When we launched BakkenBlog in 2007, only a few wells produced Bakken oil in northwestern North Dakota. ‘The Bakken' was little known outside Mountrail County and had just begun its take-off phase.
The Bakken (BOKK-en) and Three Forks are vast, deep rock formations rich in both natural gas and quality crude underlying much of the western third of North Dakota in addition to broad areas of both Montana and Saskatchewan, an area the size of France.
North Dakota's oil and gas fields have continued to grow and produce as rapidly as labor, materials, housing, transportation and state permitting allow. Expansion continues to be fueled by innovative drilling and extracting technologies, demand, and favorable crude prices.
