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January 29, 2011: Throwing in the towel on the Spearfish? It appears EOG has quit drilling in Bottineau.
Original Post
The headline is "another Bakken?"
I don't think so.
But it is exciting. Bottineau County is not one of the counties in North Dakota participating in the Bakken boom. But there is a formation there that is creating quite a stir -- one that I have reported on earlier: the Spearfish formation.
Today there's a story out of Bismarck that Bottineau County, northeast of the current Bakken play could see anywhere from 2,000 to 7,000 wells over the next decade or so.
These are shallow wells that can be drilled in less than a week and as many as 30 wells in a section (one square mile) will be drilled.
Click here for an earlier story.
