The Bakken will remain the most price sensitive of the three big shale oil plays but its incremental potential this year is second, maybe surpassing the 1.3 million b/d mark for total output.

Study: the Three Forks reservoir may hold some 250 million barrels of untapped crude. Study: developing these reserves would require the drilling of 600 more wells in the Three Forks play.

This week, the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s annual conference welcomed hundreds of local and national industry stakeholders to discuss the future of the country’s third-largest oil ...