Bakken shale

The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

by Gregory Zuckerman  · 5 Nov 2013  · 483pp  · 143,123 words

one hundred old wells in North Dakota. He estimated that 413 billion barrels of high-quality crude were packed between the two layers of the Bakken shale, a huge amount of crude that should have excited the country. Some in the industry considered Price, an avid weightlifter who wore his hair in

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and fracking it in stages with concentrated fluid, drillers were getting impressive amounts of oil from dense rock that had proven especially stubborn, like the Bakken shale. The new method was expensive. Drilling and fracking a North Dakota well in this new way cost about $8 million, compared with less than $4

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short, concentrated blasts, thanks to EOG’s multistaged fracking innovation. In late 2006, Continental’s engineers began to employ the new methods to stimulate the Bakken shale and limestone. From the outset, they got much more oil from the wells, encouraging the executives. They also seized on an intriguing formation directly below

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

by Russell Gold  · 7 Apr 2014  · 423pp  · 118,002 words

2013, the United States pumped nearly 7.5 million barrels a day of crude oil, a level unseen since 1990. North Dakota, home to the Bakken Shale, was producing 875,000 barrels a day, up from 150,000 barrels five years earlier. For decades, the United States has imported millions of barrels

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fun.” I have come to North Dakota to observe the fracking of the Irene Kovaloff 11-18H, a well on the southern edge of the Bakken Shale. There is nothing exotic about the well. It is one of a crowd of one hundred wells that will be fracked in the United States

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several more wells. The Irene Kovaloff, a recently drilled, long, and narrow hole in the ground, went straight down two miles until it reached the Bakken Shale, and then made a gradual 90-degree turn and continued for another two more miles in a southerly direction. Once fracked, the Irene Kovaloff dribbled

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Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 80–82 Austin, Tex., 28, 56, 242–43, 246–47 Austin Chalk, 176–77, 179, 197 Bakersfield, Calif., 99, 283, 292 Bakken Shale: employment in, 46, 52 extent of, 55, 57 and fracking of Irene Kovaloff, 38–49, 51–54, 60–62 and fracking of Olson, 54–57

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crisis and, 182–84 energy trading of, 180–86 El Paso Natural Gas, 80, 82 Emerson, Arne, 295 employees, employment, 21–22, 25, 47 in Bakken Shale, 46, 52 Chesapeake and, 159, 191, 208 energy consumption and, 5 gas and, 304–5 Gearhart and, 282, 291 incomes of, 62 layoffs and, 75

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, 143–45, 147–48 Founders Well Participation Program, 202–3, 208 Four Sevens Oil, 150–51 Fox, Josh, 239, 260, 267 fracturing, hydraulic fracturing (fracking): Bakken Shale and, 38–49, 51–57, 60–62, 303 Barnett Shale and, 103–4, 113, 117–25, 128–30, 143–49, 153–54, 227, 303 Bartonville

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, 137–38, 151, 251 Nixon, Richard, 50, 81, 83, 162 Nogee, Alan, 261 noise logs, 288–89 Nolte, Kenneth, 129 North Dakota, 3, 5–6 Bakken Shale in, 33, 38, 43–46, 49, 57 employment and, 37–38, 46, 57 fracking and, 37–49, 51–57, 60–62, 122 gas and, 39

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, 2, 5, 192, 206–7, 221 oil, 2–10, 84, 103–6, 196, 231, 234–35, 254, 264, 303–6 Austin Chalk and, 176–77 Bakken Shale and, 33, 38–40, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 54–58, 62, 303 Barnett Shale and, 117, 132 benefits of, 19, 21, 58–59 Burkburnett

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 Sep 2020

, 251 Badri, Ibrahim Awad al-, 268 Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-, 268–9, 271 Bahrain, 240–41, 306 Bai Meichu, 139–41, 150 Baker, James, 215 Bakken shale, 19–20, 21–22, 49 Balfour Declaration, 199 ballistic missiles, 226–27 Bank of England, 384 Banna, Hasan al-, 259–60 Barkindo, Mohammad Sanusi, 280

Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources

by Geoff Hiscock  · 23 Apr 2012  · 363pp  · 101,082 words

to the American Petroleum Institute, there could be much more oil and natural gas in the United States than previously thought. It points to the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana (which also extends north into Canada’s Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces) as one example, where the U.S. Geological

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gas, LNG gold Indian investment in iron ore Japanese investment in rare earths uranium Australia Pacific LNG Azadegan oil field, Iran Azerbaijan Baffin Island, Baffinland Bakken shale field Baku Bakrie, Aburizal Baltic Sea Banco Bradesco Banco do Brasil Bangladesh Bashneft Baoshan Iron & Steel Baotou Barlow, Maude Barnett shale field Barrick Gold Batista

The End of Growth

by Jeff Rubin  · 2 Sep 2013  · 262pp  · 83,548 words

reality as soon as possible. If Northern Gateway ever sees the light of day, the big loser will be the US economy. Even with the Bakken shales and other tight oil plays, President Obama knows full well that the United States needs as much Canadian oil as it can get. If the

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice

by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell  · 14 Oct 2014  · 501pp  · 134,867 words

last few years, and a casual glance at the business sections of most newspapers would have alerted many people to the “boom” underway in the Bakken shale around North Dakota and in other locales around the world. Such extreme extraction has also come with considerable confusion, as there is a fundamental difference

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permission to pump 180,000 barrels per day through this pipeline—a 22 per cent increase in the flow of oil through Line 7. 9. Bakken shale deposits extend across North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. 10. Court of Appeal for Ontario, DOCKET: C32170, C32188, C32202 (2000), www.usask.ca/nativelaw/factums/view

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, 163 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 89, 92, 94, 96; “proportionality” clause of, 30 North American Mobilization for Climate Justice, 311 North Dakota, 314; Bakken shale boom near, 100, 138; as new Saudi Arabia, 282 Northern Gateway pipeline, 5, 11, 13, 17, 34, 41, 79, 91, 125, 162–63, 165, 204

Twilight of Abundance: Why the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short

by David Archibald  · 24 Mar 2014  · 217pp  · 61,407 words

science and, 4, 16, 28–30 international relations and, 74, 112, 115, 122, 125, 163 Azerbaijan, Azerbaijanis, 102 B baby boomers, 12 Bahamas Platform, 109 Bakken Shale, 144 Barnett, Thomas, 74, 77. See also Core countries Bar-Yam, Yaneer, 67 Belgrade, 111 Benda, Julien, x Bergius process, 145–46, 162 Bertrand, Karla

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross  · 7 May 2012  · 391pp  · 97,018 words

a relative trickle of 85,000 barrels per day. But starting in the middle of the 2000s, new techniques were brought to bear in the Bakken Shale, the stratum of rock that lies under about 15,000 square miles of scrubland in the western part of the state. It turned out that

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two miles deep and then two miles across—an efficient means of exploring vast stretches of territory. Once the two techniques were married in the Bakken Shale in 2007, oil rigs and workers came rushing in. Oil production rose sharply, from 45.9 million barrels in 2007 to 113 million in 2010

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-largest oil-producing state in the United States and a larger force in the market than Ecuador, an OPEC member. With more investment in the Bakken Shale, which covers a swath of North Dakota that is larger than the state of Maryland, locals believe production can double from the current level of

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–43 TARP and, 36–38, 40–42 timely policy decisions and, 28, 31–43 Bailyn, Bernard, 18 Bain Capital, 50–51 Baker, Akbar Al, 108 Bakken Shale, 151 Banco do Brasil, 95 Bank of America, 37–38, 48 Bank of East Asia, 92 Bank of Hawaii, 124 bankruptcies, 1, 82, 111, 166

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon  · 14 May 2021  · 368pp  · 109,432 words

and gas wells (similar to the “very bright” refinery flare John Glenn saw near Perth). One place starred with flaring wells is North Dakota’s Bakken Shale, among the largest oil and gas deposits in the United States. Wells here are so dense, and cover an area so large, that the landscape

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a decline in fuel use (in industry parlance, “demand destruction”) that shut-ins in the Bakken Shale would soon be apparent. The pandemic proved him correct. By the second month of widespread lockdowns, pixels in the Bakken Shale and other oilfields had not only dimmed—they were visibly winking out one by one. Whole

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, 241, 247 anti-materialism, 212 Arnould, Eric J., 283 ARPANET, 179 authenticity, 245–46 automation, 173 Awazu, 181–83 backfire, 216–17 Badruzzaman, Fakir, 158 Bakken Shale, North Dakota, 71–72 Bangladesh, 6, 26–27, 70, 157–63, 176, 288 Barking and Dagenham (borough), 188, 190–93 Barro, Robert, 95 Bataille, Georges

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer  · 19 Jan 2016  · 558pp  · 168,179 words

-founder of the huge Oklahoma-based concern Devon Energy, and Harold Hamm, whose company, Continental Resources, was the biggest operator in North Dakota’s booming Bakken Shale. As Hamm, a sharecropper’s son, took his place as the thirty-seventh-richest person in America with a fortune that Forbes estimated at $8

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sharecroppers made tabloid history, business journals were more focused on his company, which almost overnight had become the face of fracking in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale. Joining him in the network, on the opposite end of the social scale, was Larry Nichols, head of Devon Energy and later chairman of the

American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness

by Dan Dimicco  · 3 Mar 2015  · 219pp  · 61,720 words

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century

by Ryan Avent  · 20 Sep 2016  · 323pp  · 90,868 words

The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders

by Kate Kelly  · 2 Jun 2014  · 289pp  · 77,532 words