Petroleum News Bakken is asking for nominations for its new annual magazine, The Bakken Explorers, in which qualified oil companies will be featured.
Extending the Bakken petroleum system’s recoverable reserves is being done in one or more of the following three ways, any one of which qualifies an exploration and production company for coverage in the magazine:
1. Exploring laterally by testing the fringes of the known Bakken petroleum system.
2. Exploring vertically by evaluating relatively unproduced formations or formation members in the Bakken petroleum system, such as the upper Bakken shale member and the second, third and fourth benches of the Three Forks.
3. Looking to increase producible reserves by developing and utilizing new technology, including improved drilling and completion techniques — technology often used in combination with 1 and 2 above.
Companies selected to date
The companies listed below are already approved for inclusion in the magazine:
•Apache Corp.
•Brigham Oil & Gas LP (Statoil)
•Burlington Resources (ConocoPhillips)
•Continental Resources
•Crescent Point Energy
•Enerplus Resources
•Fidelity Exploration & Production (MDU)
•G3 Operating LLC (Halcon Resources)
•GMX Resources
•Hess Corp.
•Kodiak Oil & Gas
•Marathon Oil
•Newfield Exploration
•Oasis Petroleum
•Slawson Exploration
•Whiting Petroleum
•WPX Energy
The Bakken Explorers magazine will be mailed with the Aug. 11 edition of Petroleum News Bakken, and released Aug. 12 in Denver at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, which is a joint venture of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Nominations for E&P companies that qualify as explorers should be sent to Kay Cashman, publisher and executive editor of Petroleum News Bakken, via email at [email protected] or by fax at 907-522-9583. An explanation of why an E&P company should be included in The Bakken Explorers should be in the email or fax
—Petroleum News Bakken
