Evolution of Bakken Oil

1951 - Discovery of oil on the Nesson Anticline - Bakken Formation

1987 - 1st horizontal well drilled in North Dakota - Reef Lease Play

2004 - 1st Middle Bakken Horizontal Well

2008 - Hydraulic fracturing is introduced

2008 – Present

  • Three Forks formation identified as an independent producing payzone
     
  • Three Forks identified as 4 separate independent possible producing payzones
     
  • Pronghorn Sands Formation identified as a further separate independent producing payzone
2014 – North Dakota exceeds 1 MM BOE/day 


Figure used with permission and copyright by Kadrmas, Lee, Jackson - KLJ