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The Parshall Oil Field is an oil field producing from the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Formation near the town of Parshall, in Mountrail County, North Dakota. The field is in the Williston Basin. The field was discovered in 2006 by Michael Johnson and sold the play to EOG Resources, which drilled, and now operates, most of the wells. [1]
In the U.S. state of North Dakota, the commissioner of labor, commonly referred to as the labor commissioner, is an appointed official who heads the North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights. The present commissioner is Nathan Svihovec. [1]
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.
The department was established in 1966 when the North Dakota Department of Agriculture and Labor split into two separate entities, with the other being the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. Until 2013, the department was known as the North Dakota Department of Labor; it was renamed to reflect additional duties the legislature had assigned ...
North Dakota/Montana 1951 1.33 4 Prudhoe Bay Oil Field: Alaska 1967 .791 5 Wattenberg Gas Field: Colorado 1970 .473 6 Shenzi Federal Gulf of Mexico 2002 .353 7 Kuparuk River oil field: Alaska 1969 .295 8 Midway-Sunset Oil Field: California 1901 .288 9 Atlantis Oil Field: Federal Gulf of Mexico 1998 .273 10 Sugarkane Texas 2009 .258 Annual ...
The names and organizational structures of the state agencies overseeing oil and gas extraction vary. In Texas, oil and gas are regulated by the Texas Railroad Commission, in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and in North Dakota by the Industrial Commission. In Colorado and Wyoming, the agencies are the state Oil and Gas ...
XTO Energy Inc. is an American energy company and subsidiary of ExxonMobil principally operating in North America.Acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010 and based out of Spring, Texas, it is involved with the production, processing, transportation, and development of oil and natural gas resources.
The viability of the play in North Dakota west of the Nesson Anticline was uncertain until 2009, when Brigham Oil & Gas achieved success with larger hydraulic fracturing treatments, with 25 or more stages. [53] According to the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, daily oil production per well reached a plateau at 145 barrels in June 2010.