Bakken
News
December 05, 2016
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Energy Transfer Partners a permit to build a section of the $3.8-billion Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota after weeks of opposition from Native Americans, environmentalists and other groups.
News
November 18, 2016
Growing confidence that crude prices will rise in coming months is sustaining the expansion of oil drilling in the shale patch.
News
November 15, 2016
The Obama administration has yet again delayed a decision on the controversial Dakota Access crude pipeline, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to speed up reviews of such projects.
News
November 07, 2016
Resource Energy Can-Am LLC has announced that it has closed on its previously announced agreement to acquire assets in the North Dakota Bakken formation from Samson Resources Company.
News
October 19, 2016
Oasis Petroleum’s double-down on North Dakota’s Bakken shale shows the rapid drop in U.S. drilling costs can make a case for even the ugly ducklings of American shale plays.
News
October 18, 2016
SM Energy has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 35,700 net acres in Howard and Martin Counties in West Texas, expanding the company’s Midland basin footprint to approximately 82,450 net acres.
News
October 13, 2016
North Dakota oil production dropped below 1 MMbpd in August for the first time in more than two years, as depressed prices forced explorers to cut back.
News
October 03, 2016
SM Energy has engaged Petrie Partners to explore the sale of certain leasehold assets in the Williston basin.
News
September 15, 2016
RockPile Energy Services, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, has acquired American Well Service (AWS), a Kenmare, North Dakota-based workover rig company.
News
September 12, 2016
The Obama administration halted work on a stretch of land where Energy Transfer Partners is building its Dakota Access oil pipeline, a move that could threaten to thrust the fate of the project into the hands of the next president.
News
September 08, 2016
Resource Energy Can-Am has entered into a stalking horse asset purchase agreement with Samson Resources Company to acquire certain of Samson’s North Dakota and Montana properties in the Bakken play.
News
September 02, 2016
Enbridge said it has withdrawn a regulatory application for its $2-billion Sandpiper pipeline amid a slump in production in the Bakken.
News
August 18, 2016
Continental Resources has signed a definitive purchase and sale agreement with an undisclosed buyer to sell non-strategic properties in North Dakota and Montana for $222 million.
News
August 09, 2016
By looking at the intentionally postponed (abnormal) part of the DUC inventory, Rystad Energy observed that all of the major liquid basins are exposed to completion delays.
News
August 03, 2016
A unit of Enbridge Inc. and Marathon Petroleum Corp. have agreed to pay a combined $2 billion in cash for a stake in the Bakken pipeline system from an affiliate of Energy Transfer Partners LP and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP.
News
July 21, 2016
The number of dormant crude and natural gas wells in the U.S. stopped growing in the first quarter—and may all but disappear in the nation’s biggest oil field should prices hold steady.
News
June 30, 2016
Triangle USA Petroleum Corp., an oil and gas explorer working one of the largest shale oil reservoirs in North America, filed for bankruptcy with a plan to restructure that will keep its parent company out of Chapter 11.
Article
June 2016
The Williston basin has seen a full evolution of completion technology throughout its development, with increasing levels of science being applied to determine the best methodology.
Article
June 2016
Deferrals replace unchecked production
Article
June 2016
Expanding the boundaries of ball-drop technology has led to a simple, yet effective design for reducing completion time and improving operational efficiency.
News
May 25, 2016
The heart of the DJ basin, Weld County, exhibits the most commercial fraclog with an average completion cost per barrel of $4.70, according to a study by Rystad Energy.
