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Abbreviations & parameters With a few exceptions, such as the Heath shale play in the central part of the state, the Montana weekly oil activity report includes horizontal well activity in the Bakken petroleum system in the eastern/northeastern part of the state within the Williston Basin. It also includes what is referred to as the South Alberta Bakken fairway in northwestern/west-central Montana, which is at least 175 miles long (north-south) and 50 miles wide (east-west), extending from southern Alberta, where the formation is generally refe...
Western Canadian junior producer Yoho Resources has reported successful drilling in the Duvernay formation’s Kaybob play in Alberta, where it has been encouraged by overall well costs and a multi-well pad operation. The company said it drilled and completed its first two horizontal Duvernay development wells from a pad site targeting the Devonian Duvernay shale, a close geological relative of the Bakken. The first was drilled to a depth of 16,200 feet, with a horizontal lateral of just over 5,000 feet. The well was drilled and cased over 33 d...
Everybody has a niche in the Williston basin’s Bakken petroleum system; Plains All American Pipeline found its’ by providing transportation in areas overlooked by midstream companies. So said Managing Director of Pipeline Commercial Operations James Pinchback at the North Dakota Governor’s Pipeline Summit held in Bismarck earlier this summer. Plains is focusing on a small area in far north northwest North Dakota and northeast Montana where it has two pipelines and a multi-product rail facility currently under construction. Bakken North pipel...
