The Bakken
An oil well pumps in northwest Dickinson, N.D., as the sun sets to the west on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014.
Four oil wells pump at the base of the Killdeer Mountains north of Killdeer, N.D., on Thursday, June 6, 2013. Photo by Dustin Monke / Forum News Service
The mud and invert tanks are shown for a drilling rig operated by Whiting Petroleum Corp. southwest of Belfield, N.D., on April 22, 2013.
Floorhands remove pipe on the floor of Whiting Petroleum Corp. oil drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
An oil well pump in a sunflower field on July 26, 2015, west of Dickinson just off Interstate 94 as a storm brews off to the east.
Vehicles follow a semitruck down a makeshift road in place of Highway 22 in Dunn County south of Mandaree, N.D., on Thursday, June 6, 2013. Photo by Dustin Monke / Forum News Service
A worker waits for pipe to rise out of the well hole on a Whiting Petroleum Corp. drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
Charlotte Jacquemart, a reporter for the New Zurich Times in Switzerland, listens to a worker while visiting the doghouse, or drilling control room, on a Whiting Petroleum Corp., oil drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013. Driller Brent Hanson of Bismarck, N.D., left, sits at the control of the rig while company hand and contractor Nevin Larsen of Alexander, N.D., right, watches from behind.
A oil well pumps on a pad east of Williston, N.D., on Thursday, June 6, 2013, as a rig roughly a half-mile to its west drills a new well. Photo by Dustin Monke / Forum News Service
A worker gives a thumbs up to the floorhands while waiting for pipe to rise out of the well hole on a Whiting Petroleum Corp. drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
A Whiting Petroleum Corp. drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D. is seen April 22, 2013.
Nevin Larsen, a consultant and company hand for Whiting Petroleum Corp., shows data inside of his office at an oil drilling rig site southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
Brent Hanson of Bismarck, N.D., operates the drill on a Whiting Petroleum Corp. oil rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
A North Dakota state flag waves in the wind from the floor of a drilling rig operated by Whiting Petroleum Corp. southwest of Belfield, N.D., on April 22, 2013.
Floorhands work through cold temperatures and whipping winds on the floor of Whiting Petroleum Corp. oil drilling rig southwest of Belfield, N.D., on Monday, April 22, 2013.
