oil

With drilling and extracting technology rapidly improving, what was once thought an impossible place to drill has become the 2nd largest oil production area in the United States.

There are positives and negatives when discussing the oil boom in North Dakota. The following statistic is definitely a negative.

"Men here are 100% worse ... they're animals."

Apartment Guide recently revealed the cities with the highest average rent in the nation, and surprisingly, Williston, ND beat out much larger metropolis areas like Los Angeles and New York.

Another month, another milestone, as oil production in the state of North Dakota hit 973,045 barrels a day in November of 2013, up 3% from the previous month.

A train carrying crude oil from ND's oil patch derailed Monday near the small town of Casselton, ND, and a witness was nearby to catch the fiery explosion on camera.

Adding fuel to the current "pipeline" controversy, comes this speculation from Scientific American magazine: transporting of oil by rail is likely to increase in the near future.

Authorities have attached a name to a recent fatality in the North Dakota oil fields.

Ground has been broken on a new diesel refinery in North Dakota.

The company that planned to drill four wells near Elkhorn Ranch (the site of Teddy Roosevelt's cabin), have suspended the project (full story from the Trib here)... To which we can only say, "bully"...