Data points:
- 2011 oil production: 24,089,901 bbls; down 1,234,901 bbls from year before
- 2010 oil production: 25,323,802 bbls
- Natural gas production was down substantially, down 15 percent
- Elm Coulee Field, Richland County: largest producing reservoir in Montana
- production from the Bakken pool declined about 3 percent
- Elm Coulee, 2011 production; 11,572,720 bbls
- Elm Coulee accounted for almost 50% of Montana's total crude output
- the decline may be reversed in 2012 as Bakken developers in North Dakota move west, including into Montana
- Heath formation is developing in central Montana
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