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Harold Hamm, the billionaire executive chairman of Continental Resources Inc., is set to take the largest Bakken Shale producer private with a new deal announced Monday. The Oklahoma City-based public explorer entered into an agreement with Omega Acquisition Inc., an Oklahoma subsidiary owned by Hamm, to begin a tender offer for the company’s outstanding common…

Natural gas and oil demand has risen since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, but exploration and production (E&P) executives in first quarter conference calls clung to capital discipline, favoring shareholder returns over boosting output. With the quarter now in the rearview mirror, a myriad of questions remains to determine the direction of U.S. activity…

Continental Resources Inc. is investing in a pipeline to capture and then transport carbon from ethanol plants across the Midwest to a sequestration project in North Dakota. The Oklahoma City-based independent will invest $250 million in Summit Carbon Solutions’ project to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from ethanol plants and other industrial sources in Iowa, Nebraska,…

Continental Resources Inc. reported better-than-expected natural gas production from its home base of Oklahoma for the third quarter of 2021. The Oklahoma City-based independent plans to maintain an emphasis on natural gas projects in the Sooner State amid the higher price environment. “We have elected to continue focusing on natural gas developments in Oklahoma based…

Continental Resources Inc. plans to pivot from natural gas to oil-directed drilling in the latter half of 2021 in response to strengthening crude prices and a tighter supply-demand balance. Drilling in 2021 is to be mainly focused on the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) and the mighty Bakken Shale of North Dakota, management said…

Continental Resources Inc. said Tuesday it is on track to meet or exceed its 2021 full-year oil and natural gas production guidance. The Oklahoma City-based exploration and production (E&P) company also indicated that it has lowered its total debt by 10% since the end of 2020. In an update ahead of its 1Q2021 earnings call…

Oklahoma City, OK-based Continental Resources Inc. turned in a third quarter earnings report that beat expectations across the board, but results in Oklahoma demonstrated the company’s dominance as one of the only producers to continuously outperform in a play that has sent multiple operators running.

Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. has announced new details for its Long Creek Bakken Unit development project, which includes a production start date in the third quarter of 2020.

Oklahoma City-based Lagoon Water Solutions on Tuesday paid $85 million for part of Continental Resources Inc.’s oilfield water system serving Oklahoma’s busiest reservoirs, the STACK, aka the Sooner Trend of the Anadarko Basin, mostly in Canadian and Kingfisher counties, and the SCOOP, South Central Oklahoma Oil Province.