Talk:Bakken formation

message: With the science of the connections between fossil fuel extraction, CO2 emissions, and climate change becoming a mature field, it seems that it is time to start including a discussion of the CO2 emissions and the associated climate change impacts associated with full development of the Bakken reserves and the reserves of other large oil/gas producing areas.  I can probably start some research on it, but maybe another contributor is more knowledgeable to do it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PJD412 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate Impacts

message: Why would Oilshalegas.com get a link to their Bakken resource page, and Bakken.com is not allowed in here and was removed as spam being the Largest Bakken related site news site in the world?
Lamicone (talk) 22:24, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Am I confusing extracting "oil in shale" from extracting "oil from shale"?  The cost of extracting "oil from shale" is prohibitive.  From both a $/barrel viewpoint, and an environmental viewpoint.  I think this article needs a section examining this problem.
However if I have confused the two, please disregard that comment, and maybe add a section, for slow people like me, explaining that this is not the same as extracting oil from shale.
Pommerenke (talk) 22:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bakken is not an oil shale in the usual sense. It is a formation that yields oil with difficulty. In fact the main productive zone is a dolomite.  Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 01:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cost of Extraction

message: Saw this semi-fluff story on yahoo news. Could be incorporated into the article in some way. 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_us/overnight_millionaires_1
Gront (talk) 14:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nah, like you said: Fluff.  Wait until there's something with hard numbers.  NJGW (talk) 18:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Millionaires

message: Someone needs to write up a section in clear English to dispel some of the hype, rumors and sheer nonsense being circulated on the internet about the Baaken Formation. Yes, this is a substantial formation that, with advanced technology and a whole lot of work, can produce a great deal of oil, but nowhere near the amounts being hyped in floods of e-mail forwards. One message now circulating on the Internet claims the Bakken has "more than all the  proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today," and suggests the only reason we are not tapping this reserve and making the US energy independent instantaneously is that "OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists." People believe this nonsense, particularly when they are either incapable or unwilling to wade through the technical language and the numbers to figure out the breathless e-mail they received is, on balance, a dangerous fiction. The Baaken Formation is an important find and some people will make a great deal of money from it, but it is not Jed Clampett's miracle. We cannot simply stick a pipe in the ground and get "bubblin' crude." These reserves are difficult and expensive to access and much of it unrecoverable.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahgsu (talk • contribs) 11:48, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bakken Formation as Urban Legend?

message: So which companies have leases covering which fields?  ie: Which companies stand to profit from these resources?  Anyone have a clue?~ender 2009-07-23  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.219.101 (talk) 02:55, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The US oil industry is very fragmented and the Bakken is very big. There are probably hundreds of companies operating in the Bakken and they will be leasing land from thousands of landowners.  Most of these companies will be very small (less than a dozen employees) and they operate by partnering with other companies to share the costs. It would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to sort out all the leases, and the end of it all, you wouldn't have learned anything useful (other than the fact that there are lots of oil companies that you never heard of). RockyMtnGuy (talk) 16:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "The leases comprise approximately 1,280 acres (520 ha)" - sounds quite small, either not worth to mention or wrong.Meerwind7 (talk) 03:54, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Companies and leases?

message: Where did the name come from?  Is it named after a person named Bakken?  If so, the omission of that information from the first paragraph of the article is clearly an error. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:25, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is Bakken? 

message: I did a first-pass cleanup, as there was considerable confusion in this section. Here's what the various sources are estimating, from a hasty review of the "Bakken Formation Reserve Estimates,"  a North Dakota state government report. This report itself has some internal confusion.
*Oil Generation Estimates: these are (theoretical?) estimates of how much oil the organic material in the shale could have produced.
*Oil resource estimates: these are estimates of how much oil might actually be contained in the Bakken formation, whether or not it is potentially recoverable.
*Potentially recoverable oil: oil that may be recoverable at a profit using known technologies. This is a moving target as the producers gain experience with new techniques -- and as the price of oil rises or falls.
This is still a rough and somewhat confusing section, and I'll get back to it when time permits. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:59, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You did remove a bit too much :), I corrected it.--Environnement2100 (talk) 03:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bakken resource estimates fixup 

message: Hello,
I know my English sux, since this is only my "2nd wiki" but I'm asking myself why this passage, which I updated than was removed? 
The state Industrial Commission said crude production in September 2011 totaled 464,122 barrels a day, or nearly 123,000 more barrels than September 2010. Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, said the state should end 2011 with about 150 million barrels of oil produced.Bakken helps North Dakota surpass oil production record
. In fact North Dakota produced 152.985 million barrels in 2011, with a strong increase in the last quarter of the year. In December 2012 the record amount of 23.834 million barrels have been produced in North Dakota. North Dakota Production for 2012 was estimated to reach around 200 million barrels. In fact 242.447 million barrels were produced, much more than estimated.EIA: North Dakota Oil Production Figures''
This is the passage I mean. Today there is of course more actual data available (North Dakota production until September 2013, soon the October 2013 data will follow. The production peaked yet at 28.247 million barrel in August 2013, but the growth will go on and reach the magic number of 1 million barrel per day, which means 30 or 31 million barrel per month. In April 2004 we saw a production of just 2.497 million barrel or 2.405 in April 2003. This were 80,000 barrel per day in 2003, now it is over 900,000 barrel per day and growing! I will read the article now, but if not included I think the problem of transportation should be mentioned... 
in mid 2013 I read an article which described that because of shale oil in Texas and North Dakota/Montana the amount of oil transported by oil trucks (usually gas trucks), oil trains and small inland vessels is at a all time high, because there are no pipelines in these areas and to build them does not only cost money, it needs time, which is the best route, get the okay from the authorities and maybe landowners... Kilon22 (talk) 01:40, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why removed the exact monthly figures?? 

message: Crude-Oil Impurities Are Probed in Rail Blasts , WSJ 01/02/14
U.S. Issues Warning on Bakken Shale Oil: Safety Alert Follows Explosions in Train Accidents; Crude May Be More Flammable Than Other Types. WSJ, 1-2-2014.
 
The article is specifically about Bakken crude (shale oil), which has now been involved in 3 fiery train-wrecks. Regulators are concerned. Most of this info belongs at Bakken or tight oil. There's a bit pertinent to  hydraulic fracturing, and I've posted this article at that talk page also.
I'll get tot adding something to articles in a few days. I the meanwhile, if anyone wants full copies of these articles, just ask. Dramatic video also available: flamiig tank cars!  --Pete Tillman (talk) 23:10, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Mentioned Lac-Mégantic derailment at tight oil. LeadSongDog come howl! 21:17, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bakken oil is very light and volatile, about the same as gasoline. Crash 77 100 ton tankers of it in a downtown core, and you get quite a fireball. By contrast, most Canadian production today is a very heavy oil called bitumen, which is basically unrefined asphalt. If you want to see how flammable that is, go out to the street in front of your house and try to set it on fire. One of the problems in the Lac Megantic disaster was that the ND oil producers had mislabeled it as less volatile and flammable oil than it actually was. Canadian railways are used to shipments being properly labeled, but in ND standards enforcement seems to range from little to none. See "DOT Issues Emergency Order Requiring Stricter Standards to Transport Crude Oil by Rail Today’s action marks the 4th emergency order or safety advisory on crude oil in the last seven months".RockyMtnGuy (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with flammable  volatiles in Bakken crude 

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message: I suggest that the recent rename/move of Bakken Formation to Bakken formation by user:Amakuru on 28 November 2023 should be reverted. Bakken Formation is a proper name. By capitalising formation, I think that Bakken Formation is consistent with MOS:CAPS, MOS:PROPERNAME and English grammar. Bakken Formation would be consistent with the article titles of hundreds of other Wikipedia articles about specific geological formations that use Formation not formation in their article title - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Geologic_formations_by_country. GeoWriter (talk) 17:54, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent rename/move of Bakken Formation to Bakken Formation