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The Bakken Formation
Posted on 5/14/10 at 8:51 am
Posted on 5/14/10 at 8:51 am
Question for you oil folks. Got this email re: The Bakken Formation. I know Snopes has it mixture true/false but my question is what's the truth about the find?
Posted on 5/14/10 at 8:54 am to Diamondawg
the problem is it is not "oil" in a liquid sense we are familiar with. it is actually a tar like residue inbedded in the rock and to get it out you have to mine it or heat the formation to melt it and make it flowable
Posted on 5/14/10 at 9:03 am to supatigah
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the problem is it is not "oil" in a liquid sense we are familiar with. it is actually a tar like residue inbedded in the rock and to get it out you have to mine it or heat the formation to melt it and make it flowable
No, the Bakken formation is the active oil play going on in North Dakota/Montana and into Canada. EOG, Marathon, Continental, Petro-hunt and others are active there. While being called an "oil shale" the productive middle Bakken is actually more of a dolomite sandwiched in between shale. Wells are being drilled using long laterals and multiple frac stages with some wells being completed at up to 2,500 boepd. It's a good play with oil prices where they are but it's not going to rival production on the equivalent of the north slope fields like many have claimed. Some horizontal wells are being drilled into an underlying formation called the Sanish/Three Forks and have yielded flow rates similar to the Bakken. Look up an EOG presentation and see their notes about Elm Coulee field.
This post was edited on 5/14/10 at 9:05 am
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