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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.
In 2016, Bakken entered the Republican nomination race for the District 32 House seat. [2] The seat was formerly held by Mark Dosch, who moved to District 30.According to Bakken, his top priorities were improvements to education as well as reining in the state's budget and not relying too heavily on oil revenues.
By April 2014, Bakken production in North Dakota and Montana exceeded 1 million barrels per day (160,000 m 3 /d). As a result of increased production from the Bakken, and long-term production declines in Alaska and California, North Dakota as of 2014 was the second-largest oil-producing state in the US, behind only Texas in volume of oil ...
Fred "Dakota" Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared on Discovery's Alaska-set docuseries "Gold Rush: White Water," has died. He was 80.
Gold miner “Dakota” Fred Hurt, who starred in the early seasons of the Discovery reality series Gold Rush before landing his own spinoff Gold Rush: White Water, has died at the age of 80.
This is a list of newspapers in North Dakota. There were approximately 105 newspapers in North Dakota in 2020 according to the Library of Congress. The oldest newspaper still in print under the same name is the Hillsboro Banner, which dates from 1879. [1]
On April 9, 1876 Moses and Fred Manuel established the Homestake Mine near Bobtail Gultch in South Dakota in the Black Hills. [1]George Hearst (father of William Randolph Hearst), Lloyd Tevis, and his brother-in-law James Ben Ali Haggin bought the 10-acre Homestake Mine from its discoverer, Moses Manuel, for $70,000, and incorporated the Homestake Mining Company on November 5, 1877.
The North Dakota Man Camp Project is an interdisciplinary project aiming to document the crew camps of the Bakken Oil Patch, North Dakota.The project was founded by University of North Dakota (UND) scholar of social work Bret Weber and UND historian Bill Caraher, as well as historians Aaron Barth and Kostis Kourelis, archeologist Richard Rothaus and photographers John Holmgren and Kyle Cassidy.