ND daily oil production back above million barrels.

North Dakota's oil production climbed back above a million barrels of oil in January after dropping below that amount in December.

Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, who released new production numbers this past week, said the state had a 6 percent increase in oil production, producing 1,060,708 barrels of oil a day. In December, the state's oil production dropped to 957,864 barrels of oil a day. Helms said the drop in oil...