[thackney]

Source for Graph:
North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/presentations/WBPC2011Activity.pdf

[Wonder Warthog]

Typical "long tail" curve, and more or less what I expected, but this puts some numbers on the curve shape. Thanks!

I have great faith in ingenuity, "if" it is allowed to work. Unfortunately, pretty much every notion promoted by the leftists seems designed to actively prevent such activity.

[nascarnation]

Thack you’re using verifiable facts again.
That’s rare these days on FR.....

[Triple]

Since you plucked that chart out of a presentation that is very positive about Bakken drilling, don’t you feel the slightest bit funny about using to bolster an argument against Bakken drilling?

The very next page of the presentation in the linked PDF talks about the strong positive economics of these wells. Each well with 540,000 barrels expected to be produced, making an expected profit of $20 million. (Not to mention all the other salaries, taxes, and fees the revenue from these wells generate.)