Following are some pictures from my adventures so far, as described in my prior posts on my Bakken Oil trip in western North Dakota, here and here. Thanks to co-blogger Haskell Murray for the suggestion.

 This is a picture of one of the mudrooms from a crew camp near Dickinson, ND, in Dunn County:

This is a VIP room in the same facility. It has a private bath, while other rooms are smaller and share a jack-and-jill style bathroom. 

This is the sign for the guest laundry — No Greasers. 

This is a picture of the crude oil site for loading oil on the tanker cars.  

A crude storage tank: 

Most of the oil coming out of North Dakota, 1 million barrels a day, is shipped by rail: 

This is North Dakota crude. It comes from the ground a little more orange in color, but mellows to this over time.  It's not thick; it almost like iced tea. 

Flaring natural gas remains a problem, though some gathering is underway to help reduced the amount of flaring in the state. 

Finally, some pictures from Theodore Roosevelt National Park: