FORTUNA, N.D. - When an Arizona couple opened up a bar and dorm-style lodging for oilfield workers last year in far northwest North Dakota, the bar was packed and the rooms were booked solid. But as ...

A new report by Abe Sauer in The Awl pulls back the curtain on the oil industry's quiet but quick takeover of North Dakota. In explaining the apocalyptic sight of "Dakota candles" illuminating the ...

WILLISTON — Oil companies are hiring in the Bakken, and more jobs are expected to open up next year. Job Service North Dakota announced six oil companies are looking for workers to man fracking crews ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 3-- Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, plans to drill 9 operated and 19 nonoperated wells in 2009 in the Williston basin Bakken play, where it holds 300,000 net acres. Encore ...

MINOT, N.D. - An increase in activity in North Dakota's oil patch is bringing optimism back to the area. "After 2014 we had a tough couple years and lost about 13,000 jobs in the industry. That's ...

Hess Corp. is using four Nabors all-electric drilling rigs in the Bakken. Nabors converted all of its Hess drilling rigs in the Bakken by installing its Canrig PowerTAP™ highline power transformer ...