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Multimedia journalist and executive producer Jason Spiess (right) prepares to interview NCAA coaching legend and professional speaker Dale Brown (left) at the Bakken Investor Summit.

Bakken Breakout Magazine: The technology of the Bakken    page1    page2    page3    page4    page5

Bakken Breakout Magazine: Sharing data in N.D. is rock solid at the core    page1    page2    page3    page4     page5  

Bakken Breakout Magazine:  On Borrowed Land – Reclamation of the oil patch   page1    page2    page3    page4   

Bakken Breakout Magazine: The march to a million barrels   page1    page2   page3    page4    page5    page6

Bakken Breakout Magazine: The co-existence of agriculture and energy   page1   page2    page3   

Bakken Breakout Magazine: Bakken Investments – That was then, this is now and what is next   page1   page2   page3   page4   page5   

Bakken Breakout Magazine: The Bakken is gassing up for America’s natural shift  page1   page2   page3   page4   page5

Bakken Breakout Magazine: December 2014

Bakken Breakout Magazine: February 2015

Bakken Breakout Magazine: May 2015

Bakken Breakout Magazine: August 2015

Bakken Breakout Magazine: September 2015

Bakken Breakout Magazine: The challenge of a hard winter…chasing one million barrels   page1    page2    page3     page4     page5

Bakken Breakout Magazine: Are Bakken companies about to merge?   page1   page2   page3   page4  

Bakken Breakout Magazine: Drones in the Bakken   page1   page2   page3   page4  page5  page6 

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Burgum believes the Bakken is vital to state’s overall economy

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Another good sign of the times: Catfish event supported by energy companies

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Building the Bakken continues with new refinery near Belfield 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Despite downturn, Crestwood’s $1M gift shows the Bakken is a long term play

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Divide County preparing for a youth movement

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  LNG helping rigs save money, become more efficient

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Ag Commissioner sounds off on Dakota Pipeline protesters, calls some “thugs”

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The Bakken’s impact continues to shape communities

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Bakken Consignment Auction a sign of economic evolution

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Sidney seeing activity after energy impact

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  It’s a new day for the Three Affiliated Tribes

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Watford City continues its expansion in the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Just one question

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The last living Bakken 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   Interview with CNBC’s Brian Sullivan    Part1     Part2     Part3     

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  An exit interview with Ward Koeser

Bakken Breakout Weekly: North Dakota should take notice of Bohl’s Wyoming decision

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  For many rigs, it’s about what’s under foot

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Dickinson’s Shawn Kessel expanding his energy role      

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Homeless on the Range

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Neset talks oil prices, technology and Tioga’s future in the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Catching up with Ed Schafer       page 2

Bakken Breakout Weekly:    Time to separate the wheat from the chaff       page 2

Bakken Breakout Weekly: It’s like chemical row down there

Bakken Breakout Weekly: You’re gunna hear them roar!

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Where the top minds in energy gather

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   Rocky Mountain event showcases top minds in energy

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Former Congressman Berg selling oil in the Bakken….by the quart 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Montana community invested in Keystone outcome

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   It’s Bakken BBQ season!

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Public Service candidates talk pipes, rail and safety     page 2

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   For some it will be bankruptcy

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Celebrating a culmination and the possibilities still ahead

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Even at $30 oil, M&A activity in shale plays looking promising for 2015 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Tech companies are morphing the Bakken to new levels     page 2

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  From coal to carbon, the Bakken’s potential is starting to heat up

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  In small town North Dakota, it’s an Industrial Revolution 2.0

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Bridger-ing success across American shale plays

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Moore on oil and politics at the NDPC annual meeting

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   Gas prices too high?  Just wait

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   Best sound bytes of 2015

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Bakken restaurant recommendations 

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Off the record with Dakota LNG’s Patrick Hughes

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  NDSU president Dean Bresciani charged up by Bakken technology

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Hindsight is always 20/20

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Dickinson sees manufacturing growth with “new normal”

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Taming of the wild west

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   Badlands NGL inking deals, inching closer to the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Chewing the fat with the Ag Commissioner Goehring

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The cold hard fact of the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  A place to hang your mat

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The state of relearning

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  An American Evolution

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  A candid conversation with Kevin Cramer

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  A sticker shock for oil and gas producing counties

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Natural born grillers

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   A crude awakening

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Giving Credit to the Bakken 

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Natural gas surges with unconventional methods

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Out west there is still a vision

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  An acceleration of executive orders   

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Where the deer and antelope used to play

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  MHA Nation extraction energy, benefits

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  All is not quiet on the western front

Bakken Breakout Weekly: Trains and planes and boats

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Looking back at 2014, it was a gas

Bakken Breakout Weekly:   ND’s flaring is getting Badlands to the bone

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Sounds bytes from the Bakken:  Ag, energy and the rail

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  FERC Commissioner says real victim in Keystone is rule of law

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Giving thanks to the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Quotes from and about the community    page 2      

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The next decade could bring a CORN-acopia of energy options

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Fast recipe for granting wishes

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  A small town never forgets 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  The Spineless, sharks and dinosaurs of the Bakken

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Eyes from the Matrix in the sky

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Solar, natural gas looking to have a bright 2015

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  Feeling paralyzed by oil price? Try giving back

Bakken Breakout Weekly: A bridge over troubled waters 

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  NDSU’s boys of the Bakken    page 2    

Bakken Breakout Weekly:  A zip to Zap

Bakken Business Journal: Sean Hannity, Let’s get America back to work

Basin Bits: Getting back to the earth

Basin Bits: Is Las Vegas about to gamble on North Dakota?

Basin Bits: Spring Edition 2013

Basin Bits: Spring Edition 2014

Basin Bits: Spring Edition 2015

Basin Bits:  The great American remake

Basin Bits:  The New Normal in the Bakken      page2

Basin Bits:  Power Up: Using natural gas in electricity generation      page2

The Drill:  The state of the Bakken trade shows

The Drill:  Moody, Lechler reflect on growing up in the Bakken     page2

The Drill:  Like Desperados waiting for a train

The Drill:   Export  Economics     page2

The Drill:  Bakken energizes NDSU’s research and development 

The Drill:  Breakfast in the Bakken

The Drill:  Meet Kari Frank, she just might revolutionize the oil and gas industry     page2

The Drill:  Innovation under foot, under rig       page2      

The Drill:  This land is my land, this land is your land

The Drill:  First, second and third person

The Drill:  Importing and exporting can become crude 

The Drill:  2 million reasons the Bakken will be different in 2015

The Drill:  Will natural gas become a universally priced commodity

The Drill:  Regulator:  Steffes sets national example in energy      page2

The Drill:  Montana made, Bakken Strong   page2

The Drill:  Shipping people in the Bakken     page2

The Drill:  One questions for the Agriculture Commissioner

The Drill:  Baker’s Keystone Kerfuffle   page 2

The Drill:  Belle Fourche:  The Bakken’s southern exposure

The Drill:  Stanley’s winds of change    page2

The Drill:  Best Sound Bytes of 2015

The Drill:  Senator Heitkamp gets crude on oil exports         page2

Fallon County Times:  The Keystone Kerfuffle

The Oilman: America shifting towards natural gas

The Oilman: The Energy Scene in Jackson Hole, Wy

The Oilman:  The Energy Scene at the Nabor’s pad

The Oilman: Energy Innovation       page2   

The Oilman: Q & A with Dean Bresciani, president, North Dakota State University

The Oilman: Q & A with Lynn Helms, director, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources

The Oilman: Q & A with Tom Petrie, Petrie Partners

The Oilman: Q & A with William Gilliam, CEO, Badlands NGL

The Oilman:  Q &A with Brian Sullivan, host of “Power Lunch” on CNBC

The Oilman: Road trip across the U.S. shale plays       page2

The Oilman:  Energy Scene in Jackson Hole, Wy      page2

The Oilman: Women in oil and gas

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Disco Era Economic

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Ronald Jibson, CEO/Chairman/President, Questar Corporation

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Brian Hymel, principal, Five Diamonds Fund Managers

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Loren Scott, president, Scott & Associates

Oil and Gas Monthly:  A tale of two cities     page2

Oil and Gas Monthly:  The Business of Shipping People     page2

Oil and Gas Monthly:   Baker, MT, speaks out on the Keystone XL

Oil and Gas Monthly: The Canary in the Bakken     page2  

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Kelly Wilkins, Senior Vice President Business Development, Bridger, LLC

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Hear that train a comin’        page2 

Oil and Gas Monthly:  It’s Spring clean up for energy companies & communities        page2

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Kevin Stanley, CEO, Ventech Engineers

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Democrat Senator gets crude on exporting oil

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Brian Lash, founder/CEO, Target Logistics

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Energy’s newest landlord

Oil and Gas Monthly:  The Bakken’s taxing problem on North Dakota    page2   

Oil and Gas Monthly:  America’s shale gale

Oil and Gas Monthly: Sky’s the limit for energy’s next boom 

Oil and Gas Monthly:  The politics of importing and exporting       page2 

Oil and Gas Monthly:  Pipeline Prognostication   page2