Boomtown Stats

13/07/2012 4 min
Boomtown Stats

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Episode Synopsis

Just about every month, North Dakota’s oil patch seems to reach some kind of personal best. It might be a new record for number of active drilling rigs, oil wells in production or number of barrels produced per day. Todd Melby, lead producer of Prairie Public’s Black Gold Boom oil series, has been pouring over data from government agencies lately. Those numbers tell another side of the Bakken boom.