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04th Mar 2008

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Bakken Oil LLC

Bakken Oil LLC offers a broad range of oil leasing and land services to our clients in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota.

Lease Brokerage and Land Services

Our staff has been securing leases and specializing in petroleum land services in the Williston Basin for many years. We offer a full range of services from mineral takeoff and title reports, lease preparations and negotiations, title curative, title abstracts, surface settlements, well staking, and a host of other professional services.

Title Verification

Do you need to verify your mineral ownership or obtain a mineral abstract? Bakken Oil’s staff will help you quickly identify what you own, and assist you in leasing your mineral interests. We also offer consultation to assist mineral owners with the release of suspended royalty payments due to title deficiencies. Ask us about North Dakota’s Dormant Minerals Act, which places special notice requirements on mineral and royalty owners to prevent the loss of interests through abandonment.

Lease or Sell Your Mineral Properties on bakkenoil.com

Contact us about advertising your mineral interests for sale/lease on our website. We are one of the top ranked Bakken Shale Oil websites, and we access to many willing buyers and lease purchasers in the Williston Basin. Before you accept a lease or offer to buy your interests, post your interest on bakkenoil.com and receive more offers.

We currently have properties available for sale and lease in Mountrail, Renville and Bottineau Counties. Please register to view these properties.

Title Opinions

Our staff includes a licensed North Dakota attorney, who consults on leases and related oil and gas matters. We offer reasonable rates, and we keep our clients at a minimum as to maximize our efficiency and minimize our turnaround time. If your company is interested in contacting our attorney about the availability of drilling and division order title opinions in North Dakota, please contact us.


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23rd Feb 2008

Latest Bakken Oil News

June 17, 2008

A single successful oil well tapped below the Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota has spurred speculation that a separate - and perhaps rich - oil-producing reservoir may be buried in the state’s oil patch.

Read more about the Three Forks-Sanish Formation discovery

May 23, 2008

The 16th Williston Basin Petroleum Conference was held in Minot, North Dakota, April 27-29, 2008. Below is a link to all of the very informative presentations on Bakken Oil from that event. Click on the title to view a presentation.

WBPC 2008 PowerPoint Presentations

May 14, 2008 - The Jamestown Sun

“The “Bakken play” could very well do it for North Dakota. The amount of wealth in oil that rests below the northwestern part of the state is so staggering, so far beyond North Dakota’s historic experience, that it’s hard to describe it.”

Read the full article here.

April 16, 2008 - Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas

“What makes the Bakken play possible? As LeFever says, “technology has finally caught up to the Bakken Formation.”

Read more here.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil, 1.85 trillion cubic feet of associated/dissolved natural gas, and 148 million barrels of natural gas liquids in the Bakken Formation of the Williston Basin.

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil Resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin Province, Montana and North Dakota, 2008

Read a summary of the report.

Read the USGS press release.

Listen to the USGS CoreCast.


April 10, 2008 - Kansas City Star

“The findings represent a 25-fold increase in the potential supply of “technically recoverable” oil since the Geological Survey last studied the region in 1995. Since then, advancements in drilling and the spiraling price of crude have generated a heightened interest in squeezing oil out of the formidable Bakken.”

Read more here about Bakken Oil and what all the fuss is about…


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11th Feb 2008

Historic Oil Film Featuring North Dakota

Classic Oil Industry, Drilling Films on DVD

Table of Contents: Twenty-Fours Hours of Progress I-(1950) Run time: 13:51 How the oil industry is central to the American economy. It was actually quite easy to pick up, basically it involves how gas products are used by the general public in a 24 hour period. Desert Venture (Part I) & (Part II)- Run time: 30:53 If you can get past the Saudis forever smiling to the Americans, this is a highly enjoyable educational film on how of course, the Americans were responsible for Oil in Saudi Arabia. American Frontier-(1950s) Run time: 12:37 Humanistic film showing the effects of an oil discovery on Williston, North Dakota and the surrounding region. This film documents the coming of oil drilling to North Dakota and it’s effects on the people living there. Destination Earth-(1956) Run time: 13:36 In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great. Down the Gasoline Trail-(1935) Run time: 7:55 Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. Oil for Aladdins Lamp- Run time: 20:32 The romance of the petroleum industry, showing how dependent our society is on oil and petrochemical products. Remake and update of the original (1933) version.

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05th Jan 2008

Bakken Formation News

First The Wall Street Journal and now The New York Times. The world just may be waking up to the significance of horizontal drilling and the magnitude of the production potential from the Bakken Formation and domestic oil in Montana and North Dakota.

High Bakken Production

High Bakken Porosity

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29th Dec 2007

Welcome to Bakken Oil

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