The Three Forks formation lies just under the better known and more developed Bakken formation in the Williston Basin. Although the Three Forks formation can be up to several hundred feet thick, Continental Resources has done most of its Three Forks development in the upper twenty to thirty feet of this play.
Continental Resources decided to investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the bottom layers of the Three Forks and obtained core samples from five wells that penetrated the entire Three Forks formation. These core samples were spread out across a hundred mile wide portion of Continental Resources leasehold.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Continental Resources Drilling Deeper Into the Three Forks -- Bakken, North Dakota, USA
I've already posted this several times, but now Eric Fox over at Investopedia has a story on the same.
This is possibly going to be an unexpected boost in the already amazing Williston Basin. My question is just how far West does this Three Forks Formation go?
ReplyDeleteIt goes south into South Dakota, and possibly a bit east of where the Bakken tends to end in North Dakota. Of course, it also goes west, but I have no idea, but the big story for me is that this extends the field south towards South Dakota which is fairly new in my thinking.
ReplyDeleteMontana has always been known to have oil; not South Dakota so much.