BORN IN THE BAKKEN

摘要

Until 2000,the Williston Basin's Bak-ken Formation had been a bailout zone.When a well targeting another formation wasn't going to pay,the Bakken was tapped for what little the super-tight rock would give up.The investors might recoup some of what they spent.Burlington Resources Inc.had tried tapping the formation with horizontals in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s.It had some initial indication of success in a sweet spot in western North Dakota.