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Gene Starkbuck, a derrick hand for Raven Drilling, maneuvers drill pipes into place on a loader that will carry them to a storage racks on the Raven Drilling rig site near Watford City, N.D. Oct 1, 2013. In 2008 the North Dakota oil boom started its ongoing period of extraction of oil from the Bakken formation. Shale gas reserves has given the United States more independence over other nations such as Venezuela and countries in the Middle East. Photo Ken Cedeno