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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What the U.S. energy industry has accomplished in the last decade is nothing short of astonishing. Read this full article by Pete Stark and Bob Fryklund to dive in to the details.
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Bakken: What you need to know

Activity in the Bakken is more sensitive to oil price, given the higher break-even costs compared with other plays such as Permian and Eagle Ford.
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Changes in shale well design: Reaching the limits?

In the third quarter of 2016, the Lower 48 started showing signs of a robust recovery, and a year later, activity has doubled and growth has returned. How are the main elements behaving? Is the cycle unwinding? This blog post focuses on well design in the five major unconventional plays.
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Shining a light on the Wolfcamp as one of the largest and most active resource plays in North America

The 20 billion barrels of oil (or 30 billion BOE) for the Midland Basin Wolfcamp shale is the largest estimate of continuous oil that USGS has ever assessed in the United States.
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