Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western Manitoba that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River.
US Bakken and Three Forks wells as of 2013. The Bakken Formation ( / ˈbɑːkən / BAH-kən) is a rock unit from the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age occupying about 200,000 square miles (520,000 km 2) of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Some estimates predict that North Dakota could have as many as 48,000 new wells, with drilling taking place over the next two to three decades. Drilling the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin. The Bakken boom propelled North Dakota into the top ranks of oil-producing states. By 2007, North Dakota ranked 8th among the states in oil production.
USGS estimates that at least 7 billion barrels of oil and 6.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could ultimately be recovered from the Bakken and Three Forks formations, with at least a 50% ...
As a company centered on drilling activity in the Bakken, Kodiak Oil & Gas is a dynamic growth story, but with great opportunities come great risks. Before you hitch your horse to this carriage ...
The Bakken is still rockin' for Kodiak Oil & Gas , which today announced it plans to spend $660 million cash to acquire additional core producing properties and undeveloped leaseholds in the ...
The Parshall Oil Field is an oil field producing from the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Formation near the town of Parshall, in Mountrail County, North Dakota. The field is in the Williston Basin. The field was discovered in 2006 by Michael Johnson and sold the play to EOG Resources, which drilled, and now operates, most of the wells. [1]
Oil produced from the Three Forks Formation in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and south-eastern Saskatchewan is often included in production statistics with the overlying Bakken Formation. For instance, the Three Forks and Bakken were combined in estimates of potential production released by the United States Geological Survey on April 30 ...