Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Random Data Points on The Bakken From the State Via The Dickinson Press

Update

Later, 2:25 p.m.:  This is now a front-page headline, along with Facebook implosion, at Yahoo!Finance front page. The link is dynamic.  Here's the AP story.

Original Post

Link here.

The average Bakken/Three Forks well in North Dakota (some numbers rounded; see link for their data):
  • costs $8 million
  • will produce 540,000 bbls of oil 
  • will produce for 30 years 
  • net profit: $20 million 
  • in taxes: $4.5 million 
  • royalties: $7.5 million 
I remember when I started this blog: many folks said the Bakken was "hyped."

I assume these numbers, if coming from the state, are conservative and based on USGS estimates of 4 billion bbls of recoverable oil. Some oil companies now estimate more than 24 billion bbls of recoverable oil from the Bakken Pool.

2 comments:

  1. Sometimes....I think we just don't want the rest of the world to know just how much oil we really have...hence intentional media downplay lack of highlight

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    1. It's easy for folks to have thought that -- but it's the market...

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