Bakken Shale Companies and Active Operators

The following list is made up of active companies and lease operators in the Bakken Shale play:

  • Linn Energy
  • Marathon Oil
  • MDU Resources Group, Inc.
  • Newfield
  • Norstra Energy
  • Northern Oil & Gas Inc.
  • Oasis
  • Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
  • Penn Virginia Corporation
  • Petro-Hunt
  • Petro-quest
  • Prima Exploration
  • Questar
  • Resolute Energy
  • Samson Resources
  • Slawson Exploration
  • SM Energy (St. Mary Land & Exploration)
  • Statoil (Brigham)
  • Triangle Petroleum
  • US Energy
  • Whiting Petroleum
  • WPX Energy
  • XTO
  • Yuma