Bakken midstream developments offer solution to flaring

J. Stell, Contributing Writer The Bakken oil and gas formation occupies more than 200,000 square miles of the Williston Basin under parts of Montana and North Dakota in the US, and throughout Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada. Its name comes from Henry Bakken, a farmer in Tioga, North Dakota, who owned the land where the formation was initially discovered. Gas output from the Bakken shale has been rising since the early years of the last decade (Fig. 1). Today, the prolific play produces more than 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcfd) of natural gas. Much of that production is associated gas brought to the surface along with 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil production. As of the firs