This photograph originally appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.
Postcards From America
Dispatches from each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories.
Field Notes: Aboard an Oil Rig in Watford City, North Dakota
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.
