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The 2000 discovery of the Elm Coulee Oil Field, Richland County, Montana, where production is expected to ultimately total 270 million barrels (43,000,000 m 3), drew a great deal of attention to the trend where oil was trapped along the Bakken pinchout.
There are at least 45 named oil fields in Montana according to the U.S. Geological Survey, Board of Geographic Names. The USGS defines oil field as: "Area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth." [1] An oil field is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (crude oil) from below ground.
Elm Coulee Oil Field was discovered in the Williston Basin in Richland County, eastern Montana, in 2000. It produces oil from the Bakken formation and, as of 2007, was the "highest-producing onshore field found in the lower 48 states in the past 56 years." [2] By 2007, the field had become one of the 20 largest oil fields in the United States ...
The Bakken Shale - a vast formation underlying parts of North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota - has taken the U.S. by storm. Counties in North Dakota that were previously as quiet as a graveyard ...
Eco-Trade Corp. Signs Definitive Agreement to Develop South Bakken Prospect in Montana With an Estimated Reserve Potential of between 80 to 120 Million of Barrels of Oil Recoverable GREAT FALLS ...
When you think of the biggest oil-producing regions in the United States, the usual suspects come to mind. These might include the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, or onshore plays like the Permian ...
The basin did not become a major oil province until the 1950s when large fields were discovered in North Dakota. Amerada Corporation began the search in 1946. After four years of testing and mapping they started drilling at a promising lease 30 miles north-east of Williston, North Dakota , and on April 4, 1951, discovered oil on the Nesson ...
Eco-Trade Corporation Provides Analyst Insights into Bakken Oil Formation and Comments on Its Oil Prospect in Montana GREAT FALLS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Eco-Trade Corp. (OTCQB: BOPT), an ...