[shamusotoole]

Bakken Oil Field info:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06095/679602-28.stm

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the link. I found the following to be very revealing.

There are currently 225 rigs drilling for oil in North America, according to industry records. Twenty are drilling in the Sidney area and more are coming. Montana records show 13 oil companies drilling in the Bakken. "They're drilling (wells) as fast as 20 rigs can drill. We'll probably get 150 new wells a year at this rate, and there are very, very few dry holes," says Tom Richmond, administrator for Montana's Board of Oil and Gas Conservation.