Hess’ Bakken Shale production jumped 39% year on year in the second quarter, and the potential shutdown of a major pipeline that takes oil from the North Dakota field to the Gulf Coast likely won’t prevent the company from getting all its output to market, its top executive said July 29. CEO John Hess said his company continues to transport oil on the 570,000 b/d Dakota Access Pipeline, while it waits for a decision after a US District Court of Appeals issued a stay earlier in July on a lower court’s recent ruling to empty and shut the line. “If DAPL is shut in, we have the capacity […]