Leigh Price Paper: "Origins and Characteristics of the Basin-Centered Continuous Reservoir
Unconventional Oil-Resource Base of the Bakken Source System, Williston Basin"
The EERC has received a research paper entitled "Origins and Characteristics of the Basin-Centered
Continuous-Reservoir Unconventional Oil-Resource Base of the Bakken Source System, Williston Basin" by
Leigh Price. This paper contains valuable, comprehensive information about the potential oil resources
in the Bakken Formation within the Williston Basin of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The
attached document represents work as it stood at the time of Leigh Price's death.
For your convenience, we have broken this research paper into four separate pieces for easy download.
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The EERC obtained a copy of this paper from David Bardin. Bardin is Counsel to Arent Fox Kinter
Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC (as a retired member). At that law firm he specialized in public utilities,
energy, and environmental law on behalf of corporate and public clients after leaving the federal
government in 1980. Bardin was an attorney, an assistant general counsel, and the Deputy General
Counsel at the U.S. Federal Power Commission (now the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) from
1958 to 1969 and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration and Administrator of the
Economic Regulatory Administration in the U.S. Department of Energy from 1977 through 1979 during
the Carter Administration. |
This is not an account of work conducted at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) and in no
way reflects the opinions of the EERC. For more information about this publication, please contact David
Bardin at (202) 966-7678 or
davidbardin@aol.com or John
Harju, EERC Associate Director for Research, at (701) 777-5157 or
jharju@undeerc.org.