Visualizing the Bakken Formation’s Shifting Center of Activity

The Bakken is a very large hydrocarbon-bearing subsurface rock formation underneath a large portion of the Williston Basin in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg. Recent estimates put approximately 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the formation, with another 2 billion estimated in the underlying Three Forks formation. The Bakken has been the scene of many advancements in drilling technology– horizontal drilling, pad drilling, downspacing, and hydraulic fracturing.



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