Battle of the Basins: Williston Basin

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Join us for the second session of our four-part series, which features Rick Ross, SVP Operations, Whiting Petroleum Corporation, one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in the United States with an oil focused asset base. Come learn more about why Whiting has chosen The Bakken as its favorite play.

This event is SOLD OUT. As a reminder, all sales are final; however, guest substitutions are available.

About the Speaker

Rick A. Ross joined Whiting Petroleum Corporation in March 1999 as Team Leader – Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana Properties, became Rocky Mountain Asset Manager in 2000, appointed Vice President – Operations, Denver in June 2007 and was appointed Senior Vice President of Operations in March 2014. He held various technical and managerial positions with Amoco Production Company from 1982 through 1999 and with Whiting since 1999. He has 33 years of experience in the oil and gas industry including extensive experience in the Williston Basin, Rocky Mountains and Mid-Continent. Rick graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a BS in mechanical engineering. Rick completed Effective Negotiations at Harvard Law School in 1996 and the Executive Program at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia in 2006. He is a past Chairman of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, a state trade group representing the North Dakota oil and gas industry. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado.

About the Sponsor

Whiting Petroleum Corporation is one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in the USA with an oil focused asset base. We control one of the largest acreage positions in the Bakken/Three Forks resource play in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana with 407,101 net acres in the oil productive sweet spots of the basin.  From the Bakken and Three Forks resource play we have consistently been a top oil producer in North Dakota and across the Williston Basin. In the new and large oil prone sweet spot of the eastern DJ Basin of Colorado, we have 95,416 net acres.

About the Series

Battle of the Basins is a four-part speaker series that features information about the top basins in our country today. The series will kick-off with a “Super Basins” presentation followed by three basin-specific presentations that will include the average well type curve, cost structure, marketing and take-away capacity, key challenges from a regulatory perspective, and more.

Following the fourth presentation, all attendees will be invited to vote on which basin won the “battle”. The winner will be announced at our annual holiday party on Thursday, December 6, and a $1,500 donation will be given to the Oilfield Helping Hands Chapter associated with their basin. In addition, each attendee who votes will receive an entry into a prize drawing for restaurant and retail gift cards. Join us for one, two, or all four sessions to find out which basin is the best!