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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]
North Dakota, which ranked 38th in per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2001, rose steadily with the Bakken boom, and now has per capita GDP 29% above the national average. [ 75 ] The industrialization and population boom has put a strain on water supplies, sewage systems, available housing and government services of the small towns and ...
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.
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 ]
The Homestake Mine pit in Lead, South Dakota Typical auriferous (gold-bearing) greenschist gold ore from the Homestake Mine. Two small masses of native gold (Au) are visible near the bottom right. The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota.
Renewable energy is here to stay. For example, sales of electric vehicles in the U.S. soared from 294,000 in 2021 to 1.4 million three years later, according to data from the International Energy ...
South Dakota land is part of the English territory of Rupert's Land. 1683. French explorer and fur trader Pierre-Charles Le Sueur probably visited Sioux Falls to buy furs which he shipped by flatboat to the mouth of the Mississippi River. 1699-1764. South Dakota land is part of the French colony of La Louisiane.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol shared a photo of a semi that had run off Interstate 29 near the town of Sisseton. The scene exemplified the weather challenges drivers of giant vehicles have faced ...