Bakken

The Bakken play is in the Williston Basin, an intracratonic sag basin that extends from eastern North Dakota into western Montana, and to the north into Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Bakken is most productive along the axis, where it is deepest.

The Bakken play comprises the Upper Devonian Three Forks Formation and Upper Devonian–Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation.

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