E&P companies approved for coverage in The Bakken Explorers magazine:

The Bakken Explorers is a new annual magazine from Petroleum News Bakken that salutes the oil companies exploring the Williston Basin’s Bakken petroleum system in North Dakota, Montana, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The magazine will be mailed with the Aug. 11 edition of Petroleum NewsBakken, and released Aug. 12 in Denver at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, which is a joint venture of the Society of PetroleumEngineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

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 anexploration 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 Bakkenshale 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.

Nominations for coverage in The Bakken Explorers magazine should be sent via email to Kay Cashman, Petroleum News Bakken publisher and executiveeditor, at publisher@petroleumnewsbakken.com.

•Apache Corp.

•Brigham Oil & Gas LP (Statoil)

•Burlington Resources (ConocoPhillips)

•Continental Resources

•Crescent Point Energy

•Enerplus Resources

•EOG Resources

•Fidelity Exploration & Production (MDU)

•G3 Operating LLC (Halcon Resources)

•GMX Resources

•Hess Corp.

•Kodiak Oil & Gas

•Marathon Oil

•Newfield Exploration

•Oasis Petroleum

•PetroBakken Energy Ltd.

•QEP Energy

•Slawson Exploration

•Triangle Petroleum

•Whiting Petroleum

•WPX Energy

•XTO Energy (ExxonMobil)