The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog)

All information below pertains to the Bakken unless stated otherwise. Information below is all personal opinion based on my "reading...

Updates February 12, 2019 : continuing the discussion -- I have looked at almost 1,000 scout tickets from file number #28000 to #28700, ...

A reader asked: If a well is on confidential (with the 6 month experation date listed) and does not appear on frac focus data base, does th...

This is probably as good a "look-back" as I've seen, from The [London] Telegraph . Archived. Remember: this article is from ...

Trying to figure "it" out .

It took a bit of doing, but I found the original links for this two-part article. A reader -- thank you, very much, alerted me to Part 2, b...

It took a bit of doing, but I found the original links for this two-part article. A reader -- thank you, very much, alerted me to Part 2, bu...

I was getting a bit worried about Mr Filloon. I had not seen something from him in quite some time. This morning Don sent me a wonderful s...

Oil and gas analyst's take on the Bakken: It's one of the most economic and best resources that we have, not only in the U.S., b...

I forget which CEO said it during the 2Q11 earnings conference call, but you could hear the frustration in his voice, that analysts were mis...

This site began as an educational site. Actually, not quite true. I started the site to try to keep track of what was going on in the Bakk...

Data points from the Federal stimulus plan for Wyoming which is now coming to an end (some numbers rounded): $660 million in stimulus fund...

There is an interesting graphic in Whiting's recent corporate presentation. I noted some time ago that for all the rigs CLR has in the...

Updates June 21, 2011: I posted the original note below on June 15, 2011. It's now been about a week and time to post the first thought...

This is an exceptionally good article on shovel-ready jobs and how those jobs support hiring in other industries in the immediate geographi...

Update Oil rises $2.32 after OPEC decides not to raise production.  At the link below in the original post, this statement: That moved C...

There's a long discussion elsewhere on parking tickets given to truckers waiting to dispose of salt water. I have to agree with the ind...

Without question "Zman" provides the best analysis of the oil and gas industry. His most recent posting, a wrap-up of the first ...

Updates July 12, 2015 : two comments regarding methane hydrates -- 1) they won't be a big deal in my lifetime; and, 2) this is just o...