Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp., an oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming and Colorado and the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, today provided a Vermillion Basin production update and announced the pending completion of rig mobilization in its Bakken oil play.
Vermillion Basin [...]

Petrostar Petroleum Corporation announced a new discovery well (A3) in an area of SE Saskatchewan not being currently drilled by other producers.
The well encountered 19m of pay locked in a sandstone formation with excellent porosity and good permeability. A3 is expected to flow on its own (light oil), and may not require stimulation. The importance [...]

Petrostar Petroleum Corporation announces that it has initiated drilling of its first Bakken Well.
The first well will be drilled to a depth of approximately 900m-1,000m. The drilling is being conducted by Terroco Drilling Ltd. The next planned drilling location is approximately 4 miles from the current well site and all surveys and permits for the [...]

Baker Hughes Inc. never stopped counting oil rigs in North Dakota, but in 1998 the company removed the state from its list of those with major drilling activity. The list is widely disseminated by the media.
Baker Hughes at the time cited a lack of drilling in North Dakota. The company does not have figures for [...]