Bakken Oil Workers The Bakken-Three Forks rig count dropped by five to 79 rigs running across our coverage area by midday Friday. In recent Bakken news, the Department of Transportation issued an emergency order on Friday that establishes a maximum speed of 40 miles an hour for certain trains going through high threat urban areas. Read more: DOT Tells Oil Tankers to Slow Down The U.S. rig count fell again this week by another 22 ending at 932 rigs running by midday Friday. A total of 225 rigs were targeting natural gas (and increase of eight from the previous week) and 703 were targeting oil in the U.S. (31 less than the previous week). The remainder were drilling service wells (e.g. disposal wells, injection wells, etc.) 79 rigs are running in the Williston Basin across MT, ND, and SD. 78 are in ND alone. Bakken Oil & Gas […]