ENERGY NORTH: Canada’s Basel Belly River Shale Re-emerges as Oil Development Hotspot

Robert Tuttle (Bloomberg) – On the edge of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, companies including Obsidian Energy Ltd. and Yangarra Resources Corp. are breathing new life into a long-dormant gas reservoir — except now they’re drilling for oil. Both firms are fracing into the sandstone that makes up the Basel Belly River formation in an area southwest of the Alberta’s provincial capital … Read more