This post presents a closer examination of actual data on Light Tight Oil (LTO) extraction, developments in water cut and Gas Oil Ratio (GOR) for some pools and individual wells in the Middle Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota. LTO extraction’s primary drive mechanism is (differential) pressure and there are some noticeable trendsContinue reading “Will the Bakken Red Queen Outrun Growth in Water Cut?”
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Growth in Global Total Debt sustained a High Oil Price and delayed the Bakken “Red Queen”
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””
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”
Fractional Flow 