New Book on the Bakken (c. 2011) Available -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Julie LeFever (NDGS), Stephanie Gaswirth (USGS), and John Robinson (North Ranch Resources, LLC) are editors of a new book on the Bakken and the Three Forks, published by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists:

The 2011 Bakken Guidebook

You can order it from The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. At the website, click on "Store" and search for "Bakken." It will probably be the first book to pop up.

According to one of the editors:

This book has the latest info from authors who work for EOG, Whiting, Samson, Colorado School of Mines, North Dakota Geological Survey, Colorado State University, and Cirque Resources, among others. It includes two of the classic publications by Leigh Price and a paper by Mike Johnson on the discovery of Parshall Field (he's the geologist who sold the original deal to EOG).

I've blogged about Mike Johnson.

You can read more about the contents of the book at the website linked above.

I have not received my copy yet, but I'm hoping the introduction is written by Harold Hamm. Or signed by him. Just joking.

It would be real cool if this book requires a second printing.

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The following was sent to me by one of the editors. I don't know if it was meant for posting; if so, he will let me know, I'm sure:

Table of Contents

THE BAKKEN - THREE FORKS PETROLEUM SYSTEM IN THE WILLISTION BASIN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BAKKEN FORMATION

Revised Nomenclature for the Bakken Formation (Mississippian-Devonian), North Dakota

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Richard D. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

Stephan H. Nordeng, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

Facies Architecture and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle Bakken Member, North Dakota

Sven Engenhoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Aaron van Dolah, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Ali Jeffri, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Jorg Maletz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

Depositional Facies and Petrophysical Analysis of the Bakken Formation, Parshall Field and Surrounding Area, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Andrea L. Simenson, Discovery Group, Denver, Colorado

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Robert M. Cluff, Discovery Group, Denver, Colorado

Quantitative Mineralogic Analysis of the Middle Bakken Member, Parshall Field, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Becky L. Kowalski, Occidental Petroleum, Houston, Texas

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Clastic Injectites in the Devonian (Famennian) Lower Bakken Shale, Williston Basin, North Dakota

William J. Clark, Schlumberger Consulting Services, Greenwood Village, Colorado

Amy L. Maldonado, Plains Exploration and Production Co., Bakersfield, California

The Bakken Formation of Southeast Saskatchewan, Canada

Erik H. Nickel, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dan Kohlruss, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

 

THREE FORKS FORMATION

                                   

Depositional Lithofacies of the Upper Devonian Three Forks Formation and Grassy Butte Member of the Lower Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin

Brian W. Berwick, Samson Resources, Denver, Colorado

Michael L. Hendricks, Hendricks and Associates, Inc., Centennial, Colorado

Stratigraphic Relationships and Reservoir Quality at the Three Forks-Bakken Unconformity, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Richard J. Bottjer, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

Anne Grau, Independent Geologist, Denver, Colorado

Robert Sterling, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

Peter Dea, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

PETROLEUM SYSTEMS

The Geology and Geochemistry of the Parshall Field area, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Daniel M. Jarvie, Worldwide Geochemistry, Humble, Texas

Robert J. Coskey, Rose Exploration, Inc., Denver, Colorado

Michael S. Johnson, Consulting Geologist, Denver, Colorado

Jay E. Leonard, Platte River Associates, Boulder, Colorado

Characterization of the Bakken Reservoir at Parshall Field and East of the Nesson Anticline, North Dakota

Anne Grau, Independent Geologist, Denver, Colorado

Robert Sterling, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

Richard J. Bottjer, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

Peter Dea, Cirque Resources LP, Denver, Colorado

TOC and Pyrolysis Data for the Bakken Shales, Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

The Role of the Lower Lodgepole Formation in the Bakken Petroleum System, Billings Nose, North Dakota

John Stroud, Whiting Petroleum Corporation, Denver, Colorado

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Comparing Production to Structure over the course of Bakken Development: The Diminishing significance of the “Sweetspot” in Exploration

Stephan H. Nordeng, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Structural Relationships between Surface Lineaments and Basement Faulting in the Northeastern Williston Basin

Fred J. Anderson, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

Fracturing in the Bakken Petroleum System, Williston Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Ronald Hill, Marathon Oil Company, Houston, Texas

OTHER TOPICS

Discovery of Parshall Field, North Dakota

Michael S. Johnson, Consulting Petroleum Geologist, Denver, Colorado

Reference List for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin

John W. Robinson, North Ranch Resources, Littleton, Colorado

Stephanie B. Gaswirth, US Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Grand Forks, North Dakota

REPRINT SERIES

Organic Metamorphism in the Mississippian-Devonian Bakken Shale in the North Dakota portion of the Williston Basin

Leigh Price, Tom Ging, Ted Daws, Alonza Love, Mark Pawlewicz, and Don Anders

1984 RMAG Guidebook, Hydrocarbon Source Rocks of the greater Rocky Mountain Region

Petroleum Source Rocks and Stratigraphy of the Bakken Formation in North Dakota

Rick L. Webster

1987 RMAG Guidebook, Williston Basin, Anatomy of a Cratonic Oil Province

Horizontal Drilling in the Williston Basin, United States and Canada

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

1987 RMAG Guidebook, Geological Studies Relevant to Horizontal Drilling: Examples from Western North America

Does Bakken Horizontal Drilling Imply a Huge Oil-Resource Base in Fractured Shales?

Leigh Price, US Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado

Julie A. LeFever, North Dakota Geological Survey, Bismarck, North Dakota

1987 RMAG Guidebook, Geological Studies Relevant to Horizontal Drilling: Examples from Western North America