[thackney]

A good brief summary of the field can be found here.

Technology-Based Oil and Natural Gas Plays:
Shale Shock! Could There Be Billions in the Bakken?
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/features/ngshock.pdf

Modern drilling with techniques like horizontal drilling, fracturing, and completion technologies have made this produceable.

[kcm.org]

The Clintons could help out with all that oil shale they own in Utah.

Green River Basin or something like that??