Grant Geophysical, Inc., and Interactive Seismic Imaging LLC announce the start of a major non-exclusive 3-D seismic survey in North Dakota for a major consortium. This project marks the re-entry of Grant into the Williston Basin area. The 200 square mile 3-D survey in the Williston Basin in Dunn and Mercer counties will focus on the Lodgepole formation.A reader alerted me to this -- note the 1996 date.
In the big scheme of things, I suppose such surveys were done throughout the Basin targeting many different formations. In the industry, this may be just another press release, but it should be there are at least three Lodgepole wells currently being drilled or still on the confidential list north of Williston.
Basically I found it of interest because visiting
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the data only goes back to 1997. and reviewing the surveys...looks like the Bakken/Lodgepole/Threeforks potential was known 10 years prior. They were looking for a while and they found it. All they needed was a little horizontal and some fracking. It is fun to see the survey permits now and where they are looking. Some are within the known areas and the fun ones are those looking for the edge or a new field.
It might be interesting to go back to Leigh Price's research paper (1999/2000) and see what he says about these surveys.
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