The U.S. Geological Survey is not budging from its position that it would be unwise to release a study on Bakken shale formation oil reserves for review by the scientific community. A North Dakota ...

FARGO - Continental Resources estimates that the Bakken Formation has reserves of 30 billion to 40 billion barrels of recoverable oil, or roughly four to five times more than the government’s latest ...

__UPDATE (July 2008): __To learn more about the geology of the Bakken petroleum system, check out this study by Flannery and Kraus from 2006. UPDATE (June 2008): I have edited the text from the ...

Federal geologists will lead a push to reevaluate the total amount of recoverable oil near North Dakota’s Bakken formation, according to the state’s Senator John Hoeven. Hoeven requested the new ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- One question on energy and oil enthusiast minds is how much the Oil Patch is going to produce. The U.S. Geological Survey plans to have a new estimate in the fall of 2013, officials ...

As part of the 2015 One Book, One Community reading project, the Fargo Public Library will host an event titled “The Geology of the Bakken” at the downtown Main Library on Tuesday, Sept. 29, starting ...

UPDATE: Bakken in the context of the world’s oil megaprojects. About 7 million barrels per day being added in 2008 and 2009 from about 50 projects per year. The Bakken oil formation is possibly the ...

Here is a picture of the geological layers and formations in the Williston basin (where a potential very large oil resource called the Bakken formation is located). I have previously discussed the ...

The claim: The Bakken contains more than 500 billion barrels of cheap oil, enough to power the U.S. economy for more than 2,000 years A years-old claim that a massive oil reserve was recently ...

The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana, which has produced 105 million bbl of oil through the end of 2007, contains an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion bbl of ...