Dallas, TX -- (SBWire) -- 12/20/2010 -- Whiting Petroleum is an independent oil and gas company engaged in development, production and exploration activities in the US including the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast and Michigan regions. The company focuses on asset acquisitions, developing its existing assets and exploring new discoveries in order to develop its crude oil and natural gas portfolio.

The company increased its production from 17.5 MMboe in 2008 to 20.3 MMboe in 2009, an increase of 16%. Additionally, the company’s reserves have increased by 15% to 275 MMboe, primarily due to successful drilling in the Sanish and Parshall fields, and a 17.3 MMboe positive reserves revision caused by higher commodity prices.

Scope

- Investment Thesis: This section highlights the companies new ventures, liquidity issues, assets analysis, hedging, new projects details, capex funding, geographical results of oil and gas operations, and other related analysis.
- Goals and Strategies: Provide highlights on their existing and upcoming challenges with the possible strategies.
- SWOT: This section highlights the companies internal strength, weakness, opportunities and threats to better understand their position in the market
- Production and Development profile: This section highlights the companies’ forecasted crude oil and natural gas production from their existing and upcoming assets. It also covers the detailed information and analysis on the producing and development assets.
- Exploration and M&A trends: This section includes exploration assets information resulted due to new discoveries, new drilling and other activities. Additionally, M&A section highlights the companies’ recent assets transactions, joint ventures, acquisition, and divestment activities during the specified period.
- Financial Forecast and Valuation: This section highlights the detailed financial forecast of the companies for coming five years. This section also provides intrinsic value of the companies’ by using different valuation techniques.
- Peer Group: This section compares peer group performance with the main companies on the basis of share prices, financial ratios, operational and financial parameters and other related activities.

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- Provide detailed analysis to those who are interested in knowing the companies’ existing and future business strategies.
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