Pretty Lame Explanation for Bakken Oil
by Keith Patton
(Katy, Texas)
I've been a petroleum geologist for 29 years and the explanation above is the lamest I have seen in a long while. Your figures of "continuous" versus "discrete" oil deposits differ only in spacial distribution and are false and misleading.
If your description was anywhere near accurate it would negate the one thing that has any hope of making the Trend economically productive: Horizontal Drilling. While the trend may be discontinuous, the pay is distributed in large continuous thin bodies that make its exploitation ideal for horizontal drilling as opposed to vertical wells. One horizontal well can drain a vast area whereas it would take tens of wells to do the same with vertical drilled wells.
Of course you do not mention that. Instead you trot out the same old false logic that this play or that play will only supply X number of years or months of production if it is drilled and exploited. The same arguments made back in the early 70's about Prudoe Bay and oh wait, that field has been producing now for almost 40 years!
You quacks make arguments based on angstrom thin understanding of an industry and technology that you profess to hate because it stands for everything you aren't. The oil industry has been an example of optimism, entrepenurship and progressive ideas since its inception at the turn of the century.
All I can remember the green revolution doing for me was giving me an excuse to skip some classes on Earthday. It has ever and always been about obstructionism.
