saltwater

MARMARTH — About 50 barrels of saltwater leaked from a pipeline approximately 9.5 miles south of Marmarth, and got into the nearby Kid Creek stream. The saltwater, which has three to four times the salinity of “what we’d like to see,” leaked from an underground pipeline...

BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple announced Monday the members of an advisory panel on pipeline safety. The 15-member panel includes private-sector engineers, state and federal officials and energy industry leaders, will provide recommendations for the best technology...

Approximately 250 barrels of saltwater leaked from a valve at a Continental Resources Inc. oil and gas well Monday morning, the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources announced. All fluids were recovered and contained on-site at the well about two miles south of Epping. A...

MEDORA — A spill detected Sunday morning released nearly 30,000 gallons of saltwater and 20 barrels of oil near a tributary of the Little Missouri River in Billings County, according to an official with the North Dakota Department of Health. “We understand the spill probably...

Residents of southwestern North Dakota will find every environmental spill, no matter how small, on the newly launched state spill disclosure website. The site includes a list of spills in the past year that were contained, and a list of those that weren’t contained, like an overflow...

MARMARTH – Last week’s pipeline leak that spilled 17,000 barrels of saltwater near the Montana-North Dakota state line has not affected the Little Missouri River, the North Dakota Department of Health said Monday. Cleanup on the North Dakota area affected by the spill is complete...

BISMARCK — A website designed to improve public access to information about oil spills and releases of other potentially harmful liquids in North Dakota will launch next week, barring any unforeseen issues, a state health official said Friday. The North Dakota Department of Health...

MARMARTH — A saltwater pipeline leak in Montana has released 17,000 barrels of brine, polluting more than a mile of a creek in the Badlands of southwest North Dakota, authorities said Tuesday. The spill, reported Monday by Denbury Onshore, reached the Big Gumbo Creek and flowed...

POWERS LAKE – About 20 barrels of oil and 680 barrels of saltwater spilled near here today after a tank overflowed at a saltwater disposal well, the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas Division said. The spill, reported by Oasis Petroleum, was contained...

BISMARCK — North Dakota long ago phased out the practice of storing saltwater from oil production in evaporation ponds, but the environmental effects still linger today and likely will for decades to come without remediation, according to a case study in Bottineau County. The study,...

BISMARCK — Like lost cellphone calls, most saltwater spills can be traced back to three causes: human error, equipment failure or network problems. A review of incident reports filed with the North Dakota Department of Health since Jan. 1, 2012, found that connection leaks between...

GRENORA — A valve that was inadvertently left open caused a spill of about 300 barrels of saltwater at a Williams County oil well site, the North Dakota Department of Health said Wednesday. After a tanker truck filled up at a well site about 13 miles southeast of Grenora, a valve...