Big Trouble Ahead For Bakken Oil Production – SRSRocco Report

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SD Guest Contributor:  SRSRocco Report: 

The glory days of the Great Bakken Oil Field are soon coming to an end.  With the collapse of the price of West Texas Intermediate Crude, shale oil production from the Bakken is in big trouble.  How much trouble?  Well, if we understand how much of its production growth came in 2014, the situation is dire indeed.

Ironically, Americans have been lulled into believing that the United States is heading towards energy independence, while the opposite is the case.  Not only has the Bakken given us a false sense of energy security, when it finally peaks… it will decline in stunning rapid fashion.  This is what the media, oil industry and public fail to realize.

The rate of Bakken oil production growth over the past six years was quite impressive.  However, it did so based on certain requirements:

1) High oil prices

2) Low interest financing

3) Massive drilling program

Without these three conditions, the majority of oil in the Bakken would have remained in the ground.  According to the EIA’s January Drilling Productivity Report, the Bakken is estimated to produce a record 1.28 million barrels a day (mbd) in January.  That’s a lot of oil, but actually not that much in the whole scheme of things.

According to an interesting statistic from Bakkenboomorbust.com, what North Dakota produces in one day, 1,187,206 barrels of oil (Nov. 2014), the U.S. burns in 81 minutes, and the world in 20 minutes.  So, while the Bakken has provided a much needed domestic supply of oil, it’s still a drop in the bucket.

(Note:  the 1,187,206 barrels of oil per day is for the entire state of North Dakota including conventional and unconventional oil outside the Bakken)

Furthermore, the Bakken oil supply is not sustainable… especially at the current low oil price.  This is especially true if we look at the following chart.  Rune Likvern of FrationalFlow, posted this chart in his most recent article:

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