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Geology Of The Middle Member Of The Bakken Formation In Divide County, North Dakota, Mandy Brewer
Geology Of The Middle Member Of The Bakken Formation In Divide County, North Dakota, Mandy Brewer
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The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation of Williston Basin is a large unconventional oil and gas play consisting of a lower shale member, a middle member, and an upper shale member. The middle member is a production target because it contains porosity and petroleum expelled from the shale members around it. Variable production and sweet spots of the Bakken in the study area of Divide County, ND and 15 miles around Divide County in the USA prompted a closer look at middle member Bakken sediments. For this study, 606 wells were correlated and thin sections from two wells located 10.17 …