The Bakken Formation as an oil resource / Xavier Frye and Anthony Odom, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frye, Xavier, editor.

Odom, Anthony, editor.

Series:

Energy science, engineering and technology series.

Energy policies, politics and prices series.

Energy Science, Engineering and Technology

Energy Policies, Politics and Prices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum--Montana.

Petroleum.

Petroleum--North Dakota.

Petroleum--Williston Basin.

Bakken Formation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, 2012.

Summary:

The Bakken Formation is a large unconventional petroleum and natural gas resource underlying parts of North Dakota, Montana, and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Bakken began attracting interest in the mid-1970s, but well drilling and completion techniques at the time made it uneconomic to develop. The key to its development lies now in technologically advanced horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing methods. This combination of drilling and completion technology substantially boosts a well's production, improving its economic viability. This book examines how high oil prices and low natural gas prices have prompted shale gas producers to turn to shale oil and the Bakken Formation has emerged as a major shale oil resource.

Contents:

Bakken Formation: an emerging unconventional oil resource / Michael Ratner ... [et al.]

Assessment of undiscovered oil resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Fromation, Williston Basin Province, Montana, and North Dakota, 2008 / United States Depertment of the Interior

Testimony of Lynn D. Helms / Bakken Formation reserve estimates / Julie LeFever and Lynn Helms

Diagenesis and fracture development in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin ... / Janet K. Pitman ... [et al.]

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61942-508-4