{"id":48061,"date":"2014-06-17T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48061"},"modified":"2014-06-17T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T23:06:41","slug":"bakken-producing-1-million-barrels-oil-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48061","title":{"rendered":"Bakken Producing 1-Million Barrels Oil Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tankeroilcar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23497\" alt=\"tankeroilcar\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tankeroilcar.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota is now producing 1 million barrels of oil per day, with a large part of the credit due to the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s Department of Mineral Resources on Tuesday released the April production numbers that show the oil fields&#8217; record level. In March, the state produced 977,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the department, Lynn Helms, says only Texas, Alaska and California have also reached a million-barrel-a-day production.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakken and the Three Forks formation below it account for the vast majority of North Dakota&#8217;s oil production. Experts knew the Bakken held millions of barrels of crude, but it wasn&#8217;t until oil prices reached record levels that the technology was developed to be able to exploit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota is now producing 1 million barrels of oil per day, with a large part of the credit due to the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state. The state&#8217;s Department of Mineral Resources on Tuesday released the April production numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48083,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061\/revisions\/48083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}