It’s not all talk about the oil-formation class=kxInlineLink>Bakken Oil companies are seeing results in North Dakota. Good Afternoon, I'm Donnell Preskey... A new oil well in Dunn County is creating a lot of interest. Continental Resources Inc. says its new oil well produced an average of about 700 barrels of oil a day during its first week of production last month. The well was drilled underneath the Bakken shale rock formation in western North Dakota. The well rivals production of the company's top-producing wells in the Bakken. Continental says because of the success they plan to drill more wells in the Three Forks - Sanish formation. A recent report says the Bakken may have as much as 4.3 billion barrels of oil that can be recovered using today's technology.