[GSWarrior]

Thanks. I grew in western Colorado so I am very interested the subject. Center for American West, although not a conservative group, has done a good job of documenting the history of oil shale in the Piceance Basin.

[thackney]

If you really want to go in depth information about a formation like the Bakken, you can find stuff like this:

http://www.undeerc.org/Price/

But you may need some significant petroleum geology understand to get much from it.