news in bakken oil basin

news in bakken oil basin

The Bakken oil formation, which stretches across North Dakota, Montana and southeastern Saskatchewan, is suddenly drawing worldwide attention. On Thursday, April 10, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published an official study on the massive Bakken reserve. Among the agency’s findings:

* Up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the Bakken shale formation — a […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas

The U.S. Geological Survey has released an assessment of the Bakken Formation, which stretches across 25,000 square miles from northeastern Montana across northwestern North Dakota and up into the southern region of Saskatchewan.
The last USGS study, completed in 1995, estimated the Bakken Formation had 150 million barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil. Thirteen years later, […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment. Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska.

The recently released assessment shows […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. has provided an update on its 2006 drilling program in the Vermillion Basin in Sweetwater County, Wyo., and production update on its Williston Basin Bakken oil play in McKenzie County, N.D.
Kodiak recently commenced drilling operations on the North Trail-State #4-36, which is expected to be drilled to a total depth […]

October 31st, 2006 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas

A shale formation under western North Dakota holds the biggest continuous oil deposit in the lower 48 states, the U.S. Geographical Survey has determined. The Bakken shale formation, 10,000 feet beneath the Williston Basin, holds 4.3 billion barrels of oil, the Thursday report said. The estimate includes what the USGS believes is recoverable using current technology.

The amount […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

There’s been speculation for years about a western North Dakota formation known as the Bakken Shale. The formation extends into Montana and Canada. Geologists have estimated the area holds hundreds of billions of barrels of oil.

The problem has been how to get that oil out of the ground. It’s not a pool you drill […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels […]

April 17th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

An oil tax increase this summer is unlikely to slow drilling in western North Dakota’s promising Bakken oil shale, which is leading the state toward an oil production record, industry officials say.
Prices that have soared above $120 a barrel will make the tax increase easier to tolerate, said Jeff Herman, of […]

May 19th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

XTO Energy is acquiring oil producing properties and undeveloped land from Headington Oil for $1.85 billion in cash and stock.
XTO Energy Inc. will buy 352,000 acres of Bakken Shale land in Montana and North Dakota. XTO estimates there are 68 million barrels of oil equivalent in proved reserves on the land. The acquisition will increase […]

May 29th, 2008 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas

Western Standard Energy Corp., an oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce it has signed a Letter of Intent (‘LOI’) with Oil for America (‘OFA’) to option and acquire up to four additional Bakken and Lodgepole prospects on 1,280 acres in Stark County, North Dakota.
Depth of the Bakken objective in the area is […]

May 29th, 2008 – Posted in General, Oil and Gas, Press Release

Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. reported a first quarter 2008 net loss of $187,000 or $0.01 per common share. Complete details of the company’s financial performance in the first quarter can be found its Form 10-Q which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Michael Reger, Chief Executive Officer of Northern said, “Northern […]

May 19th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas

Continental Resources, Inc. announced initial results from its Bice 1-29H well completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation in the North Dakota Bakken Shale area. The Dunn County well, in which Continental has a 41% working interest, is the Company’s first well to be completed in the Three Forks/Sanish formation. Previous wells drilled by the Company […]

May 29th, 2008 – Posted in Oil and Gas, Press Release

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