Three Additional Pay Zones Below the Upper Three Forks? -- CLR -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here.

Continental Resources has been alluding to this for the past month or so: there may be some additional pay zones below the upper Three Forks.

For newbies, there are five formations recognized by the NDIC in the "Bakken Pool": upper, middle, and lower Bakken; upper and lower Three Forks.

At the link above, go to slide nine.

CLR suggests there may be three additional payzones -- which they call "benches" -- below the upper Three Forks.

If this pans out, this is yet another game changer. Already CLR is suggesting eight horizontals (8 wells) in one spacing unit (four middle Bakken and 4 upper Three Forks). CLR refers to the "upper Three Forks" as the "1st bench."

CLR is already testing the "2nd bench and will test the 3rd and 4th bench sometime in the future.

The Nisku lies below the Three Forks and is known by the Birdbear in the Williston Basin; the Birdbear is known to be a payzone in some areas of the Williston Basin.