WATERTOWN, CT — (Marketwire) — 09/19/12 — Stratex Oil & Gas Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: STTX) (“Stratex”) today announced the acquisition of an interest in the “Double L” prospect in Billings County, North Dakota through a $427,921 all cash transaction. The gross acreage is 5,490.15 and the net acreage position is 62.852. The acquired acreage includes 8 producing Bakken wells, 3 currently drilling wells, and permitted Bakken well locations with several additional possible permitted locations.
Listed below are the names and status of the wells:
All of the acreage is non-operated with the operators being Whiting Petroleum, XTO Energy and Continental Resources. Stephen Funk, CEO of Stratex, added: “We are pleased to continue building our cash flow through this acquisition. We will continue to acquire new acreage and production through various means to continue executing on our business plan.”
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Stratex is an independent energy company focused on the exploration, acquisition, and production of crude oil in the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota and Montana. Its oil and natural gas operations are primarily concentrated in two Rocky Mountain basins, the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, and the Green River Basin of Wyoming. Stratex–s corporate strategy is to internally identify prospects, acquire lands encompassing those prospects, and evaluate those prospects using subsurface geology, geophysical data, and exploratory drilling. Using this strategy, Stratex has developed an oil portfolio of proven reserves, as well as development and exploratory drilling opportunities on high potential oil prospects.
Stratex–s core operating areas are the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, and the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Colorado. In the Williston Basin, Stratex focuses on oil production from multiple zones including the Bakken Shale and Three Forks Sanish Formations. In the Denver-Julesberg Basin Stratex focuses on the Niobrara Formations.
Stratex engages geologists, petroleum engineers, and geophysicists with years of relevant industry experience in the basins where the Company operates. Stratex strives to retain operations on its lands wherever possible in order to control the timing of the development of its leasehold. For more information visit:
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