Bakken Shale - Oil & Gas Discussion

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Comment by Cynthia Ward on March 10, 2013 at 11:23pm

You should receive another opportunity Bill! I really think your deal will be better later.

Comment by Bill D on February 11, 2013 at 5:08pm

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Be very carefull when dealing with Shale or Apache. I had not known about the deadline cut off, I was 4 days late. So everyone else in are grop signed on time. Some of the others pitichend for me untell Shale sent me an e-mail offering to lease if I just confermend that I wanted the lease in a reply e-mail. So I did and of course they didnt honer that offer of a lease. So be cairfull or you could be like me and be the only one with no lease now.

Comment by Joan M Graffius on January 10, 2013 at 12:46am

Thanks, I read the first one and they noted land at Mayville which is where our land is and correctly is black silt and very productive. My land is about 13 miles west of the red river. They need to update the current water movement as we have changed the land so water flows south to the goose river. There is never any water standing so we can grow crops on all acres. We have an active conservation effort in Traill County.

They only drilled down at most 500 feet to understand the geology.

Comment by Bryan J DeWitt on January 10, 2013 at 12:22am

Joan, Here is another interesting piece. https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/out%20of%20print/bulletins/bulletin_40.pdf

Later Bryan

Comment by Bryan J DeWitt on January 10, 2013 at 12:06am

Joan, for comparison, look at this report done on Divide Co, it will help you understand why they have oil and gas in western North Dakota and there is nothing going on in the eastern part of the State.

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/out%20of%20print/Bulletins/Bulletin%204...

Later Bryan

Comment by Bryan J DeWitt on January 9, 2013 at 11:46pm

Joan, I would suggest you read this. It will give a better understanding of what you walk on everday. then you will understand what i  refer to.                                                                   https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/out%20of%20print/Bulletins/Bulletin%204...

Later Bryan

Comment by Joan M Graffius on January 9, 2013 at 9:28pm

Bryan, I own land in the Red River Valley, Traill County, and it seems like when the area was covered by glaciers the water table was under great pressure and forced all kinds of things to occur under ground. When the glaciers melted our land was on the shores of Lake Agassiz and all kinds of things emerged with the water table when the pressure receded. Salt  from some formations and natural gas from some formations. Now you could go down a few hundred feet and get water that could be used for animals, but we never drank the water. My grandfather was the first to farm this land and he had drinking water from other sources when they lived there. The very deep water table could be very large and the Natural Gas could be coming from the west.

So...it would not surprse me if we have oil on our land, but I suspect it is deeeeeeeep.

Comment by Bryan J DeWitt on January 9, 2013 at 8:52pm

Carol, forgot to mention there is about a 300 mile spread from williams co to stutsman co. the bakken seems to get real shallow fast when you get east of the missouri river.

later BJ

Comment by Bryan J DeWitt on January 9, 2013 at 8:48pm

Carol, Stutsman, Lamoure, you kinda run into granite which is called the precambian basement, there was a series of wells drilled in Stutsman co. and they run a depth of 3690' to 3872' and they were all dry holes and hit the precambrian basement. these were close to the town of Gackle. Lamoure the the same story 3000' to 3300' you hit the basement, i could go on with this but i am really doubtful they will ever find oil in these countys worth going after. some wells were drilled  1954 some 1967 and some 1979 and 1984. Around the Jud, Edgeley area they do have shows of natural gas in water wells and there still wondering where that is comming from!

Later BJ

Comment by charles s mallory on January 9, 2013 at 7:28pm

Carolyn:

Looking at the map, I would guess that these counties are too far to the East for any Bakken activity.  There are numerous plugged wells in these areas but these wells were most likely old vertical wells from years ago.  This is not to sound discouraging since no one can predict what the future holds for these areas in regards to other formation developement.  With today's advanced drilling technology, existing formations in these areas could prove an attractive venture in the future.

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