“I think that continental started talking about their great results in the three forks strata only last fall sometime. continental is by reputation the most forward advanced company in the basin.
Therefor its reasonable to assess that foreword looking projections for production number increases for the baaken don’t include the three forks formation.
Since the three forks formation looks like its bigger than the bakken—and drilling is still in more of the exploratory phase—according to the article
—then high production rate growth in the bakken/three forks formation after 2016 becomes much more possible.
This may be as big a story over the next 12 months as the Permian.
We’ll see.
More data points please.”
Not true, as Continental years ago was already seeing the Three Forks. See http://www.nd.gov/ndic/ogrp/info/g-018-039-df.pdf
As far as forward-thinking companies go, Continental has a lot of acreage spread over many different areas and has been testing and publishing different testings like in link.
EOG is the company which found the most prolific field which excited everyone in the Bakken and has the most innovations in its development in the Bakken. It just chooses not to publish its results and focuses on the Eagleford rather than the Bakken.
Not true, as Continental years ago was already seeing the Three Forks. See http://www.nd.gov/ndic/ogrp/info/g-018-039-df.pdf
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read the article. it dates from 2008-9 the work was all in the top layer of three forks— where there is currently drilling.
What has caused the added interest is that continental last fall got successful results from the bottom three layers of three forks.