Oil

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The extreme cold slamming the Great Plains isn't about to cool off one of the hottest segments of the American economy: North Dakota's oil patch.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Health Department is slated to launch a website this week that will enable the public to monitor oil spills and other hazardous leaks reported in the state.

MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) — Work is underway on a facility where oil will be shipped from a planned refinery on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Land Board has awarded $12.2 million in state grants to fire departments and emergency medical services providers in North Dakota's oil-production region.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State health officials are working this week to verify that a 20,000-barrel oil spill in northwestern North Dakota didn't contaminate groundwater.

ALEXANDER, N.D. (AP) — State officials are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire at a saltwater disposal site in western North Dakota's McKenzie County.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota legislative committee has chosen a Bismarck company to help develop a long-range legislative plan for the oil industry.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A legislative energy committee is slated to mull a proposal from North Dakota Democrats to require regulators to publicly report all oil spills and other hazardous leaks.

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A Dickinson man has died in an incident in the western North Dakota oil patch.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Scientists are questioning the methodology used in estimating the amount of crude oil that recently leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a northwestern North Dakota wheat field.