Download or read book The Bakken Formation as an Oil Resource written by Xavier Frye and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bakken Formation Short Course study Notes No 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bakken Goes Boom written by William Rodney Caraher and published by Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. This book was released on 2016 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Bakken went boom. Thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing, oil production in western North Dakota exploded. As the price of oil went up, so did the oil rigs. People came from all over the country (and the world) in search of work, and cities and towns struggled to keep up. This book is about the challenges they faced. It is about the human dimensions of the boom, as told by artists, poets, journalists, and scholars. It captures the boom at its peak, before the price of oil fell and the boom went bust. It sheds light on the impact of oil on local communities that, until now, had not attracted much interest from the outside world. And it shows how North Dakotans, both old and new, have found ways to address the challenges they face in a turbulent, changing environment.
Download or read book The Biomarker Guide written by K. E. Peters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference.
Download or read book 1991 Guidebook to Geology and Horizontal Drilling of the Bakken Formation written by William B. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Synoptic Overview of the Bakken Formation in Portions of Billings Golden Valley and McKenzie Counties North Dakota written by David Wayne Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diagenesis and Fracture Development in the Bakken Formation Williston Basin written by Janet K. Pitman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Log to core Cross section Middle Member Bakken Formation written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bakken Formation Development History written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rockin the Bakken written by Mike Lowry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rural countryside and agriculture-based communities sparsely populating eastern Montana and western North Dakota an economic boom is transpiring via the Bakken oil formation. Oil exploration, drilling, and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) processes are expanding at unprecedented rates never witnessed before in this geographic region. Colossal oil companies have invaded this once untapped dry land and are paying exorbitant fees for the right to explore and drill on private land. Landowners are reaping the benefits by leasing their land and realizing revenue streams in the millions when oil is discovered. Farmers and agricultural producers, who a few short years ago were struggling to eke out a living via low harvest yields from small grains crops on land ravaged by extreme weather conditions are now transformed into millionaires overnight. This is a tale not uncommon to this area. The residual effect of big oil moving into the region has been immediately recognized with local businesses growing and expanding to accommodate the massive influx of oil-field workers and support staff into the region. Hotel occupancies in a 300-mile radius are maxed, restaurants are busy on a 24-hour basis, and businesses are experiencing the economic trickledown effect so aptly detailed by Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. Commerce in the region of all forms, shapes, and sizes is experiencing an increase in revenue never before observed. There is no economic recession in western North Dakota and eastern Montana. Business in all forms is, quite frankly, booming.
Download or read book Miospores and Organic walled Microphytoplankton of Devonian Carboniferous Boundary Beds Bakken Formation Southern Saskatchewan written by Geoffrey Playford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Core samples obtained from five petroleum exploration wells in southern Saskatchewan provide the material basis for this first detailed palynological study of the subsurface Bakken Formation in the northern part of the intracratonic Williston Basin. The Bakken Formation is a holomarine unit that constitutes part of the organic-rich, predominantly black shale sedimentary sequence that accumulated around latest Devonian-earliest Carboniferous time in the Williston Basin and in the contiguous northern Rocky Mountains region of the Western Canada Basin. The Bakken is a distinctive stratigraphic marker because of its lithological consistency in toto and its three subunits, all of which were sampled for this investigation. The Bakken is economically important as a probable petroleum source (shale members) and because of its reservoir properties (arenaceous member).
Download or read book Bakken Formation Reserve Estimates written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanical Properties of the Bakken Formation written by Jesse Havens and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diagenesis of the Middle Member of the Bakken Formation Williston Basin North Dakota written by Katharine Lynn Kimber and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2008 Core Workshop written by Julie A. LeFever and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of Elm Coulee Field in Richland County, Montana and Parshall Field in North Dakota has renewed the interest in the Bakken Formation. These wells were successful because of improvements in abilities of horizontal drilling technology to extract hydrocarbons from unconventional reservoirs. This was further fueled by a steady increase in oil prices. New wells have resulted in new information and cores and additional refinements to the interpretation of the Bakken.
Download or read book Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Integration of Sequence Stratigraphic and Petrophysical Analysis in the Bakken Formation North Dakota written by Eren Dongel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decrease in the discovery of reserves in conventional reservoirs has led to a focus on unconventional reservoirs. New techniques, such as hydraulic fracturing, provide better production conditions and allow the development of new reservoirs. The Bakken unconventional play is one of the most important oil plays since it has the largest crude oil accumulation in the United States. During the study, 86 wells with the digitized format (log ASCII standard) were used for depositional environment analysis and petrophysical interpretation of the Bakken Formation in the northwest part of North Dakota. The Bakken Formation is subdivided into six facies which show diversity in thicknesses over the study area. The thicker parts of the Bakken Formation correlate to higher oil production. Petrophysical and elastic properties of the Bakken Formation was examined in terms of their effects on productivity. The best calculation methods for these properties such as water saturation, effective porosity, brittleness, were tested according to the best match of log data calculations and core data results. Log data calculations show a harmonious trend with the core data. It has been questioned as to whether brittleness can, in and of itself, be a key indicator of the productivity of a well. Brittleness, an important factor in hydraulic fracturing, was calculated by using log and mineralogy data. These results were used to estimate how the facies would respond to hydraulic fracturing, and were compared with petrophysical calculations for the determination of possible horizontal targets. High brittle conditions allow the rock to be fractured resulting in a smoother production process. The brittleness analysis shows that an increase in brittleness also results in an increase of productivity. Even though there were some areas with high resistivity and low water saturation conditions, which are key points for oil production, due to unsufficient brittleness, these areas are not ideal for drilling. Therefore, the brittleness has been concluded to be a key factor of how productive a well can and will be.
