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1 online resource |
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Interest, activity continue in the Bakken -- Bakken consolidation drives efficiency -- The Bakken: new ways of conducting business -- Abundant production challenges operators -- Bakken: both sides of the border -- Additional information on the Bakken/Exshaw plays. |
| Summary |
The Bakken-Exshaw is a widespread unit that was deposited in Late Devonian and Early Mississippian. The unit consists of an upper and lower organic-rich shale (TOC > 10 wt.%) and a middle member of mixed lithology (silty dolostone, dolomitic siltstone, limestone, sandstone, etc.). The Bakken name changes to Exshaw outside the Williston Basin. The Bakken was named for subsurface occurrences in the HO Bakken Well in 1953 byJ.W. Nordquist. The formation was named after Henry Bakken, a farmer in Tioga, N.D., who owned the land where the formation was initially discovered and described from a well. The Bakken is an entirely subsurface unit in the Williston Basin. The Exshaw was named for outcrops at Jura Creek north of Exshaw, Alberta, by P.S. Warren in 1937. The Exshaw terminology is used outside the Williston Basin but is equivalent and very similar lithology-wise to the Williston Bakken. Those within the industry tend to use the terms interchangeably. |
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Online resource; title from content provider. |
| Local Note |
ProQuest ABI/INFORM Collection |
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Bakken Formation.
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Oil-shale industry -- Bakken Formation.
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Oil-shale industry. (OCoLC)fst01044960
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North America -- Bakken Formation.
(OCoLC)fst01262970
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Electronic books.
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