Continental Resources Reports Drilling Success in Stark County, North Dakota Oil Voice.com Sept 10, 2009  Full Article

Continental Resources says it found 2 separate "stacked" oil-bearing caches  Story by James MacPherson AP Sept 12, 2009  Full Article

Williston--Basin Electric transmission line project gets OK from county commission The Williston Herald Sept 2, 2009 Full Article

Crude Independence Now Available for Pre-order  The Stanley, North Dakota Documentary is now available for pre-order on Amazon.  Crude Pre-Order Link

Baker Hughes To Create Oilfield Giant  (The Wall Street Journal Ben Casselman and Angela Gonzalez Sept 1, 2009)  Deal for BJ Services, valued at $5.5 BILLION, would create challenger to industry rivals. Full Story

Brigham Exploration Announces Approximately 2,154 BOEPD Bakken Well (Brigham Exploration Website Post August 10, 2009)  Brigham Exploration announced that the Anderson 28-33#1H produced approximately 2,154 BOEPD from the Bakken formation during its early 24 hour flow back period.  Full Story

Beyond The Bakken                                                       (James MacPherson Bismarck Tribune July, 2009)  Dozens of fruitful wells beneath the rich Bakken shale in ND continue to fuel a hunch among oilmen and geologists that another vast crude-bearing formation may be buried in the state's oil patch.  Full Story

Pipeline Looking For Bakken Oil Commitments            (Lauren Donovan Bismarck Tribune, June 2009)  Interest by a Houston company loading its gas pipeline with Bakken sweet crude oil is encouraging to the head of ND's pipeline authority.  Full Story

Bakken Still Rockin But Oil Drop Will Affect Some Areas      (Brian Duggan and Lauren Donovan Bismarck Tribune, Oct 2008)   A dramatic decline in the price of oil is good for consumers, but it will liekly chill the hot action across some areas in North Dakota's Bakken oil formation.  Full Story     

Bakken Slogan Is A Hit (The Williston Wire, July 2008)  Not long before the USGS announced a huge new assessment of oil reserves in the Bakken formation last April, the phrase "Rockin The Bakken" was coined to serve as the slogan promoting the City of Williston's relation to the play.  Full Story

Oil Boom Creates Millionaires (Andrea Stone USA Today, Sept 2008)   Doug Kinnion sees acres of barley scrawnier than last year's bumper crop but good enough to fetch top dollar as malt for beer instead of cattle feed.  What he can't see, as teh amber stalks give way to the combine's rollers, is the black gold two miles below.  Full Story   

Oil Exploration Could Last Two Decades (The Williston Wire April, 2008)  The Williston Basin will benefit from increased oil exploration over a period that could last nearly two decades, according to a survey released Monday by the North Dakota's Dept of Mineral Resources.  Full Story 

Survey Says Bakken Has Lots Of Oil (Ken Hartman Williston Herald, April 2008)  The much anticipated US Geological Survey report on just how much oil is potentially in the Bakken was released on Thursday.  And, although the numbers may not be what some people expected, they were mighty impressive.  Full Story