Assessment of Undiscovered Oil Resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin Province, Montana and North Dakota, 2008

Pollastro, Richard M.; Cook, Troy A.; Roberts, Laura N.R.; Schenk, Christopher J.; Lewan, Michael D.; Anna, Lawrence O.; Gaswirth, Stephanie B.; Lillis, Paul G.; Klett, Timothy R.; Charpentier, Ronal R.

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“…The assessment estimated a mean of 3.65 billion bbl undiscovered, technically recoverable resource from the Bakken Formation in Montana and North Dakota. Many other estimates of generated and recoverable oil have been published prior to and since the 2008 assessment and have a wide range of values (Dow, 1974;Schmoker and Hester, 1983;Webster, 1984;Meissner and Banks, 2000;Flannery and Kraus, 2006;Bohrer et al, 2008;Pollastro et al, 2008a;Nordeng and Helms, 2010;Continental Resources, Inc., 2014).…”

Section: Bakken Productionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The change from the 2008 assessment (Pollastro et al, 2008a, b) is the northwest truncation of the AU by the BrocktonFroid fault system, as opposed to the thermal maturation boundary that was used in 2008 for the Central Basin-Poplar Dome AU. The fault zone truncates the production in the Elm Coulee field and marks the northern edge of production in the anomalously thick and porous middle Bakken carbonate reservoir ( Figure 6).…”

Section: Elm Coulee-billings Nose Continuous Oil Aumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Comparison of (A) Bakken oil well distribution in the 2008 assessment (Pollastro et al, 2008a) and (B) 2013 assessment Bakken and Three Forks assessment (BakkenThree Forks Assessment Team, 2013). The cutoff for reported production for the 2013 assessment was December 2012 (IHS Energy Group, 2012).…”

Section: Geologic Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the 2008 assessment, the TPS (BakkenLodgepole) was defined by the maximum geographic extent of the Upper Member of the Bakken (the maximum depositional limit of the Bakken Formation), the extension of the 12-mi (1.61 km) Lodgepole mound buffer zone as defined by Diehl and Burke (1995), the structural boundary of the Williston Basin to the west, and the U.S.-Canada border to the north (Pollastro et al, 2008a, b; Figure 4). The inclusion of the Three Forks Formation in the 2013 assessment resulted in a change to the TPS boundary and name.…”

Section: Bakken Tps and Geologic Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A previous USGS assessment of the Bakken Formation was completed in 2008 as part of the Williston Basin Province assessment and was estimated to have a mean of 3.65 billion bbl of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil (Pollastro et al, 2008a). The Three Forks Formation was not assessed as part of the 2008 study, as very few wells and minimal geologic or production information were available at that time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Bakken Productionmentioning

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Section: Elm Coulee-billings Nose Continuous Oil Aumentioning

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We assessed attainability of landscape‐level conservation planning goals in the United States portion of the Prairie Pothole Region by summarizing and analyzing data on status, trends, and potential future of grasslands and wetlands. All published literature and new data analyses consistently indicate declines in grassland and wetland area. When we incorporated time as a conservation planning metric, the importance of seemingly small wetland (0.05–0.57%) and grassland (0.4–1.3%) annual loss rates became apparent. Moreover, we highlighted large differences in the amount of future grassland (30–67%) and wetland (47–93%) resulting from seemingly small changes in loss percentages. Our analyses clearly demonstrate that time, along with current status and trends of target habitat(s), must be incorporated when setting habitat conservation goals, otherwise goals may be unrealistic. Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV) partners protected an average of 0.20% of the 3.3 million ha extant wetlands and 0.26% of the 10.7 million ha extant grasslands/year. Consequently, PPJV partners cannot reach stated conservation goals given current habitat loss rates unless 1) increased funding is secured for land conservation, 2) landowner interest and acceptance of conservation programs remains high, and 3) wetland and grassland loss rates are decreased via public policy, particularly through agriculture programs, or other mechanisms. Otherwise, PPJV habitat conservation goals, and ultimately species population goals, will need to be reduced accordingly. Our comprehensive assessment may help the PPJV and other landscape‐level planning efforts discriminate between goals they would like to attain versus goals they are likely to achieve. © 2013 The Wildlife Society.

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Assessment of Undiscovered Oil Resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin Province, Montana and North Dakota, 2008

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U.S. Geological Survey 2013 assessment of undiscovered resources in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of the U.S. Williston Basin Province

U.S. Geological Survey 2013 assessment of undiscovered resources in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of the U.S. Williston Basin Province

Conservation Planning in an Era of Change: State of the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region

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