Headline Story -- Rigzone: North Dakota Booms Into Energy-Rich Era

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Due to rich petro-resources, some believe that North Dakota is on the way to surpassing even Alaska to become the second largest oil and gas producing state in the nation after Texas, reported the Anchorage Daily News in January.

And it's happening fast.

North Dakota is already the nation's fourth largest oil and gas producing state; California is third.

Exploitation of the Bakken and Three Forks oil shale formations and adjacent Sanish area are sparking a big boom in petro-production in this Great Plains state.

There's nothing in the article "we" didn't already know but it's exciting to see the headline story in Rigzone.com.