Extraction companies have always known exactly what to do with the fossil fuels pulled out of the Bakken formation. But early in the boom, no one really knew what to do with the tons of ...

A report by the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources indicates there may be nearly as much recoverable oil from the Three Forks formation as in the Bakken shale. While there is more total ...

While oil is the main product coming out of North Dakota's Bakken formation, the state's wells also put out a sizable amount of natural gas, which is wastefully flared or burned off, if companies ...

Crude oil production in the United States has boomed in recent years, primarily because of oil shale plays like the Bakken formation in North Dakota. But the Phillips 66 refinery doesn’t ...

Crude oil production in the United States has boomed in recent years, primarily because of oil shale plays like the Bakken formation in North Dakota. But the Phillips 66 refinerydoesn’t ...

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ...

June 3, 2025 — A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became ...

School of Resources & Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Coalbed Methane and Shale Gas for Central Plains Economic Region, Jiaozuo ...

State Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, Shandong 266580, P. R. China School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), ...