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AAPG Memoir
Giant Fields of the Decade 2000–2010
Author(s)
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Volume
113
Copyright:
© 2017 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
ISBN electronic:
9781629812762
ISBN print:
9780891813934
Publication date:
January 01, 2017
Book Chapter
6: The Giant Continuous Oil Accumulation in the Bakken Petroleum System, U.S. Williston Basin
Author(s)
Stephen A. Sonnenberg
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Stephen A. Sonnenberg
Department of Geology, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Cosima Theloy
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Cosima Theloy
Independent Geologist, 1690 S. Deframe Ct., Lakewood, Colorado, U.S.A. 80228
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Hui Jin
Hui Jin
BP America, Inc., 501 Westlake Park Blvd., Houston, Texas, U.S.A. 77079
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Published:January 01, 2017
ABSTRACT
The Williston Basin Bakken petroleum system is a giant continuous accumulation. The petroleum system is characterized by low-porosity and -permeability reservoirs, organic-rich source rocks, and regional hydrocarbon charge. Total Bakken and Three Forks production to December 2014 was 1.289 billion barrels (bbl) of oil and 1.3 trillion cubic feet of gas (TCFG) from 12,051 wells. U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Gaswirth et al., 2013) mean technologically recoverable resource estimates for the Bakken petroleum system are 7.375 billion barrels of oil, 6.7 tcf of gas, and 527 million barrels of natural gas liquids.
The Bakken Formation regionally in...
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