WASHINGTON (AP) — Want to reduce the effects of aging? Try oil. The United States’ population is still getting older, but that’s changing in the Great Plains because of the attraction of working in the booming oil and gas industries. The aging baby boom generation helped inch up the median age in the United States last year from 37.5 years to 37.6 years, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau. But a closer examination of those numbers shows that seven states — Alaska, H...
" Those trucks were in North Dakota for one reason — the... sudden oil boom. "All the workers. And then you have roads and... new oil in the US, Canada and South America could change the...
Mitchell, South Dakota, is famous for its Corn Palace — a Moorish revival structure covered in grain-kernel designs, a reminder to visitors of the state’s agricultural pedigree. But it’s another crop — soybeans — that’s lately garnered attention in the city. Just to the south, an enormous processing plant, with the capacity to crush 35 million bushels a year, is under development. The investment is a bid to cash in on soaring demand for renewable diesel, a fuel chemically similar to ...
"Energy and ag have always been very strong in our state, and the oil boom has moved us... Caterpillar Remanufacturing recently chose between South Korea and North Dakota for a facility...
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TIOGA, North Dakota—Jon Person grew up on the ranch where his family for a century raised livestock and grew corn along White Earth River’s meanders and oxbows while harvesting fields of wheat and oats knitted into the undulating prairie. White Earth was once a bustling Dakota Territory outpost at the literal end of the line, he said, the terminus of a Northern Pacific rail spur with nothing beyond it but a sprawl of sky and space stretching to Saskatchewan. Two presidents, including a young...
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A remarkable transformation is underway in western North Dakota, where an oil boom is... Forty miles to the south, in the once-sleepy farming hamlet of Watford City, a line of trucks clogs...
Hess Corp., a family-owned company that drilled its first wildcat well in Prudhoe Bay at the advent of the Alaska oil boom in 1970, has been sold to Chevron for $53 billion. Chevron was active in developing Alaska’s Cook Inlet during early statehood and is part of joint ventures on the North Slope. The 90-year-old Hess Corp. was founded by Leon Hess, who went from rags to riches, and had been continued under the leadership of his son John Hess. The company explored for oil across the world, fr...