I’ve collected a variety of forecasts for production from the Bakken oil formation, which is mostly in the state of North Dakota, but also stretches west into Montana and north into Canada. These forecasts are all for the U.S. side of the formation. To download the underlying data, go to my page on Github . As you can see, there are wildly different forecasts from various sources. Some of the lowest I’ve seen come from geologist David Hughes, in two reports he wrote for the Post Carbon Institute. The higher forecasts generally come from what can loosely be called the “industry,” including producers, consultancies, and banks. In between are forecasts from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources (ND DMR). There are also a few other forecasts that were in documents I found online, but which said they could not be used […]