CEO Today USA Awards

COLORADO www.ceotodaymagazine.com 34 CEO Today USAAwards 2017 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 412,925 net acres in the oil productive sweet spots of the basin encompassing approximately 4,930 potential gross drilling locations. 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 131,763 net acres. Similar to our Bakken and Three Forks acreage position, we are rapidly growing our Niobrara A, B, C and Codell interval production and have over 5,450 potential gross drilling locations in these zones. www.whiting.com FIRM PROFILE ABOUT BRADLEY J. HOLLY Bradley J. Holly has been a director of Whiting Petroleum Corporation since his appointment on November 1, 2017 as director and election as our President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Holly has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry. Mr. Holly previously served as Executive Vice President, U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an independent exploration and production company. Prior to his promotion to Executive Vice President in May 2017, he served as Senior Vice President, U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production at Anadarko from September 2016. He was previously Senior Vice President, Operations for Anadarko’s Rocky Mountain Region from May 2013 to September 2016, and Vice President, Operations for the Southern and Appalachia Region from July 2012 to May 2013. Mr. Holly also previously served as General Manager of Anadarko’s Greater Natural Buttes area in eastern Utah and the Maverick Basin, which included the Eagleford Shale development in southern Texas, and Reserves and Planning Manager for the Southern and Appalachia Region. He joined Anadarko in 1997 as a reservoir engineer and development supervisor on Anadarko’s Marco Polo and K2 developments in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Holly began his career in 1994 with Amoco. Mr. Holly holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University, and he is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. BRADLEY J. HOLLY Director at Whiting Petroleum Corporation