Sure 3,649 million barrels of oil would not be worth the time or effort it would take to tap this resource.

The article you quoted was very pessimistic and focused on what has been done and produced so far in the region. Fact is we have not even begun to invest in the infrastructure necessary to extract such a field which is why the production has been so low. Prior to this year oil prices were cheap and we decided as a policy to import the product which was considerably cheaper and easier than developing the Bakken site.

Look where that thinking has us now. I say turn loose our great minds and work out a way to get this moving which is now starting to take place with the recent price of oil.