Sentences with phrase «bakken oil patch»
Sidney sits at the western edge of the Bakken oil patch, one of the most productive drilling areas in the country.
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A production site in the Bakken oil patch as seen from inside an abandoned farmhouse just outside Watford City, N.D. David Gilkey / NPR hide caption
But oil is still far cheaper than at the peak of the previous eight - year boom that began in 2006 North Dakota's Bakken oil patch and supercharged the city of Williston.
The move comes after months - long protests by environmentalists and Native American groups in North Dakota against Energy Transfer Partners LP's $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring crude oil from the state's Bakken oil patch through the Midwest and into the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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In case you missed it, the oil was being carried from America's new oil patch, the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota, to a St. John, New Brunswick, refinery that, according to the owner, Irving Energy, sends more than half of its 300,000 daily barrels of petroleum products back across the border to the northeastern United States.