North Dakota oil production hit another all-time high in March at 977,051 barrels per day after three months of tough winter weather slowed the state’s oil activity. “We are back to setting records, just barely,” Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said Tuesday. The preliminary oil production figure for March is a 2.6 percent increase over February’s production. Winter weather continued to affect oil production in March, with a few days where temperatures were well below zero, several days with winds too high for some crews to operate and a snowstorm on the final day of the month, he said. Helms predicts North Dakota oil production will “squeak by” the 1 million barrel per day milestone when April production figures are released next month. Natural gas flaring fell from 36 percent to 33 percent in March, largely because the expanded Hess Corp. gas plant in […]