re: Tuscaloosa Marine Shale oil well sets record (for TMS) - 1540

From what I know in the Bakken it seems like the best acreage is held by the early movers like EOG, Continental, and Marathon. A business acquaintance held some interests in the Bakken and he told me he recently sold his interests because the wells are returning lower margins now that the play is maturing. Where the initial wells provided a nice return he indicated that the last wells which were under Conoco Phillips were too marginal for a private company to hold.