Posted on June 2, 2026
Bakken, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), Williston Basin

If you missed the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference last month in Bismark, N.D., you might not know that the Day 2 topic, “Bakken 2.0: Crack the Code,” sizzled like bacon in a hot skillet. Crack the Code is a multi-layered, $157 million research effort led by Sen. John Hoeven to double oil recovery in the Bakken and extend the life of coal-fired power plants in N.D., using captured CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). ...

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Posted on May 26, 2026
Bakken, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Permian, Williston Basin

It goes without saying the soaring price of crude oil and wild price swings have producers rethinking their capital budgets and drilling programs this year. While some operators are focused on capital discipline and shareholder returns amid the Mid-East conflict, others are set to ride the wave of higher prices by expanding operations, boosting production, and adding rigs. ...

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Posted on January 20, 2026
Bakken, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Permian, Pipeline, Pipelines

In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...

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Posted on November 18, 2025
Anadarko Basin, Bakken, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, International, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Natural Gas, Permian, Powder River Basin

The name of the book is Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence. The author, a rags-to-riches phenom and pioneer of the shale revolution who’s made an art out of unlocking tight rock with a combination of fracking and horizontal drilling. ...

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