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Old 04-28-2008
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Re: Massive Oil Deposit could Increase US reserves by 10x

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Originally Posted by usmc7011 View Post
could you provide a link stating this. I would like to find out exactly the grade of oil in question.
Bakken Formation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.nd.gov/ndic/ic-press/bakken-form-06.pdf

It's not so much the grade but the difficulty of recovery. Estimates are 3-50%of existing pools and processed (crushed rock) reserve.
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