DIG has recently completed a study of the oil and gas potential of the Upper and Lower Bakken Formations in the US portion of the Williston Basin. This study includes 765 well locations with 1767 Bakken samples that were collected by Leigh Price (USGS).
Bakken Project, Williston Basin, US
The data were filtered to remove unrelated and erroneous data points. The filtered RockEval™ parameters were averaged at a location over the interval of the Upper Bakken and over the interval of the Lower Bakken. Derived parameters, such as Transformation Ratio and Vitrinite Reflectance Equivalent, were calculated from the filtered averaged data. The averaged filtered RockEval™ parameters and derived parameters were gridded using a Kriging algorithm with customized variograms. The grids were inspected and outliers removed and then re-gridded. This iterative process was repeated until satisfactory maps were achieved.
The Bakken Project includes: 1) ArcMap™ MXD files with all of the grids, layers, and cross plots; 2) ESRI shapefiles and raster files; 3) PowerPoint presentations that describe the analysis and results; 4) all raw data in a relational database stored in your choice of Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
Bakken Project Deliverables
- Location Map of Williston Basin / Bakken Formation
- Stratigraphy Column
- Williston Basin / Bakken Formation Paleogeography
- What is RockEval™ – Introduction to RockEval™ Analysis
- Filtered Williston Basin RockEval™ Data
- Gridded and mapped RockEval™ Data in ArcMap™
- S1 (Free Hydrocarbon)
- S2 (Remaining Potential)
- PI (Production Index)
- HI (Hydrogen Index)
- Tmax (S2 Maximum Pyrolysis Temperature)
- VRe (Vitrinite Reflectance Equivalent)
- TOCm (Measured Total Organic Carbon)
- TR (Transformation Ratio)
This study is available for purchase by contacting our office at 303-531-2030 or send us an email for more information.