Most of North Dakota’s oil comes from the Bakken and Three Forks formations. The bill would encourage development in other geologic formations. Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum ...

On Wednesday, a nine-person jury in North Dakota awarded more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access.

Experts called the verdict “beyond punitive.” The organization plans to appeal and has already filed a countersuit in Europe ...

Dallas-based Energy Transfer, which runs the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline that carries oil from the Bakken fields in western North Dakota to Illinois, accused Greenpeace of inciting the protests and ...

The development of the Bakken oil shale fields in the western part of the state fueled the state’s meteoric rise in the early part of the 2010s. But North Dakota’s economy was dinged by the ...

The pipeline stretches more than 1,100 miles across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. It can transport as much as 500,000 barrels of crude oil daily between Bakken, North Dakota ...