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Weekly Roundup – Continental Still Upbeat
Posted by bakkenOil bounced off its short term low last week and is currently a bit below $83. European debt issues are still in the forefront, but the most investors backed off the panic selling we saw a week ago. Similarly, Bakken plays also bounced off their 52 week lows, but most are still down over 40% in 2011. Despite the poor stock performance, there continues to be a number of promising developments for oil & gas companies in the region. The latest are listed below.
- Oil company Continental Resources (CLR: 83.46 -0.62%) expects full-year production to be at the high end of its outlook for a 39 percent increase thanks to a strong third-quarter performance. Continental Resources completed 45 gross operated wells in the Bakken oil field of North Dakota & Montana in the quarter. This was a 30% increase over the prior quarter.
- Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said Thursday at the North Dakota Association of Oil and Gas Producing Counties annual meeting in Medora. “We think it is going to go up for the next four years,” Helms said. “There is no real evidence of a slow down in this thing.” North Dakota was producing 440,000 barrels a day in August, according to Helms. While some counties may not produce as much as others, Helms predicted that North Dakota could produce up to 800,000 barrels a day by the end of 2011.
- About $3 billion worth of infrastructure projects are on the drawing boards in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale play to monetize the natural gas produced in association with oil, which otherwise would be lost to flaring, operators and state officials said in interviews. About 134,000 Mcf/d, or almost one third of the gas produced in North Dakota, is flared because of the lack of infrastructure to take the gas away or otherwise monetize it, Bruce Hicks, assistant director of the Oil and Gas Division of the North Dakota Industrial Commission said in an interview Monday.
| Company name | Price | Change | Chg % | P/E ratio | Mkt Cap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEXP | Brigham Exploration Co. | 25.70 | -0.55 | -2.10% | 35.62 | 3.02B |
| CLR | Continental Resources,… | 49.88 | -0.01 | -0.02% | 101.35 | 9.00B |
| NOG | Northern Oil & Gas, Inc. | 18.79 | -0.37 | -1.93% | 91.73 | 1.19B |
| WLL | Whiting Petroleum Corp. | 35.54 | -1.46 | -3.95% | 14.74 | 4.17B |
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I believe that the amazing values in the small xap area of the bakkens should be bought. My favorite is USEG. Has great acreage with BEXP in the bakken & CXPO is the eagle ford. 150 net wells possible & a market cap of $ 60 million.
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