Workers In US 'Man Camps' Power Oil Boom

[dipsydoodle]

n the northwest corner of North Dakota, a newly-discovered oil field is fuelling a jobs bonanza.

At a time when national unemployment remains stubbornly above 8%, in North Dakota it is 3.2%. In Williams county, at the centre of the boom, it is 0.9%.

There are more jobs available than the industry can fill because of the Bakken shale oil reserve, which lies two miles underneath the prairie.

It has been known about since the 1950s but scientists only developed the right technology to extract the oil there in late 2009.

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