Inside the fight:
The recent drilling boom has left North Dakota in an enviable financial position.
Not exact matches
US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in
recent years and used shale -
drilling technology to create an oil
boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.
The
recent oil shale
boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water
drilling and Arctic exploration.
A
boom in natural gas
drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in
recent years.
The
recent boom in
drilling along the Marcellus Shale has been, in many ways, good for our area.