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  • USGS Releases New Oil and Gas Assessment for Bakken and Three Forks Formations

    Blake Androff and Anne Berry Wade|May 8, 2013

    The United States Geological Survey (USGS) today released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. The assessments found that the formations contain an estimated mean of 7.4 billion barrels (BBO) of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil. The updated assessment for the Bakken and Three Forks represents a twofold increase over what has previously been thought. The USGS assessment found that the Bakken Formation has an...