Bismarck, ND - The North Dakota Petroleum Council announced today they are adding virtual features to the 28th Annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference set to be held September 1-3, 2020 in Bismarck, N.D.

North Dakota's daily oil output fell 15% from March to April, the largest drop ever recorded from one month to the next.

Fast-talking auctioneer Greg Highsmith sung out dozens of prices - "seventy-five-hundred now, $10,000 now, be able to get 15,000?" - before a North Dakotan buyer paid $27,500 for a used Caterpillar oil swabbing rig on Friday.

Barclays Commodities Research on Friday raised its oil price forecast for this year by $4 per barrel, citing a bigger deficit in the second half of the year, though the British bank expressed caution on a slow recovery int the near term.

Illinois regulators have rejected a request from environmental groups to delay a decision on that state's permits for the proposed expansion of the Dakota Access pipeline. The groups Save Our Illinois Land and the Sierra Club had argued there is less need to expand the pipeline since a pandemic has crushed worldwide oil demand, forcing many companies to curtail production.

Several new upgrades and a consistent look and feel across web and mobile applications are at the heart of a new travel information map launched this week by the North Dakota Department of Transportation.