Submitted Photo Gunter Herms, Williston District supervisor for North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources’ Oil and Gas Division, tells attendees at the Bakken Rocks Cookfest in Alexander on July 17, about the top 10 counties in the state for oil production. The cookfest featured an education session followed by a free barbecue cookoff contest voted on by attendees and musical entertainment with the band, Mendenhall Crossing. Seventeen oil field companies had food booths, and there were children’s educational and fun booths. Photo by Roger Riveland.