Field Notes: Aboard an Oil Rig in Watford City, North Dakota

Pacific Standard Staff
March 24, 2017
Watford City, North Dakota: Drillers perfect “the curve,” a 1,000-foot portion of the oil well where the line gradually shifts from vertical to horizontal, on the Raven Drilling company rig.

This photograph originally appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.

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