Bakken
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November 10, 2017
ExxonMobil Corp. is drilling shale wells that stretch farther than the length of New York’s Central Park.
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October 23, 2017
Linn Energy, Inc., has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its interest in properties located in the Williston basin to an undisclosed buyer for a contract price of $285 million, subject to closing adjustments.
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August 15, 2017
Whiting Petroleum Corporation has agreed to sell its Fort Berthold Indian Reservation area assets, located in Dunn and McLean Counties, N.D., to RimRock Oil & Gas Williston, LLC. The cash purchase price is $500 million, subject to customary adjustments.
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July 11, 2017
Shale oil producer Halcón Resources Corp. said it would sell most of its North Dakota operations for $1.4 billion cash, part of a plan to shift its focus to Texas' Permian basin, the largest U.S. oilfield.
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March 28, 2017
Prices for light crude surged after an oil-sands upgrader shut for maintenance and reduced supply caused by preparations to place the Dakota Access pipeline into service.
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December 29, 2016
Shale oil companies are ready to play chicken with supply and demand again.
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December 05, 2016
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied Energy Transfer Partners a permit to build a section of the $3.8-billion Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota after weeks of opposition from Native Americans, environmentalists and other groups.
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November 18, 2016
Growing confidence that crude prices will rise in coming months is sustaining the expansion of oil drilling in the shale patch.
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November 15, 2016
The Obama administration has yet again delayed a decision on the controversial Dakota Access crude pipeline, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to speed up reviews of such projects.
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November 07, 2016
Resource Energy Can-Am LLC has announced that it has closed on its previously announced agreement to acquire assets in the North Dakota Bakken formation from Samson Resources Company.
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October 19, 2016
Oasis Petroleum’s double-down on North Dakota’s Bakken shale shows the rapid drop in U.S. drilling costs can make a case for even the ugly ducklings of American shale plays.
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October 18, 2016
SM Energy has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 35,700 net acres in Howard and Martin Counties in West Texas, expanding the company’s Midland basin footprint to approximately 82,450 net acres.
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October 13, 2016
North Dakota oil production dropped below 1 MMbpd in August for the first time in more than two years, as depressed prices forced explorers to cut back.
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October 03, 2016
SM Energy has engaged Petrie Partners to explore the sale of certain leasehold assets in the Williston basin.
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September 15, 2016
RockPile Energy Services, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, has acquired American Well Service (AWS), a Kenmare, North Dakota-based workover rig company.
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September 12, 2016
The Obama administration halted work on a stretch of land where Energy Transfer Partners is building its Dakota Access oil pipeline, a move that could threaten to thrust the fate of the project into the hands of the next president.
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September 08, 2016
Resource Energy Can-Am has entered into a stalking horse asset purchase agreement with Samson Resources Company to acquire certain of Samson’s North Dakota and Montana properties in the Bakken play.
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September 02, 2016
Enbridge said it has withdrawn a regulatory application for its $2-billion Sandpiper pipeline amid a slump in production in the Bakken.
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August 18, 2016
Continental Resources has signed a definitive purchase and sale agreement with an undisclosed buyer to sell non-strategic properties in North Dakota and Montana for $222 million.
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August 09, 2016
By looking at the intentionally postponed (abnormal) part of the DUC inventory, Rystad Energy observed that all of the major liquid basins are exposed to completion delays.
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August 03, 2016
A unit of Enbridge Inc. and Marathon Petroleum Corp. have agreed to pay a combined $2 billion in cash for a stake in the Bakken pipeline system from an affiliate of Energy Transfer Partners LP and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP.
