Yahoo News | In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help Yahoo News GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Reuters) - In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state's vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist ... Oil Giant Cuts Budget By 80 Percent And Suspends Fracking Insight: In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help |