More On Waterflooding in the Alberta Bakken -- Implications for the Williston Basin Bakken?

From New Technology Magazine.com, June 7, 2010:

"We're going to continue to push the technology here. We're continuing to move more towards cement liners versus the Packer's system. We're moving more towards development of the waterflood then (sic) just focusing on primary drilling," [Scott] Saxberg said, adding that initial results indicate that waterflood has the potential to increase recovery factors in the Bakken from about 10 percent to 30 percent.

Scott Saxberg is the president and CEO of Crescent Point Energy Corp.

I do not understand the difference between cement liners and the Packer's system (although I have an idea what the difference is, but not confident enough to post it yet), and will provide more on that later.

For more on the Alberta Basin Bakken, start here (from the Edmonton Journal, December 9, 2010) and then here, my own take on the Albert Basin Bakken.