No easy way to hedge Bakken crude oil, say energy firms

Despite surging production in the Bakken shale region in North Dakota and Montana, trading remains fragmented and the market has yet to coalesce around one pricing point for crude oil production, making hedging difficult

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US oil producers and refiners do not have a reliable, transparent mechanism for pricing crude oil produced in the Bakken shale formation of North Dakota and Montana, making it difficult to hedge their exposure to production in the region, market participants say.

New York-based price reporting agency Platts and its London-based rival, Argus Media, publish assessments of spot prices at locations such as Clearbrook, Minnesota, and Guernsey, Wyoming, where Bakken crude is injected into the US oil

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