Bakken After DAPL Is in Operation: Still Hard to Compete

North Dakota’s Bakken shale play will remain at certian disadvantage against Texas and Oklahoma even after the DAPL pipeline is in full service.

The break-even cost drilling cost for the basin is estimated to drop to $52 a barrel from $55 due to shift away from rail transportation to the DAPL. However, that compares with about $46 on average in Texas’s Permian play and $41 in Colorado’s DJ basin.

The 1,172-mile (1,886-kilometer) pipeline is designed to ship as much as 570,000 barrels of crude.

Bakken was named for Henry Bakken, a North Dakota farmer whose land hosted the first well in the region in the early 1950s,

It is expected to produce an average of 1.1 million barrels a day of oil this year and next, a figure lower than the 1.2 million barrels produced in 2015, according to the Energy Information Administration.

At the same time, Permian production is expected to reach 2.9 million barrels a day by the end of next year, the EIA said in July.

Bakken activities are easy to trace and examine with a complete and up-to date oil and gas information from well activity to processing and exporting on our Bakken Infrastructure Map.

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San Juan Basin Bankruptcies and Acquisitions - Southland Royalty Co.

Southland Royalty sold its San Juan Basin assets to MorningStar for $17.3 million. We go over the basics with an emphasis on the data needed to evaluate Southland Royalty's acreage in the San Juan Basin.

As demands for water management solutions increase, service companies are looking for new ways to optimize their ability to recycle and store this water.

As you know the US Oil Rig Count has dropped by over 20% from January to December 2019. In Texas we saw oil rigs count dropping over 30% in that same time frame.

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