[thackney]

highly explosive crude oil fracked from the Bakken region

And here is where the author declares complete lack of understand for the topic he is writing about.

[Smokin' Joe]

...highly explosive crude oil fracked from the Bakken region...

And here is where the author declares complete lack of understand for the topic he is writing about.

It's a she, but you are otherwise entirely correct.

And for the record, there is no "Bakken Region" in North Dakota.

There is a Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin, part of which is in North Dakota (The remainder is in Montana and Canada).