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Oil and gas creating boomtowns in Texas

"While half of the 10 fastest-growing U.S. counties from 2011 to 2012 were in North Dakota, where the Bakken Shale has drawn people to the sparsely populated Great Plains, Texas is catching up.

Industrial/Manufacturer luncheon draws large crowd, recognizes local businesses

They currently have units available in every shale in the nationD&T began supplying services to the North Texas Barnett Shale and has now grown to service the Eagle Ford Shale - South Texas,...

Exxon fourth-quarter earnings rise

That included $1.6 billion in cash to Denbury Resources for about 200,000 acres in the Bakken Shale.

Texas jobless rate lowest in nearly four years

Around the country North Dakota, also at the center of an oil boom, this one in the state's Bakken Shale, had the lowest state jobless rate at a seasonally adjusted 3.1 percent.

BNSF chief sees slow growth, but promise of manufacturing rebirth

Rose says BNSF is now shipping 500,000 barrels of oil a day out of the Bakken Shale field in North Dakota, where pipelines are limited, and expects its "crude-by-rail" business to grow to 1...

There isn't enough pipeline capacity to handle shale fields' output

The market disparity echoes similar surpluses seen in North Dakota's Bakken Shale and Oklahoma's Midwestern pipeline hub as growing supplies from shale rock and Canada's oil sands created...

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