Black Gold Boom

Billionaire Harold Hamm is a leading oil man. Phil Hamm - he's a different story

Williston, North Dakota, is in the middle of an oil boom, but it doesn't have many stores or restaurants for a growing population.

All sorts of people have moved to North Dakota to take jobs in the oil fields.

Elsie Ejismekwu is happy to have two driving jobs in the North Dakota oil fields as she starts her life over.

Tait Salzer moved to North Dakota to get in on the state's oil boom. He works an oil rig.

A young woman takes action to feel safe in an oil boomtown filled with lonely and sometimes aggressive men.

Natural gas prices are at a two-year high. Does this mean even more natural gas in our lives?

The oil industry and the thousands of workers it's attracted have swallowed up communities like Williston, N.D., where neighborhoods on the edge of town now feel like they're in the center.

The oil boom in North Dakota has attracted tens of thousands of people looking for work. There are a lot of jobs, but it's not a boom for everyone.

Daniel Brock was happily teaching. Then he heard about jobs in the oil fields of North Dakota. Now he's happily working there.