The saying is that hindsight (always) provides 20/20 vision. In this post I present a retrospective look at my prediction from 2012 published on The Oil Drum (The “Red Queen” series) where I predicted that Light Tight Oil (LTO) extraction from Bakken in North Dakota would not move much above 0.7 Mb/d. Profitable drilling inContinue reading “Growth in Global Total Debt sustained a High Oil Price and delayed the Bakken “Red Queen””
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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”
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”
Fractional Flow 