from 2008-2014. [4] The legacy fund was established to ensure that the financial windfall gained from the Bakken Oil Boom would benefit the state in the long-run, even if oil prices collapse.
The Mandan Refinery is the largest oil refinery in North Dakota, located within the northeastern corner of the city limits of Mandan, ND just north off Exit 153 of Interstate 94. As of 2022 it has a capacity of 76,000 barrels (12,100 m 3) per day. [1] The facility is owned by Marathon Petroleum.
North Dakota (/ d ə ˈ k oʊ t ə / ⓘ də-KOH-tə) [5] is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.
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