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  2. Williston Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western Manitoba that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River ...

  3. Deadwood Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Deadwood Formation is a geologic formation of the Williston Basin and Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.It is present in parts of North and South Dakota and Montana in the United States, and in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and southwestern corner of Manitoba in Canada.

  4. Bakken formation - Wikipedia

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    The Bakken Formation (/ ˈ b ɑː k ən / BAH-kən) is a rock unit from the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age occupying about 200,000 square miles (520,000 km 2) of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

  5. How Much Oil Does the Williston Basin Really Hold?

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    The Bakken Shale - a vast formation underlying parts of North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota - has taken the U.S. by storm. Counties in North Dakota that were previously as quiet as a graveyard ...

  6. Elm Coulee Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    Elm Coulee Oil Field was discovered in the Williston Basin in Richland County, eastern Montana, in 2000.It produces oil from the Bakken formation and, as of 2007, was the "highest-producing onshore field found in the lower 48 states in the past 56 years."

  7. OKC's Devon Energy buys Williston Basin assets from ... - AOL

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    Devon said Monday it had agreed to acquire the Williston Basin business of Houston-based, private equity-sponsored Grayson Mill Energy in a $5 billion transaction consisting of $3.25 billion of ...

  8. Geology of North Dakota - Wikipedia

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    The Williston Basin produces most of North Dakota's oil and gas, particularly since the boom in hydraulic fracturing after 2006. The Bakken Formation is particularly productive and underlies all but the southwest corner of the basin. Bowman County in the southwest has structurally controlled fields in Ordovician formations.

  9. KKR, Pfeffer Capital, CP Realty to Develop Quality ... - AOL

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    Western North Dakota is home to the Bakken formation, which occupies about 200,000 square miles of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan.