World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price

In April 2012 I published this post about World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price (in Norwegian) which was an attempt to describe the developments in the sources of crude oils (including condensates), tranches of total life cycle costs (that is [CAPEX {inclusive returns} + OPEX] per barrel  of oil) and something about theContinue reading “World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price”

THE REVIVAL OF MOUNTRAIL’s ”OLD” SWEET SPOTS

This post is an update and slight expansion of my previous post In Bakken (ND) it is now mostly about McKenzie County about developments in light tight oil (LTO) extraction in the Bakken/Three Forks formations in North Dakota. It also includes a little about developments in LTO extraction from Bakken/Three Forks in Elm Coulee, Montana.Continue reading “THE REVIVAL OF MOUNTRAIL’s ”OLD” SWEET SPOTS”

IN BAKKEN (ND) IT IS NOW MOSTLY ABOUT MCKENZIE COUNTY

In this post I present an update to my previous posts over at The Oil Drum (The Red Queen series) on developments in tight oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota with some additional estimates, mainly presented in charts. The expansion is much about the differences between wells capable of producing, actual producingContinue reading “IN BAKKEN (ND) IT IS NOW MOSTLY ABOUT MCKENZIE COUNTY”