Sentences with phrase «bakken tight oil»
North Dakota had the second - largest increase, 362 million barrels, representing 11 percent of the nation's net increase in 2014, mostly from the Bakken tight oil play in the Williston Basin.
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A peak in conventional oil (which I generally define as primary + secondary production) is likely to be upon us sooner than many optimists would imagine, even with Bakken tight oil.
Not exact matches
Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.
This includes the oil sands, tight oil and the Bakken deposits.
David Hughes, of Global Sustainability Research Inc., pointed out that production from tight oil fields like North Dakota's Bakken and Texas» Eagle Ford plays quickly reach what he called «middle age,» when production begins to fall off.
Most of these wells appear to be recovering migrated oil, not «tight oil» from or near source rock as is the case in the Bakken and Eagle Ford plays.
The recent growth in unconventional oil production from the Bakken (North Dakota), Eagle Ford (Texas) and other tight oil plays has drawn attention to the potential of shale in California's Monterey Formation.
On Twitter, Jeff Tollefson, a reporter for Nature who's written on pollution from America's shale boom, pointed to the Bakken oil fields as illustrating why tighter rules for existing industry facilities is vital:
The Bakken / Three Forks play in the Williston Basin retained its rank as the largest tight oil play in the United States in 2014, followed by the Eagle Ford.