As thousands of workers flood into North Dakota to extract its shale-oil riches, producers north of the border compete for pipeline space while watching oil prices fall.
Bright natural gas flares dot the North Dakota landscape amid an oil boom that is changing the energy dynamics of North America. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
Workers complete some of the final assembly of a 275-metre long building at the Berthold oil terminal, where North Dakota crude oil will be loaded onto trains. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
Roughnecks wrestle pipe on a True Company oil drilling rig outside Watford, N.D. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS)
StatOil pumpjacks pump oil on the outskirts of the Bakken oil boom town of Williston, N.D. (DEBORAH BAIC/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
An oil drilling rig operates outside Watford, N.D. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS)
Thousands of people have flooded into North Dakota to work in the state’s oil drilling boom, where a job on an oil rig can pay up to $100,000 a year. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS)
Brian Waldner prepares pipe on a rig outside Watford. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS)
Across the prairies of North Dakota, Enbridge Inc. is installing new pipeline infrastructure to channel production from the fast-growing new oil field. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
Oil from North Dakota is creating concern among those selling Canadian oil, who are having trouble accessing their customary markets as Bakken tight oil takes up pipeline capacity. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
Oil industry worker Bobby Freestone enjoys a day off at a so-called ‘man camp’ outside Watford, where oil workers live in makeshift dormitories. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS)
Enbridge Inc. is installing new pipeline infrastructure in North Dakota. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
When it is complete in February, 2013, the Berthold oil terminal will move 80,000 barrels per day by rail. (NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
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