North Dakota

The Energy & Environmental Research Center in North Dakota outlines the difficulty that the oil and gas industry faces in pinpointing sources of H2S production.

The settlement to reduce emissions in North Dakota includes the largest ever Clean Air Act stationary source penalty and is expected to result in the reduction of more than 2.3 million tons of pollution.

The deal significantly expands the company’s position in the Bakken Shale play of North Dakota.

A North Dakota Supreme Court decision changed the rules for leasing pore space from landowners and their rights to compensation. This decision and the US Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly increases tax incentives for operators’ carbon capture and storage projects, is likely to spur other states to clarify their laws regulating pore space.

A study in North Dakota found that respiratory illness increased as far as 60 miles away from flaring of natural gas.

The combined company will control almost 1 million acres in the Williston Basin and daily production over 165,000 BOE/D.

Selling reservoirs’ empty pore space may become a new, big business.

Gas-capturing targets were met for most of the year as routine flaring drops to just 7.5% statewide and even lower in the Bakken Shale.

A subsidiary-owned pipeline near Marmon, North Dakota, spilled more than 700,000 bbl of produced water over a period of almost 5 months in 2014–2015.

A 2-year study of a formation used for saltwater disposal in the Bakken may hold promise of decreasing the pressurization of the formation and increasing the reuse of the briny produced water.