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Mont. oil lease sale could mark Bakken expansion

By Matthew Brown
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Texas company has bought oil and gas leases on almost 75,000 acres in northeast Montana’s McCone County in a move that could portend a significant westward expansion of the Bakken oil patch, government officials and a company representative said Wednesday.

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