Minneapolis Star Tribune | Signs of oil boomlet in North Dakota after pipeline finished Fox Business More than two years after the state's unprecedented oil bonanza fizzled to a lull, North Dakota — the nation's No. 2 oil producer behind Texas — is experiencing a sort of boomlet that has pushed daily production back above 1 million barrels daily ... ND oil output slipped in March Oil hangs onto 1 million mark another month North Dakota oil production held steady in March still above 1 million barrels a day |