The Bakken is one of the most lucrative plays in the country, but there are some looming concerns for development. The good news is production growth is expected to continue. New York City, NY-based financial information services company Fitch Ratings , Inc. published its “Bakken Shale Report” this week, which found the play had the highest oil cut among U.S. shales at 85%. Oil production has been above 1-million b/d since April of 2014, according to the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), and officials expect production to grow to 1.3-million b/d by 2015. Read more : North Dakota Hits Record Oil & Gas Production “The primary challenge for upstream companies has been to balance gains from increasing production and drilling efficiencies with strained takeaway capacity,” according to Fitch Ratings. The Fitch report found Bakken crude averaged ~$10 per barrel below West Texas Intermediate (WTI) in 2014, and rail […]